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Book Review & Contest Insights from Real Reviews and Submissions
What separates great books from the rest? Below are articles with insights from real reviews and contest submissions—what works, what doesn’t, and how to improve your book. You’ll also find a wide range of articles covering writing, publishing, marketing, and more. Each article has a Comments section so you can read advice from other authors and leave your own.
Why Some Books Win Awards (And Most Don’t) — Insights From Real Contest Submissions New!
What separates award-winning books from the rest? After evaluating contest submissions across a wide range of genres, certain patterns become clear. Some books consistently rise to the top. Others, even with strong ideas and clear effort behind them, fall short. The difference is rarely dramatic—it...
What We’ve Learned From Reviewing Hundreds of Thousands of Books (And Why Most Don’t Stand Out) New!
After reviewing and evaluating books across thousands of submissions over the past two decades, certain patterns become impossible to ignore. Some books immediately stand out to reviewers. Others—even well-intentioned ones—fade into the middle or fall short. The difference is rarely luck. It comes down to...
Ten Tips to Blogging Your Way to the Top
Blogging is an effective way to communicate with people, get your ideas across and even create business strategies and methods. Blogs can be considered easy tools for communication, giving people the opportunity to gain credibility and trust between them and their customers. One thing that people find difficult, especially when using blogs for business, is finding the time to blog regularly. However the advantages that people gain from blogging often outweigh all of the disadvantages. One of the most important things about blogging is persistence, so never give up if at the beginning you don't start seeing benefits. The thing you want to see is that your blog starts drawing more and more traffic.
Create A Good Title
When setting up your blog, one of the important things to keep in mind is to come up with an attention drawing title. You want people to specifically be interested in your blog by title alone.
Honest Content
Create genuine, reader worthy content. The kind that is up to date and relevant to the theme of your blog.
Be An Expert
When visitors come to your blog, let them see that you know everything there is to know about your topic and make them want to learn more. Make sure that it's easy for them to contact you, leave comments, or ask questions.
Post Daily Updates
Make sure you post on your blog each and every day. Articles can be short, but they must have new, current, informative and attention grabbing content.
Link To Authority Sites
Provide links to useful resources which pertain to your target market. Take the time to research topics on the Internet which are related to your particular niche and make use of them. Take the time to visit other blogs pertaining to your target market, and leave comments and let others know about your blog.
Directories Still Matter
Take the time to make submissions to blog directories and make use of trackbacks. Information for this can be found online.
Look At The Analytics
Make sure you keep track of how many people read your blog per day and how many become regular customers for your product or service.
Sell Different Things (digital products)
Have a ready list of the services or products which you are offering online. Be sure that your landing pages are linked properly and visitors are getting to the right pages.
Look At SEO
Make sure that you are climbing on the search engine ladders and that your blog is well-known on the social networks.
Innovate and Evolve
Always keep an open mind and look for new and innovative ways to improve your blog. Do it right from the very start and soon you'll see that your blog starts gaining more and more traffic. Once your business starts taking off, you'll see how much good your blogging can do to keep improving it day by day. It will certainly get you known on the Internet and gain you many loyal customers. Not only will you get well known, you can also make money from being viral. You can maximize your income by advertising or asking others to pay you to advertise their product.