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Why Articles Are Not The Route To High Search Engine Rankings If you have any interest in getting high search engine rankings for your website (and who doesn't) you've probably been sold the idea that writing and publishing your own articles will do it for you.Here's why that's not entirely true.Imagine the following scenario...You write an article around a keyword or keyphrase you want to rank well for.You submit that article to all the article submission sites and directories and ezines you can find.Your article gets published in hundreds of places.You now have hundreds of links pointing back to your main site...But your own site never shows up in the top ten results for that particular keyword or keyphrase.Instead you find that there are lots of other sites carrying your article that rank better than yours.You've completely missed out on an excellent opportunity to get high rankings for your keyword or keyphrase.Even worse... you just handed . . .
Book Marketing 101 for Self Published Authors Ray Robinson - Dog Ear PublishingSelf Publishing Book Marketing 101No matter what any POD publisher or marketing company tells you (even the traditional publishing houses) you, the author, are almost 100% the reason your book will sell. It is your belief, excitement, enthusiasm, and energy that will get a reader excited about buying your book. Publishers are certainly a vehicle by which you can communicate your passion to the rest of the world, but, for ANYTHING to happen you'll need to know a few things about yourself and your book - and be able to communicate them very clearly. 1 - What is your definition of success for your book?Some authors write for themselves and their families only - they don't dream of their books as bestsellers in the marketplace. Some authors write for a very specific personal need to tell their story. Some have unique insight into very specific topics. Many. . .
Cover Yourself Penny C. SansevieriOne of your biggest sales tools is your books cover. Did you know that if someone sees your book on the shelf, you have less than thirty seconds to sell it? Remember too that your book cover will not only be on your book, but it will more than likely grace most or all of your marketing materials as well and a heavily funded PR campaign can not make up for a poorly designed book cover. If you're stumped for cover ideas, try spending an afternoon perusing your genre of books in a bookstore and decide what works and what does not. Then have a cover designed that fits your audience. Also, remember when titling your book it's all about the "WIIFM" factor, or "what's in it for me." Your audience will want to know why they should buy your book instead of someone else's and I find more often than not that authors designing their cover often want to incorporate symbols or hi. . .
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