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Social Media and Internet Links for November, 2014
Nobody reading your blog? 10 reasons to persist!: Tne more than valid reasons to keep blogging, even when the only person commenting is your mother. 12 Places to Find Fabulous Content: Some good stuff here that’s adaptable to whatever type … Continue reading
Five Ways to Increase Your Blog Readership
Those of us living a solitary writing life can sometimes get a little too addicted to Google Analytics. It’s a validation to us if people are reading our blog — and comments are like gold. I freely admit I poke at mine from time to time, trying to figure out what drives numbers up. So here’s five things I’ve noticed that do:
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Tagged blogging, blogging hints, online presence, pinterest, social media, when to tweet
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Building an Online Presence for Writers: Outline for the Book
More on the e-book that contains all the class info and then some. Here’s the working outline:
Upcoming: Building an Online Presence for Writers E-book
I’m putting together many of my notes from the Building an Online Presence for Writers class as well as the various blog posts I have done about online promotion and notes from the Near + Far book launch campaign in an e-book by the same name that I hope to release at the end of August, along with another e-book, Podcasting for Speculative Fiction Writers, written with Folly Blaine.
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Tagged building a fan base, Building an online presence for writers, facebook, free web tools for writers, g+, how to measure your success, how to use social networks o publicize your books, how to write a press release for your book, mailchimp, maintaining multiple identities on the Internet, maintaining your privacy, pinterest, podcasting, publicity for writers, twitter, videocasting, what to blog about
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Social Media: Pinterest Analytics and Links for 3/18/2013
Pinterest has rolled out Pinterest Analytics. To add it to your site in order to see what’s getting pinned, you need to verify your site. Here’s the instructions for doing so.
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Social Media: Amazon Affiliate Program Changes and A Fresh Crop of Social Media Links
A discussion of changes to the Amazon Affiliate program and some links about social media and electronic publishing.
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Creating an Online Presence for Your Group: Some Basic Steps
Trying to set up an online presence for your group or organization? Here’s some basics to think about.
One: Include a blog on your website that has new content on a regular basis.
This first step is key to a better social media presence, because it influences your search engine rankings. Better search engine rankings draw more traffic to your site, as do good keywords, and if your blog features information about the group, it’s pretty much guaranteed to have the appropriate keywords.
Establish realistic criteria for “regular”: daily? weekly? biweekly? What can you actually expect to do?
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Tagged blogging, facebook, online presence, pinterest, social media for writers, social networks, twitter, youtube
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Who’s the Mayor of Your Data?: What You Do When You Like Something on Facebook
But the other hand is more sinister. You’re providing marketers with your data, telling them how to most effectively sell to you, letting them know what images, what songs, what memes have resonance for you. Talk about the ultimate consumer survey – this one’s as long and exhaustive as you care to make it. Everyone who uses Gmail (and I’m one of them) has more than once been spooked at how the ad in the sidebar seems to target exactly what you’re thinking of with a precision worthy of a Twilight Zone episode. Imagine if every ad getting served to you is precisely tailored to convince you that you need that particular thneed.
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Tagged data security, foursquare, pinterest, privacy, social media for writers, social networking, thneeds
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Keeping Track of Social Media – for the Blogging 101 Class
One of the things I really find interesting about the class is that social media changes so rapidly that every time I teach it, I have to add new information. For example, last time I taught, no one had heard of Pinterest, so I’m adding a new section about it and how to use it. One of the questions that often comes up in the Blogging class is where I get my news and information about social media. This list provides the ones I’ve found most useful. Continue reading
