Tagging your blog content is a task that can befuddle authors. When we’re already categorizing blog posts, and creating great headlines, and putting in meta descriptions, why do we also need tags? What are tags? Why spend any time on
3 Top Reasons WordPress Works for Authors
Thanks to Kendra Haskins of Kendra Haskins Design, the website arm of our WWW team, for this post: When we set out to provide websites for authors it was easy for us to choose a content management system for them
Author Platforms: Let’s Talk About Yours!
That awful word, “platform.” It’s been bantered about online and at writer’s conferences for years. When aspiring authors first learn the word, they tend to overuse it, to the point that literary agents might actually cringe if you say it
Link Your Author Blog to Your Facebook Page!
One advantage to the newer Facebook professional page profile is the featured App tabs located just below your cover photo. And even if you’re tweeting and updating your FB author page status with your latest blog (ahem — you should
The Value of Blog Directories and How to Find Them
Why are blog directories important to authors? Well, beyond the obvious need to get your own blog listed in as many directories as are relevant to helping you find your audience, blog directories are fabulous places to find other blogs
Announcing New Author Website Templates!
The team has been hard at work creating five new author templates that have each been specifically designed to best feature the content you select to share with your audience. All of them can be fully customized to reflect your
Anatomy of An Author Website
So you’ve been told you need a website, and you do (it’s today’s modern-day business card, after all). But what needs to be there once you’ve got one? Let’s break it down! Here are all the pertinent items you need/want