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action or later. Please see Debugging in WordPress for more information. (This message was added in version 6.7.0.) in /srv/users/sandra/apps/sandra/public/wp-includes/functions.php on line 6114I’ve known Miral Sattar, CEO of Bibliocrunch<\/a>, a resource for authors, for years. When she talks, I listen! Miral has worked in the media\u00a0industry for 15 years, most recently at <\/em>TIME Magazine, where she developed and implemented the digital SEO strategy that enabled <\/em>TIME to be one of the most trafficked sites in the industry. Miral has lectured at Yale, NYU, CUNY, Pace, and other universities across America and helped numerous authors market their books. She has a master’s degree in publishing (digital and print media) from NYU and a bachelor of science degree from Columbia University in electrical engineering and computer science. Follow Miral on Twitter<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n Let\u2019s be honest. You understand the power of Google, but have no clue how it works, right?<\/p>\n This lack of understanding can be a problem for authors, though.<\/p>\n You rely on Google, the largest search engine in the world, to help readers discover your books, so you really should know at least the basics about how to get found.<\/p>\n What you do to your website and Amazon sales pages to make sure they\u2019re discovered through Google searches is called search engine optimization \u2013 SEO. And there\u2019s lots you can do to make sure that readers find you and your books when they\u2019re searching online for your topic, name, or even parts of your book title.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n Here are seven ways you can use the power of SEO to make it easier for readers to find and discover your books immediately.<\/p>\n There\u2019s no question that Amazon is one of the most well-indexed sites online. The search box there is a search engine, after all.\u00a0Actually, if you search for your book or your name, it\u2019s likely that your Amazon page will show up much higher than your website does.<\/p>\n Here are a few things you can do to optimize your Amazon pages:<\/p>\n It\u2019s important to have a blog because it\u2019s the key way that people learn about books.<\/p>\n It\u2019s a good idea to blog to add value and not just to blog for the sake of blogging.\u00a0David Gaughran<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Joanna Penn<\/a> are great examples of authors who blog effectively.<\/p>\n Blogging helps make sure that when people type your name into the Google search box, your website shows up on the first page of search results. They will then get to your site, where you \u00a0have all the information about you and your books that they need (and want).<\/p>\n You want to make sure that your blog is optimized for Google so that when it gets \u201ccrawled\u201d or visited by all the major search engines, they will find the right content.<\/p>\n Plugins that include Yoast<\/a>\u00a0 will help you set up tags, title, keywords, and metadata.<\/p>\n Another way to optimize your blog is with sitemaps. This is a structured listing of all the pages on your blog or website. It tells Google and other search engines about your site\u2019s structure.<\/p>\n A sitemap also lets Google know when a new post is published so it can index it and add it to search results.<\/p>\n Linking (links from one site to another) is another critical element of SEO.<\/p>\n You want other sites to link to your content, and you want to link to theirs, too. Let the sites you link to know you\u2019ve linked to them so they can link back to you, too.<\/p>\n When someone links back to your blog posts, it\u2019s basically a vote for your content as far as Google is concerned. Those links to your site are weighted by Google according to their reputations. For example, if TIME.com links or Buzzfeed.com links to your site, you get the equivalent of bonus points from Google.<\/p>\n Guest blogging is a great way to establish yourself as an expert. It provides an opportunity to link back to your book or site in your bio that runs with your guest post (like the bio at the beginning of this article).<\/p>\n When author Hymn Herself wrote a blog post about\u00a05 Things Movies Don’t Tell You About Mental Institutions<\/a>\u00a0for Cracked.com, the link to her book in the article bio helped her sell 1,000 copies in a few days.<\/p>\n She wrote about that experience for us on\u00a0Bibliocrunch<\/a>.<\/p>\n Having a good title tag that tells what the blog is about will help make your content easy to search. When I worked at TIME<\/em>, I was in charge of all the SEO and one of my responsibilities included training journalists in SEO.<\/p>\n Here are a few tips:<\/p>\n Because a lot of users now read on smartphones and other mobile devices, Google changed its algorithm in April 2015 to penalize any sites that are not optimized for mobile devices.<\/p>\n Use the free Google tool to test if your site is mobile-friendly: Google\u2019s Mobile-Friendly Test Tool<\/a><\/p>\n These tips will definitely help you rank higher and make your books easier to find. If you\u2019d like more help implementing these and other important steps that will help your book get found and purchased, register for my new training program, \u201cMasterclass: SEO That Translates to Book Sales<\/a><\/strong>.\u201d (This is an affiliate link.)<\/p>\n This course for authors will teach you how to get more traffic, fans, readers, and buyers for your books. And, Build Book Buzz readers get a 50 percent discount on registrations through tomorrow, June 7, 2018, so make sure you check out \u201cMasterclass: SEO That Translates to Book Sales<\/a><\/strong>\u201d now! (This is an affiliate link.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" <\/a>I’ve known Miral Sattar, CEO of Bibliocrunch<\/a>, a resource for authors, for years. When she talks, I listen! Miral has worked in the media\u00a0industry for 15 years, most recently at <\/em>TIME Magazine, where she developed and implemented the digital SEO strategy that enabled <\/em>TIME to be one of the most trafficked sites in the industry. Miral has lectured at Yale, NYU, CUNY, Pace, and other universities across America and helped numerous authors market their books. She has a master’s degree in publishing (digital and print media) from NYU and a bachelor of science degree from Columbia University in electrical engineering and computer science. Follow Miral on Twitter<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n Let\u2019s be honest. You understand the power of Google, but have no clue how it works, right?<\/p>\n This lack of understanding can be a problem for authors, though.<\/p>\n You rely on Google, the largest search engine in the world, to help readers discover your books, so you really should know at least the basics about how to get found.<\/p>\n What you do to your website and Amazon sales pages to make sure they\u2019re discovered through Google searches is called search engine optimization \u2013 SEO. And there\u2019s lots you can do to make sure that readers find you and your books when they\u2019re searching online for your topic, name, or even parts of your book title.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":19836,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,78,11],"tags":[977,425,978,979,980,317,67,981],"class_list":["post-10892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-guest-columns","category-opportunities-to-learn","category-tactics","tag-bibliocrunch","tag-discoverability","tag-miral-sattar","tag-optimizing","tag-search-engine-optimization","tag-seo","tag-seo-tips","tag-yoast"],"yoast_head":"\n7 foolproof SEO tips for authors<\/h2>\n
By Miral Sattar<\/h3>\n
1. Optimize your Amazon pages.<\/h2>\n
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2. Start blogging on your website and do it in a meaningful way.<\/h2>\n
3. Optimize your blog for Google.<\/h2>\n
4. Understand and use outbound and inbound linking.<\/h2>\n
5. Guest blog.<\/h2>\n
6. Write good headlines, keywords, and metadata.<\/h2>\n
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7. Make sure your site is mobile-friendly.<\/h2>\n
\n7 foolproof SEO tips for authors<\/h2>\n
By Miral Sattar<\/h3>\n