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Improve Your Author Website with SEO Updates for 2024: Six Easy Tips

Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) is about giving your author site the best chance to reach the top of search engine listings. The goalposts are always changing. In this post, ALLi Partner Member Debbie Emmitt shares six easy tips you can put into action to improve your author website and maximise your chances of being noticed in 2024.

February 26, 2024
AskALLi Team
Process 3 & 4: Production & Distribution, Process 5 & 6: Marketing & Promotion
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Stuart Grant Designs Compelling Websites for Authors: Creating Better Books, with Howard Lovy

On today's podcast, Howard Lovy features Stuart Grant, who creates compelling websites for authors. He has some advice on what to do or not do when staking out your real estate on the web.

January 17, 2024
Howard Lovy
Podcast
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TwitterChat: Selling from an author website with Nate Hoffelder

On the ALLi Twitter chat (#indieAuthorChat) this week we asked questions about Selling from an author website with Nate Hoffelder

April 13, 2021
Timothy Lewis
Process 3 & 4: Production & Distribution
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The Ultimate Guide to Selling Books on your Author Website

Selling books is bread and butter for any author and increasing numbers of indie authors are making their own website the hub of their publishing business, with other online sellers as outposts. The Alliance of Independent Authors has a bookshop on this website where non-members can buy its books (All are free to members who can download by logging in allianceindependentauthors.org and navigating to the BOOKS menu). Today, we bring you the ultimate guide to selling books on your author website.

May 4, 2020
AskALLi Team
Business & Planning, Process 3 & 4: Production & Distribution, Top 100
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SEO for Authors

SEO has an air of difficulty around it. It's fiddly and detailed and confusing. But it doesn't have to be. Rachel McCollin, ALLi author member, discusses SEO for authors bringing you all the tips and tricks you need to master SEO.

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How to Market Your Books with a Specialist Blog

Wondering how to attract more attention to your author website when you're not yet a household name? Try crimewriter Barry Faulkner's approach: set up a blog about a specialist topic of interest to potential readers of your genre instead.

Landing Pages: What Are They and Why Should Indie Authors Build Them?

Wondering what landing pages are and whether your author website needs them? Read Jay Lemming's concise and practical introduction to help you maximise their impact on your website.