Website tips for authors: the HostBaby roundup
Best-practices to smarten-up your online book marketing
Every week on The HostBaby Blog, we post new web and social media tips for artists. You’ll learn how to grow your email list, how to get readers to interact with your online content, how to draft newsletters that convert to sales, how to optimize your site for search, and more.
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1. Are your Facebook posts irrelevant? 2. Your headlines are annoying. Here’s how to make them better.Author Website Tips from HostBaby You Won’t Want to Miss
Web tips and best-practices to smarten-up your online book marketing
Twitter helps iconic NYC bookstore stay in business
NYC's "book row" once boasted over 40 bookstores. Now there's only one. Watch the video to learn how Strand Books maintains its conversation with customers.
NYC's "book row" once boasted over 40 bookstores. No longer. Now there's only one: Strand Books.
How have they stayed in business when all others failed? They credit social media, particularly Twitter (plus a little help from actor/writer/teacher James Franco).
Website tips for authors: the HostBaby roundup
Best-practices to smarten-up your online book marketing
Every week on The HostBaby Blog, we post new web and social media tips for artists. You’ll learn how to grow your email list, how to get readers to interact with your online content, how to draft newsletters that convert to sales, how to optimize your site for search, and more. For those of you who haven’t been keeping tabs on the HostBaby Blog…Here are the most recent HostBaby Blog articles:
1. Six Spring Cleaning Tips for Your Website 2. What if I don’t rank for my own author name in Google?Learn from 35 writers who rule the literary Internet

These aren’t the writers who have hundreds of thousands of Twitter followers but only tweet when they have a book come out, or the ones who write a guest blog post every year to get their names back into the conversation. Some are young authors, others are firmly established. Some of them are publishing industry veterans or new media superstars who want to use their clout (or Klout) to talk up writers they love, while others command small armies via their Tumblrs. Some start hashtag trends, while others have scored book deals with their clever tweets.
Web Tips for Authors: The February Roundup
Have you checked out The HostBaby Blog? This month's web tips for authors include best-practices to smarten-up your online book marketing.
Author Promotion Tip: How to Embed a Tweet
Good news for authors! A new version of Twitter has recently launched that gives writers on the popular social network a few new promotional opportunities.