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Published on November 01, 2013 09:01

11 Tips on How to Get “Big Media” Reviews

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Before you start reading these tips: Be aware that big media reviewers do not even accept 10% of the submissions they receive – and as an independent author you are competing with well-known traditional publishers. However you might be the lucky one, so give it a shot. Read these tips to whom you should send your submission, when, how and what.

1. Always check carefully submission rules!

Most review sites want hard copies of the book at least 3 months prior to publication. Even if you have planned to publish an e-book, get 30-50 copies printed at a digital printer, at CreateSpace or use any of the new Espresso-Publishers that are in major cities, but also deliver via mail or UPS. Having print copies is not only important for reviewers, but also for your book launch or book signings and to sell them to people who prefer print instead of e-books. Other reviewers, especially top book bloggers take books also after their release and more and more accept e-books.

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2. Self-Published?

Don’t reveal right away that it is a self-published book. If you will be asked, by all means be honest. If your book can pass the “looks-like-it-is-professionally-published” test, then not mentioning it’s self-published will increase your chances of getting a review.

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3. Don’t Overlook Local Newspapers

You may start sending out your review submission to your local newspapers, even weekly papers or to your former alumni magazine and test the waters first before you head out to the nationals. A review is serving your purpose as well as a feature article, mentioning your book. Start with preparing an Excel spread sheet or any kind of list, where you type in the title, name, address, phone/email of the recipient, the date of submission, their guidelines. Never, ever sent it: “to the editor” or “to whom it may…”

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4. How to Approach Reviewers

There are a tons of books vying for attention, however, there is only so much space/time in a reviewer’s calendar. You may call or email a reviewer first to see if they have an interest in your book. It will save yourself time and money if they tell you no. If you have been given an okay, address it to the specific person you corresponded with and write Requested Material on the envelope.

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5. Follow Editors/Reviewers Directions Carefully

Don’t give reviewers a reason to disqualify your book right off the bat. If they want a press release, make sure you send one. Don’t send galleys, if they want finished books. Verify that they review your genre of book before you submit. Follow their publication-date deadlines.

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6. When should you send out your review submission?

January & February for spring and July & August for fall, because there’ll be less competition from major publishers. Avoid October and November as you will have too much competition. Don’t send it out to arrive at the editors office on a Monday. Best arrival days for your request are Thursday or Friday.

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7. Things to Include:

Make sure that you include all your contact info: name, mailing address, website address, phone number, and email address. Use http://about.me to create an appealing info site about yourself and include it in your contact info. Important: Don’t forget all the book information: price, ISBN number, number of pages, and genre. Carefully pack your book in padded envelopes or in boxes. You want them to look professional and brand new when they arrive at the editors office.

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8. Add a Media Kit

Include your biography, high-resolution (600 dpi) pictures of both, you and your book cover(s), a book trailer link, a synopsis of the book, any press releases you may have, and contact information for you. Everything in your media kit/press release should look professional and polished.

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9. Most important:

Send a thank-you note/email to anyone who reviews your book. They took a long time reading and reviewing your work so you take five minutes and write them a thank-you!

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Here a some links to reputable reviewers

Los Angeles Reviews
Armchair Reviews
ForeWord Reviews
Library Journal
Midwest Book Review
NY Times Reviews
Indie Reader
USA TODAY

Paid Reviews:

Kirkus
Publishers Weekly

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10. Write Your Own Article to Promote your Book

In former blogs I showed you how savvy authors use their writing skills to promote their books (and often get paid) for their articles – also not on HuffingtonPost, they are infamous for giving authors just the exposure to a million audience. Read about Steven Raichlen’s brilliant coup: He wrote an article for Huffington Post Foodie Paradise: 10 Great Places to Eat in Martha’s Vineyard. In a salute to some of Steven Raichlen’s favorite local restaurants, coffee shops, lobster shacks, and ice cream parlors on Martha’s Vineyard, he had his characters visit the same places which he usually patronizes with his wife.

Or this Salon.com article by Sean Beaudoin:

“Sean has a publisher, however, as with all big (and small) publishers, he is responsible for his own book promotion, as he is not John Grisham. And even John Grisham bitches about his promo budget.” Sean explains: “Publishers used to do most of the marketing for the books they put out. The best an author could do was finish the last chapter and then show up reasonably sober for a tri-city book tour.”

So, what can we learn from Sean Beaudoin?

He makes almost everything right: I have never heard about him or his books. Now I do! Why? He is

smart and wrote a guest post on Salon.com, a really great and funny peace of writing that makes readers wanting to see his books. And it allowed him to include lots of links to his website, his Facebook account, his Twitter handle and his YouTube trailer for his latest book.

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Writing articles for newspapers and magazines allows you certainly to end your articles with an author bio, including mentioning of your book and where readers can order it. And you might “meet” the editor, with whom you can network for a review of your next book. They are certainly more inclined to review a book from an author they personally know.

11. Literary Review Editors

are not the only ones who might accept your books for review, try columnists as well, especially if you write non-fiction. If your book is about an adventurous bike tour in Jamaica, you can send your review submission to both, the travel section editor of a major newspaper or to the sport editor of this publication.

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Published on October 31, 2013 10:34

How to Create Your Author Platform

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Platform, a buzz word these days… “What’s Your Author’ Platform”? THE famous question you will be asked by agents and publishers before they even consider to read your query or manuscript. As they spend almost all of their marketing dollars for bestseller authors, publishing houses nowadays expect authors to do their own book marketing. To ensure, the author brings his or her own audience and lots of potential readers and book buyers, agents and publishers want to see lots of followers and friends on Social Media sites and how an author appears on these sites. They want to see a solid number of blog subscribers/web visitors and the authors ability to present themselves to an audience.

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So, What Are the Essentials of a Platform?

In short:, platform is the visibility, the authority of the author, a proven reach, as well as a far reaching audience.

A Quality Blog / Website with a Large Readership
Guest blogging to successful websites, blog, magazines, and other media
Public speaking – the bigger the better, however at least at your local library
Smart connected social media presences (Google+, Twitter, FB, LinkedIn etc.)
Forum memberships, starting with Goodreads, Bibliophil, Wattpad …
Media appearances/interviews online and in print, TV, radio
and …. more than one book!

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Building an Author Platform

is not something you can do overnight, or in a month. The best time to start working on your platform is long before you start writing your book. Even if your book is excellent, has received great reviews, a marvelous cover – if readers don’t know about it, you are stuck. And if you go with a major publisher and they would receive – within three months from your books’ launch – lots of unsold copies returned by the bookstores, they would never publish anything from you again. That’s why they ask, “how will you market your book” or “what’s your platform.”

You might think, this is the publishers job – and you might be right. But not even for famous authors they will do all the blogging or social media part, they only advertise celebrities way more than unknown writers and pay for exposed space in bookstores, or send these authors on book signing tours.

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That’s all Publishers will Do:

editing, transforming a good manuscript to a great one
design the book (layout) and its cover
organize the printing process / e-book formatting
distribute your book in stores, speciality retailers and online
carry out all the necessary book keeping with retailers and your royalty payments

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Publishing houses laid off a huge amount of their staff within the last years. Remaining, over-worked publicists are not able to give your book’s marketing the attention it needs.

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“When is it Time to Start Building your Author Platform?”

Alan Rinzler, former editor for some of the “Big Five” explains in detail the Do’s and Don’ts “What writers need to know” and gives detailed examples – a must-read for every author. He reminds authors: “A cardinal rule of the new author platform is never to actually ask people to buy your book (and my advise: never to motion people to like / follow you on FB or Twitter). Rather promulgate your work by making an enduring connection. Establish an authentic online personality, offer valuable information, analysis, opinion, and inspiring entertainment.”

Jane Friedman, e-media professor and former publisher of Writer’s Digest brought it to the point: “Getting a book published does not equate to readership. You must cultivate a readership every day – and start today. Audience development doesn’t happen overnight, or in six months or a year. It continues for as long as you want to have people read your books.” Read also Kristen Lamb’s blog article “When is it Time to Start Building your Author Platform?” Read the blog post about bestseller author Trey Ratcliff, mentioned in a former article.

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Without having a clear idea of which methods of promoting yourself and your work are really worth the investment of time, you might be tempted to avoid the subject entirely. But in today’s publishing world, neglecting your platform, even before you have a book deal, can be a precarious mistake. The most successful authors are those who have created ways of finding lasting fans – and of reaching out to new ones every day.

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Published on October 30, 2013 05:20

The Latest Numbers – For Your Books Success

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Savvybookwriters.wordpress.com ranked #103,206 in the world and in the USA 47,490 according to Alexa website ranking. “Savvybookwriters.wordpress.com receives 9,588 page views per day and has website back links from #331 websites. And this is only one of our websites / blogs!

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Extensive Outreach to Book Lovers

Most important for promoting your book campaigns is a well-known partner with an extensive outreach to book lovers and readers / reviewers communities. There are four more websites, notably http://www.ebook-PR.com and http://www.international-ebooks.com – plus all our Social Media sites, such as 3 Twitter Accounts with more than 40,000 followers, 4 Google accounts with over 6,000 followers and 3 Pinterest book pages, where we post on a daily basis. We are members in several dozens of reader / book communities on Google+ with ca. 50,000 friends and Goodreads – where we have over 2,700 friends. We also contribute daily to websites such as Tumblr and StumpleUpon. All these pages are connected with each other, it is a whole showcase network, which means your book and it’s cover will show up on many different places on the internet.

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3 Ways Authors Can Benefit From Our Great Connections:

1. Promo / Advertising / Email Newsletter / Websites

2. Online Seminar / Marketing Package

3. Weekend Seminars (next is in Ottawa, Canada Nov. 16)|

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Three months for only $39 introduction price. Just in time for NaNoWriMo to give you writing time while we promote your book. Are you planning sometime within now and January 31 any of these book promotions:

Introduction / launch of a new book?
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To take advantage of this inexpensive book advertising and to sign up at an extremely low price go to http://www.international-ebooks.com/book-promo. This 50 per cent introductory price of $39 ends on October 31, 2013. Regular price will be $79.

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2. Online Seminar: Consulting & Book Marketing Help:

This comprehensive package consists of two parts:

Online Seminar / Consulting

Unlimited book marketing consultations by email for up to three months
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Author interview on our blog website – this article stays there forever!
Free e-book for you: “Book Marketing on a Shoestring” launch Winter 2013
Plus one surprise gift we will reveal once you signed up!

Marketing of your book(s)

Introduction of your books on dozens of reader communities with a 50,000+ audience
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Blog posts including cover image/author bio/books description on both, blog & our websites
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These are the WRITER’S SEMINAR main topics:

Learn about the pre-publishing & publishing process
Identify your target readers and their demographic
Find out how to reach these readers online and off-line
Create your own brand and your platform
Choose the type of publishing that is right for you
Market and publicize your book successfully on a budget
Leverage the content of your book into other markets
Prepare your next bestseller & find free book publishing funding sources
Learn about Government Grants

Online admission $39 only until November 12:

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Let us help you to learn the publishing ropes, become a successful writer and save time – time to write! For any questions you might have, send us an email, using the forms you can find on each of our websites.

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Published on October 28, 2013 20:36

How To Use These 7 Writing/Publishing Resources

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Are you sometimes scrambling for phrase ideas, marketing tips, not sure, if your query is proper written or do you want to find out where the next writing contest takes place? All this information and more can be found in the following blogs and websites:

http://www.bookwritinghelp.com/

Chock-full of tips for aspiring writers and their publishing path. Earma Brown is the author of 12 books including: “eBook It! How to Profit from Your Passion with E-books & More” and “Article Marketing Speedway”: “How to put your article marketing in the fast lane to sales”, as well as other inspirational non-fiction titles.

http://www.phrases.org.uk/

The Phrase Thesaurus is a writers’ resource that stimulates ideas for headlines, copy, song lyrics, fiction writing etc. Journalists, advertising copywriters, songwriters, or anyone interested in creative writing in English, can benefit from this ideas generator. Also very interesting: Famous last words of famous people.

http://www.abookinside.blogspot.com

Amazing and useful blog where author Carol Denbow shares excellent writing, publishing and valuable marketing tips. She gives lots of useful info in each post – tips and expert advice, plus interviews with bestseller authors.

http://www.booksandtales.com/pod/index.php

This comparison chart of print-on-demand provider shows you the basics about each company. Clea Saal who runs the website also wrote a book about the process of finding a reputable POD company, the title: “The Clearly Confusing World of Self-publishing & POD.”

http://www.carolkluz.homestead.com/index1.html

Lots and lots of writers resources at the click of a button. No explanations – go directly to the companies or associations. Another site for great links is: http://resourcehelp.com/qserwrit.htm

http://www.easywaytowrite.com/articles.htm

“Becoming a Better Writer: A 10-Step Guide” is a perfect place to start browsing. The author has been helping writers and artists improve and further their careers for ten years. Fiction – What to Leave Out!, I Can’t Put It Down – How to Write Compelling Fiction, Don’t Think, Write! are some of the best blogs. Do sign up for the newsletter.

http://www.newpagesblog.blogspot.com

Find the latest writing contests for all genres.This invaluable free blog provides news, information and guides to literary magazines, alternative media and more. Also: The best online guide to independent & university book publishers.

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Enjoy browsing through these websites and blogs. But don’t get yourself lost in it… Your book waits to be finished! Sign up to http://savvybookwriters.wordpress.com to get the daily news from the writers and publishers world, plus tons of book marketing tips.

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Published on October 27, 2013 06:52

Halloween Read: The Girl With The Scar

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Just in time: William Stadler’s new series THE GIRL WITH THE SCAR. Book one is the perfect start into the Dark Connection Saga Series, and a great read on 263 pages, for Halloween (and certainly later). If you liked his first three books of the Pioneer Series: EXTRACTED, INFUSED and REFINED, you will love THE GIRL WITH THE SCAR too.

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“Burned by fate…inflamed with destiny.”

Genevieve Solace, a sheltered 15 year-old girl, lives with her wearied mother, Maria, and her cavalier brother, Edward. All her life she’s been plagued by inexplicable seizures that only seem to be getting worse, seizures so violent that she’s left unconscious for days at a time.

The king’s Raiders have been hunting her for as long as she can remember. So, in search for safety, she and her family have found refuge in a modest cottage on the outskirts of Kalarn in a small village known as Green Planes.

News of the raids across the kingdom trickle down to Genevieve, however, telling stories of vicious murders where women are slain, children are orphaned, and entire towns have been leveled to ashes. Along with the slaughters, a mysterious apparition has been rumored to haunt the land with tales of dozens of men being massacred before they can even draw their swords.

Terrified of the reports, Genevieve is forced to believe that the king seeks for her due to the scar on the nape of her neck, a circular burn that has marked her for life – though how it came to be she doesn’t know, and her mother refuses to speak of it.

As autumn ends and the cold of winter sets in, Genevieve fears that the raids are growing near. She can only pray to the gods that the Raiders will never find her.

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THE GIRL WITH THE SCAR is available on Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00G6KPHHY

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Published on October 26, 2013 09:10

3 Top Rules to Follow on Social Media

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Are you promoting your book like crazy on Twitter, Google+, LinkedIn, Facebook or Goodreads … but nothing seems to happen, no book sales? Are you competing with other writers in “buy my book, buy my book, buy my book… Are you choosing to follow other writers, hoping they will buy your book?

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1. Choose your following very carefully:

You want to interact mainly with READERS, NOT writers. The question is: How to find readers?

All Social Media sites have a search function on top of the page. Type in: book bloggers, read, reading, book lovers, book club, love reading, book worm, love to read, mystery book reader, science fiction reader, YA readers, YA book blogger, readers, word nerd, non-fiction book blogger, reading books, reviewing book… and even librarian. Click on “people” or scroll down a lot, as the first names that appear are often publishers and other commercial accounts. How to get more (reader) followers on Social Media sites is also explained in a blog post from January.

Another method is to type in the name of a very successful book in your genre and find readers there, talking about this book. Follow those readers that you feel belong to your book genre, based on what they say in their tweets. Re-tweet their posts, engage in meaningful conversation, be funny or refer to blog posts you wrote, but don’t mention your book. They will find out about it soon enough.

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2. Understand the meaning of Social Media

Being SOCIAL and NOT constantly talking about your book!

I noticed one writer on Twitter who writes 100% only and only about his book. He seems to use automatic tweets, as he never, ever engaged in any conversation with others. Kind of autistic … For sure, I was not the only one who un-followed him.

Write about interesting things that are happening,
Give valuable advice
Engage in a humerus way with your readers

No one joins Twitter, FB, Google+ or Pinterest to constantly read about your book. That’s not very entertaining or interesting at all. Many writers don’t buy books from other writers, they want to sell their own. If ALL writers are doing on Twitter, Google+ or FB is self-promoting they are not only NOT attracting readers, but turning potential book buyers away.

Yes, famous writers may attract attention for what they have to say – not normally related to their books – but rather to their writer’s life or ideas – and they are often interesting or funny. It’s called social networks not selling pages… Authors should rather focus their promotional efforts on trying to get people to talk about their books (review them, read and recommend them, give them awards, take them to their book groups, write articles or blog posts about them) instead of trying to get people to buy them. A much better place to do this is on reader forums, such as Goodreads, Shelfari, Bibliophil, Biblio Connection, BookTalk and the like.

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3. Be professional

Set-up your bio with a studio portrait, the same you use in your book(s) and create an inviting avatar. Use key words that will attract the type of people that you want to connect with. This bio (or an avatar, or “about me”) can be used for all your presences, for your Amazon website, your blog etc. Same as with your photograph: once established you can use it everywhere, even if you have to shorten it on some places, such as on Twitter. Use lots of keywords and add abbreviated links to your web site or Amazon page. And choose your username wisely! More tips how to act like a professional are explained in a former article.

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So, following these three basic rules: Finding the right followers “readers”, be “social” and have a professional appearance on Social Media is the key to successful promoting your books.

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Published on October 25, 2013 05:27

Social Media and YOU

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It is no secret that we use Social Media a lot – and all this social media usage can be hard to curtail. Resisting Twitter, Google+, Pinterest and other Social Media sites is harder than other urges, such as smoking, drinking, spending money, sleeping and even sex. Posting about yourself on Social Media sites rewards the brain the same way food and sex do. Talking about ourselves or books we wrote became a tough habit to kick… Read and see more on this info graphic, created by OnlineCollegeCourses.com

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More about Social Media:

Social Media in 30 Minutes a Day

Well, maybe add a couple more minutes to these 30 minutes Social Media time, and learn about helpful programs, such as Hootsuite, Tweetadder, JustUnfollow, Manageflitter, Tweetdeck etc. to save time in order to win more time for interactions with your followers.

Read the Help Section

To take full advantage of the Social Media sites, study them well, read the “handbook”, helpful info and hints, set up to help users. Just from staring at the site and trying to figure out how it works, or trial and error actions, you will be only frustrated. Ask a fellow writer or your marketing coach to get even more user tips.

How to get more followers

The importance of having more followers (and following more) and how to find those precious friends has been …. Get lots of tips for your Social Media presence here:

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The Secret of Success with Social Media

Word-of-Mouth Content Marketing

If you’re in the midst of developing one of the more than one million books that are published every year, it’s time to start thinking about how you are going to market your book … because in today’s publishing environment, it’s up to you to build momentum for your work. However, if all you do on Twitter, Google+ or Facebook is to hawk your book or try to interest agents and editors in your manuscript you are probably not going to get anywhere. This is not to say you can not ever talk about the interesting things you’re doing, this just can’t be all that you’re doing. People on Social Media want content, and sharing content has become one important aspect of it.

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Acting Like a Professional Author on Social Media?

Do you agree that selling books online or in stores is a business? You are getting money for writing and delivering your work, no matter how many books you have written, and no matter if you go with one of the big publishers or if you self-publish. And don’t forget: Many publishers and literary agents have a Social Media presence too. They are using Twitter, Google+, Pinterest, Facebook, Goodreads or LinkedIn and mingle on these sites with authors famous and unknown. Read more about professional Social Media use.

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How Social Media can Kill Students Success

Yet while social media has been lauded for its ability to connect people from all over the world, build friendships, support political causes, and even help people find work, it has also been blamed for a whole host of social problems. Some of this blame, subsequent research has shown, has been placed unfairly, but that doesn’t mean that social media doesn’t pose some real problems for its users.

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Published on October 24, 2013 08:04

6 Bullets on How an Author and Book Find a Community

Writing books is all about community so beware of self publishing.

http://gilesbenaway.wordpress.com/2013/10/17/self-publishing-

wannabe-writers-beware/

Having read the above blog, I'm more excited than ever about being at the upcoming OIW Book Fair on Oct. 27 with fellow authors and readers. As for debates over whether to self-publish or with a traditional publisher, or as an e-book, I'd like to add these bullets from my 15 years of trying.

The 15 World Top Websites in Alexa Ranking

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Alexa.com, the web information and measure company, let you know the traffic relation between your website / blog and the rest of the almost one billion sites worldwide. At www.Alexa.om you can search by country, by category and global. As lower your ranking is as better. Check out your own site: Just go to Alexa.com and type in your blog or website.

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Why is the Alexa Ranking so Relevant?

Website ranking, as a concept, is stressed as an important component of search engines, particularly by Google themselves. Sites with higher Alexa Ranks become more likely to attract potential advertisers and/or marketing offers. And if you are looking for promotion of your books, compare the companies’ Alexa Ranking, among other variables, before you make a decision!

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The Examiner.com Wrote:

“The first thing you need to know about Alexa, that like a golf score, a lower number is better. What Alexa does is rank your website based on traffic. Data collected provides a 3-month view of how many people visited your site, how long they stayed, how many pages were read and search queries used to find your site. Most sites never go under 1 million, simply because they don’t rank well on search engines, others get really good scores (less than 100,000) because they are viewed so often.

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Tips to increase your Alexa Ranking:

The better the content of your blog or website, the stronger the readership. It would also attract good traffic and your Alexa ratings would soar. If you are a novice blogger, you need to regularly post at least a blog/day to keep your blog alive and breathing. Promote your blog on social networking sites and it will no longer clog.
A great way to increase the Alexa rank, is to write guest posts. The numbers of your Alexa rank will scale to a much higher level if you build the back links and your own readership will soar to great heights.

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Our latest numbers on Alexa.com out of 1 Billion websites:

Global rank 105,556 for SavvyBookWriters @111Publishing

USA Rank 48,970

We welcome guest blogs from writers that fit into our topics. If you are interested, read the more about guest blogging. Got some ideas? Drop us a line, including your own website / blog link at 111Publishing gmail com

Top 15 Websites as of October 22, 2013

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google.com
Enables users to search the world’s information, including webpages, images, and videos. Offers… More

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facebook.com
A social utility that connects people, to keep up with friends, upload photos, share links and … More

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youtube.com
YouTube is a way to get your videos to the people who matter to you. Upload, tag and share your… More

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yahoo.com
A major internet portal and service provider offering search results, customizable content, cha… More

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baidu.com
The leading Chinese language search engine, provides “simple and reliable” search exp… More

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wikipedia.org
A free encyclopedia built collaboratively using wiki software. (Creative Commons Attribution-Sh… More

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qq.com
China’s largest and most used Internet service portal owned by Tencent, Inc founded in Nov… More

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linkedin.com
A networking tool to find connections to recommended job candidates, industry experts and busin… More

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live.com
Search engine from Microsoft.

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twitter.com
Social networking and microblogging service utilising instant messaging, SMS or a web interface.

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amazon.com
Amazon.com seeks to be Earth’s most customer-centric company, where customers can find and disc…More

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taobao.com
Launched in 2003, Taobao Marketplace (www.taobao.com) is a popular consumer-to-consumer (C2C) o…More

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blogspot.com

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google.co.in
Indian version of this popular search engine. Search the whole web or only webpages from India…. More

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wordpress.com
Free blogs managed by the developers of the WordPress software. Includes custom design template…More

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Or visit http://www.international-ebooks.com/book-promo to advertise your new book, specials or KDP Select Free Days.

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