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Author Website Series: Why, When, How, How-to, What
This month-long series of blog posts will explain author websites and offer tips and writing strategies for an effective author website. It alternates between a day of technical information and a day of writing content. By the end of the month, you should have a basic author website up and functioning. The Table of Contents lists the topics, but individual posts will not go live until the date listed. The Author Website Resource Page offers links to tools, services, software and more.
Please do not click a link until the date listed, or you’ll get an error message!
Table of Contents
Resources Page
TABLE OF CONTENTS
THEORY – The Why, When and How of an Author Website
March 1 Why Should You Have a Website?
March 2 When Should You Start Your Website?
March 3 How Should I do a Website/Blog?
March 19 To Blog or Not to Blog
TECHNICAL – The Specific How-tos of an Author Website
March 4 Buy a Domain
March 6 Cpanel Basics
March 8 Professional Email
March 10 WordPress Installation and Setup
March 12 WordPress Plugins
March 14 Themes
March 16 Statistics
March 18 Affliliates
March 20 Posts
March 22 Checklist #1
March 24 Checklist #2
March 27 Blog Launch
SEO
CONTENT – The What of an Author Website, What Goes on an Author Website, Writing the Content for Your Website
March 5 The ABOUT page
March 7 The BOOKS Page
March 9 The NEWS Page
March 11 The HOME Page
March 13 The CONTACT page
March 15 The 404 Page
March 17 Pages
March 21 First Blog Posts
March 23 Blog Posts 6-10
March 25 Blog Posts 11-15
March 26 Beta Readers
March 28 Keep the Blog and Website Going
