Getting more traffic to blog

[Stephen]

What's happening folks? A writer of Scottish crime fiction here building towards the eventual publication of my debut novel Pure Angst. Have been running a blog on my website for a while, and wondered if anyone had any tips on how to increase traffic besides the obvious tweeting, sharing on social media etc?
Also, how do you import your blog to Goodreads?

If you wish, check out my website, with a blog and plenty info on my upcoming debut at

www.stephenscarcliffe.co.uk

Any suggestions or ideas, are welcomed!

Cheers :)

[Rita]

Hi Stephen,

You've built a good website - they say all these things take time. Goodreads is a good place to promote it. Importing your blog to Goodreads is something to do with the RS (Rss?) feed - I'll leave it to someone else to tell you, or you can do a search for it.

Interviewing other authors is a good way to bring traffic to your site and I see you are already doing that. (I also do interviews on www.ritaleechapman.com. You can contact me through the site if you are interested closer to publication). You have a mailing list going and that's always good.

I'd search around the Goodreads threads for radio or author interviews to spread the word - offering interviews usually brings a host of visitors.

Some authors do giveaways - whether it's an Amazon gift voucher or a story. You already have Charlie on offer. It seems to me you have covered most of the bases. Presumably you are linking your blog to Facebook and Blogger.com etc. BookTalk is another good site. Once you publish, make sure you have your author page completed on Amazon and Smashwords (if you are going to publish there as well).

Hope this has been of some help.

Good luck!

[Stephen]

Thanks alot Rita, that's all really helpful stuff! I normally share my blogs on Facebook and Twitter, and starting to use Goodreads a bit more. I haven't used blogger.com or BookTalk as yet, what are they?
I've decided I'm going to offer a chapter from Pure Angst to anyone signing up to mailing list just to try and stir up a bit more interest...
And I will definitely get in contact for an interview as and when publication is in sight!

Cheers