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Stacy Anderson
Wandering Member
Post Number:
141
Registered: 04-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, May 05, 2005 - 02:12 pm: |   |
Hi Everyone,
I am looking for sites that provide interviews and host chats for authors. I am mainly interested in sites geared towards:
new authors
minority authors
authors of teen books
women sites offering author chats
I have found some but wanted to see if anyone could provide more options or perhaps a link that could help me.
Thanks in advance,
Stacy
http://www.stacy-deanne.net |
William R. Park, Sr.
Hunger Member
Post Number:
53
Registered: 01-2004
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, May 05, 2005 - 03:56 pm: | |
Stacy:
Check out: www.AuthorsTalk.com |
Laurel Johnson
Unity Member
Post Number:
3875
Registered: 01-2002
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, May 05, 2005 - 08:11 pm: | |
The Emerging Writers Network has interviews and reviews with literary folks such as writers, publicists, journal editors, publishers, blog site hosts. Don't think they have a chat room though. Since I don't chat I seldom pay attention to that feature.
Laurel Johnson
Author: The Grass Dance
The Alley of Wishes
Color of Laughter, Color of Tears
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Dennis Collins
Mindsight Moderator
Post Number:
1623
Registered: 06-2002
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, December 09, 2005 - 03:53 pm: | |
I'm borrowing (hijacking) this thread to ask for suggestions.
My website gets very little traffic. I'm interested in success stories from people who get hundreds of hits a week. What are the tricks and secrets?
Would it be a good idea to start a whole new topic devoted to promotion? |
Todd Hunter
Mindsight Moderator
Post Number:
2902
Registered: 02-2003
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, December 09, 2005 - 06:25 pm: | |
I thought we had a topic devoted to promotion around here somewhere...
As far as internet traffic, I'd imagine it would be a matter of telling all your friends, and them telling their friends. Have something people want to see, and want to come back for...
Thus, explaining the popularity of the Pod-Dy Mouth blog and PostSecret (which, oddly enough, has led to the release of a new book by the owner of said site)...
Granted, both of those are technically blogs...but the basis behind the number of hits they receive (I'm guessing more than 100 a week) still stands for other sites.
Mindsight Moderator
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Scott F. Falkner
Wandering Member
Post Number:
106
Registered: 08-2004
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, December 10, 2005 - 12:16 am: | |
Dennis,
Frequent more boards like this one, and others that cater to your genre. On EVERY one of your posts, throw up your url in the ACTUAL post. I'm convinced that it's helped me out a great deal.
Scott F. Falkner
http://www.scottfalkner.com
http://thedailycave.blogspot.com |
Joyce Scarbrough
Wisdom Member
Post Number:
723
Registered: 03-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, December 10, 2005 - 07:57 am: | |
Scott is right. And the groups don't necessarily have to be writing related. I think the members of other kinds of groups tend to be curious about writers and want to see samples of their work without being asked when they see a link in the signature.
Oh, and of course make all your posts brilliant and awe-inspiring! LOL
Toyce
~Joyce Sterling Scarbrough
True Blue Forever
ISBN 0-9722385-9-X
Now available to order from Authors Ink Books
http://www.authorsinkbooks.com
Read the first chapter at http://www.authorsden.com/joycelscarbrough1
Pour yourself a glass of bubbly and check out Champagne Books http://www.champagnebooks.com |
Nancy Mehl
Mindsight Moderator
Post Number:
2291
Registered: 08-2001
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, December 10, 2005 - 09:59 am: | |
It's a puzzle, Dennis.
I get lots of hits after posting on AW. I get some after posting here. But does that translate to sales?
Very little.
I would really like to learn how to use the Internet to get sales. I can't run around posting all over the place. No time - and I don't post to message boards primarily for sales. To me, that's pretty close to spamming - and a little dishonest. I try to post certain places because I'm really interested in the topic.
Any suggestions would be appreciated. I feel that if I could just get people to read "Malevolence," they would want the rest of the series. But how to do it?
A little off topic, but I got a nice e-mail from a woman who saw me on a certain site. However, she went to her local library and found Graven Images. So - no sale, but again, if someone likes one of your books, maybe they'll buy the rest. It's that first taste that seems to be so important.
Nancy
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www.myshelf.com |
Laurel Johnson
Unity Member
Post Number:
4153
Registered: 01-2002
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, December 10, 2005 - 12:45 pm: | |
Someone is making me a website. The editor of New Works Review said a major part of getting good internet exposure is to embed something in various places on the site, is it hypertexts? Someone more computer literate than I am might know the term. NWR is now getting upwards of 15,000 visitors a month. Not just hits, people who come and stay awhile, and he says it is because of the imbedded thingies. That whole thing I just wrote sounds dumb. Sorry.
I would say that most of my sales lately have come from my exposure on NWR. Not all, but many sales.
The Grass Dance
The Alley of Wishes
Color of Laughter, Color of Tears
My Name is Esther Clara - coming soon
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Todd Hunter
Mindsight Moderator
Post Number:
2904
Registered: 02-2003
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, December 10, 2005 - 04:36 pm: | |
metatags, perhaps...
I'm fuzzy on the details of those, which will probably be why I'll have a professional make up my next website...
Mindsight Moderator
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Laurel Johnson
Unity Member
Post Number:
4154
Registered: 01-2002
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, December 10, 2005 - 06:18 pm: | |
YES. Metatags. Supposedly they are easy to imbed but I have no clue how to do it.
The Grass Dance
The Alley of Wishes
Color of Laughter, Color of Tears
My Name is Esther Clara - coming soon
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C. E. Winterland
Mindsight Moderator
Post Number:
1919
Registered: 06-2002
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, December 13, 2005 - 06:34 am: | |
There is a trick to metatags.
Metatags are searchable words that are imbedded into a webpage that describe the content of the page. In order for them to be successful, they must be relevant to the actual content of the page.
For example... Dennis, if you put your name on a webpage as a metatag, the more times your name appears in that page, the better the relevance of any searches for your name. The higher the relevance, and the better you plot out those tags with the content of your site, the more frequently and closer to the top of the list your site link will appear in a search engine, or metasearch engine.
There are websites that will scrub your metatags for you for free to tell you if you have them well designed and defined. I don't remember them off the top of my head, but type "metatags" into a search engine or metasearch engine (such as www.dogpile.com) and you will come up with these services.
Do a couple of real-world tests... open a search engine, and type "mindsight" and see what you get (keep in mind, I haven't scrubbed my tags for a while...). For the record, Mindsightseries.com gets about 10,000 hits a day, which usually translates into around 1000-1500 visitors (not bad for a site with 300 registered users). For fun and curiousity, type "publish america" and see what you get ;)
Naturally, the traffic to this site can be directly linked to the forum and the discussion here (rather than my own work  ). It doesn't hurt to have something that attracts return visits - like a blog, message board, chat feature, newsletter, etc... But be careful... you could get sucked in and end up spending your life on your website - trust me. 
CEW
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Todd Hunter
Mindsight Moderator
Post Number:
2915
Registered: 02-2003
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, December 13, 2005 - 03:12 pm: | |
or other people could spend their life on your website...
hee hee...
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Fred Dungan
Unity Member
Post Number:
1298
Registered: 10-2002
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, December 15, 2005 - 09:40 pm: | |
And, thanks to CEW's good nature, it's rent free.
http://www.fdungan.com/vigilantes.htm |
F.E. Mazur
Wandering Member
Post Number:
142
Registered: 02-2005
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, December 17, 2005 - 02:52 pm: | |
A few of you here have stated that you're not getting much traffic to your site. That's certainly true at mine and I feel certain it is the case at the websites of many other authors, This week's New Yorker offers a cartoon that might explain the reason behind the absence of visitors. The cartoon by PCVEY shows a man sitting and staring at his monitor. A woman standing to his left (I presume she is the wife) says, "Maybe nobody goes to your Web site because it's about you."
Spine
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Todd Hunter
Mindsight Moderator
Post Number:
2928
Registered: 02-2003
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, December 18, 2005 - 05:33 am: | |
Quite possible...
Mindsight Moderator
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Dennis Collins
Mindsight Moderator
Post Number:
1642
Registered: 06-2002
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, December 18, 2005 - 12:05 pm: | |
I've found at least one reason for the lack of visitors to my website. Over at www.Myshelf.com there is a link that simply says "My website" or something like that. I never tested it until three days ago and when I clicked on it, it went looking for my old "Homestead" website. I switched servers well over a year ago. Duh!!!
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Laurel Johnson
Unity Member
Post Number:
4165
Registered: 01-2002
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, December 18, 2005 - 12:51 pm: | |
Someone mentioned blogspot on another thread. Since blogspot is owned by google and the blogspots are placed in their search database, that might help. I also discovered that being listed on poets and writers has helped me, but P and W does not accept PA published books to make up the number of points you need to qualify for a listing there.
The Grass Dance
The Alley of Wishes
Color of Laughter, Color of Tears
My Name is Esther Clara - coming soon
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Todd Hunter
Mindsight Moderator
Post Number:
2931
Registered: 02-2003
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, December 18, 2005 - 04:39 pm: | |
Technorati tags (of which I just became aware) are another way to allow others to find your site...
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Dennis Collins
Mindsight Moderator
Post Number:
1682
Registered: 06-2002
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, January 09, 2006 - 10:29 am: | |
How about links to other author websites? I talked to my webmistress yesterday and she suggested that I start contacting every author I know and set up a bunch of exchanges.
Dennis Collins
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