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I know a lot of you have your own websites. I know next to nothing about it but I'd like to put together a website for my professional writing. Does anyone have anything they really recommend or don't recommend? What parts of your website and its features do you love? Not love at all?
I have a blog and a Twitter, so I'd love to be able to connect up to those via my site... Haha, as you can see, I'm a total noob at this. I don't even know the terminology.
Thank you for any assistance you can give me!
I have a blog and a Twitter, so I'd love to be able to connect up to those via my site... Haha, as you can see, I'm a total noob at this. I don't even know the terminology.
Thank you for any assistance you can give me!
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Date: 2014-02-09 10:37 pm (UTC)From:I used Wordpress. That and blogger are the two most popular. I also have a FB, TW and G+ account for my author persona. I was told pintrest/tumbler is also a good one to have (one of those) because the younger crowds tend to hang out there... but I just can't face doing another SM.
The thing is, you want to build your 'platform' by engaging with people, building a 'community' so when your book is ready to come out, you can talk about it, versus just bombarding people with 'buy my book'. Also, it's all about Google and increasing your 'author rank' which means making good, steady postings to your blog and making sure Google knows it's you making it. Then link your awesome posts all over all your SM and get your friends to link it and your author rank/SEO rises.
Or something like that. I'm a noob too.