Six Ways to Boost Author Website Visits

• How to drive traffic to your website
While creating a website is an excellent idea, it won’t help you much if you no one sees it. That means you’ll need to promote it, which we’ll cover in upcoming entries. But even when not promoting your website, there are ways to drive visitors (aka as “traffic”) to it.

• Increase website visits with strategic
Search Engine Optimization is another way to improve your page rank. As search engine robots and crawlers check over your website, they seek key words so that someone using a search engine gets sites that best match their needs. Simply incorporating certain keywords into your website text will improve the chances of someone finding your site when they search for those words.

• Employ right keywords to boost book sales
Among the most important marketing strategies you can employ to sell your self-published book is ensuring you use the best keywords. When uploading your book to Kindle Direct Publishing, you have to identify at least one and up to seven keywords that will help readers locate your book. Often authors overlook this part of the process until they reach this point in the upload. 

• Use Google’s Keyword tool to sell more books
When promoting our books, getting to the top of the first search engine page is important. Stats show that page 1 gets 95% of all search traffic, that 61% of all traffic go to the top three spots, and that 33-40% head right to the No. 1 listing. Attaining those coveted spots requires search engine optimization, or the placement of keywords on your website, blog and social media posts promoting the book. So just how do you figure out which keywords are best, then?

• Boost book sales via backlinks to your website
Among the best ways to crank up book sales is to get your title or name as an author at the top of the search engine list. A good way to boost your ranking on search engines is through backlinks.

• Advertise your book via web widgets 
Creating online advertisements for your book or website/blog promoting your writing is easier done than said – literally. All you need to do is create a web widget.