The eyes of a search engine are upon you. Any metadata you provide, it’s gonna see. When you have an author website, look behind you. ’Cause that’s where the search engine’s gonna be. Search engines, such as Google, are changing their algorithms all the time. So if...
Dream Big, Think Small: 6 Little Author Website Changes That Get Big Results
Like most authors, we're sure you would rather spend your precious spare time writing instead of dealing with the technical aspects of maintaining or updating your author website. Fortunately, the team here at Web Design Relief has compiled a list of fast, easy...
Remember Google Authorship? Here’s The Next Best Thing For Writers
About a year ago Google discontinued Google Authorship, a program meant to help writers improve their author website’s search rankings. So what does the elimination of Google Authorship mean for writers today? Is there an alternative way to boost your SEO? What Was...
Web Design Relief’s Links Roundup, April 2015
Welcome to April’s Web Links Roundup! When it comes to finding smart promotional ideas, knowing the latest SEO trends, and tracking down the best names for your website—we don't April Fool around! Whether you create your own author website or we create one for you, we...
9 Top WordPress Plugins For Creative Writers’ Websites
As a proactive writer aware of current publishing industry trends, you know you need an author website. Careful research has convinced you that WordPress is the best online Web creation tool and content management system (CMS) available today. Now the next important...
10 Tricks To Make Your Author Website Rank Higher In Search Engines Like Google
You're number one...or close to it! But you definitely want your author website to have a high ranking on search engines like Google—in other words, to appear at the very top of the list of results that a search engine compiles when a user does a search. But how can...
How To Set Up Google Authorship For Your Author Website
Update 12/22/14: Google no longer offers the Google Authorship program. However you can still improve search results by using rich snippets. Learn more here. Hey, writers! Are you on Google+? More importantly, do you have it connected to your author website? If...
White Hat Or Black Hat: Which SEO Hat Should You Wear?
In the world of search engine optimization (SEO), there are two distinct sets of techniques used to increase a site’s search result ranking, or Googleability. You may have heard of “white hat” and “black hat” before, but just what do those terms mean? Is there really...
Web Design Relief Links Roundup, October 2013
Whether you create your own author website or we create one for you, we want to give you the best tools possible to build an effective online author platform and get your writing out there for all the world to read. Here’s our latest links roundup with a bunch of...
FAQ: What Should My Book Marketing Press Release Contain?
Do you have a new book coming out, either with a traditional publisher or a self-publishing company? You might want to consider writing (and distributing) a press release to drum up a little extra promotion and publicity. The goal of a press release is to alert the...
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