A stale, stagnant author website is sure to leave your visitors with a bad taste in their mouths and a poor opinion of you and your writing. Instead of seeing you as an interesting author who understands how to interact with his or her readers, you'll seem more like...
How To Throw A Virtual Website Launch Party
You’re ready to launch your author website—it's time to party! And the best way to celebrate and get eager visitors lining up at your virtual door is to invite everyone to a fun-filled virtual launch party. Pre-Launch Prep For Your Virtual Launch Party Schedule a date...
Web Design Relief’s Links Roundup, August 2015
Welcome to August’s Links Roundup! Every author needs a sound marketing strategy to publicize his or her writing career—and what better way to promote your work than with an online platform that can reach millions of potential readers? Whether you create your own...
Through The Eyes Of A Search Engine: Metadata And Your Searchability
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...
How To Set The Mood On Your Author Website
As an author, having a clear, easily identified writing brand will help you successfully market your work. When you can be recognized by the topic, genre, or unique quality of your writing, your audience will be able to immediately distinguish you from other authors....
Web Design Relief’s Links Roundup, July 2015
Welcome to July’s Links Roundup—bursting with smart ways to promote your writing, build traffic to your author website, and improve your blogging skills! Whether you create your own author website or we create one for you, we want to give you the best possible tools...
6 Eye-Catching Header Design Ideas For Your Author Website
What's the first thing visitors notice about your author website? Your header image—which is why it's one of the most important aspects of your author website. The header you select will represent you and your writing to the world, so it must be memorable and...
4 Tips For Wooing Agents And Editors With Your Author Website
As literary agents and editors read through your work, they might—if interested—do a quick Google or Internet search on your name to see what comes up. So it's important to have an author website up and running that will appeal to this important audience! How To...
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...
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