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How to Host a Blog Event and Why You Should

November 30, 2011 by Lori Devoti 1 Comment

Tomorrow, December 1, I’m kicking off a blog event at my blog titled 30 Days of Vampires. I’ve done this event (along with its companion–A Full Moon of Werewolves) a couple of times now and while it is a ton of work, the pay off is pretty big too. Originally, I hosted this blog event … [Read more…]

Posted in: Marketing, Writing Business Tagged: blog events, blogs, book marketing, Google, indie publishing, indiepub, online marketing, SEO

Getting Social: Is it Worth it?

October 10, 2011 by Monica Valentinelli 2 Comments
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I’ve been asking a lot of questions about the value of social media from different angles. Marketing. Personal. Author. Community. Etc. I’ve come to the conclusion that the reason why marketers are so hung up on the idea that social media will work for them is this: they believe you always have to go where … [Read more…]

Posted in: Marketing, Writing Business Tagged: facebook, Google, social media, twitter

What’s the Story with Duplicate Content?

September 21, 2011 by Monica Valentinelli Leave a Comment

You’re an author. You have a blog. You’re trying to get the word out about your books. Then, you get a strange e-mail. Somebody is asking you to republish all of your blog posts. Will it hurt you? How about just the one? Duplicate content is a phrase used to describe the event when an … [Read more…]

Posted in: Writing Business, Writing for the Web Tagged: blogs, content, Google, RSS feed, search engines, SEO, web marketing

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