Blogging for Authors: Writing Blogs on Wordpress or Blogger
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About this ebook
Create your very own blog at the best venues: Wordpress and Blogger. Geared for authors and newbies, learn how to engage readers interested in your subjects or products. It's fun and easy. Save time and money with a blog that helps the main objective: getting more people checking out what you have to offer.
Reach Readers Around the World through Blogging. Blogs and authors are a natural pairing. Blogs:
Keep you writing
Lead readers to your books at Amazon and retailers
Connect people to your social media links
Have excellent SEO properties, loved by Google
Blogs can be Your Online Headquarters for Everything about You.
Perfect for beginners who haven't created one, also designed for intermediates who want to do it better. As a bonus, students who use the course can have their blog featured on mine!
You'll quickly learn everything from choosing a domain name to posting and sharing with social media. We’ll blog in a schedule that fits yours as a stress-free way to assist your writing career.
And the best part is that blogs can be made free of charge. Of course you can spend wisely on a custom domain name, premium template or hosting if you want, but not a requirement. Any author on any budget can follow this program right away, and we’ll use free examples with Wordpress (dot) com and Blogger. The lessons will also apply to Wordpress (dot) org templates or blogs hosted elsewhere.
At the end of this course you’ll have a great blog on Wordpress, Blogger or another site. You’ll have a powerful means for online success at your fingertips.
Jason Matthews
Jason Matthews was an officer of the CIA’s Operations Directorate. Over a thirty-three-year career he served in multiple overseas locations, spoke six foreign languages, and engaged in clandestine collection of national security intelligence, specializing in denied-area operations. Matthews conducted recruitment operations against Soviet–East European, East Asian, Middle Eastern, and Caribbean targets. As Chief in various CIA Stations, he collaborated with foreign partners in counterproliferation and counterterrorism operations. His first novel, Red Sparrow, won the Edgar Award for Best First Novel and was made into a major motion picture starring Jennifer Lawrence. He continued the Red Sparrow trilogy with Palace of Treason and The Kremlin’s Candidate. Jason Matthews passed away in 2021.
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5its was a great little read with some useful nuggets
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5This is a PDF reference that accompanies a course, it still contains information that might benefit someone new to blogging, but there's probably other option that are less cluttered feeling.
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Blogging for Authors - Jason Matthews
Section 1: Introduction
Use this guide as a compliment to the video course or on its own. The following section titles correspond to the lessons within the video course and are in the same order. All of the important hyperlinks are listed within for the matching lesson where they appear in the video. They are active hyperlinks, so you can click on them to visit those websites instead of retyping.
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Welcome to Blogging
Hello and welcome to Blogging for Authors, where we’re going to put the power of blogs to work for you.
I’m Jason Matthews, and I’ll be sharing my tips for making a blog that assists any author with online platform. Get ready for a major boost to your internet visibility and help with your main objective: getting more people reading your words.
For authors who don’t yet have a blog, we’re going to help you create a great one. For authors who already have one but could use some help, we’re going to improve it and make it work for you even better.
First of all, good for you for taking an in interest in blogging. You can be proud of the effort you're making to improve your author platform. Also let me assure you that I know blogs can be intimidating for newbies. They sound technical and they sound time-consuming. While that can be the case for some people, it doesn’t have to be for you, and we’re going to create awesome blogs that are easy for anyone to maintain in a manner that fits into your schedule.
We’ll be working with the two main blogging platforms: Wordpress and Blogger. Both are free blogging venues with no monthly hosting