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Author Websites & SEO
Author website and SEO advice: build a site readers and search engines find, point your domain safely, and rank for the terms that bring readers to your books.
An author website SEO checklist you can actually use: the pages, keywords, titles, and fixes that help readers and search find your books.
Point your domain to a new author website without downtime: nameservers vs A records, what your host needs, and why DNS changes take time.
Ten thrillers, strong reviews, flat growth. The author website strategy that came out of the research, and the forgotten page that reordered the whole…
Start looking into building a website and you hit the same confusion nearly every author does: there are two things called WordPress, and they…
Website hosting is one of those technical decisions that authors tend to put off until the last minute. Here is a plain explanation of…
Most author websites are built to look like a professional presence, not to do anything for the reader who lands on the page. Author…
Most author websites try to do everything and convert on nothing. Here’s how to identify what your site should be doing and build around…
The problem with most author websites isn’t the design. It’s that the site doesn’t know who it’s for. Here’s how to diagnose the real…
Readers are increasingly finding authors through ChatGPT, AI Overviews, and Perplexity. Traditional SEO is not obsolete, but a new layer sits on top of…