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How to Get Your Author Page #1 on Google

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According to studies: The No. 1 Position in Google Gets 33% of Search Traffic.  Why being on top of Google search rankings is important for you as an author?

Remember what’s critical in buying property: location, location, location … in web terms it means ranking, ranking, ranking.  So, if someone is searching for key phrases that are contained in your blog or on your website, they will find you on Google’s top rankings.  And as more potential readers find your websites, as more they learn about you as an author and about your books.
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To boost your website’s ranking it is very important to know and use SEO, which stands for “search engine optimization.”   

  • Basic Search Engine Optimization Knowledge
  • What you should know to  benefit from regarding SEO:
  • How to Announce Your Book for FREE on Google

 

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Would you like to have your book cover 
and description seen by millions on the internet?  If your answer is YES, then sign up with Google plus – Google+ and use one of the best ways on the whole internet to announce your book for FREE – several times a day!

Once you are signed up with Google+, write a compelling “Profile” and add images of you and your books to it.

Start building circles and adding potential readers of your book into these circles. Unlike Twitter, you can build circles with thousands of followers in a very short time. No 2,000 limit only here…

No need to “hand-pick” these followers, just start out by adding already existing circles to your own.  Type in: readers, writers, literary agents, publishers, librarians, book reviewers, bookworms etc. or keywords of your books to find the right circles.  Don’t forget your personal interests, sports and hobbies to have a well-mixed community. Select the audience or the parts of your list that will be receiving your message according to your chosen topic of circles.

Create a Google+ Business Account – easy and free again. Google+  allows every business to act as an individual in many forms.

“Like” – the same as with any other social media, comment on postings of others, ask questions, give a “1+” on their postings and “share” them (same as “re-tweet” on Twitter).   After some participating days, start your own posts, write short articles about anything your audience might be interested in.  After all, it is called “Social Media”…

Add lots of photos and snippets from your blog or website.  Post your book trailer – see 111 Tips to Create Your Book Trailer how to do this – and add links to Amazon or other book sales pages.

Place images of your books and a short description along with your author bio – several times a day!  Avoid looking spammy, create a variety of text and images, as well as a variety of links to your book’s sales page.


Place your book trailer in separate posts to achieve even more buzz.  Write at least five unique descriptions of each of your books, to avoid this “spamming look” on your posts and change the headline as well.
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Chats on Google Plus
You can use Google Talk to chat with friends, potential customers, and readers.  In your sidebar, you have an option to connect with people in through chats.  Again: As larger your audience on Google+ is, as more people you added to your circles, as more potential readers you will get and as better the result will be.

Take advantage of Google+, one of the best ways to market books or e-books which authors and publishers yet have to discover.  Let me know about your Google+ presence and I will add you into my circles too.   Mine is: https://plus.google.com/u/0/108229068198031646389/posts

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Reasons Why Google+ is Perfect for Writers
Google+, now since over a year in the social media scene, keeps growing and growing. Google+ had  ….. members and rising and is now the fastest-growing social media site in history…   Though Facebook is currently the industry leader for social media, some think Google Plus could beat Facebook.

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You might think: “Why engaging in another social media when I am on Twitter and Facebook already?   However, for me and many other publishers and authors, Google+ has lots of benefits, and I am just mentioning here the most important:

SEO – Search Engine Optimization:
You can submit each of your blog posts to your Google+ account.   Google treats the information on its own platforms, aka Google Search Engine, pretty high, which means your SEO-ranking for your website or blog improves dramatically.   Your Google+ profile will always be top ranked on a Google search, so just fill it in and link it to all your other sites.

Google keeps the exact process for measuring the quality and originality of content top secret.  Instead, Google asks webmasters and content producers to consider 23 questions to help better produce well-ranked content.

Of those 23 questions: “Does the page provide substantial value when compared to other pages in search results?” best underlines the strategy that has the most potential for content producers.

Google has found a way to measure the appreciation of a site’s fans.  Google accomplishes this partially through their +1 button, which can be used by Google search engine users with a Google account, to share with Google a recommendation for a website, page, or content item.  It’s essentially the same thing as the Facebook “Like”, but with more clout because it’s directly tied into a site’s Google SEO rank.  To “+1” something in the Google search results, you do need a Google account, but it does not need to be a “Google+” account.
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If you want to step into Google’s mindset, the questions below provide some guidance on how they have been looking at the issue:

•Would you trust the information presented in this article?

•Is this article written by an expert or enthusiast who knows the topic well, or is it more shallow in nature?

•Does the site have duplicate, overlapping, or redundant articles on similar topics with slightly different keyword variations?

•Would you be comfortable giving your credit card information to this site?

•Does this article have spelling, stylistic, or factual errors?

•Are the topics driven by genuine interests of readers of the site, or does the site generate content by attempting to guess what might rank well in search engines?

•Does the article provide original content or information, original reporting, original research, or original analysis?

•Does the page provide substantial value when compared to other pages in search results?

•How much is quality control done on content?

•Does the article describe both sides of a story?

•Is the site a recognized authority on its topic?

•Is the content mass-produced by or outsourced to a large number of creators, or spread across a large network of sites, so that individual pages or sites don’t get as much attention or care?

•Was the article edited well, or does it appear sloppy or hastily produced?

•For a health related query, would you trust information from this site?

•Would you recognize this site as an authoritative source when mentioned by name?

•Does this article provide a complete or comprehensive description of the topic?

•Does this article contain insightful analysis or interesting information that is beyond obvious?

•Is this the sort of page you’d want to bookmark, share with a friend, or recommend?

•Does this article have an excessive amount of ads that distract from or interfere with the main content?

•Would you expect to see this article in a printed magazine, encyclopedia or book?

•Are the articles short, unsubstantial, or otherwise lacking in helpful specifics?

•Are the pages produced with great care and attention to detail vs. less attention to detail?

•Would users complain when they see pages from this site?
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Google hopes the questions above give some insight into how they try to write algorithms that distinguish higher-quality sites from lower-quality sites.  75% of internet users will never scroll past the first page of a Google search.  Using the tips above will help your site to be on the first page.  Best of all: it doesn’t cost you a dime – it’s free advertising by the world’s largest search engine!

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MORE TIPS:

Always have your own domain name and domain hosting.  Free websites, such as Weebly or Wix, for example, will never bring your websites – and your books – to Google’s first page!  Free websites that save you less than $10 a month, will cost you actually: in lost readers and lost business.
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Visit more blog posts to learn where you can show your book cover:

https://www.savvybookwriters.com/how-to-improve-your-amazon-author-page/

http://savvybookwriters.wordpress.com/2012/08/16/how-to-market-your-book-on-photo-sites/

http://savvybookwriters.wordpress.com/2012/06/24/5-ways-of-marketing-with-pinterest/

http://savvybookwriters.wordpress.com/2012/08/01/63-top-websites-to-announce-your-book-for-free/

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Social Media Obsession? Building Your Networks?

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Jeff Bullas, Marketing and Social Media Guru, explained in a recent post:
“Businesses who are relentless in building a following on social media are in fact creating their own publishing platforms, growing their marketing channels and content distribution networks. It is a digital asset that grows every year.”

This info-graphic shows very clear that Google+ is becoming by far the second most popular Social Media Network on the planet, and Google+  should be at the top of your list when it comes to digital marketing. Check out our blog post: 15 Top Reasons for Writers to Be on Google+
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Take Advantage of FREE PDF copies of What the Plus! Courtesy of Google. Please, share this link with as many people as possible. Get a copy http://goo.gl/eRy6z
Read also a short description: How to Get More Followers on Your Google+ Page

The Growth of Social Media v2.0 [INFOGRAPHIC]
Source: The Growth of Social Media v2.0 [INFOGRAPHIC]
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Search Engine Journal wrote: “Social media has transitioned into an obsession and almost a way of life for online culture, changing the way we communicate with our colleagues, loved ones, and our favorite brands. As social media continues to grow in almost every market, the idea that social media is “just a fad” is no longer worth consideration as more and more demographics move toward utilizing social media on an every day basis.”

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15 Top Reasons for Writers to Be on Google+

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Once more about Google+ : Google is by far the most popular search engine on the planet, and Google+  should be at the top of your list when it comes to digital marketing.  ”How to Make Use of Google+ as an Author” was the title of yesterday’s blog post, with several links to other posts about Google+ advantages and displaying an info-graphic with 56!!! REASONS why it makes sense to be on the 2nd largest network in the world why it is worth to be on Google+ and get top Google search engine rankings. And still, I found a comment:
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“Is Google+ worth it?”
This question made me wonder … as I had the impression, the comment-er had only read the headline, and not the 56 reasons, nor the links I provided in my post. The question could also have been: “Is is worth to promote my book?” So here, once more, a short version of some of the Google+ benefits:
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Short answer: YES, it is worth to be on Google+

  • IF you find your book worth promoting …
  • IF you want to be high on Google’s ranking in the search engines (SEO) and get more readers.
  • IF you want to be on the 2nd largest network in the world.
  • IF you want to post your events, such as a book launch, for FREE.
  • IF you want to show your books cover & description several times a day to an unlimited number of readers.
  • IF you use your book’s keywords in short descriptions at your Google+ posts to get much better search engine rankings.
  • IF you want to post your book on dozens of Google+ reader’s communities.
  • IF you want to get higher rankings on Google for your WordPress blog or website.
  • IF you want to have an extra site on Google for each of your books – up to 50!
  • IF you want to introduce your book trailer to a huge audience.
  • IF you do NOT want to have restrictions, such as on Facebook (only have “friends you know”).
  • IF you are inviting thousands of people to your Google+ sites (can be done with only a couple of clicks. How? Just read the FREE book, mentioned below.
  • IF you want your message to go to an unlimited amount of people – on Facebook it goes only to fewer than 200 people – unless you pay!
  • IF you want to use a Google+ social sharing button, to invite readers to circulate your post.
  • IF you share other peoples articles on Google+, it creates a link back to your site. And being Google, sharing on their social network will get YOUR content indexed almost immediately, and pushes you up the rankings on Google’s search listing.
  • IF you value this: a Google+ account allows you to claim authorship of your original post. This keeps your content accredited to you, in case content thieves scrape your work.

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OK, enough said … happy PLUS googling … Here are more professional marketing tips to help you gaining more success with your books.

Amazing Correlation Between Google +1s and Higher Search Rankings
6 Beginner Tips for Google Plus Marketing
5 Tools to Grow Your Presence on Google Plus
Grow Your Google Plus Business Page with the Power of Sharing

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Don’t miss to learn about the 10 top mistakes on Google+  

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