Netherlands app development, The web of the author or writer: 3 fundamental aspects to attract readers
Have you already written one or several books? Then it's time to create or design your author website or writer that you can be proud of and help you capture new readers.
In addition to the page of your book or books on Amazon or other online platforms you need a unique presence on the Internet that is your author website. It is a place where your readers or future readers know more about you, your book and other content you can share, products or infoproductos you can offer and of course a link to other books (if you have more than one).
The positioning of your books and you as an author or expert in a topic will multiply if you have a website. In short you will reach more people and sell more books.
What aspects are fundamental for your website to attract visitors and get readers and buyers of your books?
#1. Main menu and main contents
The essential tabs of the main menu would be: "About me" or "About the author", "Books" and "Contact". Other important tabs that already depend on each author would be: "Blog", "Press", "Videos".
Incorporate a good photo of you or several. If you are author of novels or fiction books use photos of you. For example, by writing or showing the environment in which your novel unfolds. For nonfiction books you do not need to use photos with such a personal touch.
Write a brief biography as an author. Write at least a couple of paragraphs. Mention the moment or situation that inspired you to write and why you write about a certain topic.
He thinks that it is the equivalent to the back cover or the flaps of a book in which appears a brief biography or curriculum vitae of the author.
In the following Netherlands app development we show you the author page on the web of Fernando Gamboa, author of adventure novels and several bestsellers on Amazon. You can see how he shows an image that is very
Page "About the author" on the web of adventure novels author Fernando Gamboa
In the following example we show you the author page of Ramón Samsó, author of nonfiction books.
Page about "The author" on the web of Ramón Samsó, best seller of nonfiction books in Amazon
In addition to having on your page all your books with picture covers and a brief description, each book must have its own page inside the web.
Remember to put the link for the purchase of the book not only in the title, also in the cover image of the book. When you upload the image of your book also remember that the image file is named the title of your book and not something like "0.20003.jpg". It will improve the positioning of your book in Google.
In the image below you will see a good example of a page from the author's novel, Judy Leslie. The design and contents are closely related to the theme of his work, a historical novel closely related to Ireland. Although he only has one novel, he shares many content through his blog, videos on YouTube and images.
In the following example we show you a very complete book page, it is the American author of bestsellers related to diet and diets JJ Virgin. In addition to a good design, book cover image and
Another example of a book page is that of the novelist author of thrillers: Joanna Penn. Also includes a video. In this case he put together a video intercalating several images and texts related to his book.
It is not essential that your book page contains a video, but at least one image with link to purchase and description.
There are still many authors reluctant to give their contact details from their website. The Internet gives you the opportunity to create a direct bridge with your readers.
If you have a contact form, you do not need to explicitly state your mail or phone number. The messages that the visitors leave to your web will arrive at your email address that you can then filter and answer.
Your position as author will multiply with your website and you can reach more people.
If you and your books already have relevance, it is important that you have a tab in the main menu for the press or media kit. This tab guides you to a page where you can easily and intuitively include information for the media (bloggers, podcasters, radios, television, newspapers, magazines, Netherlands website development etc.) to find information that will help them prepare An article about you and your books or an interview. For example: contact information, photos, questions that can be asked in interviews, biography, etc.
In the following example I show you one of the pages for the most complete press kit I know of by author.
#2. Other content: blog, videos and audio
If you have already built your website, which is where you talk about you and your books, there are other content that can help you get more broadcast, mainly the blog, but also contained in other formats other than text such as video or audio .
My advice is to first build your website Netherlands SEO, which is your store, your personal library where you show your books (and maybe also other products).
We will not delve into how to successfully create and manage a blog, a YouTube channel (for your videos) or a podcast (for your "audios"). We will do it later.
However, it is worth mentioning here that these "other contents", well optimized with your effective keywords (we will also talk about this and have a section later in this article), will be the ones that propel your work and you as author, writer or expert In your theme.
With your blog content and / or your videos and / or audio you will attract many more readers to your website.
The blog can be one more tab of your main menu. It fits perfectly inside your web. If you create for example your website with WordPress you will not have to worry about creating a blog later, it will be a more "page" within your website, which in turn will contain many pages, one for each post you write.
Really with an effective web / blog and you will stand out among the majority of authors. Having a good video channel on YouTube and a podcast (audio) is already "honor registration".
#3. The acquisition of "leads" (mails)
The goal of your website author or writer is not only to capture visits through a good positioning in Google, also get the highest percentage of visitors leave their contact information (mail).
He thinks that many visits will be of people interested in your books but that at that moment they are not in disposition to buy them. If you get your mail and keep in touch with them, when the time comes when they decide to buy your works, you will be there. It's a way to keep you in mind. But how do we organize all this?