Optimizing Your Author Website for Google and Social Media

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BLOG ARCHIVE

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Content:• Stimulating • Searchable• Sharable• Savable

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Short stories Poetry Comics Art Photo a Day Personal Writing Process Personal Inspiration Writers you admire Book reviews Movie reviews Something related to craft you’ve gone

searching for and not found a good answer Life updates Travel/Events Your non-writing hobby Where you live (i.e. parks/ historic

sites/history etc.) Subjects your characters care about Top 10 Lists Your Genre Subjects your characters care about Resources for Readers (i.e. genre compilation

lists) How to Guides

Soundtracks to your book/life Cooking/Crafts Kids/Family/Church Rhetorical treatises on things you care about Satire Current events Dream cast the characters in your stories Your favorite first lines from books in your

genre Create a Buzzfeed style quiz about something

you care about Season/month/holiday theme Languages and foreign lands Grammar misused “in the wild” Favorite authors Creative history of a subject you care about Things you collect Quotes to inspire Book trailer Fan book trailers or art Concerts, writing conferences, and special

events Word history/analysis

Origin

Maturity

Deterioration

Disintegration

Life Cycle of a Rhetorical Situation

Short-Term

Short-Term vs. Evergreen

Evergreen

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