Promotion of your website

Let’s just say you have set up your wn website either at your own domain or at free hosting. Your next step (aside from filling your website full of information and resources about you and what you do) is to promote.

You are aiming to promote your services as a writer as well as your website. Your website is designed to inform readers and prospective clients exactly where they can find you, contact you, read about you, find out everything about your services and examples of your work.

Traffic to your website is crucial to establishing your presence on the world wide web as a professional or amateur writer/author.

Without it, you cannot hope to gain a presence or a reputation. Even if you cannot set up a website, there are other options available to you. These can include:

1. Weblogs or blogs
2. A profile page on a social networking site detailing everything about you and what you do.

Whatever you decide to do or use, promotion is still crucial to your success. Promotion can be achieved by the use of meta tags, link building, interaction with your visitors, publishing your stories or individual pages about your interests or expertise, blog commenting, listing of your site in directories and the search engines, advertisements, Press releases, podcasts, videos uploaded to sites such as YouTube and many more.

All these methods and those that I haven’t mentioned will be featured over the coming months on In Your Own W-Rite.

Again if you have any tips that my readers would find useful, please do share them in the comments. I would love to feature them in my next post!