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Cooperative marketing: Let's link our blogs and websites to each other
Posted on: Thu, 11/19/2009 - 18:36
Cooperative marketing: Let's link our blogs and websites to each other
What?: A way to drive more customers to our books and to improve the rankings of our websites and blogs.
How: By linking each other's sites to our own sites through a cooperative arrangement.
Method and rules:
- You have to have at least one PUBLISHED book for sale to participate.
- You have to have a blog or website, under your control, that you use to promote and or sell your book.
- Find or start a forum thread on this forum (Marketing).
- Pick a genre (we'll use Science Fiction for an example).
- Give the thread a name like Science Fiction Crosslink #2 if you're starting a new thread.
- If you've started a new group, mention it on this thread so others can go right to it.
- Post your URL ("http://www.myblog.com") and some information about your book. Perhaps the elivator pitch you used on NothingBinding or something shorter including key phrases (see below) you'd like to see used.
- Keep an eye on the thread. When someone new shows up, post a link to their site on your site (perhaps in a sidebar?) with a very short description that includes the genre ("science fiction") and other descriptive phrases that will help your visitors to understand what the link is about. The "key" phrases used will help to increase Google (etc.) rankings for those phrases -- both for you and the other site.
- Check the other site to make sure they linked to you.
- Limit of 10 sites per group to keep everyone's site from looking like a "link farm". If all the "science fiction" groups are filled up when you arrive, start a new thread.
- Make sure your web page does not restrict links (there should not be a "nofollow" instruction that affects the entire page and each link should not be labeled "nofollow"). Make sure the "other guy" doesn't do this before you bother giving him a reciprocol link (View/Source in your browser and check the top part of the code and find the link to your site to make sure it's clean). Blogs (BlogSpot or WordPress) are particularly a problem in the comment area since they automatically insert a "nofollow" for links from people who comment on your post.
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Okay, I've started a thread for SF authors. First 10 people get to use it, then the 11th will have to start a new one. It's called "Science Fiction Crosslink #1" (big surprise).
Feel free to start other threads such as:
Romance (you can be specific if you think that will help, such as "Historical Romance").
Thrillers
Spy stories
Young Adult
Children's
Mystery
Go to Amazon and look at their genre list for ideas. If you book sells through Amazon or B&N, use the genre your book is in. Or the main genre you used for your Nothing Binding post.
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In my book: Parallel Worlds, Paintings and Drawings as Metaphors for Ideas in Art and Science, is an attempts to put into visual form those concepts which paintings and drawings which have a common basis in the arts as well as in science. My book explores several concepts which are linked both in art as well as science. These are: multi spatial dimensions, duality and figure ground reversal, curved spaces, infinity, and the relativity of percetion and time.
There are more similarities between art, geometry, physics, and perception than one would normally think. We must not forget that science and art were united for centuries particularly during the Renaissance. "Science" means knowledge. The visual arts also deal with knowledge. The way science communicates knowledge may differ at times with the methods which visual art communicates knowledge;but this does not mean that these areas are extremely different from each other. As a matter of fact, a good case can be made for visual artists making contributions to the scientific knowledge base. When artists developed geometrical perspective (beginning with the early Renaissance both in Italy and in Germany), they made important contributions to an area of mathematics known as: projective geometry. This is where art advanced knowledge in science, and not the other way around.
Thomas Cappuccio
My book Neiko's Five Land Adventure is very difficult to put in a box. It is generally put as a Young Adult Fantasy, but it can also be enjoyed by adults and it contains science fiction components: use of rockets, rocket launchers, and lasers in addition to swords, bows, magic, etc in a seemingly medieval world that is located in another universe.There is also suits of armor made of a titanium alloy that has a grade that does not exist at the present worn by winged Indians. This can also be scientifically accurate since this titanium ally would have a high strength to weight ratio which would make it possible for flight because iron and steel are much heavier. Also, most of the time, fantasy and sci-fi are grouped together.
Nothing Binding elevator pitch: Neiko's battles against the Dark Pharaoh are only beginning...
Blog: www.backwoodsauthor.wordpress.com Blog has link to book website and talks about my life in the backwoods. The backwood significance is where the stories were born.
Website: www.neikos5landadventure.net
Twitter page: www.twitter.com/A_K_Taylor
Facebook: www.facebook.com/AKTaylorsBooks
Also listed on www.published.com
[quote=Thomas Cappuccio]In my book: Parallel Worlds, Paintings and Drawings as Metaphors for Ideas in Art and Science, is an attempts to put into visual form those concepts which paintings and drawings which have a common basis in the arts as well as in science. My book explores several concepts which are linked both in art as well as science. These are: multi spatial dimensions, duality and figure ground reversal, curved spaces, infinity, and the relativity of perception and time.
There are more similarities between art, geometry, physics, and perception than one would normally think. We must not forget that science and art were united for centuries particularly during the Renaissance. "Science" means knowledge. The visual arts also deal with knowledge. The way science communicates knowledge may differ at times with the methods which visual art communicates knowledge;but this does not mean that these areas are extremely different from each other. As a matter of fact, a good case can be made for visual artists making contributions to the scientific knowledge base. When artists developed geometrical perspective (beginning with the early Renaissance both in Italy and in Germany), they made important contributions to an area of mathematics known as: projective geometry. This is where art advanced knowledge in science, and not the other way around.[/quote]
Thomas Cappuccio