This post is part of our series, 50 Ways Your Website is Not
Helping You Sell More Books
6. Too Many Sites
“I clicked your name on this author’s community site. I thought I’d find out what you’re writing, but there were these convention reports from 1998. Are you still alive?”
If you have several old sites floating around out there on different accounts, corral them! Consolidate and archive all the content onto a single site, if you can, and designate it your main site. Add a link to the main site from all the old ones, or redirect traffic outright if there’s nothing left to see at the old locations.
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Elsewhere
News on author websites, blogging, and book promotion
GoDaddy, the domain registrar we often use, has a $1.99 special right now. The trick to registering with GoDaddy is to ignore all the extra junk they try to sell you after you start the checkout process. Look for links or buttons that say “No, thanks” or “Continue with checkout.” Caveat: if you don’t have a PO Box and you don’t want your address and phone number becoming public, you might want to add private registration. ✽
Agent Colleen Lindsay is running a great series on book promotion on her blog. ✽
While we were on vacation last week, agent Nathan Bransford wrote a couple of great posts on author websites and how authors’ blogs influence book sales. There’s some great info in the comments, although there’s also some misinformation about technical issues. (Feel free to ask us about those!) ✽
Text Prefs — a U.K. design firm is conducting a survey on how people like to read onscreen text. Tell them how you like it! They’ve promised to publish the findings so we can all do better at designing things people read. ✽
How to work with a designer and a publicist. ✽
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