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Put Your Photo On Google Search Results

Here’s what we’re doing to get authors more Google readers

Google Authorship, More Google Readers
Establishing a two way link from Google to your blog allows Google to verify that you are the author, display your content as the original, and put a picture in the search results and get more readers from Google.

We’ve been overhauling every aspect of  this site. Updated infrastructure, new framework, behind the scenes code in the blog theme and dozens of tests on state of the art plug in and widgets that will help our contributors get publicity so that the very best authors and book marketing experts will enjoy contributing their best ideas for authors.

Today, we are testing Google’s #authorship settings.

On a web page, you’ll see a simple link like: Find us on Google+

Behind the scenes, we have a two way communications process going on. Our server talks to Google’s servers and get along better. When more searching for a topic or keywords about one of our authors looks at the search engine results page (SERP) they will see the author’s photo and be more likely to click. More Google readers from better looking search results.

Today, as we work on this, there is a big SEO expert conference going on and our insiders tell us that the hot topic is how this will affect every search result.

Here’s the Good News About Authorship for More Google Readers

As of August 30, a sample of tech blogs (usually the leading edge for these innovations) showed that 90% did not use the methods introduced in mid 2011 by Google. I would imagine that AUTHORS as a group is an even smaller percentage.

We’ll have reports on how this works, including a tutorial on just how to add authorship tags to your blog or website… Stay tuned.

Author Traffic System Brings New Readers

graph[1]Every author wants more readers. Today that means you need more readers at your website, blog or book sales listing. Now there’s help to bring you web site traffic.

I teach and implement marketing and promotion for authors. In the last decade, I’ve seen thousands of authors reach new readers. We have seen books break out to reach new audiences and create more opportunities for it’s author. We’ve also used marketing and publicity online to give a book the jump start it needed to become a best seller.

Along the way, I’ve helped develop some back office tools that insure success. I’d like to share one of those proven systems with you today.

Why Some Great Books Don’t Succeed

Unfortunately, I have also met a lot of authors with good books who struggle to stay in the public eye, and never seem to get to the tipping point  that a huge launch promotion or media tour would bring. Some have spent thousands of dollars on a web site that can’t be found.

After a string of best sellers, I know what works. The truth is, no matter how great your book and online presence is, you won’t sell books if you can’t be found. A website is like a billboard built on a dead end street. You need traffic before anyone can see it.

If you have a best seller, you get coverage in the media, and the results start to snowball. What many authors need is that first burst of traffic coming to their web site.

How the Author Traffic System Works

Every book, author and launch promotion we work on today gets fed into this search engine optimization system for continued results.

I’ve not talked much about this system in the past, but used it to build lasting traffic for clients paying $5,000.00 per month or more to optimize their web sales.  This is considered to be a small SEO (search engine optimizer) budget so often difficult for an author to get started.

It’s worth the price. The traffic coming from the search engines is free, and there’s no end to the strategies that can add to results from the billions of searches done each month online.

Because of the volume of book specific projects we’ve done, I have worked with my SEO experts to build an affordable alternative that any author can use with any book.

Best of all, the system is 100% hands free. Our staff does all the work and you get the traffic.

Special Offer for a Few Authors

The Author Traffic System is not for everyone. If you don’t have a website, you’ll need to build one so there is someplace to send readers. Once you have a web page, any web page, the system can work for you.

It’s best to set up online presence for yourself and your book at least six months before you launch. We’ve seen results in as little as a few weeks but I caution you not to wait until your book is published.

Through our partnership with AuthorsTraffic.com you can now get access to the Author Traffic System for as little as $74/month.

Number of Months of Service Prepaid Price per Month
1 $249
3 149
6 99
12 74

As you can see, the cost per month drops drastically when you commit to a full year. This works because so much of the work gets prepared at the beginning of a project. The longer time commitments allow use to save on repeating the plan and installation, so we pass that savings on to you.

Each month, additional links and cross promotion allows the web of links and connections to grow. You can add new pages on your website, or use the promotion to drive more readers straight to your book listing. Most authors let the results build until they come out with a new book.

I’ve committed to work directly with AuthorTraffic.com for TEN AUTHORS during the rest of the year. I personally review the website promotion plan and will be adding two bonuses that will give you even more results if you order the 6 or 12 month package:

1. Promotion of your press release or article. You get a certificate for this that you can use right away, or redeem to get extra news coverage for a special event.  $497 value

2. Book announcement of your book to my following of several hundred thousand readers on my blog sites, email and social media networks. $997 value

This Author Traffic System package is new, but the work being done has proven to work for the authors and books we have promoted.

This special offer will be deleted once we get the 10 authors I am working with. If you have a book web site that needs a lot more traffic, or a new book planned during 2102, this is the best time to get started.

To order click on the link for package you want to see details needed to order.