Get The Word Out – Marketing Your Book Through A Web site

Website

Having your own presence on the web is almost required nowadays.  Let’s just say, for example, that you self publish your  book and it becomes a best seller, or at least hits high circulation in your region. Rest assured your name will be “Googled” from time to time. And if an author search on you reaps little to no results, your credibility could very well be shot.

The good news is that hosting your own website is easier and cheaper than you may think! Run an online search for ”free web hosting”, and you will find a variety of services that will enable you to create your own Web site (with
limited perks, of course). Most free services, however, will not offer you your own URL (Uniform Resource Locator), which is more commonly known as the Internet address inserted into a Web browser in the format “http://www.wwaow.com.”  But for a small monthly fee (usually no
more than $15), you can have www.yourname.com in no time!

You also have the option of getting a Web site professionally designed, but be prepared to pay substantially more. Exactly how much you would pay would depend of a variety of factors, including the number of Web pages
on your site (pages which link to different content within your site), if you wish to sell products directly from your site, and the extent of the graphics your site includes.  If you plan on reserving your own URL, that also will add to the cost. Shop around if you want to go the professional route, and find the price that suits your needs best. Websites are useful for many reasons. As mentioned above, your name’s ability to pop up in search results means you’re “somebody” in this electronic day-and-age. In addition, your site also serves as sort of a common ground between you and your audience, especially when you’re an independent publisher doing your own marketing. You can include links to purchase your self published book, an author bio, contact information for yourself, and even a guestbook where visitors to your site can leave comments.

You can learn more about self publishing books at www.wwaow.com.