Getting Noticed Online

Getting Noticed Online
Getting Noticed Online

Getting Noticed Online

The principle of selling anything on line is basically the same, so since my blog is about books: writing and selling them, I will use books – novels as my example. Having said that the big difference between selling most things on line is that if you are selling, say, bicycles on line, you want people to realise that your bikes are the best, whereas if someone wants to read my books, I don’t have to worry about other writers called Owen Jones. I just have to make sure that I am findable.

Which brings me to the point of this article. Since an author doesn’t need a website really, he or she only needs to be findable, he only needs something he can use to point to his author page which could be on Amazon or any of the other aggregators.

However, an Amazon author page is a little generic, even though it is customisable. It is better to have a page elsewhere that points to that Amazon page. If you don’t have the time to make your own blog popular, then you need to get on a site where someone else is doing that job for you.

There are plenty of options, but I am going to recommend my blog (this one), Megan Publishing Services (MPS), where there are many ways for authors to take advantage of its popularity with the search engines.

Here are some verifiable statistics. In January 2018, Google visited MPS every 15 seconds looking for fresh content!

Yes, the biggest, and therefore the most important search engine for buyers and sellers, the one that handles 86% of online searches – will discover your book, blog or Amazon Author Page within 15 seconds of it being mentioned on my blog.

All the others surf it too, although Bing gets there every six minutes and Yahoo every twelve, but I can live with that 🙂

Couldn’t you?

Click the following link to check the opportunities available:

https://meganpublishingservices.com/advertising/advertising-index/

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Owen
Owen

Owen Jones, Amazon Best-Selling Author from Barry, Wales, has lived in several countries and travelled in many more. While studying Russian in the USSR in the '70's, he hobnobbed with spies on a regular basis; in Suriname, he got caught up in the 1982 coup; and while a company director, he joined the crew of four as the galley slave to sail from Barry to Gibraltar a home-made concrete yacht, which was almost rammed by a Russian oil tanker and an American aircraft carrier.
“I am a Celt, and we are romantic”, he said when asked about his writing style, “and I firmly believe in reincarnation, Karma and Fate, so, sayings like 'Do unto another...', and 'What goes round comes around' are central to my life and reflected in my work. I write about what I see, or think I see, or dream... and, in the end it is all the same really”. He speaks seven languages and is learning Thai, since he lives in Thailand with his Thai wife of fifteen years.
His first novel, Daddy's Hobby is from the seven-part series 'Behind The Smile: The Story of Lek, a Bar Girl in Pattaya', but his largest collection is 'The Megan Series', twenty-three novelettes on the psychic development of a teenage girl, the subtitle of which, 'A Spirit Guide, A Ghost Tiger and One Scary Mother!' sums them up nicely. He has written fifty novels and novelettes, including: Dead Centre; Andropov's Cuckoo; Fate Twister; The Disallowed (a philosophical comedy); Tiger Lily of Bangkok; and A Night in Annwn (Annwn being the ancient Welsh word for Heaven). Many have been translated into foreign languages and narrated into audio books.
Owen Jones writes stories set in Wales, Spain and Thailand, where he now lives. He is a life-long Spiritualist, and this belief is interwoven, in a very realistic way, into many of his books and storylines. If you like a touch of the 'supernatural', try his books
He sums his life up thus: “Born in the Land of Song, Living in the Land of Smiles”.

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