Archive | May 2018

21 Ways Authors Recommend Books to Their Readers via #bookbub

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Ways Authors Recommend Books to Their ReadersAuthors, have you recommended a book on BookBub.com? It’s a fun and easy way to connect with readers and help them discover more wonderful books to read… but it’s also a useful (and free!) promotional tool.

Making a recommendation on BookBub lets you engage with BookBub’s community of enthusiastic power readers and stay top-of-mind with your followers, who will see your recommendation in their feeds on BookBub.com or in their weekly digest email. Plus, it opens up fantastic opportunities to promote fellow authors and help them get discovered.

Many authors are recommending books on BookBub and using unique strategies to connect with readers! Here are 21 ways authors have used BookBub Recommendations so far. We hope this gives you some inspiration when deciding which book to recommend next.

read more: https://insights.bookbub.com/ways-authors-recommend-books-readers/

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How to prevent social media ignoring your images

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Remember the devil is in the details.

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Size and description do matter.

If the dimensions are under 250 x 250, some social media sites won’t pick it up off of your website. So don’t make them too small.  And if you fail to add information about the image, search engines can’t determine what your image is about.

Google, Yahoo, Bing or any of the search engines can’t “read” the image itself, so ALT TEXT is important for ranking your images in the search results!

The image title can be helpful to the viewer as it could increase the understanding the image. It can also be beneficial to those who use screen-reading software such as those with vision impairments.

When a reader hovers over the image, the IMAGE TITLE pops up. This can be a great tool. You could put “Click for info” or “Click to buy.” Get the idea.

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