| When most people publish their novel online the | | | | more easily picked up and ranked. |
| set up a basic site, place their chapters onto it | | | | Other advantages to using a blog include |
| and leave it be. Sadly, this will not help you much | | | | - It helps your site look good when templates are |
| with rankings in search engines. | | | | used |
| If you want your story found by readers or | | | | - You don't need to know much, if any, coding |
| publishers, one of the more important aspects to | | | | - It allows readers to put in comments about |
| success is getting a good ranking on a search | | | | your chapters |
| engine. Having your novel fully publishing in one | | | | But mostly, since writers are not online |
| shot on a site will not assist you with this cause. | | | | marketers, it will assist you to be found more |
| A very good way to getting ranked well is to | | | | easily. |
| follow the following guidelines. | | | | With this in mind, changing your site into a blog will |
| 1 - Rather than publishing your novel in one shot, | | | | assist this cause tenfold in one swoop. |
| publish it slowly by adding one chapter a week. | | | | It is as simple as that to get more people to read |
| This will be an advantage because your site will | | | | your novel, for publishers to find you, and to |
| have new content added regularly. This is a good | | | | develop a relationship with your audience. |
| thing by search engines. | | | | And the best thing is you can easily set up a blog |
| 2 - Seriously consider setting your novel up as a | | | | regardless of your site building expertise. |
| blog. A blog with content being added weekly is | | | | |