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tol: Indie Author Website Must-Haves –“Your Name” Domain
Sorry, got busy, but now have a bit of time to continue with this. so… Onwards with our little series on what an author website must-have. Let’s start with something you’ll spend just a little bit of...
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tol: Indie Author Website Must-Haves –“Your Name” Domain (Part 2)
Continuing on with the “your name” domain author website must-have… As I pointed out in the previous post of this series, there are some real benefits to having a domain name with your name in it,...
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tol: Want a Following/Audience? Just Do One Thing
No idea where I first saw this bit of wisdom — it wasn’t my Dad, where I usually got them — but this immediately went on a Post-It note and on the side of my computer monitor as a daily reminder for a...
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tol: Too Many Resources are Wasted on Bad People
If by the time you read this you see a Captcha field in the commenting feature that appears at the bottom of every post, sorry about that. Captcha’s are those “Enter the characters you see in this...
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tol: A Unique Web or Blog Design is NOT Required
You absolutely positively must have a unique Web or blog design to succeed online! It’s the kiss of death, using some canned “theme” that everyone uses, ergo everyone has already seen! You need a...
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tol: The Author’s Website/Blog: Start With Simple
Onward with our little informal TOL series on my thoughts on author blog/Web design and development (yesterday’s post)… So, if not having a unique design isn’t necessary, no need to bother then,...
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tol: The Author’s Website/Blog: Unique on the Easy and Cheap
Besides their professionally clean and simple look-and-feel, there is another reason I like to bring up the default WordPress theme designs — Twenty Ten, Twenty Eleven, and Twenty Twelve — for the...
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tol: Authors, Do You Need a .com Domain?
For only about $10 a year, having your own domain — of your name or your name as a dominant part of it — is a no-brainer. The search engines seem to really like them — can’t tell you how my...
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tol: Bad Idea? Are You Sure?
Never had a problem coming up with ideas. If anything, I have too much. No, I take that back, you can never have too many ideas. How you deal with the flow — or flood — well, that’s a completely...
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tol: Simple Alternative .com Domain Naming Techniques for Authors
No valid argument against getting your own domain name. One of the cheapest, most powerful online marketing tools you could invest in. The best is a .com domain; no argument there either. Since, as an...
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