Blogs and twitters are a powerful way to communicate worldwide and are heavily used by commercial companies and journalists to raise their own profiles and generate business. Such an influential communication route should not be missed by self-publishing authors and writers. But how do you use a blog to improve your work, increase your readership, and generate sales?

It’s crucial you find ways to use keywords in your articles in a natural way, and don’t just include them in every single sentence – or the articles will read strangely. Don’t just toss in the keywords or phrases wherever they seem to fit, because the search engines will flag this as ’spammy’ content - which is not good for you or your client’s rankings.

The links in the resource box represent the author’s compensation. When a writer submits an article without the resource information, he is working for free. The site still benefits, but the author does not. Personally, I would not submit many articles if there was no potential compensation for me.

Queries benefit both editors and writers. Editors much prefer to review a one-page letter than a 10-page manuscript, so queries spend less time in the slush pile.

With a widget you can place the current information from your blogs and or/websites on other webpages, and your personal pages on social networks like myspace, ning.com and your private clubs. This is not only fun and informative, but an excellent promotional tool.
What is a widget? According to Wikipedia a “web widget is anything that […]