Marketing the Book

14 Ways to Promote Your Indie Author Blog for Free

If you’re an indie author, chances are that you have a blog of your own. Promoting your blog is a great way to spread the word about what you’re doing in the world of writing and publishing. In this post, we will go over 14 free ways to promote your indie author blog so that it can reach the readers who need it!

  1. Register your blog with Google Webmaster Tools.
  2. Create a Twitter account and make sure to link it to your indie author blog.
  3. Make sure you have an RSS feed for people who don’t want to subscribe through email or social media.
  4. Add links in the sidebar of your blog that point out other authors’ work – this is called “link love.”
  5. Submit guest posts to blogs in your niche so they can promote you too!
  6. Share your blog posts on social media.
  7. Include a link to your blog in the author bio section of your book’s Goodreads page.
  8. Send out an email newsletter about new content.
  9. Create a short video for YouTube linking to your blog and post it to Facebook or Twitter.
  10. Add “subscribe” buttons to the sidebars of all pages on your website.
  11. Create a Facebook page for your blog.
  12. Join Twitter and follow other bloggers in your writing genre.
  13. Add your website to Google My Business.
  14. Post on Reddit, Tumblr, Blogger, and WordPress blogs.

We hope you utilize some of these tips and find they help bring readers to your blog. The only thing it will cost you is some of your time! If you have any questions, please leave a comment below and we’ll do our best to answer them.

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