How to best optimize your blog posts for SEO
What is Blog Optimization? According to Hubspot: When you optimize your web pages — including your blog posts — you’re making your website more visible…
Tag: blogging
A long-term approach to working with book bloggers [Winning blog idea July]
Each month BookMachine offers a community member, with great ideas, the chance to write on the site. July’s joint winner (with Richard McCartney’s piece), was Dawn…
On the proper care and feeding of book bloggers: A list of dos and don’ts for publishers who want to work with book reviewers
One of the most important components of building buzz behind your newest, shiniest book is getting book reviewers on board. However, building up a reliable…
BookMachine Blogging Award: Votes needed
The blogging awards are back! These informal awards are a way to acknowledge the most popular BookMachine bloggers from 2016. Here’s how you can get…
Fancy blogging for BookMachine?
We are always looking for industry professionals with something interesting to say. Around 11,000 people read BookMachine each month so if this is you, then…
Startup Snapshot: Scriggler
Dmitry Selemir was once a physicist and hedge fund rocket scientist PM, and is now the founder and CEO of Scriggler.com, ‘the Soundcloud of writing platforms‘.…
The Zoella Book Club: interview with Amy Alward
Earlier this month WHSmith launched Zoella’s Book Club in partnership with blogger and vlogger Zoe. Here Norah Myers interviews Amy Alward, one of the eight…
Giving it away: the magic of content marketing
Evie Prysor-Jones is Content Lead at Optimus Education. She’s a big fan of data driven digital marketing and alliteration. On Tuesday Evie will be speaking…
5 tips for growing traffic and engagement for your content
Getting a new blog or social media platform noticed can be difficult. It is important that you are effective and systematic when you engage with…
How not to blog: 7 tips
Norah Myers works on the editorial side of marketing. She sources narrative non-fiction for an independent publisher and interviews lovely publishing folk for BookMachine. Here,…
Doing it for the love of it: the life of the unpaid Book Blogger
This is a guest post by Book Blogger, Kate Ward. Kate’s a keen supporter of literacy projects and firmly believes that reading of any sort should be…
On being a VP and Senior Literary Agent and blogger: Carly Watters
Carly Watters is a VP and Senior Literary Agent at the P.S Literary Agency. Since joining the agency in 2010 and becoming a VP in…
Publishing Yourself
Lisa Edwards runs her own independent publishing consultancy, Redwood Tree Publishing. She has twenty years’ experience in the publishing industry, primarily in children’s books, where…
7 Steps To Growing and Maintaining Your Blog Readership
This is a guest blog post by Jaime Tung. Jaime is the author of Angloyankophile, an upbeat take on life as an American expat in…
6 Questions for Jon Reed [INTERVIEW]
Jon Reed is an author and social media consultant who previously worked in publishing for 10 years. He runs the blog Publishing Talk, and offers social…
