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Twitter’s Three-day Rule Do you use social media much? Whether you do or don’t, you might still be unaware of Twitter’s three-day rule. Twitter has always professed to be anti-spam, but most users find their idea of security a sick joke, because it is automated and their stupid bots trap the innocent and the guilty …
Alexa Rankings Almost from the day I went online in 1996, or perhaps a few years after that, I discovered Alexa, which was a tool for ranking the popularity of websites. In those days, a high Alexa ranking was de rigeur and, so, highly sought after. I have sort of forgotten about my sites’ Alexa …
Getting Noticed Online The principle of selling anything on line is basically the same, so since my blog is about books: writing and selling them, I will use books – novels as my example. Having said that the big difference between selling most things on line is that if you are selling, say, bicycles on …
Promoting Books and Artwork is a necessary distraction for the artistically inclined. Some love it, but most loathe it. Here is a solution
When talking about poor responses on Facebook, I mean that few people reply, and it’s always the same ones, even if you’ve got many friends
I entered my novel The Ghouls of Calle Goya into a big competion. This involved putting Calle Goya on KindleScout. Please help
Help Publish My Latest Novel, please. If it gets enough votes, Amazon will publish it with all the trimmings, which would make a big difference
I have started an Insiders’ Newsletter 🙂 I thought there were people, friends, family, and readers of my books, who wanted to know more
Factual Versus Fictional Writing I have been thinking about the differences, the pro’s and con’s of factual versus fictional writing all day, after someone told me that they struggle to read works of fiction, because their reading time is so limited. I understand the time factor, but less so why so-called factual literature should be …
Internet Marketing It has become a maxim in Internet marketing, that in order to promote an item successfully, you have to present your goods to a targeted readership at least seven times. It seems that Interest marketing research has revealed that the average Internet customer has to have seen an ad seven times before he/she …
Advertising on Megan I have been receiving an increasing number of requests from visitors to my blog about advertising opportunities. At first, I thought it odd because there are pages on there about advertising on Megan. So, I went to have a look at what I ha to offer this morning and was surprised to …
Blogging for Pleasure and Fun There are many reasons why someone might come to blogging. For example, you may want to use your blog to promote your business or website; you may want to use it to promote your ideas, philosophy, religion or politics; you may want to blog content to make some extra money …
Targeted PLR I have some extremely-precisely targeted PLR for sale and here’s why. It is the content of 85 of my websites that I have just taken down because I have changed direction in my on line career. I now write books and novels, not website content and so Google naturally downgraded my websites. However, …
Site Overview Update: August 11 2015: Megan Publishing Services Quite a lot has been happening at Megan Publishing Services over the last few days culminating in the following changes. Today, I want to report in this Site Overview Update that I finished: 1] transferring dozens of pages of useful information over from the now defunct site: …
Amazon Book Reviews My take on the recent controversy regarding Amazon book reviews is that Amazon seems to be disregarding the modern trend in the book reader-writer relationship. In the ‘old days’, readers were not encouraged to form any type of relationship with their favourite writers, who mostly liked to maintain an image of cool …
Publication of Asian Shorts The day has dawned for publication. I’ve read through the whole manuscript for the fifth or sixth time, attached the authors’ contact details, assigned page numbers, formatted it and written the blurb for the back cover. I had designed the front cover last month, so ‘Asian Shorts’ will be submitted to …
First Edition of Asian Shorts I am inordinately proud to announce that the first edition of ‘Asian Shorts’ will be available as from tomorrow, June 18th – Yay! On the negative side first, it is only 74.4% (see update below) of the length that I wanted it to be, but perhaps I was over-ambitious in …
The Heat Is On It looks as if I’m going to get a longer sentence in the doghouse than normal. This is the second day and no sign of a reprieve yet. I just got shouted at for locking the house up when I came out because she had forgotten her keys. The heat …
