Comments on: Choosing a Domain Name for Your Book Site or Blog

By: infant potty training

infant potty training — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 12:24:47 +0000

Sweet article, justa small Q, what is a good average search amount for a niche site? about 300 per month?

By: Jake Olvido

Jake Olvido — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 10:28:28 +0000

Having a book title for a domain name is rather a self-limiting approach to any aspiring bestselling author. An author is not limited to writing one book only; and it would rather be better that the domain name be premised upon the name of an author, like authorname.com or authornamebooks.com. In book marketing, most people overlook the fact that it’s not so much the book itself that is promoted but the author’s storytelling quality and writing abilities that will ultimately convince readers to buy or just skip entirely a book offer. In essence, book promotion is all about building up author reputation. Authors, promote yourselves!

By: David L.

David L. — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 06:39:04 +0000

How does one acquire a domain via a free blog host? Are there any websites you recommend where one can accomplish this?

By: Jennifer Mattern

Jennifer Mattern — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 01:11:23 +0000

In the case of a novel, that’s actually not quite true. Domain names should be one of two things:

1. Keyword-rich for SEO / search, or
2. Brandable

Any smart author or publisher will put a lot of branding effort behind a novel – in other words, you build the visibility and make people recognize the title (and therefore search for it). Remember, that URL has to be adaptable and marketable through a variety of mediums (magazines and newspaper reviews to websites to being easily shared orally during radio interviews – a reason odd spellings, abbreviations, numbers, and hyphens should be avoided in something like a book domain name).

Keyword-rich domains are fine for a niche blog (like this one, where I’ve used one). But they would be rather inappropriate for a novel (although you might be able to make it work for a niche nonfiction book).

By: Ted

Ted — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 01:06:10 +0000

You need a domain name that people will search for. Who on earth will think of typing in ‘word1word2novel? You will get no traffic unless you can direct it there from other places.

By: Bookmarketing Noob

Bookmarketing Noob — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 12:35:42 +0000

Good points, your website URL needs to not only be easy to find, but should contain either your book title or author name in it (depending on its purpose). This also helps with the search engines finding it since it has the keywords in it that you are presumably targeting.

By: Tracy

Tracy — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 19:06:19 +0000

I started a webzine to go along with my as-yet-unpublished novel– http://www.afewvenialsins.com

At first I tried a character blog, but I found that it didn’t really relate to the novel as much as I would have liked because I couldn’t write anything on behalf of my character that wouldn’t foreshadow the ending of the book. (Plus, my book is set in 2004, which made blogging odd as all pop culture references would have had to have been timeless… or atleast pre-2004 as well!)