Tips for Self Promotion, Sales, and Advertising discussion

Hi. I have promoted my book through several Blog sites. These can be found on my Facebook Page Books by Sheree Smith. The most recent is https://khristinaatkinson.wordpress.c...

Does anyone else promote their books via websites etc?

Not sure what you're asking, but I'm finding my blog (www.paulwwest.com) where I'm trying to promote my book Bridgetown High, doesn't bring in much traffic. I find I get more traffic from my Writer's page on Facebook.

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Personally, I try to promote my books on blogs and do guest interviews. I've done over 12 interviews for each of my four books and I have a list of them on my website. The site above suggests you try to time your guest blogs and interviews around the same time so that your name is out there and people are more prone to check you out when they see your name in various sites. I've had some fairly decent success with doing guest interviews, blog posts, cover reveals and more but I haven't timed them well only because the scheduling of the interview is't up to me. Sometimes I'll ask for an interview to coincide with my being a guest on another site's blog but the person gives me March when I'm aiming for November. So anytime I can plan several features and guest posts during the same week I am all for it.