Creating Your Author Website: A Step-by-Step Guide
Build a professional online presence with an author website that showcases your books, bio, and contact details, helping you grow your fanbase.
Author Website Accessibility
Published on June 19, 2026 by Randall Wood
Accessibility is not a technical checkbox — it is the practice of making sure every reader who wants to find you and buy your books can actually use your website. Some of your readers use screen readers. Some read on low-contrast displays. Some navigate by keyboard. This guide covers the practical accessibility improvements that matter most for author websites.
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Author Website Analytics: The Three Tools Every Author Needs
Published on June 19, 2026 by Randall Wood
Flying blind on your author website means spending time and money on marketing without knowing what's working. This guide covers setting up Google Analytics 4, Google Search Console, and ScribeCount's Website Traffic tracking — three tools that serve distinct purposes and together give you the complete picture from search query to book sale.
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A/B Testing Your Author Website
Published on June 19, 2026 by Randall Wood
Heatmaps show you what readers do. Analytics tell you what happened. A/B testing tells you what to change. This guide covers the elements worth testing on an author website, how to run a valid test, which tools work without a developer, and how to read results without falling into the traps that make most website tests misleading.
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StoryOrigin and Your Author Website
Published on June 19, 2026 by Randall Wood
StoryOrigin is the free alternative to BookFunnel with built-in newsletter swap and group promotion capabilities that make it particularly powerful for list growth. This guide covers the website integration specifically: connecting StoryOrigin delivery to your email platform, using swaps and promotions to drive traffic to your author website, and measuring StoryOrigin traffic in ScribeCount.
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BookFunnel and Your Author Website: The Complete Integration Guide
Published on June 19, 2026 by Randall Wood
BookFunnel handles the technical complexity of reader magnet delivery — device-specific file formatting, side-loading assistance, and email platform integration. This guide focuses specifically on the website side: how to embed BookFunnel into your author website effectively, connect it to your email list, use it for ARC distribution, and track downloads as conversion events in ScribeCount.
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Building Your Email List from Your Author Website
Published on June 19, 2026 by Randall Wood
Your author website is your most powerful email list building tool — serving potential subscribers 24 hours a day, seven days a week, from every reader who finds you through search, social media, or your books' back matter. This guide covers the complete setup: platform choice, reader magnet design, opt-in placement, welcome sequence, and measuring growth.
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WooCommerce for Authors: Setting Up Your WordPress Direct Store
Published on June 19, 2026 by Randall Wood
WooCommerce is how WordPress authors run a direct sales store — automated ebook delivery, Lulu Direct and BookVault print fulfillment, bundle products, discount codes, and a checkout experience that captures the customer email address no retail platform will ever share. This guide covers the full setup from installation to first sale.
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Author Website Speed and Performance: Why It Matters and How to Fix It
Published on June 19, 2026 by Randall Wood
A slow author website loses readers before they read a word of your bio or see a cover. Google also ranks faster websites higher than slower ones. This guide covers Core Web Vitals, how to test your website speed, the most impactful fixes for WordPress and other platforms, and what performance scores to aim for.
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SEO and GEO for Author Websites
Published on June 19, 2026 by Randall Wood
Most author websites are invisible to Google and to the AI tools readers increasingly use to discover books. This guide covers keyword strategy for authors, on-page SEO for book and series pages, Google Search Console setup, and how generative AI tools like ChatGPT and Perplexity decide which authors to mention — and what you can do to be one of them.
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