Marketing Your Book: 5 Tips For Choosing the Domain Name For Your Website or Blog
As part of an overall marketing plan, having your own website or blog on which to market your book is a very good idea. You’ll have a place to send fans and potential fans where they can get the in-depth information that you’d like them to have about your book.
Before you can set up that website or blog, you have to purchase a domain name (such as www.queensofbookmarketing.com). And choosing the domain name for your website or blog on which to market your book may seem an easy thing to do. What’s the big deal?
The big deal is how easy or hard you are going to make it for fans or potential fans to find you on the web.
If you’re a new author, or about to have your own website or blog for the first time, give serious consideration to what you’re using to brand yourself and your project.
First, let’s look at what domain names you can consider:
You could use your name to build an author brand starting with your first book and keep adding additional books to the website or blog.
You could use the name of the first book for your first website or blog and then get additional websites or blogs for additional books.
You could use the name of the series for the website or blog and put all books in the same series on that website or blog.
Is there one right answer for everyone? Not necessarily.
Here are five tips for choosing an effective domain name with which to market your book:
1. Is your name really hard to spell? (You have no idea how many different ways people find to spell Phyllis.) It’s probably not a good idea to use your name.
2. Or is your name a strange
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