11 Ways To Drive Traffic To Your Author Website

Every author should have a website. It is the platform that will connect you with fans and make new ones. But after your website is set up, how do you get traffic to it?

Being a newbie in the online world, that was the million-dollar question when I had my website created after my first book Beneath the Bedrock was published. I’ll have to admit that I had reservations about it. After all, I was going into unchartered waters.

But I dug my heels in and I learned that getting traffic to your blog really isn’t hard at all. It just takes a little work.

After you’ve created your author website with its essential pages, now it’s time to drive traffic to your website.

It’s one thing to have a gorgeous website and write killer blog posts. It’s another if you’re not promoting your website, no one will see it.

11 Ways To Drive Traffic To Your Author Website

For the past year, I’ve been learning a lot about running a website (there is sooo much to learn!). I’ve put together the ways I’ve been able to drive traffic to my website and I hope it will help you, too!

1. Write catchy titles for your blog posts.
2. Use attention-grabbing graphics.
3. Add social media sharing buttons at the end of your blog posts, bookstore and pages.
4. Include a link to your blog posts in newsletters.
5. Use hashtags when sharing your posts on social media.
6. Write a catchy description in the meta data.
7. Join content sharing websites such as Triberr.
8. Boost blog posts and ads on social media.
9. Use plugins such as Revive Old Posts to share older content.
10. Optimize your blog posts for search engines using plugins such as Yoast SEO.
11. Create a separate page for books.

Closing It Out

I hope you found these tips helpful. If you have anything to add, please share it in the comments section.

And, before you go, please share this post on social media so that we can help other authors with their website traffic.