A writing website is vital for authors these days because success is all about promotion and one of the easiest ways of building your writing name is to talk to your readers online and display some of your writings to show the quality of your work.
However, the immense variety of writing website options that are available is very daunting and mistakes can be costly and time consuming. The last thing a writer wants is to spend valuable writing time learning how to be a web master. Even more costly would be employing a web master to put your writings online.
So my top tip for getting a writing website is to get a blog - I use them all the time They are ideal for talking to your public, they are easy to update and the search engines generally index them well and quickly.
Why spend money when you can get one free? To start with, I would recommend writers should get a free blog. These are available from a variety of sources but the two easiest I have found to use are from Blogger.com and Wordpress.com.
To help people find your writing website among the huge numbers that are out there in cyberspace, remember to include search keywords on your page. If you have written a short story, flash fiction or online novel, these words will need to be included on your page with the novella, postcard fiction or sudden fiction that you have written.
Just writing short stories and putting them online isn’t enough and it is unlikely that a short story will contain the words ’short story’ or ’short stories’, so you need to tell the readers it is a short story, flash fiction or whatever on the page itself so it will be found by them when they type ’short story’ into their browser. Probably it is best to have the story description in the title, the main body and the tags at the bottom of the page to be sure.
Of course, as time goes on and you get more confident, you may want to pay for your own domain and this is easy and cheap with both systems mentioned above.
Whichever system you decide to use, good luck and I look forward to seeing your writings soon on your writing website.
Bye for now
Rob
