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There are three areas that publishers should be focusing on that will impact discoverability and revenue:
Create a modern, responsive, SEO optimized website
that uses the latest techniques (some that are specific to the publishing industry) to drive search results, discoverability, and REVENUE
Leverage the great audiences your authors are building across their online and social platforms
to drive revenue across all of your books, both front and back list.
Get out of the habit of marketing a book just when it launches
by creating a hub and spoke marketing system that uses the natural cadence of your publishing to drives content marketing.
And we'll show you how to do all this.
Learn how these three strategies have been used by other publishers to dramatically increase DISCOVERABILITY & DRIVE EVER INCREASING REVENUE.
8. On-Page SEO
Structured Data and Authorship
Responsive Design
Catalog, Cart, & Checkout – multi device
Email Registration
Social Integration
Author Engagement
Content
User Centric Navigation
Website - Considerations
9. “Standard” SEO Items
Optimize Titles & URLs
Meta: Description
Headings
CSS
Images & Multimedia
Domain Information
URLs / Structure
Keywords
Long Tail
Content
Internal Links
Website – On-Page SEO
10. Publishing Specific
1. Use Structured Data
• www.schema.org
• http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/richsnippets#
2. Set Up Authorship
Website – On-Page SEO
19. On-Page SEO
Structured Data and Authorship
Responsive Design
Catalog, Cart, & Checkout – multi device
Email Registration
Social Integration
Author Engagement
Content
User Centric Navigation
Website - Considerations