I recommend you put it prominently on your author website and refer to it whenever appropriate.

For example, update your Author Central bio on Amazon to include the award to that book. Also add it to the description of the book wherever you can, including the various book sites on which the book is listed.

You won the award; you are entitled to be proud of it!  

First, let’s look at the definition of landing pages from Wikipedia:

In online marketing a landing page, sometimes known as a “lead capture page” …, is a single web page that appears in response to clicking on an advertisement. The landing page will usually display directed sales copy that is a logical extension of the advertisement or link. Landing pages are often linked to from social media, email campaigns or search engine marketing campaigns in order to enhance the effectiveness of the advertisements. The general goal of a landing page is to convert site visitors into sales leads.

Second, let’s discuss why you would want landing pages: Suppose you have a website that sells your books. Now your new book X is just published. You could consider setting up a landing page (it would have its own URL) to send people to in order to only buy your new book X.

The landing page has no other options (no other navigation tabs) except either buying the book or not buying the book.  Or perhaps the only option is signing up to get a free chapter of the book or not signing up.

In other words, the landing page has no distractions and only one purpose.

Putting aside the technical issue of creating and hosting a landing page, if you had one you could easily share the link to that landing page on any social media sites on which you participate.

For example, you might post on your author Facebook Page “Get the first chapter of this book for free now” and give the link to the landing page.  If people click through on that link, they have only one option – to get the free first chapter by signing up via an optin list.

Whether you use landing pages is a marketing decision that should be considered as part of your overall online marketing strategy.

New opportunity tip:  If you want to know about the new opportunity for CreateSpace authors to sell their books on the European Amazon sites, you can read this blogpost now.

 

Phyllis Zimbler Miller is the co-founder of Miller Mosaic LLC and the author of fiction and nonfiction books and ebooks, including the HOW TO SUCCEED series for teens and young adults.  

She has currently enrolled the second book in the series, HOW TO SUCCEED IN COLLEGE AND PREP FOR BEYOND COLLEGE, in Amazon’s Kindle Select option.