Why authors should be on LinkedIn

LinkedIn is a social networking website for professionals in their fields. You will come across good writers on this website. Therefore, if you want to join a professional group of writers, you must be on LinkedIn.

LinkedIn heightens your rankings on a search engine:

When you link your sites on LinkedIn, it gives you ‘Google Points’ to earn. This increases your rankings on Google. You must use a sensible name on LinkedIn, and you can come within the first two pages on Google search very easily.

LinkedIn Answers Questions: LinkedIn not only provides you a platform to flourish, it also solves your queries. If you have any questions regarding publishing or book proposal, you will find professional editors and marketing managers to solve your queries. This kind of expert advice is only provided by LinkedIn. Therefore, it is wise for authors to be on LinkedIn.

LinkedIn Establishes Your Credibility: You will receive answers from all around. The LinkedIn question rating will pick the best answer for you. Another benefit is that, whoever’s answer is selected as best answer will get good ranks on the profile. It means that the profile page of a writer gets high ranks on Google. This is a simple and successful way to institute your integrity on a subject. Due to higher ranking, you will get answers from experts which are trustworthy.

 

LinkedIn associates you with editors and literary agents: You will find numerous experts and top editors and agents on LinkedIn. You will find many of your friends have done schooling with a popular writer or editor. You create a connection on LinkedIn. You can get help by putting a word in your favor with some good editor. This will definitely help you in your writing career.

You must be on LinkedIn:

·         You should be on LinkedIn to cultivate networking for business. You should abide by the rules and regulations. You need to make profit from this medium and do not go into spamming. This spoils your name. If you spoil it on LinkedIn, you will spoil it everywhere. This source is to increase your rankings and get good business.

·         The website helps to create your brand name. People will be saying, if you want to contact him or her, go on LinkedIn. You must keep your profile updated on a regular basis. This is important to get potential customers, employees, and collaborators. You can use the Q&A application to share the information that you hold and also try to answer the questions.

·         You could leverage a channel of social media that will connect you to key collaborators. There is a facility for free and paid accounts to connect you with others. You can see their profile and meet them.

·         You will be fully informed about your competitors on LinkedIn. You will get greater access to useful tools on LinkedIn which will help you to be aware of the latest market trends.

·         The best part of LinkedIn is that you can join a group of writers and share your experiences and know theirs to get a good perspective towards your work. Your business could be big or small, you can enter a discussion occurred on the website and get some attention from others.

·         If you want to do research, you can put it in the forum section and get a good response and good findings on your subject.

LinkedIn gives you real connections. You can share your content. You can add the content generated on the website in your blogs and give links to connect them on LinkedIn. You will get an opportunity to make a strong reputation for yourself. The only thing is that you must be honest in your work. Politeness and authenticity is very important, because false data can last only for a short time. Therefore, authors should be on LinkedIn to get known, to get good connections, and make their work known to people.

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