- FiledBy is much more than just a place where authors and their creative partners can claim a listing and website (even though our sites are the best!). It’s also a community where readers can discover and connect with authors and buy their books.
- Authors gain access to a fast growing network of other authors, readers and creative people who are communicating with each other, sharing videos, podcasts and documents, posting reviews and forming online communities.
- FiledBy gives authors a way to organize and centralize their work, their online marketing platform and their social media networks which they can easily control themselves.
- Corrections and updates to your book or ebook information also get listed in the Ingram databases, which are used by thousands of booksellers and libraries around the globe.
- The more you engage with FiledBy, the more you get back. We see it all the time! The most active authors are the best online marketers and sell the most books on FiledBy.
- Every time an author edits or updates their site with something new (ie. a photo, biography, or video), their activity gets posted across the FiledBy.com website, including our homepage and across appropriate Category sites. We have over 50 Category sites and thousands of subcategory sites where authors are listed. If you are registered, your photo, author listing and corresponding book rise up higher in the author search results.
- You’ve worked hard to publish, and your book information is now out on the internet. In fact there are more than 10 million books and 4 million authors and other creators already listed in our database. Often an author’s book information needs to be updated or corrected. Many times there is a missing cover, wrong publication date, missing book descriptions, or other incorrect information. Now when you make corrections and updates to your book information on FiledBy, the information also gets listed in Ingram databases which are provided globally to over 100,000 online and brick-and-mortar booksellers and libraries.
- FiledBy makes it easy for authors to correct and enhance their information and provides tools to control the information, an important step for becoming an effective online marketer. We live in a digital world where millions of people can find you and your books. You want the information to be accurate. In many cases, incorrect information has been issued and exists on the Internet. FiledBy gives you the ability to update and correct the information and establish an authoritative record. All book information updates and corrections also get listed in the Ingram databases.
- When you register at FiledBy, our system automatically connects your work with your name, and we make sure you are validated and distinguished from any other authors or creators who have published with the same name. This is important to search engines like Google, Yahoo and Bing. The FiledByRegistry differentiates between authors and creators who have the same name but different books.
- FiledBy organizes all of your books and author information so search engines can more effectively index and refer traffic to your site. This makes it easier for people to find you and learn as much as they can about you and your work.
- FiledBy also helps organize all of your fragmented marketing activities in one place. On your FiledBy website, people not only get a snapshot of who you are, what your message is, and what are your inspirations and passions, but they can also learn about and purchase your work. It’s a more robust and vibrant platform than most individual author websites provide, and it’s easy enough for anyone to use! Also, because FiledBy is inclusive of all categories of books and authors, any author can easily be found through our site search engine.
- If you’ve contributed to a book, whether as an author, illustrator, photographer, editor, artist, translator or audiobook narrator, you have a pre-assembled site on FiledBy. Different contributors for the same work are linked together by the work they share. These links make for amazing discovery. Dig deeper and you’ll notice that FiledBy is an interwoven community of creative people and their work.
- Publishers, marketers and industry professionals are helping authors learn the fundamentals of establishing an effective Author Platform on the Internet. Many advise authors that an effective Platform consists of more than one place where you can be discovered. There is no single entry point on the web.
- For authors who have a website, registering with FiledBy, setting up a Facebook account, LinkedIn profile, YouTube channel and Twitter feed is Social Media 101. It is also important to set links and badges to and from all of these locations. Search engines like inbound linking, and what better way to improve your Search Engine Optimization (SEO) than to establish important reference points on the web. Linking these sites together and keeping them updated is what helps make an easily searchable, effective author marketing platform.
- FiledBy gives you control over your information on the web. As you continue to update this information, you can positively effect your search rank as your FiledBy site gets indexed by different search engines.
- FiledBy offers the most affordable and powerful tools to help you quickly get started on the web, saving you time and money.
- Start promoting your book 6 months before it’s published with a FiledBy Pre-Publication website. The sites are packed with features and benefits and are designed for author and book marketing.
- Talk to us about video production services, registering a custom domain, or setting up your important Social Website accounts like Facebook, LinkedIn, YouTube, MySpace and others. To learn more about our author and book marketing services, click here.
- FiledBy.com is designed as a large scale author promotion system. From the moment an author claims their work and begins to engage with their own FiledBy site, all appropriate areas of the FiledBy website are designed to promote you by making your activities visible everywhere that matters.
- Whether you are a cook book author, a technical author, an illustrator of children’s books or a business author, your photo and what you are doing on FiledBy will automatically rise to the top on multiple locations, including the top of the Recent Author Activity listings, on the filedby.com homepage, on the main Authors page and on the appropriate Category websites.
- The more you engage with your FiledBy site by adding a photo, videos, documents, podcasts, links, wall comments, or by correcting your book information, FiledBy pulls you out of the masses and promotes you everywhere we can!
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