{"id":5968,"date":"2011-01-18T16:34:59","date_gmt":"2011-01-18T22:34:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epictales.org\/treskillard\/2011\/01\/18\/why-have-your-book-reviewed-in-the-csff-blog-tour\/"},"modified":"2017-01-16T11:40:51","modified_gmt":"2017-01-16T17:40:51","slug":"why-have-your-book-reviewed-in-the-csff-blog-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.epictales.org\/treskillard\/2011\/01\/18\/why-have-your-book-reviewed-in-the-csff-blog-tour\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Have Your Book Reviewed In The CSFF Blog Tour?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is just a quick note to say that I checked my blog&#8217;s statistics, and <strong>no less than 54 people came to my blog in the last month looking for information on the specific Christian fantasy novels that I&#8217;ve reviewed<\/strong> as part of the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/csffblogtour.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Christian Science Fiction and Fantasy<\/a><\/strong> blog tour.  <\/p>\n<p><strong>My blog statistics show me the actual search terms they used in Google<\/strong>, so I know for sure that they were looking for information on these books. And these are not necessarily the most recent books I&#8217;ve reviewed &#8230; some of my reviews date back to 2007 and 2008.<\/p>\n<p>Over a year, if the statistic holds (and I don&#8217;t have time to check), <strong>that would amount to 600+ people looking for book reviews on my blog alone<\/strong>.  Multiply that by the many other blogs that are part of the tour, and that may be a pretty significant number.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The authors whose books were represented<\/strong> in Google&#8217;s search terms during the last month were (in alphabetical order):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Wayne Thomas Batson<\/li>\n<li>Ted Dekker<\/li>\n<li>Christopher Hopper<\/li>\n<li>C.S. Lakin<\/li>\n<li>Stephen Lawhead<\/li>\n<li>John Olson<\/li>\n<li>Jeffrey Overstreet<\/li>\n<li>Donita K. Paul<\/li>\n<li>Tom Pawlik<\/li>\n<li>Andrew Peterson<\/li>\n<li>Jonathan Rogers<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>So &#8230; do blog tours work?<\/strong>  I don&#8217;t know how much they translate to actual sales, but I do know this: readers are looking for unbiased information about your book, and they are definitely looking for reviews on blogs.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/csffblogtour.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.epictales.org\/images\/CSFF\/CSFF_Button_380.jpg?w=1200\" alt=\"CSFF Blog Tour\" title=\"CSFF Blog Tour\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Views: 99<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-summary\">\nThis is just a quick note to say that I checked my blog&#8217;s statistics, and no less than 54 people&hellip;\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.epictales.org\/treskillard\/2011\/01\/18\/why-have-your-book-reviewed-in-the-csff-blog-tour\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Why Have Your Book Reviewed In The CSFF Blog Tour?&rdquo;<\/span>&hellip;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6711,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[24,6,64,2,63,60,3,53,61,58,4,59,62,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-andrew-peterson","category-books-authors","category-c-s-lakin","category-christian-sf-fantasy-blog-tour","category-christopher-hopper","category-donita-k-paul","category-fiction-tours","category-jeffrey-overstreet","category-john-olson","category-jonathan-rogers","category-stephen-lawhead","category-ted-dekker","category-tom-pawlik","category-wayne-thomas-batson","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.epictales.org\/treskillard\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/CSFF_Picture_6001.jpg?fit=600%2C180","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p67v0M-1yg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.epictales.org\/treskillard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.epictales.org\/treskillard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.epictales.org\/treskillard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.epictales.org\/treskillard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.epictales.org\/treskillard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5968"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.epictales.org\/treskillard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5968\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6712,"href":"http:\/\/www.epictales.org\/treskillard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5968\/revisions\/6712"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.epictales.org\/treskillard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.epictales.org\/treskillard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.epictales.org\/treskillard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.epictales.org\/treskillard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}