How Much Should Authors Worry About SEO?

Maggie McVay Lynch
Nov 8 · 11 min read
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The short answer is you should definitely worry about it. The question is what can you commit to consistently providing data about your pages and products that can be picked up by search engines? If you commit to doing as much as you can early in your career, it will pay dividends throughout your career. If you wait until you are several articles in or several books in, going back to catch up becomes a large project…

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Maggie McVay Lynch

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A geek-creative with 21 books published, I write stories about people making heroic choices one messy moment at a time. Learn more at maggielynch.com

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