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Types of Round Up Posts
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Round Up Posts for Book Bloggers
Round up posts are great for SEO, shares, backlinks, and viral traffic. In fact, they are one of my favourite types of blog posts to create and I tend to feature them a lot on this blog.
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Why Book Bloggers Should Use Round Up Posts
Book blogging is no different from any other blogging niche. It works on the same principle.
When you do a round up post you are featuring other people, or their content, in your blog post. This means that those people now have a vested interest in promoting that post.
It also often means a bunch of quality backlinks as they likely will want to use being featured as a way to increase their authority on the subject. They will therefore also help drive traffic to the post.
Creating round up posts is a great way to build relationships too. It gives you the chance to strengthen contacts you already have and to reach out and make new ones.
Expert round ups and content round ups
There are two main types of round up posts; Expert Round Ups, and Content Round Ups.
What are expert round ups?
This is when you reach out to experts in your niche and ask them a question. An example of this is a recent post I did about Best Tips for Book Bloggers. For the post I asked fellow book bloggers "You can give your fellow book bloggers one top tip, what is it?" and shared their feedback.
A large part of an expert round up is copy and paste as each expert will send you the content to include in your post. This makes it easy content as the main work is in formatting the post.
Hosting an expert round up post also strengthens your own position as an expert in your niche. By bringing your readers feedback and advice from other experts in your niche you become associated with experts, influencers, and well know people that cover the same topics you do. Your own authority on the subject therefore also increases.
What are content round ups?
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Types of Round Up Posts for Book Bloggers
- A collection of book reviews from different book bloggers for the same book
- A collection of book reviews from different book bloggers from a specific genre
- A collection of random book reviews (mix it up and add something from a variety of genres)
- Bookish blog posts from other book bloggers
- Ask a specific question to other book bloggers, publishers, authors, and share their answers
- Best books in a specific genre
- Books on your TBR- feature each book with a link to the author website/purchasing page
- Top tips
- Highlight different types of book bloggers (bookstagram, booktok, booktube, etc...)
- How to guides (bring together expert advice on different aspects of book blogging)