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I just love it when people contact me asking to host me on their sites and that's exactly what happened this week. Back in October I was hosted by +Lynnette Phillips on her Book World Marketing blog as part of my virtual book tour to promtoe the release of my book Virtual Book Tours: Effective Online Book Promotion From the Comfort of Your Own Home. Well, she got back in touch this week after watching one of my YouTube video's and asked if she could feature it on her blog. Of course, I said yes and here it is on her site: http://bookworldmarketing.com/2013/12/06/benefits-of-hosting-others-on-their-vbt-from-jo-linsdell

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If you'd like to host me on your site, re-use my content for posts, or even just want a quote to include in an article, drop my an email.

Virtual Book Tours: Benefits of Hosting Others

As you know I love hosting others on my sites and supporting other writers. I do Featured Friday on this blog, Wall Chat Wednesday on Facebook, a whole bunch of stuff through Writers and Authors and Promo Day, and occasionally I also do Twitter chats and Google+ hangouts too.

I think it's important to support my writing colleagues but I'm not doing it all JUST to be nice to them. There's something in it for me too. In this video I explain some of the benefits of hosting others.

Whether you're a writer yourself or not, hosting others can be a great way of increasing traffic to your site, offers your readers something a bit different, increases engagement and gets you some back links and other SEO elements that will help your site show up better in search engine results. It's also good for karma and leaves you with that feel good sense inside.

If you host others on your site please leave your link below in the comments section.

Today I'm hosted at http://slowandsteadywriters.blogspot.it/2013/10/the-benefits-of-hosting-others.html for a guest post on the benefits of hosting others (includes video).

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In other news, I've finally kicked this flu. YAY! Thanks to all of you that sent me get well soon messages. I was touched by all your kind words and it really did make me feel better. You are all awesome!

Sorry for my lack of posting but flu season has started early this year in our house (it normally sets in during November) and I've been trying to rest up as much as possible so I can kick this asap (I'm not good at being ill and find it hard to do nothing so this week is a challenge). In fact, I haven't stopped completely. The show, or in this case, the tour, must go on!

Yesterday I was hosted by +Claudia Moss for a wall chat on her Facebook page where we chatted about all sorts of things. If you missed the live event you can check out the transcript here

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Today I'm hosted by +linda randall on her The Idea Girl Says blog where she shares a video in which I talk about the benefits of hosting others on your social media profiles.

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I also have some BIG news to share. Virtual Book Tours: Effective Online Book Promotion From the Comfort of Your Own Home is now out in print! You can get your print copy from https://www.createspace.com/4472870 (List price $6.99). It will be available from Amazon and other retailers in 5-7 days. ISBN 13: 9781492920939.