Blogger Tribe (Public Tribe)

PNR AUTHORS is a paranormal romance (and sci-fi & urban fantasy) tribe of romance and erotica authors. This tribe is geared toward finding the right audience for PNR books. If you don't write spicy to nuclear stories, this tribe isn't for you. Members are expected to tweet everyone's tweets with the exceptions in the following rules:

TRIBE RULES:

1. Members are only allowed one post per day. If you tweet blog more than once a day, tribemates are only required to tweet once for you. This is the way we respect each other's Followers. This is how we wind up building our Followers on Twitter too. Honestly, I only blog 3-4 times on good weeks. Maybe not at all other weeks when life laughs in my face. But I have 7K-14K blog visitors every 7 days! My quality over quantity perspective is working and has worked for tribemates (romance/erotica authors) who opt to give it a chance.

2. Do not tweet on your blog. You may tweet all you like on your Twitter page. Blogs are for blog articles. If you blog post is 140-characters or less with a hyperlink/attached photo, you're tweeting on your blog. And if the blog post even LOOKS close to being tweet-sized, members are not required to approve the tweet. And I've had 7K-14K visits to my blog every 7 days because I write articles. You can summarize your weekly business (a list of links to your reviews, interviews, new releases, mention contracts, etc.) to reduce the amount of mail your subscribers receive too. Triberr is a game of keeping people informed without ticking them off! ;P

3. Please word your blog-post title with specific information to identify you (your author name or book title) or use strong specific metatag terms to make your blog-post title stand out from other tribemates. This is the only thing Twitterites see about your blog post. You need it to be as powerful as possible to bring people to your blog article. You get one chance to have them click that hyperlink Triberr sends out. Put everything you have into that chance--don't just say "My Day". Say

Writing: Skhye Moncrief Hit the Road-Block Wall
Writing: I Hit Creative Pay Dirt!

#4 Use hashtags with your blog-post titles by adding them in MY POSTS under the edit option (via the little wrench in the upper righthand corner of every tweet module).

#5 PROMOTIONAL posts: If you tweet is labeled PROMOTIONAL, you must modify that blog-post title to ensure it's approved by everyone. Nobody has time or the creative energy to spend doing your work for you. Please understand, we all have so little time to write and should be writing, not individually reworking your blog-post title. That's a lot of time that could be invested elsewhere. So, nobody is required to approve through the EDIT option anything labeled PROMOTION.

These rules truly help minimize tribal stress and increase traffic to your blog! I'll add more info as time passes given it helps with problems. For now, happy promo tweeting!

Info from another tribe's mission statement that relates to all of my tribes...

P.S.
I thought I would share my Triberr experience just so you see where I'm coming from with Tribe Rules...

1.) I had one day where I had about 80K hits/visits to my blog. OMG And it was around Valentines Day when I had a few blog posts up with "sex" or something in the title. Key words get you hits. Be very careful and clever when creating titles for your blog posts. It pays off!

2. I post excerpts on my blog and file them under the categories as excerpts. Be certain to put the genre type in the blog-post title if you can. ;P If not, your author name. You get more hits this way. When I'm blogging to draw people to my blog, I average 14K visits/week. Is it worth it to carefully label your blog posts? Yes. My first romance promo tribe found when they worked on identifying their titles in the great ocean of twitter blips, visits increased drastically to their blog. Now, I have an information slant on my blog that makes a difference, I'm sure. I wish it were more freebies and meet so-n-so author. But I can live with it the way it is. Blog slants are important. I prefer to have authors tell me why they wrote a book or how they developed a story world or mythology, etc. Everyone else posts the same excerpt, blurb, etc. for them. I want something new and juicy that teaches writers how to deal with world-building problems or simple research. Or something that reveals why an author chose to have something the way it is in a story. You know, things for readers!!! In the end, one excerpt is a post. You can post many excerpts to fill in those days when you can't find anything else to blog about...

AND:
I only blog 3-4 times a week on good weeks. Very little otherwise. I don't recommend anyone blog daily. We have to have time to write. I believe a strong summary post of your activities from the past week (locations, reviews, releases, etc.) is the way to keep your subscribers from dropping your blog and a way to update those who have the need to know. I've managed to keep 230+ subscribers at my blog without giving them the farm to stay.

3. So... I believe that quality of posts is more important than shooting out Tweet-length announcements. Remember, nobody benefits from your post labeled My Review. Seriously, it sounds like I'm tweeting about "my review". So, toss in your name or the book's title!!! And post a chunk of the review, not the link to it. You want to include a link to the original post. And you want a cover, buy link, and by gawd an excerpt!!! You want people to run and impulse purchase that bad boy. ;P The same with anything else like an interview. Don't leave a link. Rather, tell us about the interview--not what's actually posted in it. But wet the reader's appetite. Post other information with the interview, etc. This is why it's better to have a weekly summary with all the links to what's gone on with your writing news. People can click back and forth and check it all out at once. Think news letter. So, write a true blog article.

You are discouraged from posting more than one blog post a day because people aren't required to tweet more than one for you a day. We should be writing fiction. Right? When I write a blog post, lordy, I wind up spending 6 hrs on it! Or more!!! Even posting guest posts takes hours. So we're back to quality not quantity.

Yeah, Skhye doth talketh too much. But I have reasons for the rules and they help everything work smoothly.

P.S. On a side note, Hashtags are your best friends on Triberr & Twitter. I didn't mention them in the rules, but you'll drag in the visitors if you label your blog posts with descriptive titles and use #hashtags to get your title (triberr tweet) in front of the people you want to read those blog posts.

Hashtags:
#romance #menage #erotica #reviewer #Greek #myth

Hashtags are the equivalent of metatags on Twitter. Just add them at the end of a tweet until you run out of room. Put a # sign in front of any word to create one.


TRIBERR 101

Be certain to open your stream. You have to click through the 4 INTRO pages to reach the streambed (LMAO). Then you will find the flow of tweets to APPROVE. OR...that step has been changed. If you do not have access to the TRIBAL STREAM, you must login here and click through the how-tos in the INTRO window.

Once at the TRIBAL STREAM (only the tweets here in our tribe or from all the tribes you're a member of), you click APPROVE on the messages (tweets from each tribe member). These "tweets" look like your posts at Twitter. They are only the title of the BLOG POST and a url (hyperlink) back to that post on your blog. People on Twitter who understand the way the tweet is composed know when your name is on the end of this tweet that you are the author. But everyone else on Twitter thinks the tweet is from the person here on Triberr tweeting your blog-post announcement. You can adjust this through EDIT in the Tribe Stream. You click EDIT in blue or gray under the message and are given a text box to add RT (retweet) at the front end...

Blog Post Titles are all Twitterites SEE:
Yes, that's the truth. So you have to identify yourself or the subject matter of your blog post in your title to get blog traffic. Or you will have 600 visits a week or month. This happened to members of my first tribe while I got 7K-14K visits every 7 days. Examples of bad blog-post titles (meaning vague because they look like my tweets and not yours):

My Day
In the Mailbox (a meme post)
6-Sentence Sunday #(date)

Examples of STRONG blog-post titles:
Skhye's or Skhye Moncrief's Crazy Monday
Skhye's Favorite Man Meat
Skhye's Follow Wednesday
What Skhye's Adding to her TBR Pile
Skhye's TBR Pile Fell Over
Skhye's Leaning Tower of TBR Books
The TBR Pile Keeps Growing
6-Sentence-Sunday (Book Title)
Skhye Moncrief's 6-Sentence Sunday (Book Title)
October Writing Links


You get my drift! ;P

Hashtags:
These little metatags get your posts in front of people searching for things on Twitter. It's a # symbol in front of a metatag. Add these to tweets and you'll find you wind up in authors' or reviewers' weekly or monthly paperli (e-newspapers). I used to get credit for people's tweets this way. It's another way to wind up in front of readers you aren't connected to!

Remember:
1. Open your Tribal Stream so you can APPROVE TWEETS.
2. Use strong terms in your blog-post title that tells Twitterites you wrote the blog post.
3. Use hashtags to get more out of your marketing efforts on Twitter.

WHY AREN'T MY POSTS SHOWING UP IN THE STREAM?:

Make certain you have your rss feed url correct here at Triberr. I had to go to my blog, click the SUBSCRIBE TO THIS BL