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by fduran 5165 days ago
The website can be vastly improved both for SEO (so search engines find it) and conversions (so people buy), some quick ideas easy to implement:

  - get a domain name with the topic in it (like compilerbook or similar, it doesn't have to be a .com)  
  - have a clean modern design, you can use a Commons template from WordPress etc  
  - specify the audience ("the ideal textbook for the CS graduate")
  - add testimonials
  - add blurb "about the author"
  - create more HTML pages (for example one for the table of contents and one for preface) as 2nd best thing instead of blog pages
This is a web site for a small book I created quickly: http://seguridadinformati.ca/ , it ranks 3rd or so in Google for its topic (information security, in Spanish) without promotion.