Pinterest Tips

October 25, 2012 in Blogging Tips, Social Media Saturdays

5 Pinterest Tips

There is no denying it if you have a blog that fits in a niche which can use images then Pinterest drives traffic – but to see BIG traffic you have to have luck with it being pinned in the right place to get loads of people seeing it. So you need to make some of your own luck 5 pinterest tips to get you started growing on Pinterest. Collaborate Work with other bloggers, join together to start a new board, open up one of your boards to others or find a collaborative board that you follow and ask whether [...]

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Mom’s Nap Time Reads

October 23, 2012 in Moms Nap Time Reads

Moms Nap Time Reads

Sit down, grab a cuppa and cake (yes a very English expression there) get comfortable and check out these posts from the last week that you may have missed from members within our community. First off from Inspire Imagination Through Creation a nifty way to store those milestone and memories throughout the years that they created together at home. We all love playing with play dough with our kids and I love the way that Mama Smiles adds extra elements like Rocks and stones to the play and turns it into creative sensory play. From Love, Play, Learn there is [...]

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Paint Blog Hop

October 15, 2012 in Blog Carnival

Fun Ways to Paint

7 Fun Ways to Paint Welcome to the October Blogging with Kids Blog Hop – this months theme is Paint and we would love you to link up your fun painting posts to the link below. We’ve looked through our communities blogs and have come up with 7 fun ways to paint. From No Twiddle Twaddle – Painting with Rainbow Water. 3 Dinosaurs has been stamping for fall. Love Play and Learn has great advice for painting with toddlers as part of their Raising Tots Series Over on Rainy Day Mum Abstract Painting for young toddlers Making Boys Men is [...]

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Setting up a Call to Action

October 11, 2012 in Baby Steps to Blogging, Blogging Tips

setting up a call to action for your blog posts

Call to Action You have a traffic spike, your post has gone viral are you making the most of it? What I mean is with those visitors are you getting them interested in what you have to offer, wanting them to find something else on your blog or become a regular reader if so then you need a Call to Action. Something that will get people’s attention and get them interacting or basically converting those new visitors to regular readers and explorers of your blog. What is a call to action? A Call to Action is a simple statement that you [...]

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October Blog Hop Call to Action – PAINT

October 9, 2012 in Blog Carnival

Paint Blog Hop

It’s time for another Blogging with Kids Blog Hop Call to Action – This month we’re going with a theme and the Theme is PAINT going live on Monday 15th October we would love for you to join us playing with Paint. Last months Autumn Blog Hop was a roaring success with 131 enteries so far and still another 12 days to link up so remember to pop back and link up your Autumn themed posts before it closes. If you would like to cohost the Paint Blog Hop then join our community if you are not already a member [...]

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Tutorial – Adding a Facebook Like Box

September 29, 2012 in Baby Steps to Blogging, Social Media Saturdays

Tutorial on Adding a facebook like box to your blog

Adding a Facebook Like Box to your blog If you followed our tutorial on how to add social media buttons to your blog you will now have a way for you readers to connect with you on social media. However, they have to leave the page which you don’t really want them to. Instead, adding a Facebook like box to your blog is a good way to build a Facebook following without your reader having to leave your page. It also enables people to see whether they already like you without having to leave your blog as well (and whether their friends like your blog [...]

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Tutorial: ‘Pin It’ Button for Every Blogger Post

September 26, 2012 in Uncategorized

Pin it Button for Every Post in Blogger

Want a Pin It button in every single post? There’s always the Pin It button that people have in their browser’s toolbar. So they can usually pin your posts. However, with all the controversy of Pinterest and copyrights, having the Pin It button on each of your posts shows your readers that you are absolutely okay with having your posts and photos pinned onto Pinterest. Not only are you okay with it, but you really, really want them to pin it! There’s the option of adding the Pin It button to each post, individually. Pinterest has the coding for that [...]

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17 Autumn Recipes for Families and Autumn Blog Hop

September 20, 2012 in Blog Carnival

Autumn Blog Hop

<a href=”http://www.bloggingwithkids.com/” target=”_blank”><img src=”http://bloggingwithkids.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/autumn-blog-hop.jpg” alt=”Autumn blog hop” height=”150″ /></a> Welcome to the first Blogging with Kids Blog Hop and full of Autumnal Activities. We’re featuring some Autumn Recipes from the Blogging with Kids community members. Enjoy the feast of delights that awaits you below and then pop on over to our community co-hosts to see what crafts, play and food they are sharing and come and link up any Autumn Posts you have, the linky will be live for 1 month so you can link up any time between now and then. Apples Easy Apple Crisps from J Daniel4′s Mom [...]

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Save Blog Space: How to Resize Images in PicMonkey

September 19, 2012 in Baby Steps to Blogging

How to resize images in PicMonkey

Whether you are using Blogger or WordPress, resizing your images is going to be critical with the more posts that you write. Each system has a finite amount of storage space for your media and images take up a lot of space, so getting your images to the optimum size for your blog is essential. A huge image takes up more space in your storage than the perfectly sized image for your blog. Here’s how to resize images using PicMonkey, the free online picture editor. On Blogging with Kids we have worked out that an image size of 640 pixels wide is [...]

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How to Create & Submit Your Sitemap

September 18, 2012 in Blogging Tips, SEO Tips

How to Create & Submit a Sitemap

How to create and submit a sitemap for your blog. A very simple SEO tip for you today. What makes it so simple? You don’t have to create your own sitemap for Blogger. Blogger automatically creates it for you. All you have to do it submit it. Going back to the 15 Minute SEO Checklist, a sitemap is on the list! And they say that spiders love an up-to-date one. So let’s do what we can to make sure that happens! Just follow these step by steps. Really, its pretty easy! How to find your sitemap? Easy. On Blogger, it is [...]

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