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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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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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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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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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7 Ways to Get Your Blog Seen

September 8, 2012 in Blogging Tips, Social Media Saturdays

Ways to Promote your Blog

Alright. So you’re doing everything right. You’re writing awesome content. You’ve got your social media sites set up (at least the main ones like Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus and Pinterest). You’re working on SEO and getting your keywords down. But the numbers for pageviews just aren’t coming in. The followers aren’t happening. What can you do to get some blog growth? First of all, it takes time. Sometimes, a lot of time. Slow and steady growth is probably best actually, when it happens this way you get followers that stick around and want to hang on to your every word.
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How to Make Your Own Printables for Free

September 6, 2012 in Baby Steps to Blogging, Blogging Tips

How to make a printable

This Blogging Tip is brought to you by Erin of Royal Baloo and Logi Bear Too! She’s wonderful at making printables and sharing them on her blog, and she’s sharing how to she does it all here on Blogging With Kids! Erin also recently shared some photography composition tips too! I love making and offering free printables to my readers.  I get a lot of questions about how to make them and thought I’d offer a quick tutorial to anyone who is interested.  I use all free programs and mostly free clipart.  Free is my favorite word What to use
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Blog Etiquette: 13 Ways to Share Nicely

September 4, 2012 in Baby Steps to Blogging, Blogging Tips, Social Media Saturdays

Blog Etiquette: 13 Ways to Share Nicely

A lot of bloggers take great pride in the content they share on their blogs (can you blame them? Its their time, their content, their photos, their writing!). Bloggers that blog about their kids especially do. While they want their posts to be shared by you, they don’t want their content stolen and implied to be your own. Sharing others’ content with your readers, fans, and followers is a great way to start your own community. It is a good thing to share! It’s a win-win for both you and the blogger you’re sharing! Do it! But wait. While sharing
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Social Media: Scheduling Posts on Facebook

September 1, 2012 in Social Media Saturdays

How to schedule posts in facebook pages

With social media, it’s important to have a presence. One of the things that we know you have to do to help extend your reach on Facebook is to post often, around 2 – 3 times a day, but spread out over the day and night depending on where your audience is based. Without being online constantly, there is no other way to do it but through scheduling posts. Facebook over the summer has introduced scheduling with pages. This means that you can plan your Facebook posts in advance and set them to go without having to be there to
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SEO Tip: Blog Meta Tags

August 28, 2012 in Blogging Tips, SEO Tips

Meta Tag Description & Keywords

While meta tags are becoming less and less important to Google for ranking purposes, they are still important to other search engines. However, I think more important than for SEO purposes, the meta tag description is what readers will see when they search for something and your blog homepage comes up in the search engine results. What do Meta Tags mean, what do they do? Meta Tag Description: This is where you describe what your blog is about, hopefully using some keywords in your description that pertain to the content you generally post about. This is what Google (or any search engine)
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