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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 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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Better Photography with these Composition Tips

August 23, 2012 in Baby Steps to Blogging, Blogging Tips

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A common misconception in the photography world is that you need a DSLR to take good pictures. I won’t argue that DSLRs take a better quality photo, but there are many more factors that determine if a picture is good or not such as composition and lighting. Today I will be reviewing some easy techniques to improve composition and lighting which can be utilized with any point and shoot camera!   Rules of Thirds One of the simplest rules of composition is called the rule or thirds. If you separate your picture into thirds (vertically or horizontally, or both) you
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What is PageRank?

August 16, 2012 in Baby Steps to Blogging, SEO Tips

Pagerank explained

Have you heard the term PageRank – not sure what it is exactly? What it is used for? Why it’s important? We hope that we can explain it a little in this post. So what is PageRank – I’m going to quote from the Wikipedia site on PageRank and then explain it to you PageRank is a link analysis algorithm, named after Larry Page and used by the Google Internet search engine, that assigns a numerical weighting to each element of a hyperlinked set of documents, such as the World Wide Web, with the purpose of “measuring” its relative importance
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Blogging Basics – Blogger Commenting System

August 7, 2012 in Baby Steps to Blogging, Blogging Tips

getting people to comment on your blog

We all love receiving comments on our blogs without looking at the Stats it’s one of the ways that we know that people are reading them. However, Blogger in it’s standard set up discourages some people for commenting. With my Tuesday Tots link up over on Rainy Day Mum I started out visiting every blog that linked up but after a while I realised that I couldn’t manage to do this because of a few features that blogs used that meant that I couldn’t leave a comment easily without spending half an hour trying to work out how to do
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Putting social media icons on your blog

July 31, 2012 in Baby Steps to Blogging, Blogging Tips

social media icons for your blog

So you’ve created a page on Facebook, signed up for Twitter, navigated the minefield that is creating a G+ profile and business page and opened a Pinterest account as well as spent hours and hours looking at everything on there and now you want to let people know where you can be found so you can start building your blogging community. Putting social media icons into blogger These will need to go into a gadget on your sidebar or other location on your blog. First off you need to add a gadget – we’re going to choose the HTML/Java Script
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