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Pinterest Tips

October 25, 2012 in Blogging Tips, Social Media Saturdays

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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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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7 Ways to Get Your Blog Seen

September 8, 2012 in Blogging Tips, Social Media Saturdays

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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Tags: Blog Promotion, Followers
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Blog Etiquette: 13 Ways to Share Nicely

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

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

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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Tags: Facebook, Social Media
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5 Tips to Increase Your Facebook Reach

August 25, 2012 in Social Media Saturdays

5 tips to increase your reach on facebook

When you post a status or a link on your Facebook page, underneath it appears your reach, a measure of your posts views by users in their news feed or on your page – usually this is much less than your actual likes for your page. What we all want to know is how to increase the reach on each post. Here are five quick and easy tips to help you increase your Facebook page reach for posts. Post often – but not too often Posting a couple of times a day at intervals means that people in different time
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Social Media: Setup DLVR.it

August 18, 2012 in Social Media Saturdays

Using social media can be time consuming – you pop on to share a post and get sucked in to spending time surfing, chatting, or browsing so it’s always good to know that you can share your content easily within one of your networks without having to put in time. For sharing to Twitter we have already said about setting up your facebook page to update to twitter automatically which is a good move, but how about sharing content? With Rainy Day Mum I use DLVR.it – this is straight to Twitter and it’s working as a way to share
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Tags: DLVR.it, Social Media, Twitter
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Facebook Cover Photo: Guidelines

August 11, 2012 in Blogging Tips, Social Media Saturdays

Having a Facebook page is ideal for communicating with your readers. Setting up a cover photo is a way to make your Facebook page yours. Make it fit with the style of your blog. It would be easy if you could just use your blog header for your Facebook cover photo, maybe you’re lucky and it’ll work. I haven’t had luck with it though and have had to switch a few things up. First of all, the dimensions are important to know. Facebook Cover Photo Dimensions Facebook’s cover photo dimensions are 851px wide x 315px high. And there’s a little
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Sync Facebook Page Updates with Tweets on Twitter

August 4, 2012 in Social Media Saturdays

I focus almost 50% of my social media time spent on Facebook (the other 50% on Pinterest). Twitter kind of just gets left out sometimes. But I think its important to have a presence there. But we’ll save those reasons for another day. Social Media Efficiency: In order to maximize my time spent, everything I post on my Facebook page gets streamed over to Twitter. Unless you’re already very active on Twitter, this is a great starting place for you to have a presence on Twitter to gain followers. Sync Facebook Page Updates with Tweets on Twitter Here’s how
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Tags: Facebook, Social Media, Twitter
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