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 [...]

SEO Tip: Keywords

August 21, 2012 in Blogging Tips, SEO Tips

SEO Tip: Keywords

I quickly mentioned “Keywords” the other day in how to use image alt and title descriptions as a SEO tip. Google likes keyword rich content. More importantly, it likes it to pertain to your actual content (not just keyword filled for no apparent reason). When I started trying to figure out SEO, I had a few questions about keywords: What keywords should I use in my posts? How do I make them my keywords? What can I do to maximize these keywords for SEO?   What keywords should I use in my posts? The keywords are what a reader would use [...]

SEO Tip: Image Alt & Title Tags

August 14, 2012 in Blogging Tips, SEO Tips

Click Properties in Blogger to Add Image Alt & Titles

SEO is a little mind-boggling to most bloggers. What is SEO? SEO stands for Search Engine Optimization. Meaning that you want to optimize your site for search engines to access it and actually like what they see. There are some key things to do to make this happen. A great place to start is to check out the 15 minutes checklist for SEO at Webconfs.com We’ll be going through a few of what we think are important things to do for SEO for your site. Telling search engines what your images are is a pretty easy, but very important, step. [...]