This is a guest post by Allison Boyer, Community Outreach Coordinator and regular blogger for BlogWorld.
Is your Pinterest profile optimized so you’re found and followed by other users, repinned as much as possible, and sending tons of traffic back to your site? For most users, the answer is no, unfortunately. Don’t worry: Pinterest is still a very new social media site and we’re all still learning! If you have five minutes, though, you can totally improve your Pinterest profile with just five easy steps:
Step One: Categorize all of your boards.
When you create a board on the fly (i.e., you’re pinning something and decide to create a new board rather than pinning to an existing board), no category is associated with that board. Most users never think to go back into their profile and categorize. However, if you don’t, you won’t show up when users browse the site by category, which is a heavily used function. That means you’re missing out on a ton of potential eyeballs from people who aren’t already following you!
To categorize, simple go to your profile and click “edit” on any board you haven’t categorized already. Sometimes boards fit into more than one category, but since Pinterest only allows you to choose one, make sure you choose the category where you most want your pins to show up.
Categorizing does not guarantee you’ll show up when someone is browsing by category. If you aren’t categorized, though, you definitely won’t have your pins displayed.
This post is part of a weekly series, Fetching Friday, featuring the best posts of the week in blogging, business, freelancing, SEO, and social media on kikolani.com.
The Resources Mashup
Here are some of the best articles I have seen on Google+, retweeted on @kikolani, and read in RSS subscriptions this week.
Blogging / Writing
This post is part of a weekly series, Fetching Friday, featuring the best posts of the week in blogging, business, freelancing, SEO, and social media on kikolani.com.
The Resources Mashup
Here are some of the best articles I have seen on Google+, retweeted on @kikolani, and read in RSS subscriptions this week.
Blogging / Content Marketing
This is a guest post by Robert Regehr.
Are you a full-time blogger earning a living from your Wordpress blogs or an aspiring Problogger with your first taste of the freedom that comes from blogging? There’s a ton of really good advice out there on getting up and running from bloggers like Darren Rowse and Yaro Stark. However, there’s shockingly little on protecting your blogging nest egg. If you rely on income from blogging to support your family you need to secure your Wordpress installations immediately. Here are five actionable steps you can take today to ensure hackers won’t disrupt the income stream you’ve worked so hard to build from blogging.
What’s All The Fuss About? I’ve Never Been Hacked
The default Wordpress install is about as secure as a wet paper bag, especially if you make a habit of blogging from your favorite coffee shop. You’ve put a lot of hard work into enjoying the rewards that come from blogging. The last thing you want is some script kiddie or hacker taking over your site; it’d be like someone breaking into your home and robbing you blind.
I’m sure you’re very careful when shopping or banking on the Internet; would you ever consider logging into online banking or shopping without looking for the “https” in the URL? If you’re like me and blog with a white chocolate mocha on free Wi-Fi, you’re pretty much shouting your username and passwords to anyone within earshot. Public access points in coffee shops and cafes are far from secure and you never know who’s sitting across from you with a packet sniffer watching your every move.
Fortunately there are steps you can take to secure Wordpress and protect yourself. I’m not just talking about using stronger passwords but actual bank level security for your site. If you’re serious about earning a living from your blogs you simply cannot ignore security when it comes to protecting your online assets.
This is a guest post by Farnoosh Brock.
While it may seem out of the ordinary from the usual blogging and social media, I included it for two reasons. 1) Farnoosh is a wonderful friend and inspiring person who has contributed some great articles and interviews here before. 2) Healthy habits are an essential part of blogging – if you aren’t healthy, you won’t be able to produce great content. Enjoy!
I believe all good smart habits are related and connected, and before I tell you about the smart habit for which Kristi invited me to write here today, that of Green Juicing (affiliate link), I want to share why and how your one good habit can lead to many more.
You have most definitely experienced this. If you start a new eating habit, for instance, first you feel better and then you get more energy, and as a result, perhaps you join a fitness program, or even more, you put a stop to your other bad habits one at a time, all the while not realizing that a single good habit can be responsible for an entire change of direction on your self-improvement journey.
