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How to Drive More Traffic to Your Blog with Flipboard

Blogging Tips / May 22, 2017

Flipboard is an often overlooked but very powerful platform for increasing traffic to your blog. The program compiles content from news feeds, blogs, social media sites, photo sharing sites, and more, and then presents it to users in a magazine format in which they can “flip” through the articles, photos, and videos. Users also have the option to like content and save it in their own magazines.

If you’re looking for another platform to share your blog that’s easy to use and requires just a minute or so of your time each day, I highly recommend checking out Flipboard and learning how to drive more traffic to your blog with Flipboard.

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Pinterest 201 for Bloggers: Grow Your Blog With Optimized Pin Images

Blogging Tips / May 16, 2017

In my Facebook groups for bloggers: Pinterest sharing tips (aka Pinterest 101 for bloggers), I covered the following tips.

Select a high-quality, vertical image
Include a URL and an SEO-optimized description
Don’t use all capital letters
Choose an easy-to-read font
Don’t share the same pin multiple days in a row
Don’t share the same pin across multiple groups in the same day
Limit sharing pins about starting a blog and other basic blogging tips
Limit product pinning
Share your pin in the morning

I am not a Pinterest expert. I am not a photography expert. I don’t pretend to know everything there is to know about creating killer pins with optimized pin images. But I have seen significant results during the past six months of concentrated effort to grow this blog, which includes creating high-quality pins with optimized pin images for the vast majority of my posts.

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