The past week has been one of reflection and a bit of redirection for Tip Junkie. I’ve been reading this fabulous eBook, Mom Blog SEO – 30 Days to Boost Traffic, Readers, Influence and Income,
and learning a lot about my relationship with the Google Gods. Needless to say, we have a terrible relationship. {{sniffle}}
Google does not like me very much and therefore doesn’t send over a lot of readers. Therefore, I’m doing what I would do in any relationship; I’m acknowledging my part and trying to repair our relationship. HA!
Button Using ~ Are You a Tip Junkie?
If you have a minute, I could really use your help! If you appreciate all the work I put into Tip Junkie, and would like to qualify for giveaways, please copy and paste this code onto your blog side bar.
<a href="https://tipjunkie.com/" target="_blank"><img src="https://i375.photobucket.com/albums/oo196/ChicChickMedia/tipjunkie_button.gif" border="0"/></a>
Huge, huge hugs to everyone who adds my darling little blog bling to their sidebar. I cannot tell you how much it means to me. Especially the 400 people who are still linking to tipjunkie.blogspot.com. If you have the old green button, please update it with this darling teal one. That automatically updates the link and helps me achieve an important goal.
Why Is It Important To Link To My Favorite Blogs?
Blog button using by copying and pasting a code link to your favorite blogs does several things.
- It increases “page rank” which is the weight that Google places on blogs and can determine what order they show up for a search.
- It increases Technorati and Alexa ratings which is only important if you’re trying to create a “brand” from your blog. {{which I am}}
- It creates referral traffic and sends people to your blog.
- It increases branding and your blogs online image.
Button Using ~ How to Add a Blog Button to your Sidebar
For Blogger, go into your dashboard and click:
- Design
- Add a Gadget {from your sidebar not header}
- Then click the HTML/JavaScript link.
- In the content box, paste in the code for the button. {You don’t need to add a title unless you want to.}
- Lastly, drag and drop the “Gadget Box” onto the place you would like it to be on your right or left sidebar.
Yep, it’s that easy! I hope you’ll do a huge favor to all of your favorite mom blogs and take a few minutes this weekend and update your sidebar with their blog buttons. They’ll just love you for it! {{high fives!}}
Thanks so much for the great advice! I’m new to this whole google/SEO stuff, so I’ll take all the help I can get! {I added your button to my site!} 🙂
I wish I had found you way back when I started blogging. Lots of information I can use NOW. Thank you for sharing. I have add ed your avatar to my blog. –Sally
Love your blog and have added your button to our site. http://www.theinspiredretreat.blogspot.com. Thank you for your hard work to make us smarter! :0) — Inspired Gal
You’re the best! I’m off to find your SEO advice. I’ll take everything I can get at this point. 🙂
I sent you a ‘Tip’ about this through your contact form – giving you some free SEO advice based on my own trials and tribulations with Google. 🙂