Tips for an Effective Blog Button

Tips for an Effective Blog Button | The Blog Maven

Five years ago, blog buttons were a very social thing: you’d visit your favorite blogs, grab their buttons and display them proudly on your sidebar. A badge from another blog meant you were part of their social circle, and it added to your credibility – in addition to promoting someone else you admired. These days, [...]

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Optimize Your Pinterest Profile for More Blog Traffic

Pinterest Tips: Optimize your profile for more blog traffic

Pinterest is the most powerful tool out there for drawing fresh faces to your blog.  But dominating Pinterest doesn’t happen by accident. Let’s say you’re pinning your favorite bits of the web consistently, with your readers in mind.  And you’re following the most influential pinners, so you have the inside scoop on what’s hot right [...]

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5 Ways to Speed Up Your Blog

Speed up your blog's page load time | theblogmaven.com

Have you ever been on a blog that took forever to load?  (hopefully not yours.)  And what’s your first impulse?  Well, if it’s a new site and you’re not already a loyal reader, you’ll click your browser’s “back” button and move on with your browsing. Nothing will kill the engagement of your new blog visitors [...]

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Natural Suburbia moved from Blogger to WordPress

Moved to WordPress by the Blog Maven

Natural Suburbia is the blog of Linda Dawkins, a homesteader and knitting pattern designer in South Africa.  Her blog is about the simplicity of daily life with a focus on the family rhythms of homesteading and a well-known library of free and premium knitting patterns (sold through her Mamma4earth shop on Etsy). After some research, [...]

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Growing Your Blog with Pinterest: Follow Influential Pinners

A Close-Up of a Single Pin | The Blog Maven

In the process of pinning your favorite bits of the web on Pinterest, you’ll inevitably come across items other people have pinned.  And if you like these pins, the logical thing to do for yourself (and your own followers!) is to repin them on your own pin board.  But how can this help you grow [...]

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