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Blogging Tute-Do you have LINKS set up? and WHAT is your LINK NAME

by CHERI on February 19, 2010

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There are some of you that DO NOT HAVE LINKS set up.

What does that mean, well when you click to follow a blog and they see you are a new follower,  a page will comes up with

THIS information:

YOUR PICTURE (because you just fixed it) & YOUR NAME
THEN the next thing they will see is this:
Sites I’ve joined  More »
A Vintage Touch –  
Barn House –  
THAT IS NOT WHAT YOU WANT TO SEE.  That means you DO NOT have LINKS set up.  That means they have nothing to click on to come over to your blog, so they can not find you.
What DO you want to see?
THIS:
Your PICTURE & Your NAME

So far it looks exactly the same BUT the very next thing that should be listed is
THIS:
Links

Halls of Fame –  
THEN it should show the SITES YOU HAVE JOINED:
Sites I’ve joined  More »
Better After –  
Bring The Rain –  
Cake Wrecks –  
So how do you fix it so people can come over and FIND YOU & FOLLOW you?
Sign in to your Google Account
Go into MY ACCOUNT (right next to DASHBOARD)
click on EDIT PROFILE (just under your picture-if you have corrected that)
You are now on the ABOUT ME page
scroll down till you see LINKS (on the left side of the page about 2/3 of the way down
There are 2 boxes-
URL-this is where you add in Your Blogs URL info
and the next is
LINK NAME before you add anything let me give you my opinion-PLEASE-PRETTY PLEASE
Coming from someone (that would be me) who has been at almost 700 followers and will be again, as soon as I can get everyone contacted to let them know I’ve moved and then I will hopefully be rolling right on into the thousands;let me tell you what is helpful.
I suggest you list your name and blog name. I only have my blog name but that is because it includes my name so if someone wants to leave me a message they know my name.
Some people make their LINK NAME (example) KATHY the problem is you don’t make a connection with KATHY the Follower and her blog name.  This gets even more complicated when someone has their account as KATHY, their blog name is (example) I LIKE TO BLOG and their e-mails come to you with (example) THE HARRIS FAMILY.
It is very hard to make the connection when you are trying very hard to connect all the pieces.
My suggestion is to make your LINK NAME–Kathy@I LIKE TO BLOG
then if you have set up a blogging e-mail account you can name it KATHY@ I LIKE TO BLOG
If you have fixed this problem you need to leave me a comment or send me an e-mail so I can come over and follow you. I will not get notification that you changed your account info.  PLEASE let me know you changed your info so I can come over.
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1 Mary Williams February 19, 2010 at 2:39 pm

Thanks for this…I just went and changed mine, I also made my email visible. Do you think it’s a good thing to have an email just for your blog?

2 Hanneke Nelson February 19, 2010 at 3:39 pm

And here I thought I had it all figured out… This was new to me. I now have a proper Google profile, picture and all.

By the way, the purple/blue links are much easier to read than the yellow ones. It was only on the offwhite background I had a problem with them, though.

Hanneke

3 Sandra February 19, 2010 at 3:41 pm

Hi thank you so much for this tutorial! I just worke on mine and I think I got it all fixed. Come visit me sometime. 🙂 Again, thank you for this tute.
Blessings,
Sandra

4 beth ann February 19, 2010 at 3:54 pm

i think i fixed it…

5 a little bit of everything February 19, 2010 at 5:44 pm

I am pretty sure I am already doing all this. You do not list my blog – I have a photo for a button but not the code for it so I assume that is the problem. Haven’t been able to figure out the code part….

6 Cheryl February 20, 2010 at 1:13 am

Thanks so much for this info – I’ve fixed mine. Hope it’s all right now!

7 TammyM March 26, 2010 at 5:45 pm

Thank you so much for this. I hope I have mine set correctly now 🙂

8 Mary Ann April 18, 2010 at 2:08 pm

Thanks for this tute. It was easy to do with your help. I love something new everyday with this bloggin!

9 Nancy Ellison June 19, 2010 at 8:32 pm

I hope I am still following you. Does the blog frog cost anything?
nancy

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