I know there are a lot of you gals who are new to blogging, but then there are some of you who have been doing this awhile but you have questions about how to do things in BLOGGY WORLD. There are many out there who do not have a clue as to all of the things that they do not have set up on their account to make it easy for someone to find you. You may not have a good understanding of the Analytics and some of you are saying WHAT is Analytics?
I, personally try to get by to every blog that follows me and follow them. There are some of you that I do not follow-WHY-it’s not that I don’t like you, I like all of you, the reason is-in most cases it is because of the way your account is set up-I can not get to your blog to sign up. (There are a few times that Googles has had the friend/follower thing “DOWN” and you couldn’t follow and by time it came up I had 25 new followers signed up and I just forgot to come by but in most cases it is because of the account set up.) If I have signed up DON’T assume that your account is set up correctly. You may have sent me an e-mail and I was able to find you that way.
We are going to be doing some Blogging Tutes to help you out.
<a href=”http://www.makeminebeautiful.blogspot.com/”>Polly</a> is a blog friend and she and I are a lot alike. She likes to research things and find out how to do it by herself and so do I.
She has written some great tutorials and so I am going to share with you today some of her Blogging Tutes as well as some of mine.
I am going to list each one as an individual post today so in the future people can click to find how to do things that they just didn’t know how to do.
I’m noticing that when I get your comments in my email box that so many of you have a “No-Reply” email address. I wonder if you even know it.
Are you wondering why the blogs you leave comments on never send you a reply?
I’ll open my email and read a comment that I really want to respond to, and then I see the “No-Reply” return address for your email.
Bummer. I really wanted to say something to you.
Please don’t assume that just because you can talk to me that I can talk back to you.
Let’s say you’ve entered a giveaway on a blog – and you won. Yipee…..but unfortunately you may never know it if you aren’t following that blog. I know, because I talk to others bloggers who say they often can’t find you when you don’t leave your email address, so they have to give your prize to someone else.
You took the time to register for it. Don’t you want your gift?
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I’m going to tell you how to fix that.
Are you a blogger?
If so, here’s your quick fix.
Go to your Dashboard
Go to “Edit Profile”
Where is says “Share My Profile”, check that box
Where it says “Show My Email Adress”, check that box
~~ Now let me clarify something here. Checking that box does NOT display your email on your blog, it only displays it in your profile. If you have this box checked, but do not have “Share My Profile” checked, then it still won’t let bloggers find you. ~~
Note: Doing this action will put your profile on your blog. For those of you who do not want all of that info about you shown under your name, just go into your profile and clear the field that says “About Me”. Then it will only show your name, and picture or avatar if you have one uploaded, and a link that says “See complete profile” which allows visitors to go to your profile if they want to…..and find your email.
For those of you who do not have a blog, you can create a profile in your google account. In that profile, be sure to put an email address. If you don’t use google, just create a profile in whatever program you use, and be sure to add your email to it.
There you have it! I can respond to you now. thankyouverymuch.
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Be sure to check out other great BLOGGING TIPS to fix your account
I have this covered and look forward to future tutes on the subject!
I am following you and have listed you among my faves on my blog. Hope you will do the same!
Thanks for doing these “tips” – how about one about doing a “button”?
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New blogger here, and you are awesome! Keep it coming!
LOL I love it! So glad we’ve never had a problem communicating. Have a great weekend!
I have this covered and look forward to future tutes on the subject!
I am following you and have listed you among my faves on my blog. Hope you will do the same!
Thanks for doing these “tips” – how about one about doing a “button”?
Thanks for all the tips! I went through them all and made sure I had everything set up correctly.
Thank you so much!