I started blogging right around the tail end of when it was a huge driver of traffic for people without much effort having to be put in.
There were no algorithms. Having tons and tons of followers was the ultimate goal. And if you pinned something, it would almost certainly do well.
Well, that's not the case anymore, and while Pinterest still is a huge driver of traffic, you do have to work a little harder for it.
I have also realized this year just how dependent my traffic is on Pinterest, and
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Social Media
How to Save Drafts on Instagram
Instagram has done a few larger updates lately, and I think they are long overdue. The first one? You can now save drafts on Instagram of photos.
There are a few apps that you can buy that would help you do this - you could upload photos to your computer, write the posts, and then it would remind you at certain times to go and post.
Some people would even write all their posts and post them in airplane mode, so they would "fail." Then when they wanted to post, they pressed retry.
Not exactly the
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How to Get a Contact Button on Instagram (and Become a Business Account)
How to get a contact button on Instagram.
A few days ago, someone in a group I'm in brought up that someone had a contact button on their Instagram.
I hadn't heard about this, but I was instantly intrigued. It looked really great! In addition to the contact button, it showed a few more markings of a business account (it put the industry, as well as their name and blog title.)
So I did a little bit of digging, and I figured out how to convert my account to a business account.
Having a
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One Way to Make Facebook Scheduling Easier
I'm all about simplifying and streamlining, especially when it comes to blogging!
When I started using BoardBooster awhile back, I felt like a weight was lifted from my shoulders. I loved not being a slave to Pinterest anymore.
For a lot of my blogging career, I just hadn't paid much attention to Facebook. I would share all my articles and occasionally share something else funny I found. Needless to say, my page really only grew when I did some kind of giveaway, and I was lucky if I got one
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Two Quick Ways to Get More Facebook Likes Organically
Of all the social networks out there, Facebook is the one that frustrates me the most. With their ever-changing algorithms, the almost requirement to pay for ads, and only a fraction of my followers even seeing my posts, it's almost enough to make me throw in the towel. It makes it difficult to get more Facebook likes organically when hardly anyone is seeing your posts!
Just almost. Right when I'm about to, I have a post that does well, and it makes me feel like all the stress of Facebook is
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How I Freed My Life from Pinterest Scheduling
Many Bloggers will attest to getting a majority of their traffic from Pinterest. Although it's undergone some major changes in the past year or so, and it may not be as amazing in some ways as it used to be, it's still a major driver of traffic that you can't afford to overlook.
There's hundreds of articles out there about Pinterest strategy and the best Pinterest scheduler. I've read many of them myself - and most of them tell you the same thing: verify your website, get rich pins, pin vertical
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