10 Blogging Tips

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Here are 10 of my own blogging tips that I've learned from my last few months of blogging.

1. Reply to comments the right way
Reply to your comments through the e-mails you get with their comment not on your blog. I though I had to reply to my followers on my blog and later found out I was ignoring my followers comments by replying in the wrong way.

2. Don't be a no-reply blogger
Make sure your not a no-reply blogger. For the longest time I though bloggers were ignoring my comments until I found out I was a no-reply blogger.

3. Turn off word verification
Go to setting-posts and comments-and click no on show word verification. This helps readers not want to comment and increases your comments.

4. Have social media
I put this off for the longest time and just a couple weeks ago created a Facebook Page for my blog. I have a pinterest, instagram, twitter, bloglovin, and facebook page now to share my blog with others and increase my readers.

5. Meaningful posts
I never really struggled with this too much, but make sure the post is relevant to your readers so they will want to come back to your blog.

6. Have an About you page
Make sure to have an about page so readers can learn about you and really feel connected to you. I've gone to many blogs and have not been able to find an about page or have found a page that didn't really say much, so make sure to have a clear about you page.

7. Contact page
Second to having a clear about you page is having a contact page. It's really hard for a follower to contact you if you don't have your e-mail on your about you page or better yet a contact page.

8. Label your posts
Have a labels (tag) section on your blog so your followers can pick a topic to look at. i.e. have a tag labeled recipes for your readers to be able to find other recipes that you have made and shared on your blog.

9.Similar posts link
Have a link with popular or similar posts so your readers can look at other posts that a majority of your readers enjoyed. I got link-within for my blog to show similar posts to my readers.

10. Button Swap
To share your blog with others, make your to swap your blog button with other bloggers. It's easy, free and helps you make new bloggers friends.

Linking up with: Blog Stalking Thursday, Thumping Thursday, Blog Lovin' Hop, Look What I Got, It's Ok Thursday, Thankful Thursdays, Thankful Thursday F4, Show and Tell

Simply Free Giveaway

As summer is so very near, and Simply Free hit 300 followers a few days ago,  we wanted to share a little summer love to you wonderful readers as a BIG thank you.

We have teamed up to share some awesome goodies with you, because y'all are awesome, so take a few minutes and show each of them some love and see what YOU could win below.

ONE lucky reader will win over $200 + of goodies from these lovely bloggers!

Check out each blogger below to see what they are giving away and show them some LOVE!

1// Lauren // 1 month Large Ad Space 

2// Teressa // 1 month Large Ad Space

3// Samantha // 1 month Ad Space & Custom Design Mood Board

4// Caroline// 1 month Ad Space

5// Ashley F. // Devotional Book

6// Ashley C. // 1 month Large Ad Space

7// Lauren L. // T-shirt of Choice from her Etsy Shop
8// Clara // ten emmy-jay hair ties
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10 // Ashlee // Super Duper Skinny Ad Space
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12 // Joy // $20 Target Gift Card
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Button Swapping

Good news everyone, I have finally made a blog button! So glad that I finally decieded to make one!

If you would like to swap buttons with me, just email me at lovecarolineblog@gmail.com. If you want to swap with me, I will place your button on my sidebar and ask that you do the same with mine.

If you want to make your own blog button go to Rylee Blakes Blog. She has a great tutorial on how to make one, and it only takes about 10 minututes!

For those of you who don't know what a blog button is. It is an icon that links directly to your blog, that can be posted on someone elses blog. A blog button helps to increase the range of people who look at your blog.

What do you think of blog buttons? Do you feel a it is a great enhancer to a blog?

Thank you so much for visiting Love, Caroline! I would love to hear from you by leaving a comment below or contacting me through email. Your support is always so appreciated! Have a great rest of the week!!