I tried exporting with the width and height I recommend using a photo editor that will automatically adjust the height based on what you size the width to, to avoid these issues.
So when I used your code:. I have tried both of your codes but only the first photo in my latest blog entry has changed size, is there a way to change all the existing blog photos to extra large instead of the current size medium. Thank you for this helpful tip! I love it except for when it is used on vertical images because I feel like they take up my entire post!
Is there any way to change it just for vertical images? We will look into a fix for this. Is it possible to disable the automatic resizing for one specific photo within a blog post? Thank you!! I have recently started blogging and was in trouble with choosing the proper image size.
Thank you.. What if your images are already small. I have one thats x and is very blurry when I upload it as my blog featured image. Dear Erin, thank you very much for all the awesome tips, tricks and tutorials you so generously share.
I have applied all the instructions but there is still some space left on the sides of the images. Could you maybe have a look and tell me what to do? Please and thank you.
Just wanted to say a HUGE thank you for posting this! Worked perfectly for making the Mobile Version of my blog scale down! Hi, this is a great tip. However I have another problem. I post pictures of different sizes with my text on a page. I have left a link to one of my post and you if you scroll down the pictures I have added, you will see what i am talking about. Hope you can solve this problem. I have just checked your blog and it seems that this align issue is caused by a large spacing between your text lines.
Every image you add has its own padding on the side and at the bottom to make sure it will not cover your text. If your line spacing is too large your images sometimes need to skip a row of text below them what creates those large empty spaces. I hope it makes sense! A friend has made me an admin on his blog so that I can assist him with layout, themes, settings, etc.
I like how they look within the post itself. Hi Rebecca, I think we can help you with that. As a consequence, even legit pinners on those boards get low engagement scores for their pins and a confusing keyword context based on all the spam saved to the board previously. For me, it means that group boards have to be as focused on one topic or keyword, as standard boards are. Since Pinterest takes distribution away from the big group boards, I can tell that you naturally will redirect the majority of your efforts to building your own boards.
You might not even realize that, but a lot of established bloggers see their Pinterest traffic tanking for a while. Their accounts are packed with group boards they joined while their own boards are the minority. If this is your case, time for a change has come. Did you notice that in their Best practices, Pinterest recommends creating at least 5 boards for each topic we cover in the blog or website?
By doing this, you can target several keyword variations on each board. To help your new pin succeed on Pinterest, you have to pin it to a relevant board first. Or several relevant boards. And they should be boards on your account. By saving the pin to a relevant board, you give this new image the right keyword context.
By saving first to your own board, you help Pinterest boost your pin, because they claim to give priority to the pins saved by content creators.
Some marketing sites received a great traffic influx from Pinterest in those times. Currently, Pinterest is cutting off the long pins at Several Pinterest reps talked a lot about the freshness of pins. Why would they touch on this subject? Apparently, too many bloggers were repinning their own exactly the same pins too many times to multiple boards. If you even upload the same exact image from the same exact post URL, Pinterest will recognize the image as an existent pin and in the majority of cases will immediately show you the summed up stats for that pin.
The conclusion is — you need to create a lot more new pins — new image, new text overlay, new colors — anything at all has been different on the image to be considered a new pin. They started saying content creators should save new pins weekly, but I lately hear voices saying we should do it daily. Who promised Pinterest marketing is going to get easier? All platforms get more complicated algorithms over time as the competition between content creators promoting on these platforms grows.
The longer you wait, the harder it gets for a beginner. This mean, all your new pins from the same page are targeting exactly the same keywords. Pinterest recommends you to create new pins and change keywords to give another perspective on your image and attract an additional audience. Changing pin description when you save a new pin does its positive job in this sense, but your SEO title and keywords in it remain the same.
Instead, go to Pinterest Homepage and click on Create Pin in the right top corner:. Then you can upload the new image or if you saved it on the page, you can also retrieve the image from your site insert the link to your page under the image upload. The SEO description remains the same, but you can and should also use new keywords in the pin description see the screenshot below :. Pinterest reps confirmed what was added to their Best Practices page — you can and you should create multiple pins per post to target different keywords or audiences in each pin version.
Pinterest used to have a hour delay in stats shown for each specific pin. Lately, they show analytics on a pin basis almost in real time. Pinterest claims they have a 2-hour delay in reporting the data. A side note here. The stats you are seeing on a pin basis are summed up counts for all repins, impressions and saves of all versions of this pin. Imagine a user B repinned your original pin to a bigger board and that repin got a lot more impressions and clicks.
This means, your own pin will be showing a summed up stats from your pin and the repin of user B Stats. Another note. Pinterest reps mentioned on a few events that the algorithm is showing your new pins first to your follower base.
The algorithm evaluates the early engagement to see if your pin should be shown to bigger audiences. This means that practices which involve mass following or purchasing followers are not helping you get traffic from your pin.
In fact, they are doing the opposite. You get followers which are not going to engage with your pins. This gives negative signals to Pinterest about your content. This will limit your pins distribution. This is your most loyal audience — they love your content. Like most Pinterest changes, this new feature is rolled to the user base step by step.
The change makes saving pins it much easier. Now Pinterest suggests a relevant board on your account and you can save the pin right on the same page. Not everyone was happy with this one. Because a lot of established bloggers who started on Pinterest years ago were pretty happy with their high following numbers.
The reach number in your profile shows how many Pinterest users interacted with your Pins in the last 30 days. This number is rounded. You might have noticed on lots of Pinterest profiles a collection of the latest pins as a profile cover. You can customize which pins will appear there and choose one of the options to show:. Activity tab is pretty cool — it shows you all the pins which were saved from your site. Not only saved by you using Tailwind scheduler for example , but also by any other users.
You can look at the most popular pins that get lots of saves from your site. Then make your conclusions about which pins or content works the best.
I believe that by the time you are reading this post, this feature works on all Pinterest accounts. I also wrote a post earlier from which you can find out everything about Pinterest changes that happened in and earlier. Glad you posted this — I really like your blog. My July monthly viewers went from 8. Today Aug 3rd I no longer have 0 on those 7 random days, but I feel it still may not be accurate due to the huge disparity in the numbers.
Hi, Joan! My Pinterest accounts were affected as well. When my account was back, the majority of pins which were somewhere close to the top results for related keywords were gone from the tops. I now need to renew again most of the pins and hope the new ones will start picking up some virality. Glad the post was helpful. Pinterest traffic is great because you can get it fast and it can be quite big because of the viral effect. But we have to be prepared because Pinterest traffic is not as stable as Google SEO traffic for example.
Hi Anastascia! I love how you break down everything. Congrats for a no-nonsense approach and attitude to blogging for bucks. Most excellent! But, John I want to be loved by everyone!
You have to share what you believe in and believe is helpful to others. You can be successful in less then 1. But if your willing to put in the time.. Louise Mason. You know from my personal experiences in internet marketing along with the things you have posted here, one overall recurring theme is that you forget: there is actually a REAL world outside of the Matrix!! Excellent post!!! Blogging is all about producing quality content that people want to read. It is hard work to produce valuable content on a regular basis, but if you can then blogging can be a very rewarding career.
Blogging takes work, if you can do the work then blogging will be one of the best things you can do. Matt Smith. This is an awesome post. Should have read this before I started blogging a few months ago. I had no clue what blogging was.
This is a true gift and curse. Its more of a curse for me right now. I totally love this journey. Esha thanks for the comment. Yea blogging is a great journey even more so when you know the true process of it all. Once you know it takes hard work and time to be successful then you just put your head down and go. The results, success will come.
Thanks for always inspiring and preparing the road for those who are coming after you — there should be less pot holes, eh?! Exactly Mark,, you have to treat it like a business if you want long term success. Blogging to just blog will only take you so far. Great dose of reality John! Much of what you wrote is applicable across digital media, it can give the illusion of being a quick and easy path to traffic, but it is still about quality and relationships built with consistency.
Michael I think we all started wrong lol But learning as you go and make the changes you need to to fit your goal is the smart way.
On the job training haha. Michelle Church. This is great.. Yes, I can do as you suggest matter of fact I need to really re-vamp my whole mind process behind blogging and I thank you for the inspiration.
Your advice not only applies to blogging but any venture or project that one desires to be successful will take hard work which can be difficult, depressing yet positive and fulfilling. I thank you for the inspiration that it is possible to be successful in our endeavors.. Michelle, TY for stopping in. So I did that, and if you can look at these negatives and say, you know what, this isnt a big deal, I can do this. Blogging takes work, but well worth it in the end in you know and are prepared for what you getting into.
Jeannette Marshall. Sometimes the truth hurts John … then again, a reality check is not always pleasant. Nonetheless, I like how you attracted readership with the title and went on with solid advice. Thank you! Truth is the only way to go Jeannette, like it or not.. You must be logged in to post a comment.
Join , Thankful Readers! New to blogging or to the Money Dummy Blog? Getting started can get a little confusing for all of us. Share This Post: Tweet. Jul, Hey John, I have to say that you did an awesome job putting this together. Chat with you later… Josh. John Paul I'm glad you liked the post. It's to bad. Djfunkyslick Yea doing your research into your blog topic and into blogging alone is the best way to start.
Jeff Nickles TY for the comment.. Marissa Rodriguez This is a great post! Thank you so much! Gives me lots to think about! Elle I really enjoyed reading this post. I can always count on you to provide sound blog advice. Hesham FamousBloggers Thank you John for the mention, I found you as a good friend and fellow blogger!
Really amusing post! Jennifer Brown Banks Mark Bell Glad you liked the post. JP2 Holy cow John. Carl Burke Speaking of content delivery channels, your blog should not be the only channel where your readers can consume your content. Besides tapping into video content and YouTube, you should also run mailing lists and newsletters.
Email is still a strong and stable platform to communicate with your readers and to deliver them personalized content. Make sure you devote time to grow your mailing lists, and increase email opening rates by using tools that track email marketing benchmarks like email opening rates, click rates, soft bounces, hard bounces, unsubscribes, etc.
These parameters can help you better design your emails and make necessary adjustments. Like it or not, social media is happening. Platforms like Facebook, Reddit, Instagram, Twitter, Tumblr or Pinterest are the virtual meeting places of billions of people worldwide.
According to Statista , the power of social networking is expected to increase reaching 2. According to the same estimates, global internauts spend, on average, minutes daily on social networks. Social media platforms can help increase brand awareness and engagement with your customers, and you can get real-time feedback on your content by measuring likes, shares, comments and other parameters.
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