Grumpies Visit When Bots Attack

It’s 9 at night and wow has today been a day. You know those days when you should have just gone back to bed?

I woke up early like I always do to get some work done. I couldn’t get access to my blog. I was searching and searching for a solution.

Finally I sent in a help ticket.

The Bots Are At It Again

Yes, every so often they attack with a vengeance.  I don’t worry because I trust my hosting company and the tech guy who sees to it that everything is safe.

They shut down access to WordPress to protect everyone from having their passwords compromised. Thank You.

All’s well (at least in my little world).

Just in case you aren’t on the mailing list for this challenge here is the post from yesterday. (Yes I had a backup plan)

Please view post on Sample Blog

1. Make Your Image
2. Upload your image to your site
3. Grab the link location (yoururl.com/image.jpg or .png or .gif)
4. Visit http://www.image-maps.com/
5. Paste your link (step 3) into the text box on image-maps.com
6. Click start image mage
7. wait
8. click continue (once your image is uploaded)
9. Right click on the image you want to link to – in order to bring up the menu
10. Select shape – rect, poly, circle
12. A selection tool will come up. Drag this to the entire image (place) you want to link
13. Add the link to the site you want to go to in Map URL
14. Give it a title (seo friendly)
15. Add Alt text
16. (optional) give it an ID
17. click save (the image you just mapped will be red)
18. Repeat steps 9 – 17 for each image you want to ‘map’ aka link
19. Once you are done linking each image right click and ‘get code’
20. Before you paste it into your site Change the (image-map source image to your original location in step 3)

A couple of things to note for #31CBBC peeps: (all are optional)

• Comments are welcome and encouraged 
• Visit the FB group and add your post for the day to the pinned post if you’d like to receive at least 2-comments on your post.
• Join the Crochet Business Blogger G+ Community
• Community Event: Webinar (growing email lists) 
  
• Add your blog url to the #31CBBC linky (not the post url) – this will help you identify who is participating
• As you are visiting other bloggers, take note of any similarities you have or complimentary projects/services you have. This is a great time to jot down the blog name and get to know the blogger behind the blog. 
• Don’t stress on writing a post each day. A picture with your thoughts, a video, a top 5 list, or simply a quote on why you like crochet all counts as a post.

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