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How To Make Your About.Me Page Amazing

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Joining us today is Liz from a belle, a bean & a chicago dog. Not only are we thrilled to have Liz guest post, but she is providing information that you just can’t miss! If you are in the market for a fabulous and FREE About Me page, then your search stops here. Learn more from Liz about the About.Me website and how you can have a one-stop description just as fabulous as hers.

Undoubtedly, your blog’s About page is something you’ve crafted with great care. An About page is a necessary website element, and probably the first item a new reader will check out after reading your latest post. The SITS Girls have already done a great job of providing tips and ways to razzle dazzle readers with your blog’s About page, so today I’m going to talk a bit about a different type of About page: an About.Me profile page.

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What is About.Me?

About.Me is a free, custom profile builder that lets you create an online hub of sorts for everything related to – well – YOU! About.Me is an easy-to-use and completely free tool that allows you to create your own .com, with details about yourself and links to all your sites and related social media accounts. About.Me provides you with a branded URL (About.Me/FirstNameLastName) and includes basic statistics like visitors, time on site and Klout.

Below is my About.Me page.

about me page

Your About.Me Photo

If you haven’t seen an About.Me page before, you might be taken aback by how “front and center” the photos are. About.Me does allow you the option to include a thumbnail image of yourself in your Biography section, and also provides a limited selection of basic backgrounds to choose from. However, you’ll see when viewing their directory that the best and most distinctive pages are of a single unique photo that fills the screen.

Your About.Me Bio Box

From the Edit Profile mode, you can build your biography box with your name, additional text about yourself and links.

about me page

You can choose your font colors and styles, the color of your links and what services you’d like your Bio Box to include.

about me page

Once you have written your bio and added your services, you can drag and drop your Bio Box to whatever position on the screen works best with your background photo.

Who Should Create an About.Me Page?

Anyone who finds themselves saying, “Well, I have a personal blog at this web address, run two Twitter accounts, do some freelance ork for a couple sites and – oh – here’s my Facebook fan page and LinkedIn information, too!”

It seems like the longer you are active in the blogosphere, the more sites and profiles seem to attach themselves to you. While we all work hard to include all relevant links to other sites and profiles on our main blog, we usually can’t display our other affiliations as prominently as we’d like there. Creating an About.Me site makes it easy to share (and remember!) all your information with 1 short URL.

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About the Author

a belle, a bean & a chicago dogLiz is a 30-something marketer and mom to 2 girls and a dog. She writes about parenting, marriage & life in general at a belle, a bean & a chicago dog, tweets from @BelleBeanDog and helps small businesses use social media at Eli | Rose Social Media.

More Tips on Creating Your About.Me Page

About Francesca

Francesca has an extensive background in content marketing, public relations, and social outreach. She oversees all Operations at Sway Group, including our robust metrics capabilities. Prior to joining the online world, Francesca oversaw viticulture and oenology at various wineries in both California and Italy, and managed regulatory affairs and facility approvals at the biotech company, Genentech. Francesca has been featured on CBS Sacramento and Food Blogger Pro’s podcast. She has also hosted an AMA webinar and spoken at Social Media World.

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  5. Lis Carpenter says

    Thank you so much for sharing this. I was researching how I could help a friend out with making an online portfolio. The examples I saw on About.me were awesome, especially yours!

    Now, I suppose I’ll have to help her with hers and make one for myself too. This reminds me of what unhub.com was going for, but this is cooler.

  6. Betsy @ Romance on a Dime says

    Thanks so much for sharing this! My husband and I just created about.me pages. This is a great idea and can be used in so many ways. I like the idea of having an online business card to share with others.

  7. Kendra says

    What a great post! Prior to seeing this sent out on Twitter, I’d never even heard of this service but love it now. Thanks for an informative post!

  9. Leah says

    Soooooo interesting. Great info, I am definitely going to check it out! Thanks!

  12. Kimberly Gauthier, Adventures in Blogging says

    Thanks for sharing this tip; I’m excited to started on my profile. Ahhh to have everything in one spot would be devine! Now that I have two blogs and I’m working on a podcast and two newsletters, it’ll be so nice to consolidate everything and start directing people to one place.

    And this will be helpful for my new business cards!

  13. Tatter Scoops says

    This is awesome. Thanks Liz! One question tho, how do you get the Facebook & Twitter links to shows up name like that? I tried to added mine but I can’t get the name to shows up. Here’s a link to mine: http://about.me/TatterScoops Note to self: Asked my awesome photographer brother to take some good pictures to put there 😉

  14. Rebecca says

    I’ve been seeing these about.me pages and I’m very impressed. I think I’ll give it a try. Thanks for the information!

  21. Chrysta Bairre says

    Wow! I really love how the photo is large and in charge, and it includes all the contact information anyone could possible want to know! 🙂

    I am so impressed with the About.Me page. I’m going to have to play around with it and see if I can create something I like better than my current page.

  22. Tonya says

    I love this, Liz! I knew about About.Me pages before and may even have one, but it needs some TLC. Thanks for the tutorial. Of course it’s so much easier than I thought. If I run into any snags, I know who to ask!

    Nice to see you here, BTW. 🙂

  26. Simone @Greatfun4kids says

    That’s Awesome! I am so going to check this site out and use it.
    Thankyou for this information… another great tool and more great blog advice from SITS girls!!
    Luv it.
    x

  27. Laura says

    What a great post! Thanks for the excellent explanation and tips, Liz.

    If you have any questions for about.me don’t hesitate to reach out to [email protected]. If you have a page already, you can click the Help link in your dashboard to reach us.

    Thank you!
    Laura
    – Community Manager for about.me

  28. Julie {Angry Julie Monday} says

    I need a new bio picture taken badly…..

    I sooo wish that Liz would have used the fab picture that I edited for her. It was quite hilarious. The @SITSGIRLS all know about my use of thought bubbles…{giggle}

    • liz says

      You are a constant, looming threat, dear Julie. Though at least I now know other women are aware of your dastardly ways!

  33. Mimi says

    I LOVE this idea! I’m signing up now! I run 3 blogs and a social media business so this is GREAT news for me!

    • liz says

      It is perfect for you then! I give the creators of About.Me tons of credit for the fab concept. Have fun building your page!

  34. Sara says

    This is pretty awesome. Im really trying to get into my blogging more so having this will help out. I love the tips. I made a page but when I get home I will probably update it a little more.

  36. Sherri says

    Oh Liz, I was totally just working on this yesterday! So this is so timely…and can I tell you once again how much I love your profile pic???

    • liz says

      Of course you can tell me! I’ll gladly accept your compliment AND tell you Thank You repeatedly. 😉

  37. Eve says

    This is so great! I’ve been meaning to create a page for myself, but haven’t had the time. I’ll def make time now. Great article, Liz. You are awesome as usual!

  40. Successful Woman's Resource Center says

    Great explanation Liz! I have an about.me page, but it is sad and in need of attention. I need to do the up close and personal headshot to place on it, plus update it with ever-changing information.
    Thanks for the push!
    Bernice

  42. Jenny says

    see just in time for me to redo MY about page. it kinda sucks but i havent been in a coding mood lately.

  46. Christina says

    Liz,
    This is so great! I have been using About.Me for a few months, but now I am going to adjust a few things based on your tips. One question I have is how do you actually center a picture? Every time I try to do this my picture ends up way too big. Any thoughts? Here is my page: http://about.me/christinalinnell

    • liz says

      There are options at the bottom of the “Add a Photo” view in the Bio Box. Centered, Tiled and something else. I know that I had to change my orientation for it to work. Also, you can view the maximum pixel size to help you appropriately size the photo you want ahead of upload.

    • liz says

      It’s such a great “one stop” type resource, so easy to set up AND totally free. What could be better? 🙂

  49. Hope Easter says

    Wow that is so neat! I need that! I have a hard time keeping track of all my photography links for my photography business plus my blogging information. Thank you for sharing this! I think I will definitely use this!