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Adding a Facebook Like button to your website is easy. Facebook has a handy form that you fill out which gives you a block of code to copy and paste, and you’re done! If that’s too much, there’s plenty of third party plugins that make adding a Like button to your websites as easy as clicking “Install”. This simple process is a big part of why Facebook’s Like initiative has…
In person, we judge people by what they look like. Online, we decide what we think about someone by what they write. Both can be deceiving. Last week I wrote that I don’t think social communities are really “social” and nobody disagreed with me. I’m sure many readers do but for whatever reasons did not leave comments. Maybe they didn’t want to use the comment form. Maybe they are lurkers….
Everyday, Facebook is asking us to do all sorts of things – like this page, join this event, subscribe to this person, comment on this post, share this picture. There’s a seemingly endless amount of actions a user can take, and it’s as easy as clicking a link. Each of these actions has an affect on the social network, but in what ways? Some actions trigger a notification, and some…
In the old days we didn’t call it “social communities”. We didn’t use our real names either. This is how I know men like to refer to themselves as “Stallion”. When I first cranked up my 9600 baud modem wired to the kitchen phone line, I chatted it up on AOL groups as “Dancing Thunder”. No matter how many mistakes I made or how newbie I sounded, I wasn’t about…
A common mistake made in the world of social media marketing is failing to share content at the right time for maximum exposure. It might seem like a small matter, but it can make a huge difference in everything from traffic to reposts. Those who manage to discover the best days and even hours to share see a significant growth in activity from their followers, and even manage to snare…
Not everything we post is going to be gold, no matter how much we wish it was. Just spelling or grammar errors can plague us when we are quickly updating, especially from mobile devices – which doesn’t even cover tweets done out of anger, thoughts we thought were profound but weren’t, accidental retweets, drunken tweets, accidental SMS updates…the list goes on. This has led to many people asking the same…
Let’s get this out of the way right away: when looking at Reddit versus Digg, Reddit clearly won. If you need proof of that, just look at the sale of the site in July 2012. If it had not ultimately failed, it wouldn’t have ended up having to be sold in the first place. Not that it wasn’t a highly influential site, just one that saw a major drop in…
The hashtag has become the symbol of a generation, and the face of the changing internet and social scene. Once nothing more than a means of putting tweets into groups while maintaining the unique (at the time) live update format, it has become something so much more. Including a means of adding context, emotion or significance to something on the web, along with about a dozen other things. Lately, I…
I see it almost weekly: A person is trying to tweet to a hashtag; yet his/ her tweets are not visible in search results? It may be Twitter ghost ban or a temporal flag; Twitter won’t tell you. Once in awhile, a legitimate account will end up being thrown onto a black list. This leads to a Twitter search block, usually while they investigate your account activity to verify its…
We keep discussing social media, blogging social media tips and trying to understand how to measure social media impact. Do we actually depend on it? That’s the question which is being discussed over at SEOchat forums. Let’s face it, we all depend on Google and we keep talking about learning NOT to depend on it (not to put all eggs in one basket). But are we any good at what…
This week’s Q&A is not actually a question. It’s nice tip on how to increase your Pinterest activity: Repin trending pins! SEOchat member DigitalDionne shared the tip in one of the threads: Step 1: Find Trending Pins in Your Niche Here are the two tools you can use to track trending pins: Repinly Repinly tracks popular pins, boards and users. The best part of the tool is that it allows…