Social Marketing

How to Create a Custom Facebook Fan Page | WordPress and Facebook Consultant | (Anti) Social Development

indigojhena@gmail.com (Indigo Fleming-Powers) — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 14:22:00 +0000

How to Create a Custom Facebook Fan Page | WordPress and Facebook Consultant | (Anti) Social Development: "I recently created a Facebook fan page for this website and my business. Prior to this I was sending business information through my personal Facebook page. While I still do this with my blog posts, my personal page contains too much goofiness, like links to new Monkey Island videos, to be considered professional. The fan page contains some of articles, reviews of my work and links of interest about WordPress and freelancing.

I learned quite a bit about Facebook while making the fan page and discovered some applications that are really useful."

You’re All Wrong!-> Buying Text Links From Offtopic, Irrelevant Sites Can Boost Rankings

indigojhena@gmail.com (Indigo Fleming-Powers) — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 14:40:00 +0000

You’re All Wrong!; Buying Text Links From Offtopic, Irrelevant Sites Can Boost Rankings: "“Paid links from off topic sites get devalued and flagged.” A common claim by otherwise savvy SEOs such as Ross Hudgens...The page is relevant, the readers are interested in the field… what more do you want?

Guys like Ross seem to think that if a site isn’t on your topic, then you don’t get any value. The reasoning is that their site is irrelevant, so the links are bogus.

That’s obviously wrong."

“The Basics” ~ HootSuite Info Sheet #1 | HootSuite blog - Social Media Dashboard

indigojhena@gmail.com (Indigo Fleming-Powers) — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 00:09:00 +0000

“The Basics” ~ HootSuite Info Sheet #1 | HootSuite blog - Social Media Dashboard: "Wondering how the HootSuite social media dashboard can help your business or organization engage with social networks and web conversations? Great! We can help.

Check out this first-in-a-series HootSuite Info Sheet called “The Basics” — a brief document explaining the core tools in HootSuite including tactics for spreading messages, monitoring conversations, collaborating with teams, and tracking results. Additionally, this document points out the integrated social networks, plus shares a few noteworthy clients and methods to get more help."

How to Get More Facebook Fans With Almost No Effort

indigojhena@gmail.com (Indigo Fleming-Powers) — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 23:12:00 +0000

How to Get More Facebook Fans With Almost No Effort: "Here’s the truth: social media marketing is difficult. Really difficult. If you’ve ever tried your hand at social media sites like Facebook, you’ll have already learned this. But all you have to do to learn how to get a leg up in your social media marketing strategy is read this article.
The most important thing you’ll need to know is that your campaign will be nothing without fans. It may sound simple, but Facebook fans are the fuel that moves a Facebook marketing campaign forward. Without them, you’ll have nothing."

Arielle Ford: Authors: Where to Focus Your Social Media Efforts

indigojhena@gmail.com (Indigo Fleming-Powers) — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 22:54:00 +0000

Arielle Ford: Authors: Where to Focus Your Social Media Efforts: "If you are like me, you love connecting with your Twitter and Facebook community and providing interesting and relevant information while trying not to offend your followers by overselling. But are we doing enough? Are we optimizing our efforts? Oy. Navigating through the social networking revolution can be overwhelming.

I recently spoke with David Turner, CEO of Boom Media to get a handle on where I should be focusing my efforts. David reaffirmed the concept that as authors, more than ever we have to go to where are customers are living. Here are the gems from our discussion."

Just posted at the end of July so VERY current—really important when discussing social media!

Blogger-Hints-and-Tips: Hiding "Subscribe to Post (Atom)" at the bottom of your blog

indigojhena@gmail.com (Indigo Fleming-Powers) — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 12:49:00 +0000

Blogger-Hints-and-Tips: Hiding "Subscribe to Post (Atom)" at the bottom of your blog: "This article explains how to remove the 'Subscribe to: Posts (Atom)' item that appears at the bottom of Blogger blogs with Layout or Designer templates."

How To Use HTML Meta Tags - Search Engine Watch (SEW)

indigojhena@gmail.com (Indigo Fleming-Powers) — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 12:48:00 +0000

How To Use HTML Meta Tags - Search Engine Watch (SEW): "Want to get a top ranking in search engines? No problem! All you need to do is add a few magical 'meta tags' to your web pages, and you'll skyrocket to the top of the listings.

If only it were so easy."

How to Remove the Nav Bar in Blogger | eHow.com

indigojhena@gmail.com (Indigo Fleming-Powers) — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 12:44:00 +0000

How to Remove the Nav Bar in Blogger | eHow.com: "Are you starting a blog? Are you thinking about starting a blog with Blogger? Have you ever visited Blogger web sites and seen the nav bar above each web site?

If you have, then you know that with it visitors to your web site can easily leave your site by clicking on the next blog. There is a way that will help to make your blog look like a regular web site, and not just another blog by getting rid of the nav bar, and it does not take any programming experience, and will not cause your blog to get deleted by Blogger."

Promote a Feed of your Site

indigojhena@gmail.com (Indigo Fleming-Powers) — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 01:55:00 +0000

Publicize :: Chicklet Chooser: "Promote your FeedBurner feed directly on your website! Place HTML that Chicklet Chooser automatically generates for you in your site templates to help users easily subscribe to your feed."

META Tags Generator

indigojhena@gmail.com (Indigo Fleming-Powers) — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 01:52:00 +0000

META Tags Generator: "A META Tag is the hidden text placed in the HEAD section of your HTML page. META Tags are used by most major search engines to index websites based on their keywords and descriptions. It is very important to use META Tags as well as a good TITLE if you expect to be found in most search engines. However, META Tags are not the only thing search engines will look at when ranking sites. Some search engines will ignore META Tags completely. Most search engines will also index your body text."

Website SEO Tool | Website Grader

indigojhena@gmail.com (Indigo Fleming-Powers) — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 01:49:00 +0000

Website SEO Tool | Website Grader: "How well is your website doing? Is it getting traffic? Does it have SEO problems? How popular is it in social media?

Find out the answers for free. Just enter your website URL and click Generate Report. We'll do the rest."

Wired 14.08: How To: Optimize Your Web Site

indigojhena@gmail.com (Indigo Fleming-Powers) — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 01:49:00 +0000

Wired 14.08: How To: Optimize Your Web Site: "David L. Sifry, founder and CEO of Technorati, keeps tabs on more than 45 million weblogs. Here's his advice for cracking his site's Top 100 list."

Setting Up A Flash Header In Blogger | Scud-V-Haze

indigojhena@gmail.com (Indigo Fleming-Powers) — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 01:47:00 +0000

Setting Up A Flash Header In Blogger | Scud-V-Haze: "Now there's a simple way to have a flash header without much tweaking of your template's HTML code."

The "robots" meta tag

indigojhena@gmail.com (Indigo Fleming-Powers) — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 01:45:00 +0000

The "robots" meta tag: "If your web host prohibits you from uploading 'robots.txt' to the root directory, or you simply wish to restrict crawlers from a few select pages on your site, an alternative to 'robots.txt' is to use the robots meta tag."

How do I add an "I Power Blogger" button to my template? - Blogger Help

indigojhena@gmail.com (Indigo Fleming-Powers) — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 01:41:00 +0000

How do I add an "I Power Blogger" button to my template? - Blogger Help:

"We have more buttons available too:
http://buttons.blogger.com/blogger-ipower-blue.gif
http://buttons.blogger.com/blogger-powerby-blue.gif
http://buttons.blogger.com/blogger-simple-blue.gif
http://buttons.blogger.com/blogger-simple-kahki.gif
http://buttons.blogger.com/blogger-simple-white.gif"

How do I use a custom domain name on my blog? - Blogger Help

indigojhena@gmail.com (Indigo Fleming-Powers) — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 01:31:00 +0000

How do I use a custom domain name on my blog? - Blogger Help: "ublishing on Blog*Spot is the fastest and easiest way to use all of Blogger's great features. (And for free, no less!) If you don't care to have blogspot.com in your blog's address, though, you can get a domain of your own. We'll continue to host all your content as before, but it will be displayed at your new address."

Automatically Add Blog Posts to Your Facebook Fan Page Wall | Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing

indigojhena@gmail.com (Indigo Fleming-Powers) — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 01:27:00 +0000

Automatically Add Blog Posts to Your Facebook Fan Page Wall | Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing: "One of the native Facebook apps is something called Notes. Notes has a number of interesting uses, but if you dig just a bit you’ll discover that you can add an RSS feed as a note. When you add the Notes application to your FanPage and add your blog’s RSS feed as a new note, Facebook adds a tab that is the name of your blog and automatically updates your wall stream with the latest blog posts."

JotForm: Easiest Form Builder

indigojhena@gmail.com (Indigo Fleming-Powers) — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 15:54:00 +0000

JotForm Easiest Form Builder

Brilliant tool! A great way to add a feedback form/gadget without knowing ANYTHING. And best of all, it's free!