Posting a blog isn’t as simple as writing your content and hitting the publish button, there are many other things to keep in mind if you want your post to reach as many readers as possible. How the search engines will index your post, how social media services will display your post, and other features, like categorizing and tagging, are just some of the ways to help potential visitors find your content. (Read more…)
Last week, I attended the Learn With Google For Publishers day-event in Los Angeles put on by the Adsense team. I had previously attended 2 Adsense In Your City events and found them to be useful, mainly the 20 minute sit-down given by a Google representative to look through and optimize my site. However, I felt like these previous events just touched on the basics and was hoping to get more tips and insight into the Adsense system. (Read more…)
Facebook has been collecting information about its users, their businesses, their likes, and their social connections for years and the mounds of data they have accumulated are about to be put to use with Graph Search. (Read more…)
Version 3.5 of WordPress launched today and it includes several new features, the biggest of which are changes to the Media Library. Here is a brief video summarizing some of the new features:
While the Google+ social network doesn’t currently have the popularity that Facebook and Twitter do, there are still many good reasons to setup your business’ page, especially with Google’s search results giving more prominence to Google+ Pages. Part of optimizing your Google+ page is making sure you use appropriately sized graphics. The 2 key graphics to be added and their image dimensions are: (Read more…)
Creating a Custom Tab for your business is fairly easy, the difficult part is setting it up in Facebook, getting through their documentation and screen settings, and ensuring you have the minimum requirements. The Custom Tab appears on the Facebook page as a small thumbnail graphic and can be used for a variety of things like display custom content, scripts that import RSS feeds, Forms, or just about anything.
I created an Enewsletter Signup Form as a Tab on this Facebook Page.
One of the new features in WordPress 3.4 is that you can add images to the header of your site through the Admin area. This is a feature that should have been added many versions ago and has always required a plugin or use of Custom Fields. (Read more…)
Avoid duplicate content on your website at all costs or risk being heavily penalized by search engines like Google, or even blacklisted and completely removed from the search engine’s index. This means don’t copy content from another website and put it on your own and try to avoid putting the exact same content on multiple pages on your website. (Read more…)
On March 30, 2012, all Facebook Pages changes to the new Timeline format. The new look and feel changes your Page considerably but it gives you the option of adding in a Canvas Photo to the top of your Page to attract more attention and customize the look of your page. To help you prepare, we have listed the photo dimensions for the Canvas Photo and your Facebook Icon below:
Branding your company’s Twitter page can easily be done by simply adding a background image to your Twitter Account in the Settings. However, getting the dimensions right so it displays nicely can be tricky, especially with all the different screen sizes and mobile devices being used online today. (Read more…)
