Pinterest can be a great venue for marketing your business, but like all other marketing efforts it is important to know if your hard work is paying off. Does anyone even care about pins from your website? How many people have seen your pins? Is your website generating any traffic from Pinterest? If you are… [Read More]
8 Quick SEO Tips You Can Use to Fuel Your Website
A website without SEO is like a car without gas. You could have the most amazing car but without fuel it will just sit in your garage collecting dust. The same goes for your website, your awesome website will be no use to you if you don’t get any traffic – and for traffic you… [Read More]
How to Add Author Images and Comment Images (Avatars) to your Blog
Ever wonder how to get those cool avatars to display on your WordPress blog, either as author images or in your comments? I always recommend that clients use Gravatar. What is Gravatar you may ask? Gravatar is a service that lets blogs display user provided pictures from a central database. Basically when users sign up… [Read More]
How to Find Out Who Likes Your Facebook Page
Facebook is a like a living organism constantly changing and adapting. The company philosophy on change is evident in one of their internal slogans, “Move Fast and Break Things.” Nothing stands in the way of progress… but what does that mean for users like us? It means we have to constantly relearn how to do… [Read More]
How to Use Hash Tags on Twitter
If you are active on Twitter you have probably seen hash tags … but are you using them? Hash tags are a keyword or keyword phrase that is preceded by the pound sign. For example, #socialmedia or #tipoftheday. Hash tags are used to organize and share your tweets with other Twitter users. Many users use… [Read More]
WordPress: How to Resize the Text Editing Box
The default size of the text editing box for WordPress posts and pages can be rather small making it difficult to see and edit your text. There are two ways to increase this box; one can be done on the fly and the other changes the default size. Change the Text box on the fly…. [Read More]
How to Add a Facebook Send Button to Your Website or WordPress Blog
Facebook just released new share/connect functionality in the form of Send Button. The send button enables your site visitors to send your content directly to their friends as a private message. Unlike the share and like buttons, which post to a users wall, the send message may be more effective as it targets individuals or… [Read More]
How to Set Up a Personalized Facebook Username / URL
Finally Get Rid of Those Crazy Long Facebook Page URL’s In June 2009, Facebook introduced vanity URL’s (usernames) also called short urls or personalized URL’s for both your individual profile and for fan pages. When facebook usernames were first released there was a lot of promotion about the change and people rushed to get their… [Read More]
Adding You Tube Videos to WordPress 2.9 +
In the past adding videos to your WordPress blog could be tough. You needed to install a plugin and often had to mess around with the YouTube code. If you have upgraded to the most recent version of WordPress, it is now much easier. You can simply paste the embed code right into the “HTML”… [Read More]
How to Grow Your Mailing List with your Facebook Fan Page.
Internet marketers are always looking for new ways to build or grow their mailing lists and your Facebook Fan page can be one more way to develop a steady stream of new subscribers. Adding your subscriber opt-in box and to your Fanpage is super easy.
