Things to Know Before You Create a Facebook Fan Page
Before you create a Facebook fan page for your company here are some things to note of what “not to do”: Note: Create a Fan page not a Personal Profile Why: It is against Facebook’s rules. Personal Profiles are for real people not companies. If Facebook finds out about your fake Personal Profile there is a good chance they will delete it. Personal Profiles are also limited to 5000 “friends”. Note: Fix your profile picture’s thumbnail if it is offset Why: Make [...]
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Skype Video Chat with Friends on Facebook and More!
Today, Facebook unveiled some exciting new features to its over 750 million person user base. The biggest feature being unveiled is a video chat powered by Skype that lets Facebooker’s video chat with each other without ever leaving Facebook. To see how the Facebook video chat works, click on the link from Facebook below to watch the video which introduces Facebook’s new feature and then click the get started button to download the chat interface. Once downloaded your Facebook messaging system will [...]
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Schema.org – Structured Data for SEO
On June 1 Schema.org announced a 3 way partnership between Google, Yahoo and Bing to come together and provide a single collection of schemas that webmasters may use. You may be wondering what exactly a Schema is. Quoting Schema.org directly, they are “html tags that webmasters can use to markup their pages in ways recognized by major search providers”. Essentially this allows search engines to improve search results by allowing them to easier find what users are searching for. If multiple search [...]
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Google’s +1 Comparison to the Facebook Like
Google has just rolled out a new feature in their search, the Google Plus One. The idea behind the Plus One is to help other surfers find more popular and better results in Google’s search. When you click the Plus One you are making a live recommendation on a certain page, product, or pretty much anything you are viewing. After you have Plus 1’d something others will be able to see how many people have Plus 1’d a site and if you [...]
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Google April Fools 2011 Chromercise and more!
Google had a blast this year with the April Fools! As I’m not clever enough to get everyone with a great April Fools, here are some of this years brought to you by Google Enjoy! Google Autocompleters 2011 April Fools If you search with Google Instant turned on, you’ll see a new link at the bottom of the search suggestions stating “Google is hiring Autocompleters” click this link. Google Chrome 2011 April Fools Chromercise Google Gmail 2011 April Fools Gmail Motion Google [...]
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Is Facebook Important to a Business?
The World Is Obsessed With Facebook from Alex Trimpe on Vimeo. Is Facebook important for my business? Well, our team at Web Solutions of America believes so. The statistics prove it; Facebook is now a daily part of everyone’s lives. Not only is every demographic participating in Facebook, the stats are increasing year by year. Social Media is now a part of every company’s marketing campaign. Whether it is a company blog or a company Facebook page, businesses are building a presence [...]
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Google +1 and Social Media
Google has added another feature to its results pages that allow users to give a listing a “+1”. So if you’re searching for a product or service in the future, don’t be surprised to see a +1 as a sort of recommendation from someone you know. We’re not sure yet how strongly this will affect search results but we have a pretty good idea that there will be some impact. We have known for over a year that Google is using signals [...]
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How to use SEO
SEO or Search Engine Optimization is a form of online marketing. Having a website is a great start to making ones presence known online. A site without SEO is like a billboard in the middle of the north pole! SEO specialist help convert sites to help users find them. This is done through many different techniques. For our purposes, we will discuss “On-Site” and “Off-Site” SEO. Let’s discuss how to use SEO; On Site SEO consist of a number of elements. Let’s [...]
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Where Do I Start With Social Media?
With over 322 social networking web sites, according to the Wikipedia and not including blogs or forums, social media can be very overwhelming at first. If you’re a business just starting out in the social world you’re probably wondering where to start, and how it’s really possible to manage all of these social networking sites, especially for a smaller locally owned company with only a handful of employees. Many businesses will have their eyes set on reaching a large number of fans [...]
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Matt Cutts on Article Marketing
As Many SEO strategist know, article marketing has been one of many ways to get links. Many SEO strategist take part in Article marketing. Some more well known sites include Articlebase and EZineArticles. Both of which were hit by the Panda/Farmer Google update recently. Matt Cutts opinion on Article Marketing Matt Cutts received a question earlier this month in reference to article marketing for SEO purposes. He released a video with his answer on Article Marketing. Take a look at the following [...]
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