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How Facebook Timeline is used to Promote Your Blog

Brianne Walter — Thu, 10 May 2012 01:45:33 +0000

Facebook is the most successful social media website to date, which keeps everyone engaged. Now, when we are addicted to social media, accepting changes become a little difficult. Facebook underwent a number of changes, and Timeline for Pages is the best. Therefore, if you are a blogger this feature is particularly useful to you to promote your content. There are greater chances that you need to learn timeline inside out and use it to your advantage. It is much easier if you know every component and use it to the advantage of your blog marketing campaign.

The intent of Timeline is to present a life history of yours in a way. On Timeline, you can post all the important events of your life, and even highlight some of the important events and hide others. If all of these sound confusing to you and you have no clue why timeline is important, then you need to keep reading.

Publishing Blog Posts

Timeline has numerous ways, which will make your content most compelling to most of the people. You need to begin by adding a “star” to it. When you publish a story on your Facebook Timeline, your page should give your visitors with numerous options to browse through your account. One of the best ways to do this is use highlighted content. When you mark this content with a star, this post becomes the most important blog post and will have an extended exposure.

Then again, you can also try pinning your blog post to the top of your Timeline. This way you make sure that, your post is visible to every reader who visits your page. When you pin a story, the width doubles and remains at the top of the page for the next seven days. After seven days, the post will appear as a regular post on the Timeline chronological update.

Cover Photo

Just like, you have a header for your blog or website, Timeline has a cover photo and is big enough to catch the eye of your visitors. The cover page appears at the top of your page. No matter what picture you are using, it should be able to debrief your fans what your blog is all about! Make sure that you use an image, which will make your page stand out, and also engage your followers for a couple of seconds.

Milestones

Facebook Timeline has a feature named Milestones. This feature enables the page owners to display their achievements and development of a brand through the years. A blog owner can utilize this to show off the numerous awards and laurels that they have received or any blogging events that they joined. Milestones allow you to speak your mind and also build a strong connection between your visitors and your content.

Timeline Apps

Facebook Timeline gives wonderful exposure of your apps as well. The apps are displayed as thumbnail images right beneath the cover image. The first apps will direct your fans to the images that you have uploaded on the page. You can use the next three tabs for other important things like your videos, contests, special offers and even your online store. The new Facebook Page lets you create up to 12 apps.

Timeline for Pages is not an optional choice, and bloggers can use their Facebook Page timeline for marketing purpose. However, this is one forced opportunity that escalates blog marketing to a completely new height. All you will need to do is learn and experiment with the Timeline and discover new ways how you can use it for your advantage.

Brianne Walter

Brianne is a blogger by profession. She loves writing on technology and luxury. Beside this she is fond of books. Recently an article on Toyota Etios Liva attracted her attention. These days she is busy in writing an article on Samsung C3530.

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Should you buy followers on Facebook and Twitter?

Sarah Rexman — Sun, 22 Apr 2012 22:56:13 +0000

Social networks are powerful tools for promoting your brand and attracting new readers for your blog or customers for your products. But if you have no followers, you have no audience, and your presence has no impact.

Building a large following on social networks like Twitter and Facebook take time, just like building the subscribers on your blog. However, shortcuts exist. If you want to grow your list of followers in a hurry, you can do so with just the click of a mouse — and a few dollars.

Hundreds and thousands of followers can be purchased on a number of sites for a relatively small amount of money. The question is: Should you buy them? Does purchasing followers actually help your social media strategy? Here are some of the pros and cons of buying followers for your Facebook and Twitter profiles:

Pros

You Appear In Demand

Social media is all about popularity. Who has the most followers? Who has the most likes? Who has the most retweets? If you have a large following, you will seem more popular to other users, and they may feel more compelled to also follow you. Like breeds like.

If nothing else, a large following makes other users notice you. When you have thousands of followers, other users have to ask, “What’s all the fuss about?”

You Increase Your Ranking

Google also notices your popularity — as do Twitter and Facebook. The more followers you have, the higher you appear in search results for Google, Twitter, and Facebook. Whenever someone searches for terms related to your product or service, they are more likely to stumble on to your page.

You Expand Your Network

Even if your followers aren’t real, their followers may be. The more people who follow you — real or fake — the greater your network and the further your reach. Followers of followers may discover your page or your posts and lead back to your products or services, leading to greater conversion rates.

Cons

Your Audience Isn’t Targeted

When you pay for people to follow you, you aren’t also paying for them to care. You only know one thing about your audience: They like getting money to do simple things. You don’t know how old they are. You don’t know what kind of products they like. You don’t know any of their interests. Therefore, you don’t know whether they have any interest in your product or service.

Seeing conversion from purchased followers is unlikely. Any conversion you do get is likely a result of coincidence.

They Aren’t “Real”

When you buy followers, you don’t know how many of them are real profiles for real people and how many of them are dummy profiles. If they are dummy profiles, they are likely not connected to anyone else, limiting the reach of your network and your potential to leverage search results.

You Risk Negative Exposure

If any of your followers are real, they may be tempted to try to connect with the other paid followers through your Facebook wall or Twitter feed. For example, they may ask “Who else here is a paid follower?” or “What other profiles are looking for paid followers?” Any comments like this could expose you to the real followers you have earned and embarrass you.

Whether or not to purchase followers is a controversial issue that usually comes down to personal preference and overall brand strategy. If you are just starting out and are struggling to attract new followers, then purchasing a few to give your profile a jump start may be helpful. However, you should be careful not to fill your profile with fake followers, thereby defeating the true purpose of your social media presence, which is to increase your conversion rates.

Sarah Rexman

Sarah Rexman is the main researcher and writer for BedBugs.org. Her most recent accomplishment includes graduating from Florida State, with a master’s degree in environmental science. Her main focus for the bedbug site involves teaching clients all of the steps involved in bedbug extermination.

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Free Social Media Icon Pack

Derek Dirks — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 15:31:17 +0000

DesignModo recently released another fantastic set of social media icons. The set consists of 34 high quality icons in transparency PNG format (32px, 64px sizes) and CSS3 (32px, 64px sizes). They come with 8 variations:

CSS3:

32px icons with shadow
32px icons without shadow
64px icons with shadow
64px icons without shadow

PNG:

32px icons with shadow
32px icons without shadow
64px icons with shadow
64px icons without shadow

Icons (Full Pack):Blogger, Delicious, Designbumb, Designfloat, Designmoo, Deviantart, Digg, Dribbble, Drupal, Facebook, Forrst, Foursquare, Flickr Friendfeed, Gmail, Google, Google+ (4 versions), HTML5, ICQ, LastFm, LinkedIn, PayPal, Picasa, Pinterest, Reddit, RSS (Feed), Skype, Stumbleupon, Technorati, Tumblr, Twitter (2 versions), Vimeo, WordPress, Yahoo, YouTube.

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Derek Dirks

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Just Another Reason Why Quality Rules Over Quantity With Followers

Derek Dirks — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 16:51:06 +0000

Not to hate on people with a large number of following, because I have quite a few myself, but apparently you cannot maintain a good relationship outside 150 people. Yes, this has been covered in the Mashable article Your Brain Can’t Handle Your Facebook Friends.

Where did the number of 150 come from? It is from Dunbar’s number. Dunbar’s number, according to Wikipedia:

Dunbar’s number is a theoretical cognitive limit to the number of people with whom one can maintain stable social relationships. These are relationships in which an individual knows who each person is, and how each person relates to every other person. Proponents assert that numbers larger than this generally require more restricted rules, laws, and enforced norms to maintain a stable, cohesive group. No precise value has been proposed for Dunbar’s number, but a commonly cited approximation is 150.

Continued…

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Derek Dirks

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Web Elite Snobbery: Why It May Hurt You in Social Media

Derek Dirks — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 17:10:44 +0000

The “web elite snobbery” is really a loose term. When I mean web elite, I mean the following:

1. Those who have high standards when viewing websites and eagerly badmouth those who do not meet them
2. Those who have no idea that the Internet exists beyond their circle and this limits their topics
3. Those who profess to connect successfully in the social network crowds, yet fail to connect with those who they might learn more from as well as share their own knowledge.

Social Media is the ability to push your content out to the masses successfully. Successfully? – You might ask. Well, it means being able to influence others in an understandable way and allow those you connect with to learn and share with others. There are no secrets. You can read any book out there that has not been said already online – THIS IS A FACT!

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Derek Dirks

Website Coordinator, SEO Specialist, "Professional" Photographer, husband. These are a few of the things that make up me.

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Facebook Feed Changes, Eliciting Negative Feedback

Derek Dirks — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 16:55:01 +0000

Recently Facebook rolled out their new feeds, yep, feeds as in more than 1. One is the Live Feed which is somewhat like the old stream except you are informed of your friends following others and what they became a friend of. The other is the News Feed that publishes popular posts, at least for your viewing pleasure.

Other Changes:
1. Also, the Status update fix, which apparently does not work and supposedly allows you to restore your Facebook page to its older settings and look. Instead you are telling Facebook on only display status updates that include anything BUT photos, links, videos, and applications.
2. More than 250 friends and Facebook basically chooses who THEY think you might want to listen to.

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Derek Dirks

Website Coordinator, SEO Specialist, "Professional" Photographer, husband. These are a few of the things that make up me.

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Icon Buffet: A Smorgasbord of Icons for Download

Derek Dirks — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 16:45:03 +0000

I was surfing and came upon Icon Buffet. Of course, with the name, I thought it was going to be some cutsy site, but it was not. The site is chock full of icons in several varieties and they are all free.

Funny story though, they use to sell their icons, but according to Icon Buffet’s about page, they turned around and decided to offer all of their icons

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Derek Dirks

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Gaming the Twitter system… or how not to market on Twitter

Derek Dirks — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 16:56:59 +0000

There are ways to market yourself on Twitter and to market your brand. My preference as a user of Twitter is if I mention a brand, they comment at me. I don’t necessarily want them to follow me with me following them in return. My comment is probably a one off and I likely won’t mention them again. There is no reason to watch me. There is no reason for me to follow them unless I want to get marketed at.

I don’t want random brands commenting at me using @ replies. There was some spammer who was @ replying to lots and lots of people with info on their Blackberry application. The problem? I’ve never mentioned Blackberry on Twitter and I don’t own a Blackberry. That’s really annoying and Twitter should really crack down on those more.

The one that also annoys me is the brand, personal and business, gaming for followers. The most recent one I’ve run across is EcoInteractive.

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Fan fiction, social media & chasing the numbers with quality content (Hint: Doesn’t matter)

Derek Dirks — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 16:53:11 +0000

Fan fiction in this case isn’t about numbers, or so many people suggest. Social media is. But social media shouldn’t be about numbers. Social media should be about having quality conversations where there is some return that you can measure from that, so numbers shouldn’t matter that much. And the fan fiction community might say it isn’t about numbers but lots of people obsess about the number of readers they have and how they can improve those numbers…

… and the quest in both social media and the fan fiction community is often characterized by that chase for numbers. The goal is to increase your metrics. More readers. More followers.

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Social Bookmarking and its Importance

Derek Dirks — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 16:37:19 +0000

Social bookmarking is defined as:

Social bookmarking is a method for Internet users to store, organize, search, and manage bookmarks of web pages on the Internet with the help of metadata.

taken from Wikipedia

The idea of Social bookmarking is to share plugworthy material with the public whether is it links to pages, links to pictures, links to music and more. Social bookmarking sites like Digg, StumbleUpon, and Delicious (aka Del.icio.us) allow internet users to receive the traffic they need by submitting their sites to the proper categories related to their post and seek out others with similar interests.

Benefits of social bookmarking:

* More traffic
* More links directing to the site/ post/ page
* Ability to find out more on same subject
* Ability to actively bookmark other websites you enjoy

In using social bookmarking, it is somewhat like a super link exchange…

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Derek Dirks

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