Ileane

I'm a blogger, podcaster, YouTuber and social media diva (or Social Media Veteran if you like the way that sounds better). True story: I started blogging by accident when I actually thought I was "subscribing" to my daughter Nicole's first blog. Since then I'm committed to helping others avoid all the mistakes I've made along the way. Get one-on-one coaching and exclusive perks when you join my community on Patreon!

Lujure Apps

How to Build Facebook Page Timeline Apps with Lujure

100 Comments / Social Media, Tech / /

During the evolution of Facebook pages, about a year ago, Facebook did away with the FBML tabs and everyone moved over to using to the more popular iFrame tabs. Lujure has a nifty iFrame widget, which is the one everyone “oohed and aahed” over in Amy Porterfield’s webinar (including your’s truly). Lujure’s iFrame app is one of my favorites because you can drag an entire web page right into your Facebook Page with the iFrame. It’s so easy to build an application with the iFrame widget, by simply adding the URL to the wigdet and dragging the frame to fit the page. Sounds super awesome right! You can build a page in less than 60 seconds flat. No kidding and absolutely NO CODING involved…continue reading…

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Joost De Valk

Blogger Interview: Joost de Valk aka Yoast

66 Comments / Blogger Interviews, Blogging Tutorials / /

In this installment of the blogger interviews series, I have the chance to introduce to you to Joost De Valk aka Yoast. We chat about WordPress, plugin development, SEO, blogging conferences, social media and more. He also give us an insider tip about what might be coming to the next version of WordPress.…continue reading…

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Blog maintenance

My Routine for Blog Maintenance on Basic Blog Tips

147 Comments / Blogging Tutorials / /

My blog maintenance routine is basically a proactive approach to avoid problems with my blog before they ever happen. As most of the community here knows, Basic Blog Tips is a very active blog with loads of fresh content, attractive high-quality images and plenty of social sharing options to choose from. I always try to limit the number of plugins that I install on the blog but there’s always a new one that comes along that it seems like I can’t live without. When the blog seems to lag and perform poorly or if something isn’t working as it should, I can usually hone in on the problem. Here’s what I’m doing to keep things running as smoothly as possible.…continue reading…

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Three Ways to Find Incoming Links for Free

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It’s important for us to have incoming links from around the internet coming back to our blogs and websites. Google and the other search engines use this as a barometer to measure the importance and value of our content. As time goes by, and we start to accumulate more and more quality incoming links we’ll see a direct correlation to the rise in the amount of traffic coming to our sites from Google as well as the other search engines. In this video you’ll see 3 free resources that you can use on a daily basis to check on your incoming links …continue reading…

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Marcie Hill The Write Design

Blogger Interview: Marcie Hill of The Write Design

39 Comments / Blogger Interviews, Blogging Tutorials / /

Marcie Hill from The Write Design Company is a prolific writer and live blogger. For those of you who are curious about what live blogging is, check out Marcie’s guest post where she gives us Quick Lessons in Live Blogging. I was introduced to Marcie during the Small Business Influencers Awards in 2011 and we have been Twitter buds ever since. I jumped at the opportunity to interview her and gain more insights into her expertise in freelancing, writing and of course to learn even more about the process of live blogging…continue reading…

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The Ms. Ileane Speaks Podcast

My Podcasting Gear and the Ms. Ileane Speaks Podcast is Now on iTunes

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One crucial component to starting a podcast that cannot be overlooked, is getting the right podcasting gear. You might find podcasting gear to be one of the most fascinating and down-right fun aspects of the whole concept of podcasting. And just like anything else you can take the high road and make a huge investment or you can try to do it on the cheap. I started out using a really cheap headset microphone that picked up tons of background noise and hum. I ended up somewhere in the middle of the road with a USB mic from Samson.

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