Social Media

Social media articles focused on popular sites like Twitter, Google Buzz and YouTube.

How To Get More Than 140 Characters In Tweets With Twitter Cards

Twitter is one of the world’s biggest social networks and it’s a powerful platform that can be leveraged to send your blog a lot of highly targeted traffic. But there’s always been a limitation of using only 140 characters in your Tweets. The 140 character limit doesn’t give enough of the space we often need to promote our blog posts. You can only enter a line or two and a link to promote your content. We are allowed a lot more characters for Facebook, and Google+, to share a longer snippet of our content which provides a lot more information to our potential readers. Twitter users have needed more space for a long time and now Twitter has finally responded by introducing Twitter Cards.

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Facebook vs Google Plus

Google Plus vs Facebook: Choosing Your Target Audience

I want to share with you today about choosing the correct target audience between the users on Facebook and Google+.I am the owner of That Gaming Critic. My niche would be somewhere along the lines of electronics and gaming. I’ve been trying to find where my correct target audience hangs out on different social media networks. I wanted to find out what types of people are using these social media platforms and how I can benefit my business by gearing my time by focusing on one platform.

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Dominate Search For Your Name

How to Dominate the Search Results for Your Name

If you go to the search engine and type in your personal name what are you going to find? Hopefully a ton of results for YOU and your site properties. Of course this might be easier said than done depending on what your name is. If you have the same name as a celebrity or other well known figure it might not be so easy, but you still want to rank as much as you can.

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The Right Social Network

Hey Bloggers – Are You in the Right Social Network?

Social networking is no different from the offline networking. All of us have done, or are still doing, offline networking – it’s just that we never call it networking. It had always been like being with a bunch of friends! Be it the old school times, or high school friends circle, your co-workers, the neighborhood and so on. The very same principles do apply with online social media as well; we just need to figure it out based on our needs and tastes.

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Why Your Blog Needs Google +1s and How to Get Them

Most of us know that link building has played a major part of search engine optimization for many years. The truth is though, that we need to understand that they aren’t as important as they used to be. In fact, according to the study, they are now on a par with other social signals such as Facebook shares and comments. Google +1’s are NOT just a margin ahead of other social channels when it comes to importance, they are quite a leap ahead!

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RebelMouse Proves What A Social Front Page Can Do For You

RebelMouse works hard so you don’t have to. This is how to use RebelMouse. It’s a great place to showcase all of your blog posts and social shares. You may also curate more content right on the RebelMouse dashboard. You may tweet or share the content right from inside of RebelMouse. Overall, they make it very easy for you to use RebelMouse. They have just celebrated their 1st anniversary back in April.

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Review of WP Facebook Open Graph Plugin For WordPress

You probably don’t need convincing that posts with images stand out more than those without images. This little bit of eye candy can mean the difference between your post standing out on a social site like Facebook or getting lost in the crowd. You may have noticed sometimes when pasting a link into a Facebook post that Facebook will automatically grab an image, title and description from your link. This little bit of behind the scenes work that Facebook does helps your post stand out by displaying visual elements such as an image and bolded title. If your blog has the meta data Facebook is looking for, any blog link pasted from your site will look great on Facebook.

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