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I'm Sue Sutcliffe, the web coach, and today, I want to introduce you to Pinterest -- the social climber of social media platforms. Pinterest is a v...
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I'm Sue Sutcliffe, the web coach, and today, I want to introduce you to Pinterest -- the social climber of social media platforms. Pinterest is a virtual bulletin or "pin" board, allowing the online collection, curation and sharing of images. You can:
- Categorize pinboards and create themes.
- Play with the colour scheme for your home décor plans.
- Organize recipes.
- Enshrine your hometown team.
and you're free to manage as many boards as you'd like.
Brands beware!
Pinterest is not about shameless self-promotion, so make sure your boards provide content rather than advertising. This is a platform that wants you to get creative and with Pinterest's impressive statistics, why wouldn't you? New statistics, recently released Shareaholic, reveal that Pinterest now drives more referral traffic than YouTube, Reddit and Google+ and is pushing up the rankings to drive almost as much referral traffic as Twitter and Google! Unique visitors to Pinterest increased 429% between September and December 2011
Ready to get started?
Pinterest is exclusive these days, so you'll need to score an invite from a friend or join the waiting list and request an invite directly from Pinterest. In the meantime, check out some pinboards already posted including mine at www.pinterest.com/suesutcliffe , scope out some inspiration, then pin up your mark on this game-changing new platform! Hope you liked this quick and easy social media tip. Please take a moment to share with your friends and/or add a commment. Would love to hear your feedback!
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Today I'm sharing a two-click fix to Facebook Timeline's privacy pitfalls.
With Facebook Timeline on its way for everyone, there's been lots of anx...
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Today I'm sharing a two-click fix to Facebook Timeline's privacy pitfalls.
With Facebook Timeline on its way for everyone, there's been lots of anxiety over some of its privacy loopholes. A chain message has been making its way across Facebook walls. Essentially, it asks everyone on your contact list to hover over your name and unsubscribe from their "Comments and Likes." According to the message, this will prevent your posts from showing up in your friends' sidebars and keep hackers at bay.
Not only does this sound like an awful lot of work -- it doesn't actually solve the privacy problems! Even if you unsubscribe from every friend's comments and likes, it only hides these updates from you. All that information is still broadcast to the world at large.
If you want to keep you statuses, likes and comments more private, it's an easy two-click fix. First, click on the arrow next to your name in the top-right-hand corner of Facebook. Select "Privacy Settings" from the dropdown list. Then, simply set your default privacy setting to "Friends." Now, only your friends see your posts and activities on Facebook.
Want even more privacy? Set the default to "Only Me" and keep your info out of Timeline's ticker feed. Remember: if you set your default to "Only Me," you'll need to change the individual privacy setting on every post (picture uploads, status updates and more).
Sure hope you enjoyed today's social media tip and would love for you to add a comment below and share this video with your friends. For more social media tips and tricks, visit www.AWEBthatWORKS.com.
This is Sue Sutcliffe, The Web Coach Signing off!
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"Share" this. "Like" that. The Internet is atwitter with ways to endorse your favourite businesses, posts, products and service...
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"Share" this. "Like" that. The Internet is atwitter with ways to endorse your favourite businesses, posts, products and services. Half of the world's top 10,000 websites link to Facebook or Twitter on their homepage. Does
yours?
I'm Sue Sutcliffe and today, we're talking buttons.
Read this post. Buy this product. Shop here. Trust this company. Why let people push your buttons? Because it's word-of-mouth marketing on an Internet-wide scale. Instead of reaching out in one-on-one conversations, they're dispatching their recommendations in a one-click, real-time post to everyone in their social media network, without even leaving your website or blog.
Let's put that into perspective. Facebook has 845 million active users. The average user is connected to 130 friends and 80 pages, groups and events. Users share 3.5 billion pieces of content per week. That's a lot of word-of-mouth. All the research shows that these engaged and button-pushing visitors view more pages, stay longer and return more frequently. Referral traffic goes up. So does revenue.
How can you get "buttoned up"? Easy: social plugins. These free, easy-to-use nuggets of coding can perform a variety of functions, from adding users and sharing links or posts, to importing your blog feed, posting comments and embedding slideshows and YouTube videos. Generate the code using a straightforward fill-in-the-blanks creation app. It's a quick, economical task for your webmaster or a do-it-yourself job for the tech-savvy.
Social-media-savvy surfers like pushing buttons. To get them pushing yours, keep these tips in mind.
• Know your target audience. Facebook and Twitter are social media frontrunners, with Google+ gaining fast, but your fans may congregate at YouTube, LinkedIn or another platform.
• Keep it simple. Three buttons or less is optimal.
• Locate your buttons prominently at the top of the page. If posts are long, use a "floating" button bar, or add a button to both top and bottom.
Who's got the button?
Facebook wins the popularity contests with its ubiquitous "Like" buttons. Twitter's all about the rapid share, broadcasting a quick "check this out!" New to the scene, the popularity of Google+'s +1 button allows an easy thumbs up and displays your +1 ranking in search results.
Check out the notes under this video for information on where to find button plugins for Facebook, Twitter, Google+ and more, and button up that website!
• Facebook: developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins
• Twitter: twitter.com/about/resources/tweetbutton
• Google+: www.google.com/webmasters/+1/button/index.html
• LinkedIn: developer.linkedin.com/plugins
• AddThis: www.addthis.com
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