If you ever felt the desire to combine all your social media activity and display a Social Stream on your WordPress site, then you have to try the WordPress Social Stream plugin by designchemical. Display your activity in the following … Read More
I’m currently working on a redesign of my most popular website. Using a typical theme as a starting point, I’ve added custom graphics (thanks to a designer colleague) and header images, and I’m now at the stage of adding social … Read More
It must be said: Why Comments and Social Shares are Incredibly Overrated to Content Marketing Success
You might have a Twitter account, or perhaps a Facebook page, celebrating your WordPress website on those popular social networks, but how many followers do you have on each? Gaining traction in social networking means always finding new followers; you … Read More
In the past on MakeUseOf, we’ve chatted about Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest. These are – as you will no doubt be aware – powerful social networks, but there is another. Overlooking Google+ could prove extremely costly. While it isn’t the … Read More
Do you use Facebook plugins on your WordPress blog? Since the social network became all-pervading online, having some integration in a website or blog – whether a “Like” box or some other means of sharing content – has become pretty … Read More
You use WordPress – so why on earth would you consider using Tumblr? Surely Tumblr is a competitor platform? Well, yes it is – but it can also be used to drive traffic to your WordPress blog. While this might … Read More
Barely a day goes by without happening across a new blog and finding that the owner has littered the site – their public face on the web – with Twitter boxes, shout-out widgets and social networking buttons.
The intention, of course, is to enable promotion of the website by visitors who might find something useful and share it, perhaps on Facebook, Digg or a similar service. By displaying a Twitter box in the sidebar, the site owner hopes to impress upon visitors the notion of following the site on the popular microblogging service.
In most cases, however, using all of these services untempered usually results in a mish-mash, a blog that looks a mess and lacks focus. This can severely impact the image of the site.
The important thing to recognize is that you need to be careful not to overdo things. After all, you don’t know who is reading Read More …
You created a Facebook Page, a Twitter account, a Google + and probably a LinkedIn profile and a Tumblr too. Now you’re faced with an age old dilemma: How to stand out from the crowd Read More …
A run down of the recent changes being made to Google and how you can use them to your advantage. The Internet is buzzing about all of the new changes coming to Google search. Facebook, Twitter and dozens of other … Read More