Who is your perfect twitter partner? #twitter
If you are using social media for business you should be thinking strategically. Therefore think about who your perfect partner on twitter may be. It could a business that is aligned to yours or even one that just has the same target market. Obviously a partner is just that with mutual benefit for… [Continue Reading]
How is your #socialmedia garden growing?
What do you mean it’s not a garden? You get your seed beds all nice and weed free… you know what you want to grow… prepare the ground, dig it over, rake out the bits your don’t want and add some fertilizer or feed… Now are you a vegetable or a flower grower… or maybe… [Continue Reading]
Has #facebook lost the plot? Paid timeline popularity.
Forgive me for thinking that power of social media was in the hands of the people.. the engagement.. interaction.. public conversations that allow people to eavesdrop at ease and share what they like, dislike and recommend… and has facebook’s myriad timeline changes and tinkering not been to enhance the “customer experience“? So what the heck… [Continue Reading]
This is a great free social media management tool #socialmedia
I often hear “But I don’t have time to do anything”… really? Or are you just not using the time you have well. You can always find time to have a cup of tea or other habits you use on a daily basis… so get in the habit of planning your social media strategy.… [Continue Reading]
#LinkedIn Training Buckinghamshire & Oxfordshire
Serious social media tools are powerful in the right hands… are they yours? LinkedIn Training Workshop Tuesday 9th February 2012, 9.30am-1pm Get ready to learn: How to optimise your LinkedIn Profile to be seen on page 1 Why you should ask for recommendations What other applications you can add to your profile Where your target market… [Continue Reading]
Beware of bloggers.. or how #socialmedia has serious influence #biz2012
I blogged about what was billed as a big business event in London headlined by some serious speakers like Sir Richard Branson and Lord Sugar… because it was not what it said on the tin… the response was astonishing, over 1100 hits overnight and 30 comments registered. So why was it so powerful? Well naturally… [Continue Reading]
How is your #socialmedia garden growing?
What do you mean it’s not a garden? You get your seed beds all nice and weed free… you know what you want to grow… prepare the ground, dig it over, rake out the bits your don’t want and add some fertilizer or feed… Now are you a vegetable or a flower grower… or maybe… [Continue Reading]
New Year’s resolution…. Get your accounts organised…
It’s very easy not to be organised… but actually with a little and often approach to your accounts you can be on top of everything in your business and this free accounts package is available on line to help you get to grips with it. It has a quotation facility as well as invoicing and… [Continue Reading]
Testimonials
It is always appreciated when customers tell you what they have got out of your work and this is a very rewarding world. These are just a few of the testimonials received at The Social Media Cafe. Angus Grady “Amanda and The Social Media Cafe have had an enormous positive impact on our business. The training… [Continue Reading]
#LinkedIn Training Buckinghamshire & Oxfordshire
Serious social media tools are powerful in the right hands… are they yours? LinkedIn Training Workshop Tuesday 9th February 2012, 9.30am-1pm Get ready to learn: How to optimise your LinkedIn Profile to be seen on page 1 Why you should ask for recommendations What other applications you can add to your profile Where your target market… [Continue Reading]
You know your blog has made it when you have to schedule spam removal! #blogging
Yes back links are very useful, but only when linked to relevant pages… and does it look like I sell suits or left handed products…? I am really not going to allow that kind of comment from a completely random site to even hit my pages… and most people have a basic spam filter don’t they? If you don’t you should. Think of it as your shop window.. do you want graffiti all over it? Of course you don’t…
So when wordpress emails you to say there are comments on your blog either take a quick look and approve, disapprove or spam filter them on the email or click in to your site and dust some cobwebs off.
Whilst you are there why not check out your theme and give it a summer dusting too… there are loads of really hot themes out there that make your site shine or why not see if there are any cool plugins to enhance your wordpress experience.
Now if you haven’t added a spam filter you should, the most used one is probably Akismet and it is free for personal use or a sliding scale for business use.. you decide what to pay via paypal.
As creatures of habit it is easy for us to slip in to both good and bad ones… so why not make a regular slot for checking your wordpress blog is clean and spam free? It is a simple and almost painless process if done regularly…. actually why not also do a search for similar sites and comment on some of the content so that there are backlinks to your stuff… if they have added the comment luv plugin it will find one of your posts and add a link under your words of wisdom… but don’t go spamming the world and leave random messages about completely unrelated stuff on other people’s blogs… it’s just not cricket… and if you are removing a lot of spam comments… it means your site is being seen, so is it the end of the world to ensure it is shipshape and spam free?
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