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Why Most Social Media Widgets Will Break Your Heart
by, Claire Webber
July 16, 2013
social media heartbreak twitter

There was no warning for the average writer when their WordPress Twitter widgets went silent on June 11th, 2013. Suddenly, all their posts and retweets disappeared from their website. Their engagement went haywire as tweets no longer seamlessly streamed into sidebars, and footers, and landing pages. The developers knew what was coming – Twitter was updating their API (Application Programming Interface) from v1 to v1.1…. [Read More]

Filed Under: Facebook, plugins, Twitter, widgets, WordPress
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Connecting your Facebook Business Page with your Personal Profile Timeline
by, Claire Webber
July 14, 2012

If you’re an author on Facebook, you’ve certainly noticed that your personal timeline and your page exist as two seperate entities – at least on Facebook, your ‘Author-Self’ and ‘Everything-Else-Self’ are as divided as the North and South Poles. It’s not even possible to write on your own personal timeline; you can only communicate with other business pages directly. What’s a well-connected and sociable author to… [Read More]

Filed Under: agents, audience, author platform, Authors, blogging, Blogs, Facebook, internet, marketing strategy, Social Media, social media metrics, Social Media networks, widgets, WordPress
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It’s Time to Data Mine – Installing Google Analytics
by, Claire Webber
May 12, 2012

Much of the labor of creating a snappy and engaging blog is visible to the outside world – your carefully crafted content, your punctual updates, your original style and creative voice… But under all of that outward cultivation lies a rushing river of information, a spring of data that you need to tap.  Who is visiting your site? How long are they staying? How did they get… [Read More]

Filed Under: analytics, Blogs, data generation, data mining, Google Analytics, google analytics tutorial, jumpinsites, search engine optimization, SEO, social media metrics, tutorial, widgets, WordPress
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Social Media for Authors: What is a blogroll?
by, Jill Swenson
January 14, 2012

In WordPress, the Blogroll is a widget that appears in a side column on your blog page. How does a blogroll work? It provides a list of links to blogs (or other websites) you think your readers might be interested in. A blogroll is your personal endorsement of websites – the places you recommend someone visit for related content. To add a blogroll to your… [Read More]

Filed Under: audience building, blogosphere, blogroll, Blogs, connectivity, Golden Rule, letters, links, network, sidebar, themes, virtual endorsement, widgets
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Social Media for Authors: Baby Step 7
by, Jill Swenson
January 7, 2012

Are you ready to pick a WordPress theme for your new website and blog? If you’ve been following our Saturday social media for authors blog series and completed the first six “baby steps”, you already have a domain name, webhost, and content management system ready to go. Hopefully you’ve found time over the holidays to do a bit of window shopping and figured out how… [Read More]

Filed Under: 2012 workshop, Atahualpa, Buffalo Street Books, choosing themes, Coraline, Delicate, free WordPress themes, Graphene, Magazine Theme, Matisse, Platform, plugins, Social Media Strategies for Authors, Twenty Eleven theme, website design, widgets, WordPress.org
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Website and Blog Upgrades: A “How-To Guide” Introduction
by, Danielle Sherwood
August 14, 2011

Lately I’ve been doing a lot of work on websites. I spend my days playing with and installing widgets, writing meta tags and descriptions, cleaning up content, adding links, and overall trying to improve search engine optimization, also known as SEO. It takes time and focus… and sometimes a quick search for clarification and explanation. For the most part I avoid touching HTML code. It’s… [Read More]

Filed Under: Google Analytics, Grader.com, HTML code, mobile web browsing, problem solving, Professional Services, search engine optimization, SEO, smart phones, web development, web optimization, website upgrades, widgets, WordPress, WPtouch plugin
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