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How Do I Turn Off The Trending Box In Facebook?

SocMed Sean

The content in this widget providers users with a quick way to see what topics of conversation are trending across the entire Facebook community. In case you haven’t notice, Facebook recently launched an addition to the user-experience called their “Trending” box. Have another way?

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[Tech Tip] 10 Steps To Improve The Speed, Security, and Functionality Of Your WordPress Blog

SocMed Sean

I considered breaking this up into ten separate posts because there truly is enough content to justify each topic having its own post. –Sean As more and more new sites hit the Web on a daily basis, the adoption of WordPress as a content management system seems to keep on growing.

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Spring Cleaning For Your Blog – How A Little Work Can Drive Search Engine And Social Media Traffic

SocMed Sean

I find posts with no Alt tags on the images, meta tags that just weren’t well thought-out, and content and data that, while correct at the time, is now a bit outdated. Do you have too many widgets? Are those widgets slowing down your blog? So why not go back and create links between similar articles.

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[ANSWERED] Using Lazy Load To Speed Up WordPress While Maintaining Pinterest Pinnable Images

SocMed Sean

When a visitor comes to your site, their browser makes a request to the server for the contents of the page. The server replies with all of the HTML code, the images, videos, audio assets, etc…that make up the contents of the page. This isn’t the kind of lazy load we are talking about.

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Facebook Brings Ads To Your Timeline – Whether You Like It Or Not

SocMed Sean

Not surprising, since just about every Web UX professional will tell you that most web surfers have developed a blindness for content that lives in the right-rail. think about it…when was the last time you actually looked at anything in that annoying ticker widget?

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Pros And Cons Of Translating Your Blog Posts Into Other Languages

SocMed Sean

The key, though, is to consider the pros and cons and determine whether the effort of translating content will deliver the results you’re looking for. If you are a blogger looking to expand your audience, translation of your existing content might have crossed your mind. …and who doesn’t love more traffic?

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[Answered] Yes, Facebook Is Removing The Trending News Box

SocMed Sean

“What are future news experiences?”, ”, you might ask. I have no idea. I do know, however, that Facebook has taken massive heat under allegations that their staff might have altered the items that were trending by manually manipulating the stories that displayed , rather than allowing their algorithm to do the job.

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