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Facebook Page – get your own Facebook URL name

Laurel Papworth

You can also add URL names for Applications, not just Pages. Make sure you spell your brand name correctly. Facebook.com/ KyleMinogue has 200,000+ fans but her name is spelt KYLIE Minogue. You must have at least 100 fans, I believe, to score your own URL. Social Currency: What am I worth? Related posts.

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Does Buying Facebook Likes Help Search Engine Rankings?

Bill Hartzer

Note that my domain name, LinkEarning.com , even though it has a small one-page website, has not really been developed. Googles software engineer, Matt Cutts, has confirmed reports that Google uses social signals, such as links from Facebook and Twitter, as a ranking factor. Here is the email I received. href=[link].

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How To: Make Your Links Do Follow Links in Google Plus

Bill Hartzer

You’ll notice in the screen capture above that the link to Ruud Hein’s profile and the slate.com URL is highlighted in red. They tend to just copy and paste a URL in the Google Plus post field in order to share it. If you just copy and paste a URL into the post, then your link is going to be a nofollow link.

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4 Steps to Segment Social Media Traffic in Google Analytics

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“Direct Traffic&# is visits from people who clicked a bookmark to come to your site or who typed your site URL directly into their browser. While Facebook and Twitter are common to any list, you need to think carefully about which social networks to include. Step 3: Test and name your segment.

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

SocMed Sean

Remember, the more you clean up those old posts the more they will pay you back with increased search engine traffic or organic traffic from social networks like Twitter and Facebook. you need a good tool to redirect user from an out-of-date URL to a new one, check out the Redirection plugin for WordPress.

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Choosing a blogging service: Blogger, Tumblr or Wordpress

Mindjumpers

There are pros and cons for all of them, but it depends a lot on whether you want to spend any money, want to have your own domain name, what kind of options and functionalities you want and what kind of skills you have in doing the design and maybe programming. I will go through to most widely used blogging services.

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5 Tips for Making a Consistent Social Media Marketing Effort

Mindjumpers

Your profiles and updates must align with the values and uses of each social platform, but still maintain a common theme throughout. 2: Get vanity URLs Start by scooping up vanity URLs on sites like Facebook and Twitter and buy your domain name.