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The Ultimate List of Social Media Definitions You Need to Know

Hootsuite

A feed is an updated list of all the new content posted by the accounts a user follows on social media. Rather than being purely chronological, most social media feeds are controlled by an algorithm. See News feed. News feed is the Facebook term for the screen that shows all the latest updates posted by people the user follows.

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17 Plugins to Improve Your WordPress Blog

Ari Herzog

When a search engine robot visits this blog and wants to know how different posts and pages are interconnected, a plugin creates that sitemap. Some popular plugins that other people swear by, such as for search engine optimization on a blog , are not used here because the Thesis theme (which is used here) includes that functionality.

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23 WordPress Plugins I Use: Part 5

Ari Herzog

Feed Pauser allows me to publish a post but pause its feed publication up to 20 minutes. If you are like me and usually make typos, or don’t like how the final content is displayed, pausing feed publication is useful. MaxBlogPress Ping Optimizer prevents me from alerting search engines every time I update a page or post.

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A Tale of Two Communities Part II – Salesforce.com

SocialFish

I was unable to get statistics for “lurkers&# , but I am sure it is high. The answers community is fully indexed by Google and other search engines, and when searching them, the community answers tend to rank very highly in the results. 700 questions are asked each week. Thanks everyone for reading.

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Nuggets from Social Media workshops as of late. : Community Group Therapy

Buzz Marketing for Technology

For example, if you go create an external facing idea portal but don’t do the hard work to drive process change internally with the functions that own the changes your users want - your idea engine could do you more harm than good. 4) None of the following are community platforms: Wikis, Blogs or Forums.

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The 23 Blogger Breeds—Which Are You?

ProBlogger

The Social Engineer. Social engineers are on Twitter and Facebook more than their own blog. Social Engineers are very popular. Social engineers are particularly vulnerable to this as their popularity results in many social interactions. The stakes are higher and the consequences are greater when you post less frequently.

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How to Really Build Backlinks and Dominate Google

Viper Chill

For those of you who don’t know why links are important, let me just say that if you want to get traffic from the major search engines, they’re crucial. Links from other sites to your site are basically a ‘vote’ that tell search engines you are trusted and you are a good resource for whatever your content is about.

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