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Why Embedding Images Rule

Small Business Mavericks

Here are 5 reasons why you might want to use embedded images on your blog or website. What reasons can you think of for embedding images on your website or blog? Small Business Internet Marketing embedding embedding images images SEO Getty Images just announced that you can search for and embed images on your blog or website. Attribution is automatically credited when you do so, but the benefit (one of them) is that you don’t have to pay for the image.

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Court Rules That Embedding Photographer's Instagram Content Doesn't Infringe Copyright

Social Media Today

A judge has ruled against a photographer who sought to sue Mashable for embedding one of her photos on its site

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Google News Tip for Google+ Embedded Posts

Adam Sherk

A quick tip for news publishers on using Google+ embedded posts. When embedding a Google+ post in a news article, be sure to include enough original editorial text to meet the 80 word minimum for Google News indexation. The same goes for Facebook Embedded Posts , Embedded Tweets and any other form of embedded multimedia. The content within the embedded post does not contribute towards the total word count in the article.

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Hack-Week: Embedding Our Values and Causes in Our Product

Buffer Social

These two days of hacking allowed us to do just that, building out a collection of projects that clearly embedded our values. ?? Towards the end of 2020, the Buffer engineering team held a two-day hack event where the team explored ideas that aligned with both our personal and company values.

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Have You Embedded A Facebook Post Yet?

Small Business Mavericks

That actually makes a lot of sense because most individuals would probably not want their posts embedded all over the Web, and most of them are not embed-worthy. Wouldn’t you like to see your Facebook posts embedded? Blogging for Small Business embedding facebook Facebook embeds Facebook pages Earlier this month I shared with you the knowledge that Facebook was planning a way for bloggers and other content marketers to embed Facebook posts. Now that’s possible.

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Embedding Facebook Posts Good For Businesses

The Social Media Incubator

Last week, Facebook announced posts would now have an embedding option for users. Following the example of Twitter and their own Instagram, Facebook is now allowing users to share a post containing a video, pictures or hashtags by using an embedding code. Features of Facebook Embedding. Probably one of the best features of embedding a Facebook post is the accessibility for your audience.

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Twitter's Testing Ads within Timelines Embedded on Third-Party Sites

Social Media Today

Twitter's trying out a new ad option which would enable businesses to reach visitors to third-party websites which use embedded Twitter timelines

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Twitter Announces Scheduling Upgrade for TweetDeck, Changes to Embedded Tweet Grids

Social Media Today

Twitter has announced support for tweet scheduling with multiple images or video through TweetDeck, while its also cutting support for embedded tweet grids

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Facebook Embedded Posts - Social Media

Social Media Network Marketing

?Embedded Posts are a way to put public posts - by a ?Facebook The embedded post will show any media attached to it, as well as the number of likes, shares, and comments that the post has. Embedding posts will let people using your web site see the same rich information that is shown on Facebook.com, and they will enable people to follow or like ?Content? Only public posts from Facebook Pages and profiles can be embedded.

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New Instagram Embedding – Great News for Businesses on Instagram!

Devumi

The new Instagram embedding tools and features made available this week are offering businesses on Instagram some incredible new ways to share their content. If you’ve built a great following on Instagram, and want to start taking that with you to your website or blog, the new Instagram embedding features will allow you to do that! New Instagram Embedding feature – What it means for your business on Instagram. The new Instagram Embedding in action.

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Drive-Up Your Revenues with an Embedded Analytics Feature

Cortex

This post originally was published on Toucan Toco. Content Intelligence Social Engagement Stock Photography Deep Learning Big Data Market Share A Guide To Brand Experience Customer Journey Leaders Brand Strategy

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Google+ adds embedding for posts

The Way of the Web

The post Google+ adds embedding for posts appeared first on TheWayoftheWeb. Joining Facebook and Twitter with easier ways to share Google+ content, you can now embed any Public Post made on Google’s social network by selecting the Embed option from the drop-down on every post. The embed code can then be put onto any website, and will look and function just like it would on Google+, including the ability to follow the author, +1 a post, add comments and read them etc.

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Google Trends Graphs No Longer Embedded in Search Results?

Adam Sherk

For the past couple years Google has been embedding a Hot Trends graph in the regular search results for the top 100 fastest rising terms. Then in December a colleague pointed out that the graphs were no longer being embedded in the search results. I referenced this in my post on tools for monitoring search and social trends because it was a useful way to check for trending terms beyond the top 20 shown on the Hot Searches page.

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Embedding Customer Reviews From Twitter Onto Your Blog Or Website

Small Business Mavericks

Embedding Twitter Tweets is one of those easy tasks that could potentially add to your business’s reputation. Customer reviews can be pure gold if they are left on third party websites. Their downfall is that they are only available to readers of that third party site. Unless that website is Twitter. Twitter has become a great source when it comes to reviews and recommendations, and they don’t have to be wasted, you can make use of them.

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Paypal Launches “Embedded Payments” Platform for Easy Integration Onto Any Website

Stay N' Alive

Today at the Paypal X Innovate 2010 Conference Paypal, in a demo with the social shopping cart payments provider, Payvment , announced in a live demo their new “Embedded Payments&# platform. Tags: Technology platforms social api embedded Om Malik paypal payvment The platform, at least according to the demo, allows developers, by just copying and pasting, to place a simple “Pay with Paypal&# button into any app or website.

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Problems embedding Youtube videos in WordPress etc?

The Way of the Web

I’ve seen a few people ask why embedding Youtube videos seems to have stopped working on their WordPress blog recently, so thought I’d quickly share the reason. Fortunately the old version is still available if you click the appropriate box under the Embed options: Hope that helps… Blogging wordpress embedding youtube new youtube embed code old embed code problems video disapearing

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Embedding Latitude, Longitude and NAP Data into Image Files to Help Local SEO

Bill Hartzer

Then, right-click on the photo and select “properties” You will see all of the data that I saved/embedded in the image file. For this test, I made up a word and embedded or “saved” that word in the EXIF data in the image file itself. When you take a photo using your iPhone or Android mobile phone, the location data (latitude, longitude) of where that image was taken is usually saved in the photo file.

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Demo: Little Red Riding Hood (Embedded Video)

Myrland Marketing

Send to Kindle Looking to embed videos from YouTube, Vimeo, or any of the other popular video sites? No problem at all. Simply take the embed video code, add it to the video settings, and you’re done. Video Creative

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How Embedded Social News Grew My Content, Traffic, and Engagement, and Saves Me Time [Case Study]

ProBlogger

We literally embedded the platform on our News page in three easy steps. Since embedding the platform in August, we have seen traffic to the site increase by 25%. How Embedded Social News Grew My Content, Traffic, and Engagement, and Saves Me Time [Case Study]. This guest post is by Brian Lippey of Guitar Shop TV. Every blogger wants to offer the best content to his or her audience.

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What is Your Favorite “Real-time” Tool?

Almost Savvy

And, at what point, do real-time tools stop being new toys which only truly-geeky people use and start becoming so embedded into our everyday lives that we don’t really think about them, but can’t imagine living without them?

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Free Tools for Monitoring Hot Search Trends

Adam Sherk

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Free Tools for Monitoring Hot Search Trends by Adam Sherk on October 1, 2009 This week Google started embedding a Hot Trends graph at the bottom of search results pages for queries that fall within their top 100 fastest-rising search terms, as seen in this example screenshot: While checking out search trends is interesting for users, it can also be valuable to publishers.

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Facebook rolling out option to Embed Posts

The Way of the Web

In use, it’s very similar to the process for embedding individual tweets into a blog or website. If a post is public (Shown by a globe icon), then it will be able to be embedded via an option in the drop down menu for any post, as shown in the following example: Facebook Embedded Post Example. Whether or not you want to use this option rather than embedding a screenshot image will depend on whether you want to allow your website visitors to interact in that way.

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Great Example of a Multimedia News Article from ESPN.com

Adam Sherk

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Great Example of a Multimedia News Article from ESPN.com by Adam Sherk on August 14, 2009 Recently I wrote about the importance of including meaningful content in videos embedded in press releases. As of today the article is #1 (after some embedded news results) for the query “michael vick eagles”: Related posts: Do Google’s Expanded Domain Results Apply to News and Video Listings?

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Rich Snippets: Increase Google Visibility for Reviews through.

Adam Sherk

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Rich Snippets: Increase Google Visibility for Reviews through Microformats by Adam Sherk on May 13, 2009 One of the announcements at Searchology yesterday was a new enhancement called Rich Snippets, in which Google is using structured data embedded in web pages (microformats and RDFa) to give users “convenient summary information about their search results at a glance.&#

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Objectified: Our Relationship with Manufactured Objects and, by.

Firebelly

Design thinking should be embedded in how we approach making things in general. Digitalia | Indianapolis Social Media Marketing « Don’t try to fight it. Social media is here to stay. Main | social media marketing might be for you (and it might not) » October 21, 2009 Objectified: Our Relationship with Manufactured Objects and, by Extension, the People who Design Them. Branding in in our DNA at Firebelly Marketing.

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PB152: Challenge – Create a Piece of Embedded Content for Your Blog

ProBlogger

Embedded Content Challenge. One of the things I noticed as I did that analysis was that over the last 12 months, some of the most shared pieces of content that we have published were actually posts where we embedded some curated pieces of content. The reason that they allow it to be embedded on any blog or any other site is that it gets them more views to their video. They’re just some of the types of content that you could be embedding into your site today.

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PB152: Challenge – Create a Piece of Embedded Content for Your Blog

ProBlogger

Embedded Content Challenge. One of the things I noticed as I did that analysis was that over the last 12 months, some of the most shared pieces of content that we have published were actually posts where we embedded some curated pieces of content. The reason that they allow it to be embedded on any blog or any other site is that it gets them more views to their video. They’re just some of the types of content that you could be embedding into your site today.

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3 simple ways to embed a Twitter Feed on your website

Sprout Social

Or, there are a few different ways you can display Twitter posts on your site including: Twitter’s embedding tool (free). Embedded Tweet feeds. Embedded profile timeline feeds. You also have the option of embedding Follow and Mention buttons for a Twitter profile.

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[Solved] Getting The Pinterest Embed Feature To Work In WordPress

SocMed Sean

Embedding A Pinterest Board In Your WordPress Blog Post Is Not As Easy As It Should Be. View the post with the Pinterest board properly embedded. View the post with the Pinterest board properly embedded. Quick steps to successfully embedding a Pinterest board in your WordPresss blog. Sometimes stuff just doesn’t work like it should.

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Why Can't Facebook Do Better At Fact Checking Photos And Videos?

Forbes Social Media

We have the technologies to automatically verify many aspects of photographs and videos online, from examining their provenance to verifying their description and evaluating embedded memes. Why don’t companies like Facebook embrace them

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Formstack Review

Convince & Convert

embedded video. feature description. use case description. contest. - how would you use it? - 2 winners, discount code for all. social media strategy

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Getty Images Makes Photos Free to Use

The Social Media Incubator

Have you noticed ads on an embedded YouTube video before? That capability comes with any embedded content. Getty could potentially post ads within an embedded image without compensating the user of the image. The largest provider of professional quality photos on the web will now offer its photos for free. If you have visited the Getty Images website before, you have noticed a watermark and prices that go along with any photo.

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A Free & Easy Way To Improve Your Brand’s Social Media Visibility In Google Search Results

Firebelly

By embedding structured data markup in your website, you can specify the following social profiles to appear in that box: • Facebook. We’re frequently asked “How do we get links to our social media accounts to appear in that box about our brand in the Google search results like so-and-so?” ” This post provides the answer. That “box about our brand” is the Google Knowledge Panel.

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Create a Custom Facebook Event for a Watched YouTube Video in Google Tag Manager

Jon Loomer

Imagine you have an important YouTube video embedded on a page of your website. Then go to an embedded YouTube video on a page of your website. Have you experimented with custom events for people who watched your embedded YouTube videos?

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3 Things You Should Do For Your YouTube Videos

Small Business Mavericks

Video embedding – If you disable video embedding on your videos, then you are essentially sending the message that you don’t want exposure. If you are using YouTube for your business at all, then you should enable video embedding to allow your videos to be shared widely across the Internet. They are also more likely to be embedded. YouTube is a great opportunity for most brands to tell their stories visually and through a powerful medium.

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Prezi just got even cooler.

SocialFish

Here’s how (video embedded below). Have you tried Prezi yet? Check out some of ours: Three is the Magic Number. Listening Effectively. 60 Tips for marketing your social media. Truth and Authenticity in the Digital Age. 30 Social Tools in 30 Minutes. Prezi has just announced that you can now have up to ten people working on a Prezi at the same time, as well as one person in the group presenting to the others. I can’t wait to test this out. Die, Powerpoint, die!

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Twitter Allows Retweets with Comments

The Social Media Incubator

After entering comments and retweeting, your tweet shows up with the retweeted message in an embedded box below your comment. Monday, April 6, Twitter revamped its retweet feature. It is now easier for users to retweet others and add their comments along with the retweet. Before, it had been a strenuous process to add commentary, stay within characters, etc. Now, after hitting the retweet button, you are prompted to enter in your comments.

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Social Media Provides Small and Medium-Sized Firms (SMEs) With Tools to Mitigate Internationalization-Related Threats

The Realtime Report

According to the study, SMEs use social media to become embedded within various strategic and emerging international networks they deem important for their operations. Social Media Provides Small and Medium-Sized Firms (SMEs) With Tools to Mitigate Internationalization-Related Threats.

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Coming Soon: Embeddable Facebook Posts

Small Business Mavericks

How can marketers improve their ability to reach their target audiences through embedded Facebook posts? How about being able to post to your Facebook wall and monitor your posts going viral based on how many people are embedding your posts? I suspect that if you have a Facebook page, then you’ll be able to see how many of your posts have been embedded through Facebook Insights.

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A Free & Easy Way To Improve Your Brand’s Social Media Visibility In Google Search Results

Firebelly

By embedding structured data markup in your website, you can specify the following social profiles to appear in that box: • Facebook. We’re frequently asked “How do we get links to our social media accounts to appear in that box about our brand in the Google search results like so-and-so?” ” This post provides the answer. That “box about our brand” is the Google Knowledge Panel.

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Facebook For Business Tip #7: Facebook Video

Firebelly

Facebook videos can be embedded into your blog or website. Yes, I know YouTube allows you to do this as well, but I personally prefer the minimalist look of embedded Facebook videos. Video can be a great part of an online marketing mix. Many people upload and share YouTube videos, but there are also advantages to Facebook Video as well. Note: I would not recommend using Facebook Video instead of YouTube. Upload to both places when relevant.).

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Custom Facebook Web Events That I Use

Jon Loomer

I haven’t embedded YouTube videos often on my website, but when I do I have an event that fires when people play that video. If you’re serious about ads measurement and retargeting, you need to use custom Facebook web events.

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Amazing Things Will Happen – Video Book Review

Justin Levy

Click here to view the embedded video. Click here to view the embedded video. When C.C. Chapman first shared an unedited chapter of Amazing Things Will Happen many months ago and explained the concept behind the book, I was really excited for him and knew that this would be bigger than just publishing a new book (which is big in its own right!). This isn’t a marketing book. This isn’t a self-help book, though that is how it’ll get bucketed.

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