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How To Promote Facebook Fan Pages

Rajesh Kanuri — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 04:30:16 +0000

Facebook fan pages were one the greatest ways to drive traffic to your websites and recently we have discussed why you need a Facebook fan page? As always creating a fan page won’t end your work and now it’s time to promote your Facebook fan club. In this article I would like to discuss about various about various ways to promote your fan club.

The following were the great ways to increase your Facebook fans:

Facebook Fan Box Widget

Facebook fan box widget allows you to show up your fans and also allows your readers to join your fan club instantly. Facebook fan box is the best widget to sport and gain popularity right away from your blog.

Invite Your Friends by Suggesting Friends

You can suggest your fan page to your friends ask and them to join your Facebook fan page by clicking on “Suggest to Friends” on you fan page and invite all your Facebook friends. This is the easiest way to get more members for your fan page.

Twitter Application for Facebook fan page

Twitter application for Facebook Fan Page is also a great tool that allows you to drive Twitter followers to your fan page. Using this application all your facebook fan page updates will be update in twitter which helps you in driving traffic to your blog.

Facebook Social Ads

Social ads are advertisements which you see in the right navigation bar of Facebook. Promoting your fan page using social ads requires budget which can be managed with a wide range of options. You can also limit your daily spending’s. Like for example if your total budget is $50 you can limit your daily spending’s to $5 or $10.

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Show Related Comments From Social Media Sites in Your Blog

Rajesh Kanuri — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 11:06:24 +0000

As always plugins were very essential for a WordPress blog to use it in a better way and manage it in a better way, there were lots of plugins available and we have already mentioned about the 8 must have plugins after you setup WordPress Blog and best anti spam plugins, mashable type image plugin & Best social plugins, Now i would like to write about a plugin named BackType Connect to find conversations on other social media that’s related to your content and displays them inline or alongside the comments on your blog.

How It Works?

This plugin automates and pulls out the comments from social media sites like Twitter, FriendFeed, Digg, Reddit…., and displays them on your blog. You can configure exactly what sources you want to display related conversations from Summarize, display comments inline, or append them to the end of your comments section Your readers can even respond to the comments BackType Connect displays

Currently, this plugin supports conversations from

Twitter – tweets that link your posts.
FriendFeed – on the entries for your posts.
Digg – on the submissions for your posts.
Reddit – on the submissions for your posts.
Hacker News – on the submissions for your posts.
Other blogs – whenever someone links one of your posts.

Best Social Media Plugins For Your WordPress Blog

Rajesh Kanuri — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 04:30:00 +0000

Social Media plays and important role to drive instant traffic to your site and also As we always discuss plugins were very important in determining the blog’s performance. I have already told you about the Top 8 Must have plugins after After You Install WordPress Blog, Here are the best social network plugins which you find useful for your blog.

ShareThis: This plugins allows you to share your feeds with more than 50 social media sites & Social networking sites.

Sociable: This is one of the best plugin available for wordpress blog users. It has rich options to choose among the social media sites. It has very good configuration panel.

SexyBookmarks: This is my favourite of all the available social media plugins available. The look and feel this plugins give is ultimate and will suits any blog without much customization. It even has a rich configuration panel to customize it according to our website needs

Tweetmeme: Twitter is becoming more and more popular and here is a beautiful plugin for you blog to allow users to retweet your blog posts.

Digg Digg: Allows you to integrate Digg, Rediit, dZone, Yahoo Buzz, Twitter, facebook and polladium into your wordpress blog. let us know about other social media plugins here