Social Media

Many of you might be wondering if you should change into Facebook Timeline. Guess what? I am also wondering if I should do it.

Although you are a happy Facebook user without using Timeline, it’s interesting to know what’s new in Timeline.

There are 3 main components. Your Cover, your Stories and your Apps.

Your cover is the first thing which catches the viewer’s attention, a cover is like a large piece of rectangular banner which takes up the upper layer of your Facebook profile.

For stories, it is like normal posts but however it is organized in a chronological order such that when you are scrolling down, you will have the feeling that you are actually scrolling into the life of the user as it is very detailed and is going down in a timeline.

In your stories section, you can also highlight your top photos and stories.

And lastly for the apps section, which lies at the bottom part of the page. The apps section basically display the recent applications you have used.

My conclusion is that you can give it a try or you may want to  get more reviews from your friends as different people have different taste for Facebook timeline. Personally, I find that it is hard to change back to the original profile (needs many steps). Hence, I suggest a serious consideration is to be made before upgrading into Facebook Timeline.

Like any other social networking site like facebook and twitter, Google+ is the new player that allows you and I to stay connected with the world at all times – with just a click away. Google+, is one of GoogleInc innovative projects, which integrate people’s ability to connect online more like connecting in the real world. Sharing your thoughts, links and photos with the right people; using easy, spontaneous video chat with as many as nine people.

Circles - a privacy feature that filters people upon sharing of post

Above all, what is keeping the people excited is Google+ privacy feature: Circles.

Like grouping your friends in your contact list, with Circles, you can just so by organizing your friends into different groups that they belong to. Given the option of using the default grouping provided or you can create your own customized group. This provides the convenience of wanting to share different postings, with different group of people that may only concerns to them. Having such convenient system, replacing the typical friends list function used by sites such as facebook.

With much of the functionality that Circles has brings, on July 14, 2011, Google+ had reached 10 million users, two weeks after the launch of an exclusive trial phase. In the month of January 2012, the site had surpassed a user base of 90 million, with estimated about 625,000 new users joined daily, having the possibility of hitting 400 million members by the end of 2012. Apart from personal usage for socializing, business companies such as from Samsung to Starbucks have now too tab onto this new “in-thing” because of the fast growing popularity and greater ways to connect with its customers.

What about you, time to explore how Google+ can make your life better…

One of the most successful ways to improve your web site for a better ranking in the search engine result is to create a blog. One of the main goals of writing blogs posts should be to generate content that is so interesting and useful that other web sites link to you. The more web sites link to your blog, the chance of your web site ranks well in search engine result will be higher.

How to write a Search Engine Optimized Posts?

1. Use keyword research tools such as Google adWords search suggestion tool. You can found it at https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal. The purpose of using keyword research tool is to identify keywords that you want to target within your blog title, headlines as well as post.

• Example: if you are writing a post about a specific kind of blog design, you should perform keyword research around that topic and select top ten keywords to include throughout the body of the post.

2. The topic of your post should be included in your tittle tag and within any post headlines. Example: your post is about web design firm, your title and headlines should reflect just that so your title tag would read something like this:

“Why I decided to hire Unique Blog Design to build my blog”

“My First Post, Thanks Unique Blog Desig”

3. Selectively use bold or Italic type to highlight your keywords from the rest of the text. Keep in mind that your post should be seen as natural to your reader and search engines. Do not simply stuff keywords where they do not belong.

Creating a successful blog is not easy it requires serious commitment of time and resources it’s the same as writing an interesting and useful blog post. In many cases when you are writing a blog you need to do some research to back up or support your writing. Keep in mind that what reader need is reliability of the post. On the other hand if you want to use particular images of screenshots in your work you may request for permission. In short, remember that creating a blog requires your serious commitment for it to be successful.

Yahoo Search Marketing or Yahoo Sponsored Search is search engine marketing that allows you to build advertisement that appear in search results on the web’s most popular destination and other web sites in the Yahoo! distribution network.

Why use yahoo sponsored search?

Yahoo Sponsored Search Marketing is a great way to connect with the ideal customers-the ones already interested in what your business offers. With text advertisements that appear in search results, you promote your business to people who are actively searching online for your products.

How much it costs?

Yahoo Search Marketing allows you to determine how much you would like to pay. With Sponsored Search and Content Match, you pay only when your advertisement is clicked. You’ll set a bid (the maximum amount you’re willing to pay each time your ad is clicked) and an account daily spending limit to help you keep costs in check.

What are the steps for creating an account?

5 basic steps to getting your campaign up and running with Sponsored Search:

1. Target prospective customers by location
Geo-Targeting allows you to target your advertisement in particular geographic areas within the market.
Example: If your business sells real estate in Singapore and you select Singapore as a geo-targeted region, your ads will be shown to potential customers located in Singapore, as well as to search users that may be located outside of Singapore but enter search terms such as “Singapore Real Estate.”

2. Select keywords
You select the keywords that best describe your products.  Your advertisement may be displayed for searches that are relevant to your keywords.

3. Set pricing and budget
Decide the maximum amount you would like to spend each day, as well as the maximum you are willing to pay each time your advertisement is clicked.

4. Write the ad copy for your ad
Your ad is comprised of a title and description that describe your site and what you have to offer, as well as a URL that links to your site. Effective ads are short, factual and objectively written.

5. Review your ad and activate your account
After you review your ad and provide your contact and billing information, you’ll be on your way to receiving targeted leads from Yahoo! and our vast network of partner sites.

Social networking is conquering the web. Nowadays, two famous leaders in this growing market are Facebook and Twitter. They successfully build communities of millions users around the world in just a few short years and now they are fighting each other to become top choice for users to share information with friends as well as their colleagues.

There are several similarities between both social networking.

Why people love Facebook

Allow people to stay connected with friends and make new acquaintances. Nowadays, people usually use Facebook for email, chat, image and video sharing because it’s convenient. Facebook is more personal than Twitter. They are people I have meet in person, chatted with online, or a friend introduced me.

Why people love Twitter

The usefulness of Twitter is not readily as obvious to some people as Facebook, but using Twitter we are able to get more immediate responses. Twitter is like subscribing to RSS feeds but you can talk back. Sometimes people follow someone just because their Tweets look interesting.

Whether using Facebook or Twitter depends on your objectives. If you prefer immediate response Twitter might be the best choice and we can straight away reply the responses. Linking both Twitter and Facebook might be a good idea, reaches more peoples or viral marketing (Ex. friend that you have in Twitter might not have Facebook account)