Adding A Facebook Twitter Share Button To Your Word Press Blog

UPDATE 17th Jan 20-13 : My current favourite sidebar sharing plugin that works well on mobile devices is AA’s Digg Digg Alternative plugin , you can download it here. http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/aas-digg-digg-alternative/

 

Many of the most popular Social Media websites use a sharing widget on the left side of their blog posts. This tutorial will show you a simple wordpress plugin you can use to achieve a similar result

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As you scroll down the post the widget stays in place which means its always visible on the page increasing the liklihood of people sharing

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The plugin we are going to use is called “Twitter, Facebook Like, Google Plus One Social Share

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To add a wordpress plugin to your website login to your wordpress admin dashboard and select plugins on the left hands side

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Click on “Add New”

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Enter “Twitter Facebook Social Share”in the search box and install

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Install the plugin and activate it

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Now under Settings select TF social Share

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You can now configure the plugin, select what social media sites you want displayed and where you want it to show up on your blog

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You can configure how the left side floating option will be shown

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You can also adjust the width and size of the social media buttons to match your blog design

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By deafult the share box displays above each blog post

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If you want it to show on the left side of the post you need to alter the position setting

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You can select where on the screen you want it to display

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So now the plugin is activated and showing in the correct place all you now need to do is send some traffic and encourage people to share your content

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How To Use Facebook Insights On Your Website Or Blog

Are you using FB Insights On Your Site ?

Most people trying their luck with online marketing find themselves asking
“Why did that happen, what did I post that worked (or didn’t work), how many likes did it generate?”
Most people use Facebook Insights to monitor the success of a Fan Page, but. . .

Few people know that you can use Facebook Insights on your blog and your website’s landing pages

Stop Guessing And Start Marketing With Precision

Facebook insights will give you almost “psychic insight” into the age range of your sites visitors, male to female ratio,  and which country they are from.

Facebook Insights  will give you the ability to track:

  1. How many people are liking your posts.
  2. The extra exposure that each like gives you on Facebook.
  3. How many people are clicking on the links to your site, that have been shared on Facebook.
  4. Which times of day are getting you the most amount of viral traffic.
  5. Which type of posts your readers are responding to.

Here is your action plan

Step 1: Install Facebook Analytics on your site (video tutorial here)

Step 2: Write a new blog post for your subscribers

Step 3. Use Facebook Insights to see what is getting you most traction

In combination with your Google Analytics this gives you a powerful weapon in your marketing arsenal.

The only question is now, are you going to take action. . .?

To Your Success

Ian David Chapman

PS: Definitely worth the 5 mins it takes to install

Grab The Instructions To Install FB Insights On Your Website Here

How To Add Facebook Social Plugins To Your WordPress Blog

Facebook Social Plugins

After seeing the latest Social Plugins from Facebook I was testing out a few ways to integrate them on my wordpress blog. As a result of these investigations I would like to share a couple of useful resources to save you the time and effort of hunting this stuff down.

Simple Facebook Connect

This is a great wordpress plugin created by Otto. It basically consists of a Base plugin that configures you blog to interact with Facebook and then has a series of single plugins that you can activate as you need them.

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/simple-facebook-connect/

HyperArts

Another really useful resource that I stumbled upon is on HyperArts a blog written by Tim Ware

http://www.hyperarts.com/blog/how-to-add-facebook-like-button-social-plugins-to-wordpress-posts/#og-type

this is more for coders and people who want to get down and dirty with FBML and hacking up your wordpress theme.

Like Buttons

As you can see if you are reading this post on my blog that I have configured the like button to show up at the top and bottom of every post. This is a great way for people to share your content directly to Facebooks newsfeed.

 

 

 

 

Warning : Facebook Fan Page Disabled

Facebook Change Their Terms Of Use For Fan Pages

If you are the administrator of a Facebo0ok Fan page and you recently got a message like this from Facebook then you are probably a little upset to say the least.

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Most people who receive this kind of warning have no idea that they have violated any of Facebooks’ terms and conditions and feel somewhat victimized, especially if they have spent a lot of time and effort building up their Facebook community only to have their publishing rights taken away.

Jane Savoie Gets Her Fan Page Disabled

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This exact thing happened to Jane Savoie, an Olympic horseback riding champion who had her publishing rights removed by Facebook because they deem her page to “represent generic concepts” I can only assume that they looked at the name of her fan page and decided that it did not clearly represent her business.

“Solve Horseback Riding Fears” has become a thriving community of horse owners and people interested in horseback riding and Jane has been the driving force behind this community. I have suggested to Jane that she contact Facebook directly (disabled@facebook.com)  to request that they reinstate her publishing rights and that they change the name slightly to reflect that it represents her business more clearly to “Jane Savoie : Solve Horse Back Riding Fears

Facebook Change Their Terms Of Service

Facebook restricts the publishing rights of Pages that impersonate other entities, represent generic concepts, spam users, or otherwise violate our Terms of Use. These policies are designed to ensure Facebook remains a safe, secure and trusted environment for all users. If you have any questions or concerns, you can visit the Terms applicable to Facebook Pages at http://www.facebook.com/terms_pages.php

Facebook Pages Terms : Date of Last Revision: March  26, 2010
1.   Pages are special profiles that may only be used to promote a business or other commercial, political, or charitable organization or endeavor (including non-profit organizations, political campaigns, bands, and celebrities).

2. You may only administer a Facebook Page if you are an authorized representative of the subject of the Page.

3. Pages can only post content and information under the “everyone” setting.

4. When you publish content or information to your Page we have no obligation to distribute your content or information to users.

5. If you use a Fan Box widget off of our site to promote your Page, others will be able to copy and place the widget elsewhere.

6. You may not place a Fan Box widget in an advertisement.

7. If you collect user information on your Page, Section 9 of this Statement also applies to you.

8. If you display advertising on your Page, Section 11 of this Statement also applies to you.

9. You may not establish terms beyond those set forth in this Statement to govern the posting of content by users on a Page you administer, except you may disclose they types of content you will remove from your Page and grounds for which you may ban a user from accessing the Page.

10. You will restrict access to your Page in order to comply with all applicable laws.  For example, if your Page includes content not suitable for minors, you will use your Page to block minors from accessing your Page.

Why Did Facebook Make These Changes

The reason Facebook made these changes is to stop people using Fan pages to spam the news feed of their Fans. A recent trend has emerged due to the immense power of Facebook fan pages to host what would normally be considered a Group on a Facebook fan page, and while most of these pages are harmless a small minority are used by professional marketers and spammers to hijack the Facebook newsfeed and inundate people with offers and promotional stuff.

Since Facebook are sworn to protect the user experience they have modified their terms and conditions so they can shut these pages down or at least take away the power from the administrators. Unfortunatly a few legitimate businesses and Fan Pages will get punished under these new rules, Jane Savoie is obviously one of them

Be Careful What You Name Your Fan Page

If you set up a new Facebook Page you need to be very careful how you name your Fan page to make it clear to Facebook that you are a business. While you should ensure that your fan page name clearly states benefits you will provide to your fans and includes your main keywords (preferably at the beginning) you need to clearly state that you are a business or you will fall into the catch all category of representing “Genric concepts”

Solve Horseback Riding Fears

Jane started her fan page back in October of 2009 and it has rapidly grown to over 10,000 members. Its probably one of the most engaged niche communities that I have seen on Facebook and it will be a terrible blow to the community if Jane is not quickly reinstated with full control of her fan page again.

Help Jane Get Her Fan Page Back

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If you want to help Jane get her fan page back you can send an email to facebook at disabled@facebook.com asking them to reinstate her publishing rights. This is especially important if you are also a Fan of her fan page. If enough people express their concerns Facbook will  change their minds and make an exception.

You can also help by leaving a comment, pressing the share button or tweeting about this post to your followers on Twitter.
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Grow Your Facebook Fan Page Using A Facebook Fan Badge

This article will show you how to “Leverage The Love” of your Facebook Fans to grow your Facebook Fanpage. If you want to get a ton of free traffic and new Fans to your fan page Facebooks new widget might help.

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If you have your own Facebook Fan Page, one way to get your Fans to promote your page is to ask them to place a Fan Badge on their website or blog

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If you are an admin, the best way to show your fans how to put a Fan Badge on their site is to do this yourself first and then educate your Fans by showing them exactly how to do it too. You could make a quick camtasia video and post it on your fan page or direct them to this article. Better still copy the link from the widget you create and post it on your Fan Page. http://www.facebook.com/facebook-widgets/fanbadges.php?page_id=158064879912

Click on the “Promote with a Fan Box” link just below the Fan Page logo image on the left side of the page

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Now select “Widgets Home”

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You will now be taken to the main Facebook Widgets Page : http://www.facebook.com/facebook-widgets/index.php

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Select the “Fan Badge” link

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From the first drop down menu select the Fan Page you want to create the badge for

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You should get a preview displayed on the right of the page

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Now select the text inside the box and Copy it to your clipboard by clicking CTRL C

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Now go to your blog or website. In this example I am using my wordpress.org blog

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Login to the backend of your WordPress blog, http://www.yourdomain.com/wp-admin
Click on “Appearance” and then select “Widgets”

Drag a “Text” widget to one of your sidebars

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Click on ther new widget and paste in your code from Facebook

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Dont forget to click “Save”

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Now visit your website to check everything is working

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In this example I have place the Fan Badge in the left hand sidebar

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Your Fan Badge will now have a live link back to your Favorite Fan Page

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Share The Love

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Get into the habit of sharing your favorite Fan Pages on your Website, It’s probably one of the quickest ways to build a relationship with the admin of any Fan Page and if you share other peoples pages they may reciprocate and share yours.