Category Archives: Facebook

Blog Traffic Through the Use of Social Media

Posted on October 4, 2010 by greenbucks| 1 Comment

Yes, the use of Social Media increases blog traffic and/or page views.

Social media sites can help increase your blog traffic. Among those social media tools can use are Twitter, Facebook, Google Buzz, Digg, LinkedIn and the list goes on and on.

Of course, to get the hits you are aiming for, it is important to invest time and energy to put your blog links to these sites.

Here are a few tips to increase blog traffic through the use of social media sites:

  • Make sure your topic is interesting enough to be read by others. In other words: Content is STILL king!
  • Be precise and write using words that can be easily understood.
  • Do not try to attempt to do link baiting by writing a trending topic link only to find out that the post is entirely about a different topic
  • Be straightforward in writing your topics. If you need to write how people can buy term life insurance, then do not attach a link entitled “top 10 cutest pet puppies”
  • Schedule putting the links depending on the location of your readers
  • Visit other blogs or sites and make yourself “visible” by engaging in a virtual conversation. Pretty soon, these writers will visit you too

Given the know-how on how you can promote your blog is not that much important if you do not write good contents. So start writing good quality blog posts and you will soon see that people will read what you wrote.

Your readers agreeing or disagreeing with what you wrote is another matter of course 😉


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How to Make a Friends List on Facebook

Posted on September 29, 2010 by greenbucks| 1 Comment

I turn the chat button on my friends list on and off whenever I feel like it. Maybe some of my relatives are online so I check by turning on the button for “_____ relatives” list of friends.

Oops! However, if there is someone I don’t want to chat with that I see online (not necessarily from the relatives, LOL), I immediately switch off that chat button where the name belongs to. We’ll just probably chat next time I’m up to it 😉

So, what are the steps on how you can make a friends list on Facebook?

  • Click on the “ACCOUNT” button at the upper right corner of your facebook page. When this is clicked, a scroll down menu will drop down.

  • When the drop down menu goes down, click “EDIT FRIENDS”
  • When a new page opens, click the button that says “CREATE A LIST” and a smaller box will pop-up
  • Click “CREATE LIST” and the cursor will go to a box on the upper left side where you can encode the name of the list you want to use (e.g. neighbors, high school friends, cousins)

  • Once you encode a list’s name, choose who among your friends you would want in that list. There is no need to type the whole name, just the first three letters will help you choose members of this list OR just click on your friend’s name to be included in the list.

There, you have your friends listed in lists/groups, now it is easy to see who is online or not by clicking on the button of the list’s name IN THE CHATBOX.

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Beware of Scrapers

Posted on September 22, 2010 by greenbucks| 12 Comments

Early on, we have been taught that cheating is bad. It is bad and perhaps some or most of us have gone through the consequences of any cheating we may (or may not) have done.

Cheating is evil. It is synonymous with stealing, just as these two other words are synonymous with plagiarism.

Plagiarism?

Plagiarism is defined in dictionaries as “the wrongful appropriation, close imitation, or purloining and publication, of another author’s language, thoughts, ideas, or expressions, and the representation of them as one’s own original work.”

Now there is this guy, a crappy scraper who started copying recipes AND photos of food bloggers some of whom I happen to know. No, I will not link his blog url here.

Proof. First time I encountered and had frozen Yakiniku beef, I looked for recipes in the net and I landed on this page.

Blog featured above had several entries copied by the scraper (whose url I will not post because it will give him more traffic).

I was so surprised to know that several of my friends’ recipes and photos were copied.

I can haz screenshots of this scraper’s FB fan page with a fan base of 900+ Merde! You’ve been had!

Grabe! Scrapers/plagiarists like you are also called ______________.

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Peachy’s post about the plagiarist

JMom’s Plagiarism People Never Learn post

Oggi’s recipe and photos were stolen too

Thess in “A Thief was Found”

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#sentisabado

Posted on September 5, 2010 by greenbucks| Leave a comment

#sentisabado was super duper fun.

Senti = sentimental and Sabado = Saturday which was a day we reminisce about the good old days when things were simpler and we need to go through so many heavy encyclopedia books just to get to know who this and that scientist is.

Some of my tweets and FB status updates are:

  • dati pag nasa bilyaran ka, “tambay” ka, ngayon pag nasa bilyaran, idol si Efren “Bata” Reyes at gusto mo kumita ng maraming $$$
  • sino gumagamit ng ballpen para i-rewind ang cassette tape para di maubos ang battery ng Walkman? #sentisabado
  • Duran Duran OR Spandau Ballet? Basta ako nakipagsiksikan sa Duran Duran sa Araneta Coliseum 😉 #sentisabado
  • Identity Crisis and The Dawn are two of my fave local bands AND The Dawn! Enveloped Ideas is my favorite song. What’s yours?
  • di ba meron ding “Wea twins”? mga girls sila
  • slumbook hobbies: PEDROS = playing, eating,dancing,reading,outing,singing
  • teased hair +Aquanet spray net (i like mine in lilac canister)circa 80s,
  • Alice Dixon, “I can feel it!” http://youtu.be/qMWF-cKNCdk
  • I am the future of the world, I am the hope of my nation, I am tomorrow’s people, I am the new inspiration #sentisabado

It was really fun. Read more #sentisabado articles here and here.

Thanks Tonyo Cruz for #sentisabado.

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Electronic Flooding

Posted on June 21, 2010 by greenbucks| Leave a comment

Electronic flooding is a term (I think I read this term somewhere) applicable for a lot of people and you could be one of them. How?

Are you one of those who, upon waking up, check their emails first or go online to read about the latest happening worldwide?

Do you eat breakfast or lunch or dinner or all these meals with your mobile phone or netbook turned on beside your plate?

Must you know who commented or what comments came in your posted status update in your favorite social networking sites?

If you said “yes” to these, then you are definitely hooked on your gadgets.

Yes, not only do you accumulate these plethora of electronics but you are hooked to these like these are your lifeline. And when you have been away from your gadget for several minutes, you feel like everything will go wrong and the sky would fall down on you. An exaggeration of course but then again, this could be true.

When was the last time you ever finished a book? A real book?

When was the last time you sent and received a hand-written letter? When was the last time you turned off your gadget to concentrate on playing with your child(ren) and spending real bonding with them?

Electronic flooding makes the brain lose focus. Read on and see what it does to your brain. And mine too.

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