Category Archives: Social Media

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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Makapal

Posted on September 23, 2010 by greenbucks| 12 Comments

Meron na akong larawan para sa MAKAPAL ngunit dahil sa mga kaganapan kagabi gawa ng isang scraper ng teksto at larawan ng mga food bloggers, uulitin ko ang larawan na isang screencap na ginawa ko kagabi.

Makapal siya kasi nangne-nenok siya ng gawa ng iba. Tulad ng larawan ng pagkain ng yan, di niya yan niluto, nandito yun oh.

What a sham. What a shame.

UPDATE! nawala na ang kusinero blag ni kumag pero napakadami pala niyang Facebook fan page na puro ninenok din niya ang laman. the nerve talaga.

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Pledge About Nutrition and Win Kraft Gift Packs

Posted on September 8, 2010 by greenbucks| Leave a comment

In line with the recently concluded July Nutrition Month, Kraft’s Palamantasan ng Sarap, Sustansiya at Saya is hosting a contest for Facebook users. More about Palamantasan here.

Read here how you can win Kraft gift packs as you pledge to have a healthier lifestyle.

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Check Your Privacy Settings

Posted on February 17, 2010 by greenbucks| 3 Comments

Google Buzz definitely stirred a lot of controversies since the day it came into existence.

Ok, I admit, I was excited at first but when I see names of people appearing in my Google mail, responding to the posts of some of those I’m following, I tweaked the privacy settings and the sites connected to me to give me a sense of (a little) security from being exposed to people I do not know.

Not that I feel I should have taken diet pills before my photos are seen ( 😀 ) but you know, not all the people in your mailing list are people that you exactly want to share personal info with.

There are contacts that I do not personally know in my mailing list such as there are people I come in contact with in social networking sites that I do not personally know too. Even if I share common friends with them it does not necessarily mean that they are my friends already.

Like with Facebook, before the change in privacy settings took place, I went the super private way, by being not searchable by people I would not ask to be a contact in the first place. I just did a several changes in the privacy setting which I discussed in this post after they made searching for friends easier.

What about you? Have you checked your privacy settings lately?

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