Category: Pinterest pins

PInterest is a content sharing service that allows members to “pin” images, videos and other objects to their pinboard. Some of mine are listed here.

Weekly Roundup – Guy R Cook 20130720

Guy R Cook - President vDomainHosting, Inc

https://www.facebook.com/help/332626706817162/

Managing facebook Ads With Power Editor

You can’t currently create Custom Audiences within the self-serve ad tool, although you can select ones that have already been created. You’ll need to use Power Editor to create them. Power Editor is a bulk ad editing tool created by Facebook. It’s a browser plugin that currently works with most browsers. Simply go to Facebook Power Editor to get started.

Tech and Coffee mug arrived today.

Tech and Coffee #publichangouts is run by a bunch of tech savvy people. Below are a few examples of the topics we may discuss;

  • G+ Features
  • Linux / Windows / Mac / UNIX
  • General Computing
  • Mobile Devices
  • Code / Hacking
  • Videography & Photography
  • Coffee
  • Sleeping
  • News and Current Events

Tech and Coffee Mug

When Device Recognition and Programmatic Buying Intersect – A Mobile World Where Everyone Wins

So how can publishers take advantage of this opportunity? How are OpenX and AdTruth using technology such as universal device recognition to deliver more effective mobile ad inventory with high quality mobile audiences? And how does Real Time Bidding (RTB) work for publishers on mobile devices? – See more at: http://blog.openx.org/07/todays-webinar-when-device-recognition-and-programmatic-buying-intersect-a-mobile-world-where-everyone-wins/#sthash.UMhOAS8U.dpuf

Jaana Nyström

Works at Social Media entrepreneur. Google+ Discuss TC.
Lives in Jyväskylä, Finland
468,415 have her in circles

Screen Sizes for mobile phones

Doing research for Mobile Phone screen sizes, got this link

http://screensiz.es/phone

There are quite a few great, thorough keyword research guides on the internet (see here, here, and here). In general, they tell you to follow this process:

  1. Create a seed list of starting terms
  2. Expand your list using keyword research tools
  3. Refine your list with competitive research

The KISSmetrics Guide To Keyword Research – Part I: Keyword Discovery http://blog.kissmetrics.com/keyword-research-part-1/ 

Keyword Research for Web Writers and Content Producers http://www.copyblogger.com/keyword-research/ 

How to do Keyword research – The beginners guide to SEO http://moz.com/beginners-guide-to-seo/keyword-research

Google XML sitemap validator tool

http://www.xml-sitemaps.com/seo-tools.html

A tool which will validate your xml sitemap and optionally ping Google to inform them of their location.

Our xml sitemap validator will inform you straight away if there are any problems with your sitemaps allowing you to make changes prior to submitting it to Google.

You can also optionally ping Search Engines with the whereabouts of your sitemap. Supported search engines are:

  • Google
  • Bing
  • Yahoo
  • Ask.com

Please note that we would recommend you inform Google of your sitemaps via the Google Webmaster Tools.

Longitude / Latitude

 http://itouchmap.com/latlong.html   To find the latitude and longitude of a point Click on the map, Drag the marker, or enter the…Address:

PSAMA Pulse Awards

The PSAMA Pulse Awards highlight the region’s best marketing strategies, creativity, and results. This award recognizes marketers who best understood the pulse of their audience, and really embraced the marketplace and its objectives. This is the only marketing awards competition of its kind in Washington State. Awards Category finalists are chosen by a professional panel of judges, but the ultimate winners are chosen by you.

http://pulseawards.org/

Shopcade

Shopcade is your personal shopping app. Discover new products, create lists of the things you want, and get exclusive deals. ~ Twitter: @Shopcade; Instagram: @Shopcade; FB: Facebook.com/Shopcade     Found on Pinterest @ http://pinterest.com/shopcade/

Chocolate Festival links

Build has begun for space for the Chocolate Festival here are some links I came across in researching for this event.

 Orange County Chocolate Festival! http://www.occhocolatefestival.com/
21st Annual Oakdale Chocolate Festival  http://www.oakdalechamber.com/chocolate-festival-rootmenu-41
Lewisburg, West Virginia Chocolate Festival http://www.lewisburgchocolatefestival.com/
Cincinnati Chocolate Festival 2012 — A Bigger Box of Chocolates! http://cincinnatichocolatefestival.com/ 
Ramsbottom Chocolate Festival | the UK’s Original, Award Winning, Biggest & Best Family Friendly Chocolate Festival http://www.ramsbottomchocolatefestival.com/ 
Colorado Chocolate Festival http://www.chocolate-festival.org/
The Chocolate Festival – Welcome to the Chocolate Festival  http://www.festivalchocolate.co.uk/

How to Find Great Content to Share on Twitter

What content are you sharing on Twitter?

Do you struggle to find interesting, relevant things to tweet about every day?

Weekly Roundup – Guy R Cook 20130713

Guy R Cook - President vDomainHosting, Inc

http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/1O7pTJ/:6oIbVPeA:2lOR.IFu/weavesilk.com/?fls/   found weavesilk.com by accident via StumbleUpon.com as a part of setting that up in Chrome browser.

http://www.google.com/script/start/   Google Apps Script is a JavaScript cloud scripting language that provides easy ways to automate tasks across Google products and third party services and build web applications.
 
 If you’re on Twitter, make sure you’re following @vDomainHosting for more updates.
Check My Links – Check My Links is a link checker that crawls through your webpage and looks for broken links.  Available for Google Chrome browser in the store for extensions.
Configure dual delivery – Understanding the legacy server primary configuration

What Does it Take to Be on the First Page of Google?

Recently Netmark.com performed a massive correlation study to better understand Google’s algorithm after the Penguin 2.0 update. The data from the Netmark research was not only useful for the correlation study, but also allowed viewing the search results from a lot of different perspectives. In the linked infographic, (checkout the vDomainHosting Pinterest if you like Inforgraphics) Netmark evaluated the top 10 search results in order to understand what it takes to be on the first page of Google.

Lightbox Ads 

Lightbox ads bring full-screen creative to the scale of the web, helping you engage consumers with your brand’s story. They begin in standard, scalable ad units, but then expand into a near full-screen canvas that supports full rich-media capabilities. Embed a YouTube video, game, or shopping experience in your ad to grab your customer’s attention. Lightbox Ads qualify user engagement by requiring users to hover over the ad unit for two-seconds before expanding.

Two links from Stumbleupon in the past week I”m sharing here are these:

Excel Formulas: 10 Formulas That Helped Me Keep My Job

and

Free online file converter

The entire collection is at this link  http://www.stumbleupon.com/stumbler/guyrcook  Follow other StumbleUpon users to see their favorite websites, videos, photos and images from across the Web.

Add a Pinterest button or widget to your website. You can also add a Pin It button to your iOS or Android app.

Everything You Need to Know about the new +1 on Google+

5 crazy SEO mistakes not to make in WordPress  – thanks wordtracker.com

A part of the above got me some other resources for WordPress and use of categories and tags.

and

What Are Tags?  – your blog’s index words.

And I liked

Lorelle put it best by defining categories as your blog’s table of contents, and tags as your blog’s index words.

How to Get Google’s Verified Authorship for your WordPress Blog

How To Be Included In Google’s News Feed

JOOMLA TIP

If your Joomla 2.5.xx install errors in the Extension Manager saying:
JFolder::create: Could not create directory
Warning: Failed to move file!

Try this fix that worked for me:

1 go to the directory where I installed Joomla.
2 find configuration.php file
3 change access level for this file to 755: it is necessary for the changes to remain
4 open it and Change next lines to:
var $log_path = ‘./logs’;
var $tmp_path = ‘./tmp’;
5 than save it.

Be sure you reset your permissions back to 444 on the configuration.php file

Glassdoor.com
http://fwisp.com/tag/web+design   fwisp-Top Business & Financial Blogosphere Links
http://blogmarks.net/   Blogmarks.net is a social bookmarking service.
http://www.arto.com/ On Arto you can share pictures, videos,

create friendbooks, make a blog and much more.
You can participate in fun quizzes, interesting
threads in the forum and join thousands of groups
– or try some of the fun games.

 
http://n4g.com/    Hottest Game News & Rumors | N4G
 
http://www.corank.com/user/guyrcook  A better way to get, keep and share the web you want
http://my.vcita.com/vdomainhosting is the profile page for this service.
Everything Your Small Business Needs Online!
Client Engagement, Management and Retention
by vCita.com and so far like it.  The profile is at

Weekly Roundup – Guy R Cook 20130621

HI,   It’s Saturday PM, and now have got the front yard mowed, so have a minute to update the post I call  “Weekly Roundup”  this is for the week ending 6/21 of 2013 to help make sense of what 20130613 means.    LOTS of busy work, the hurry and wait sort, –end whine here.    Here’s some of the week’s highlights I wanted to share.

Here’s the URL for the online version of Website Magazine The Magazine for Website Success – July 2013 Special Issue in PDF format Have a peek at the Top 50 Prospect and Customer Management Solutions and more.

http://pinterest.com/pin/204843483024041180/  This is an infographic that I”ve pinned to the vDomainHosting Pinterest account, that has 5 Tips for a more Successful CALL TO ACTION (No all caps wasn’t one of them)  and do consider following our pins that you find of interest there.

Speaking of Pinterest, here’s a “How-to” Guide for advertising on Pinterest, this seemed to be a good place to add that link from Pinterest  (if you haven’t already added Pinterest to your dictionary, it’s not going to go away soon, so be ready to add that next time you’re posting in your WordPress powered blog.

The infographic on how to decide if it’s time to upgrade that good ol’ Joomla 1.5 site to 2.5.x or not is from the blog at themepartner.com , not that they’re a partner but they did make a very good infographic to answer the question:

Another nice post I found was about explaining how to Use Google Analytics to Track Results , easy as cake.

vDomainHosting, Inc.  the company that I”m President of was selected by Thumbtack.com to be in what they call a “Spotlight” I’m quite proud of that, here’s the link to the webpage that has our spotlight on the right hand side @  http://goo.gl/iZuH8 Read more about us @ Thumbtack.com – Find & book 260,000 local services | Top 10 Web Hosting Services in Tacoma, WA

Another class is in outline and it’s started from here:
Planning Session, you did that right? – GuyRCook Online Services  talking about more classes for the Sidney Gallery and Museum, so starting at the get-go seemed in order.  If you start ANY website, and don’t plan it first, well, it’s like making a new dog house without a tape measure, that doesn’t work either.

And before I get further along here,

Happy National Small Business Week to all of America’s Small Businesses!

And not to nag, but, remember the infographic about your Joomla install?  Didn’t look?  Here are ‘the words’

Joomla 1.5 was released at the start of 2008. After that 3 Joomla major revisions have been released, and many minor updates. Joomla 1.5 is currently obsolete, and is no longer supported by upgrades or patches. Therefore it is not only soft target for malware and hackers but as an out of date platform, no extension for it are being released.

Moving on to new Joomla will provide site with all modern enhancements under the hood, and it will have culmination of all security updates released till now. Site will be able to use all modern Joomla extensions

In short, upgrading will make the site more secure, easier to manage and scalable. These factors will cut expenditure in long run. Not to mention, corporations are upgrading their Joomla sites in volumes, and our upgrade team is engaged all around the month.

I had to test a link from a client related to Pinterest.com called

http://pinstamatic.com/#quote so that means I need a quote, long ago pre-2000 a man said to me “If it isn’t tested, it doesn’t work.”  More about Jerrold Prothero, Ph.D. 

If you need a break now, then try this:

Create your “What people think I do, What I really do” meme easily
and share it to the world

Ok? and do share those when you’re done, so we’ll know what you really do, it’s lots better to have a pictorial record than have to guess.

ManageWP has produced another list of what they call:

ON the morning of June 20th, a tweet caught my eye and led me  into this link:
What It’s Like to See the Aurora From Space http://on.mash.to/11yk8Ic via @mashable

Google Analytics Launches New Analytics Administration Center

OK, I too when I first read this headline @B2Community thought “Oh no, all my dashboards won’t work”   They do work, how do you like the new look?   Can you see it more importantly, are you using Google Webmaster Tools with your efforts in Google Analytics?

Facebook – Stack Overflow is a question and answer site for facebook developers. It’s 100% free, no registration required.  So if you have questions, this is the link for that: http://facebook.stackoverflow.com/  

The new mailchimp is here, optimized for tablets.  Here’s that link, if you’re not sure what MailChimp is about, don’t stay that way, it’s a great tool.

Marketing:
Oh good you’re still here, I read an excellent post about Tips on Designing our Marketing Dashboard, from Tips on How to Design Your Marketing Dashboard post, I read it all, very good from ChamberOfCommerce.com and a resource proved from eConsultantcy- all about marketing excellence is 10 useful Google Analytics custom dashboards
and here’s a bit of .htaccess basic protection for ‘most’ of the common XSS attacks:
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} base64_encode.*\(.*\) [OR]
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} (\<|%3C).*script.*(\>|%3E) [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} (\<|%3C).*iframe.*(\>|%3E) [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} GLOBALS(=|\[|\%[0-9A-Z]{0,2}) [OR]
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} _REQUEST(=|\[|\%[0-9A-Z]{0,2})
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index_error.php [F,L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_METHOD} ^(TRACE|TRACK)
RewriteRule .* - [F]

Hope you had a great week, here’s to having another one this coming week.

Guy

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Weekly Roundup – Guy R Cook 20130607

20130607

Added tweet post so that KEEK account could be verified, in Twitter and it got added to the Facebook ‘automagically’

Upgraded Dropbox to version 2.0.26

http://www.justin-klein.com/projects/facebook-photo-fetcher/ Facebook Photo Fetcher is a WordPress plugin that allows you to quickly and easily generate WordPress photo galleries from any Facebook album you can access. So, as a test, http://fathomsofun.org/blog/concerts-by-the-bay-20130606-hook-me-up/ was created.

Ifttt.com allows you to syndicate to over 50 different sites.

BlogCatalog.com – helps you connect with other bloggers to share ideas and posts

DemandStudios.com – distributes your blog posts to publishers like USAToday.com, Salon.com and eHow.com

Amazon.com – submit your blog to https://kindlepublishing.amazon.com/gp/vendor and get paid when Kindle owners read it.

NetworkedBlogs.com – Get found and get more traffic when you submit your blog. Also links to Facebook.

Alltop.com – syndicates content in every category, from autos and food to business and sports.

Scribnia.com – the source for reader reviews of the web’s bloggers and columnists

Syndic8.com – syndicates blogs that cover a wide variety of topics, one of the most popular syndication services.

EvanCarmichael.com – If you provide business-related content, this site is a must.

OutBrain.com – syndicates your blog posts to sites like CNN.com and FastCompany.com

20130606

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO/IEC_27002#Implementation_example_of_ISO.2FIEC_27002  example of information security policies, a good starting resource to review your 5 year old policies.

20130605

http://fosterinternetadvisor.blogspot.com  An excellent blog, Foster’s Forum by name.
Google Apps
Google Apps is a cloud-based productivity suite that helps you and your team connect and get work done from anywhere on any device. It’s simple to set up, use and manage, allowing you to work smarter and focus on what really matters.

20130604

Listen To Your Customers

http://evernote.com/skitch/  Get your point across with fewer words using annotation, shapes and sketches, so that your ideas become reality faster.  A great addon for Evernote.

RE:  The setup of Google Apps accounts – What you’ll do in the setup wizard (see above)

Our easy-to-use wizard will walk you through all the steps in the setup process, without disrupting your web site or email system. Here’s what you’ll do:

  1. Verify domain ownership << Wait 15 min to 48 hrs for this to be done.

  2. Create user(s)  (Use the email instructions tab, copy those into Keypass and cc to Project Manager that are sent to the GMAIL address of the new user)

                  A.  The next step prompts me to setup billing.

  1. Run a pilot if you need to test the product or deployment process

  2. Activate email and setting up access on mobile phones

  3. Decide whether to migrate your old data, and how much to migrate

  4. Add core Google apps such as Calendar, Drive, and Sites

  5. Add apps from the Google Apps Marketplace to make your business more productive

20130603

BING site verifications, check & confirm they’re correct.
Updated blog roll on Tumblr with the Hubspot top marketing blogs
17 Essential Content Templates and Checklists By far, the most popular post ever published at the Content Marketing Institute

How To Setup WordPress SEO by Yoast

http://www.getawaymavens.com/
Getaway Mavens | Travel Blog | Offbeat Escapes in the Northeast

Weekly Roundup – Guy R Cook 20130517

Weekly Roundup of content shared from the desk of Guy R Cook – Web Developer

lnkd.in/29eWrR  The question is favorite CMS. The answer is Joomla.
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http://www.slideshare.net/guyrcook1/business-plan-21043522  Business plan by  on May 12, 2013
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http://pinterest.com/pin/204843483023864305/  vDomainHosting, Inc via Your Social Media Company
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http://t.co/kBQ5vFhFB0 Should Your Business Be on Pinterest?
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http://pinterest.com/pin/204843483023864352/  Who Really Uses LinkedIn?
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Woody Alen said it best:  85% of Success is just showing up.
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Wow! I have just updated bunch of things on my WordPress sites thanks to @ManageWP :)/ https://managewp.com 
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B2B Marketing: 9 Ideas for Solving Your Biggest Content Challenges http://goo.gl/fb/T6Exe 
from B2B Thursday, yesterday PM  some good ideas about Content Marketing challenges.
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http://www.portorchard.com/footferry/ coded a schedule, and today added light-box powered logo’s in the bottom.