New pages from Facebook

New pages from Facebook, the long awaited changes to Facebook pages have arrived, I made a quick video of the slides in their announcement

https://guyrcook.com is the Contact Guy URL

Weekly Roundup – Guy R Cook 20130720

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

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

https://plus.google.com/u/3/+JaanaNystr%C3%B6m/posts?cfem=1

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:

Create a seed list of starting terms
Expand your list using keyword research tools
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 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:

Should I Upgrade my Website To Joomla! 2.5?

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.

http://www.astrapi-corp.com/Astrapi_Corporation_Team.html

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

http://uthinkido.com/

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:

Top 10 WordPress Plugins of the Month — June 2013 Edition

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.

http://blog.mailchimp.com/new-mailchimp-is-here/

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

Weekly Roundup – Guy R Cook 20130614

HI,

Yes, it’s a day late but things got hectic for a couple hours on Friday the 14th.

Here’s the weekly roundup for the week ending 6/14/2013

Will Sony or HTC phablets vanquish the mighty Galaxy Note? http://drippler.com/updates/share/will-sony-or-htc-phablets-vanquish-mighty-galaxy-note Via j.mp/getDrippler

http://wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-social-login/ posted in the WordPress circle in Google Plus https://plus.google.com/u/0/circles/wordpress-p3a93e2130d3ab0a8

According to the 2011 Blue Research report, “Consumer Perceptions of Online Registration and Social Login,” 77% of consumers believe social login should be offered — this is up from 66% in 2010. Additionally, nearly 8 in 10 consumers would prefer to login to sites using a social identity, versus traditional account creation. — read more.

Pinterest Success: Creative Ways to Use Pinterest for Your Business
Do you use Pinterest for business? Are you wondering how your business can benefit from Pinterest? To learn some creative ways to use Pinterest to help your business,

My Chrome Theme, was looking at a new Google Plus followers’ profile and saw a couple of posts he’d added about new Chrome Theme’s he’d created. Upon investigation, I found this link from the Google Chrome store for making themes “My Chrome Theme” is the name. Easy as cake to use, I’ve created 3 themes of my own, here are those links:

https://www.mychrometheme.com/t/28599mumrz7nb9s89stuqnh70 On The Water

https://www.mychrometheme.com/t/dxlq7p3wabj1pirx2jme1jq9t 1998orso

https://www.mychrometheme.com/t/ch649anh2f4g4s083diwv349x SunnyDayInSeattle

Also on that day somebody asked about WordPress Security (that’s a buzzword these days it seems) and here’s what I sent them as a starting point

http://codex.wordpress.org/Hardening_WordPress Security for WordPress

Is BING crawling your site, too much?

To crawl or not to crawl, that is BingBot’s question

http://www.bing.com/blogs/site_blogs/b/webmaster/archive/2012/05/03/to-crawl-or-not-to-crawl-that-is-bingbot-s-question.aspx

http://www.sitepoint.com/android-to-windows-8-top-10-windows-store-certification-tips/ Shared with a Frenchman that codes apps, he commented favorably on this information.

Complete Guide to Google Plus Posts and Photos by Martin Shervington

https://guycook.wordpress.com/2013/06/11/complete-guide-to-google-plus-posts-and-photos-by-martin-shervington/

10 Things You Never Knew You Could Do With A USB Flash Drive (got

http://pinterest.com/pin/204843483024013999/

http://www.thejackol.com/htaccess-cheatsheet/ htaccess Cheatsheet

http://overapi.com/ Collecting ALL the Cheat Sheets

Check out “Zoom Cloud HD Meetings” I am pretty sure you will like what it provides.

Check out “Brightest LED Flashlight”

http://trunk.evernote.com/app/one-browser/android ONE Browser is a fast and smart mobile browser designed for Android. More than 40 million people use ONE Browser around the world. Navigate the web and send whatever you want to Evernote (webpages, images, text) with just one click.