How to Make Sure You Never Miss a Tweet About Your Blog Content

FBBB social share

Ask any blogger how important social media is for their blog traffic, and they’ll (mostly) say very important. While search engines are key (and account for 2/3 of the traffic here at FBBB, so our SEO strategy is clearly working), social media is the third biggest driver of traffic after our subscribers. As you can [...]

Why Your Facebook Page Isn’t Going Anywhere

facebook page tips

Are you still searching for that magic bullet for your Facebook page so it would become very popular over night, have thousands of fans that will like your every post and click any link you post to your timeline? So am I. But based on my experience with everything I ever did in life, when [...]

How to Jump Start Your Social Media Presence Using Your Blog and Other Tricks

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Social media is really important… you have to do it… blah, blah, blah. We all know that. I know that and even though I was included in some Twitter power user lists I still struggle with accounts that aren’t related to my Online Income Star blog. The rules are always the same, but it just [...]

Using Instagram to Spice Up Your Facebook Page

Instagram

Instagram probably wasn’t on the top of your list of social media to get involved in but if you know that the most shared content on Facebook are images and that Instagram is all about images, you may see some future in it. I’ve been using Instagram for awhile, mostly for personal stuff, like sharing [...]

7 Social Media Pet Peeves and Their Fixes

social media pet peeves

Like many bloggers, I use (and love) social media a lot. It’s great for sharing, awareness, new finds and more. But, like many bloggers that use social media, I also have pet peeves about it. Now, I definitely have way more than 7 pet peeves when it comes to social media, but these will be [...]

3 Simple Ways to Expand Your Blog Through Social Media

Social bookmarking tips for bloggers

How are you sharing your blog? How are you making sure your content is found and then shared? Are you promoting yourself via social networks, or are you leaving that to your readers? Do you make sure potential clients know about your blog, if you’re using it as a business platform? Are you simply using [...]

Get Your Livefyre Commenting System Walk-through

Livefyre Commenting System

Here at For Bloggers, By Bloggers, we have talked a lot about Livefyre, our preferred commenting system.  And we proudly use it here on this blog. If you compare Livefyre to the WordPress vanilla commenting system, social sharing and realtime conversations are only two of the reasons to use Livefyre to turn your readers and [...]

Why Successful Bloggers Always Win the M&Ms Game

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Kids come to school with ideas already formed. About winning and losing. About being the best at something. About being stronger. Smarter. More cool. As a first grade teacher, I liked to shake things up a bit with my students. Challenge their little worlds. Get them to think differently.

Why Successful Bloggers Always Win the M&Ms Game

armwrestle

Kids come to school with ideas already formed. About winning and losing. About being the best at something. About being stronger. Smarter. More cool. As a first grade teacher, I liked to shake things up a bit with my students. Challenge their little worlds. Get them to think differently.