Why Facebook’s Debugger Tool Should Be In Your Content Creation Arsenal

Why Facebook’s Debugger Tool Should Be In Your Content Creation Arsenal

Facebook; for many content creators it’s a great place to help seed content and get it noticed.  But what a lot of people fail to realize is that how that content is shared and how it appears on Facebook can be greatly impacted by how Facebook initially scrapes the content.  If Facebook scrapes bad information or can’t access information about the content, it can impact everything from title, to description, and even the imagery associated with the post.  Left uncorrected, any…

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Why I’ve (Mostly) Stopped Reading SEO Blogs, and What I’m Reading Now

Why I’ve (Mostly) Stopped Reading SEO Blogs, and What I’m Reading Now

If this is your first visit to my blog, you probably noticed its been nearly a year since my last blog post.  There are a couple of reasons for that. 1) I simply haven’t had time between agency life, family and other ventures I’m involved in and 2) I was starting to realize how big of an echo chamber the SEO industry and its blogsophere had become.  It felt like everyone was talking, but no one was saying anything new and…

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Why a New Facebook Feature Means It’s Time To Get Serious About Blog Images and OpenGraph

Why a New Facebook Feature Means It’s Time To Get Serious About Blog Images and OpenGraph

Over the last couple of weeks, Facebook has been quietly rolling out a new feature to Facebook Page admins that is going to force content creators to start seriously thinking about their use of imagery and Open Graph protocol on their content. What It Does The feature, which I just discovered this past Friday allows Page admins to disregard the images suggested by Facebook for a shared piece of content and instead upload an image of their own.  The feature…

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Four Automated Sources for Content Curation and Inspiration

Four Automated Sources for Content Curation and Inspiration

For as long as I have blogged I have struggled with one particular aspect of the process; coming up with topics.  It’s a pretty crucial step and yet its probably the most difficult for me.  Its why I don’t stick to a schedule on any of my blogs and its why I don’t participate in the guest post circuit much.  With that said, I recognize inspiration when I see it, which is why I authored 500+ Blog Topics for the Blogger That’s Stuck…

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Why NetworkedBlogs May Not Be the Best Way To Push Your Blog’s Content to Facebook

Why NetworkedBlogs May Not Be the Best Way To Push Your Blog’s Content to Facebook

There are a number of free services available to push your blog traffic to Facebook, and an array of other social networks.  One of the more popular services that I have not only used, but recommended in the past was NetworkedBlogs.  NetworkedBlogs is an extremely popular app used by a number of professional and amateur bloggers to not only push their content to Facebook, but to connect with their other favorite blogs via Facebook. Overall it’s a great service, the…

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