How to automatically market your website on social networks

Digital Marketing

In this post I’m going to describe how to automatically market your website on social networks (using WordPress).

Social media networks are a great way to tell the world about your website. However posting to various social media networks like twitter, facebook, google plus and so on can be a time consuming process. Wouldn’t it be great if you could just create great posts on your website and automatically promote your website on multiple social networks. Well you can ! And I’m going to tell you how.

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How to add an email signature in gmail

gmail settings

I use gmail for my email and its very handy.

I wanted to add a signature to my email as its useful to promote your business (never miss an easy opportunity to market your business). Showing things like your phone number , website address, twitter address and so.

Its very easy todo just login to your gmail then click the Cog wheel icon in the top right of the screen to show the settings option (and click that too). As in the image above.

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See whos not following me on Twitter (using Javascript)

Recently I was looking for a way to see whos not following me on Twitter ( who I was following on Twitter that wasn’t following me back).

There seem to be a few websites that do this but you need to sign up for an account and so on. I just wanted something I could quickly type in the browser and be done (I’m rather impatient sometimes).

So a quick search of the web threw up some code that I could copy and paste to let me see whos not following me on Twitter. I’m going to run through how to use this.

1. Goto twitter and login to your account

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Speed Up WordPress

speed up wordpress by analysing firebug

Recently I’ve been looking at ways to make my website load more quickly (its a WordPress website so i needed to speed up WordPress). I’ll talk generally about some of the main ways to increase the download speed of websites and how I applied this to WordPress (the specific plugins and so on that I used to achieve the speed increases).

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What makes a good website

In this article I’m going to focus on what makes a good business website. The kind of website local businesses need (but many of the features described are relevant to most websites).

The aim of asking ‘What makes a good website’ is highlight some of the features that can help local business websites to generate more sales , a good website makes this as easy as possible for a potential customer to see the information they need (be it products, phone number , location , type of service etc ) , to make a purchase.

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Installing ChromeDriver for WebDriver – For the Techies (Java)

If your using Webdriver to automate your web testing you’ll already know what a great tool it is. This is a quick note on installing ChromeDriver for WebDriver (to test using the Chrome Browser). 1. get the latest version of chrome driver from this url http://chromedriver.storage.googleapis.com/index.html 2. unzip this and place it whenever you want 3. … Read more