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Jeremy Blanton

Adding Links to a WordPress Site Using TablePress

Custom WordPress Sites

TablesI recently was working on a client site in which they used TablePress to create a three column table for one of the pages inside their Custom WordPress Site.  She was a real estate agent and had made a table with various cities within her area.

After she created the table though, she was having figuring out how to transform her cells into hyperlinks.  She wanted to link each city to a custom search she created within her home search function of her site.

So, I created this quick video to walk her through.  I hope it helps others as well.

If you need help with your Custom WordPress Site, feel free to contact me for assistance.

Ask A Social Media Advisor- Generating Good Quality Backlinks For SEO

Custom WordPress Sites, SEO, Social Media Advisors

LinkToday’s Ask A Social Media Advisor question came from Pam Graham, and it relates to SEO (Search Engine Optimization) and how to generate good quality backlinks to her custom wordpress site.

Here are a few simple ways you can start to generate good quality backlinks to your site while only using white hat SEO techniques.  These are safe strategies you can implement today and keep you out of trouble with the various search engines.

The first thing I’d suggest is to make sure you have your bios up to date everywhere. Each one should have your photo, name, description, and also a link to your website whenever they allow it.

While some services like Facebook might add a <nofollow> tag, not all services do that and you can really gain some good links from that alone.  Go back through all those various social networks you signed up for but never even completed your profile and make sure to get your links in to your website and everything else completed.

In the video I mention a few good places to get some nice backlinks to your site.  Here are a few of those that take no time to set up:

In addition to services like the ones listed above, some blogs allow comments to be followed by search engines, so leaving comments that are valuable to the conversation and are not spammy can be a good source of links as well.

The final way to build powerful backlinks are by requesting to write a guest post on someone else’s site. I’ve been able to build some really good links by doing this for my site over the past few years.  Not only do I write guest posts for others, I also LOVE having them from time to time on my site.  In fact, I’ve had several guest bloggers here on this site over the past several years.  If you would like to contribute, contact me about the possibility of being a guest blogger.

*Bonus Tip For Generating Backlinks: One simple way to generate good quality backlinks is by creating content on your site that others would want to link to.  If you are a real estate agent and you are sharing valuable information about the current state of the market, there’s a good possibility a news source like the local newspaper or station might link to your blog post when covering the story on their site.  Or, a business might link to your post if you share a nice review of their product or service.

If you begin to implement some of these different strategies above into your daily routine, it won’t be long till you are seeing the SEO benefits of backlinks into your site.

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Ask A Social Media Advisor- How To Get Ustream Broadcasts Onto YouTube

Social Media Advisors

Broadcast cameraUstream is a great video broadcasting service that allows you to cover live events and broadcast them out to the world for free.  The video can be shot with complex TV quality cameras or with a device as simple as your smartphone.

The one problem though with the free account is that you are limited to only 10GB of storage space on their server.  While it may seem like that is a huge amount of storage space, if you are recording lengthy broadcasts, it can fill up that storage space pretty quickly. Once your account is full, you then have a quandary.  Do you delete some of the older broadcasts and lost the valuable content?  What about those places that have the broadcast embedded and will now be left with blank content?  Obviously deleting isn’t a good option.

One function that Ustream provides is to upload directly to YouTube your videos.  The only problem is that some accounts on YouTube are still limited to 15 minutes on the length of video you may upload, this can cause you problems.  In the video example below, I am showing you how to move the broadcasts from a church’s Ustream channel.  Most of their videos are 45-60 minutes in length, so if you try using the automatic transfer option, you get an error code back.

So, here’s how you go about getting your videos from Ustream over to YouTube:

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Ask A Social Media Advisor- How To Comment As Yourself On Facebook Pages You Manage

Facebook, Facebook For Business, Social Media Advisors

How to like on Facebook PagesIt’s time for another installment in my Ask A Social Media Advisor series.  Today I answer a question from my client Troi Kaz, a real estate agent in South Carolina that sells DeBordieu Homes.  Her question was:

I manage or co-administrate about 6 Facebook pages for charities and school organizations. (I know, I’m crazy.)  Often I want to comment or “like” as myself and don’t know how to do that without showing up as the charity or organization.  How can I comment or “like” as myself?

Surprisingly it’s pretty easy to do with just a few simply clicks inside your Facebook page.  Here’s how:


So make those few clicks and start commenting on a Facebook page you manage with your personal profile.

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