5 Tips for the New Facebook Timeline for Personal Profiles

Facebook is beginning to roll out the new timeline design for personal profiles for more users. If you haven’t looked at your profile yet, you should go check it out now. It may look similar to this.

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Basically, your updates, updates posted to your wall by others, and updates you are tagged in show up on the right column. All of the stuff that was previously beneath your timeline cover photo (about, friends, photos, places, notes, etc.) are in the left column. Also added to the left column are sections for music, movies, TV shows, and books you like plus sections for services you use like Instagram, Pinterest, Quora, and so forth.

Editing Your Sections

The first thing I thought when I saw this new layout is that I didn’t necessarily want some of these sections on my profile. Fortunately, that’s not a problem. Just hover over one of those sections and click on the pencil icon.

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Using this menu, you can choose edit all of your sections.

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While the About, Friends, and Photos section are mandatory, the rest of the sections can be toggled on and off as well as rearranged.

 


How to Contact Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, and Other Social Networks

Do you have a burning question you want to ask the support team at a popular social network, but you gave up because you couldn’t find the actual contact form through the endless maze of self-serve support documentation? If so, then you’re in the right place. The following are links to the contact information for Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Google+, Instagram, Pinterest, StumbleUpon, and Reddit.

How to Contact Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google+, and Other Social Networks

How to Contact Facebook Support

Out of all social networks, I would guess it is likely that you have had a question for Facebook at some point and eventually just asked another Facebook user or expert to get it answered because Facebook Help is probably one of the worst to find the right contact form for a support issue.

The reason? They have over 150 contact forms! Probably more, but here are the ones I discovered.

Signup and Login Issues

 


4 Ways to Fully Embrace the Social Media Trio and Maximize Results

This is a guest post by Daniel Sharkov.

The Social Media TrioSocial media – hate it or love it, but if you want to get your business ahead, you have to embrace it.

SEO definitely hasn’t lost its value, but nowadays finding your place among all those top-ranking sites is a tough and sometimes impossible task. Lately social media is turning into the easier way to gain exposure.

But…

As easy as getting social media traffic is, the more saturated a medium becomes, the harder focusing that traffic flow to you becomes. So, with thousands and thousands of marketers trying to get ahead of their games, you need to stand out!

Today’s post will take a look at four relatively easy ways to make a head start in the social game!

First off, what’s that social media trio?

No, I actually don’t think the answer isn’t something we already know. The three networks I am referring to are Facebook, Twitter and Google Plus.

Why I’ve chosen them?

  • Twitter - By utilizing a variety of tools I’ve been able to reach almost 60,000 followers. No overnight results though – for this to happen, I needed more than two years! And although Twitter might not be popular among most people it is popular among marketers. Not all businesses have a fan page but almost all have a Twitter account.
  • Facebook - As I said not as many businesses use Facebook, which makes for a less competition. Generating Facebook fans if you already have a blog and content to promote isn’t all that difficult. Facebook traffic makes for lower bounce rates and longer time spent on the blog.
  • Google Plus - It seems like many marketers steer away from Google’s social media platform. Although Google Plus has a relatively smaller userbase than say Facebook, the numbers are still in the millions range and the traffic potential will keep improving throughout time.

Having cleared that up, on to the actual tips we move!

 


My Favorite Social Media Resources For The Top 3: Twitter, Facebook, and Google+!

This is a guest post by Samuel Pustea.

Social media will bring you results, it will.

Extraordinaire results! If you don’t believe me, just take a good hard look at Kristi Hines and Jeff Bullas.

They have thrived on the internet through the engagement they have created on their favorite social media sites. But they have done it through much trial and error and did not hesitate to respond to criticism.

Are you able to work hard on these social media sites and optimize you results? If are willing to put in the work, then these resources are for you!

If you are constantly asking these questions to yourself, then it is time to read and get new services for your help.

Want to get more followers on Twitter?

Are you looking to rack more likes for your Facebook page?

Still wondering if you should invest time into Google+?

These resources are my favorite and have been able the answer my questions from above… questions I had for my own website, Internet Dreams.

For my favorite three social media sites – Facebook, Twitter, and Google Plus – the following resources are my favorite and soon to be yours!

 


How to Beat Facebook EdgeRank and Never Miss Your Favorite Updates

By now, you’ve all heard about Facebook EdgeRank. For those who haven’t, it is Facebook’s algorithm to determine what status updates are displayed in each user’s newsfeed.

Facebook EdgeRank Explained

The Facebook EdgeRank algorithm is based on three things:

  • The user’s engagement level with the person, page, or group sending the update.
  • The type of update the person, page, or group is posting. Status update types rank in order of photo, text, video, and links when it comes to overall engagement (although video updates get more shares than text updates) according to this study by Dan Zarrella.
  • The age of the status update. The older it gets, the less likely it is to show up in the newsfeed unless it has a ton of social engagement.

How to Beat Facebook EdgeRank as a User Who Wants Their Updates

If you’re tired of not seeing updates in your newsfeed from your favorite people, pages, or groups, here’s what you need to do.

Don’t Miss Updates from Friends

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When it comes to updates from friends, you have three choices. You can choose to:

  • Get Notifications – This will show you a notification in the upper left side of your Facebook screen that your friend has posted a status update.
  • Show in News Feed – This will ensure more of your friend’s updates are shown in your News Feed, but you could still easily miss them depending on number of friends, subscriptions, and pages you follow.
  • Close Friends – This adds your friend to a list that automatically enables Get Notifications and Show in News Feed.

By doing this, it will help friends not have to succumb to paying for Facebook advertising which is now available to personal profiles as well as business pages.

If we’re friends on Facebook, be sure to try this now with my profile.