Optimising SlideshareMost clients I speak with have heard of Slideshare – the ‘YouTube’ for powerpoints – and some are even using it. But I haven’t met too many who optimise their Slideshare profiles to their keyword strategy.

Optimising means that people can then find your profile and presentations better in Google, or when they search from within Slideshare.

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Facebook page vanity URLMany companies nowadays have a Facebook page. But often they forget to claim their ‘vanity URL’.

When we started our Facebook Page, the URL of our Facebook Page looked like this:

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Have you tried searching for your company details in Google Maps? Probably. But it’s even more likely that your clients or potential customers have.

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The information about your company in Google Maps is ripped from other websites, like the yellow pages. This information can be edited by anyone; Wikipedia style.

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Linkedin Company Profile Group A Architects RotterdamI have often been asked by my clients how to create a company profile on Linkedin.

Creating a company profile on LinkedIn helps you get found in LinkedIn searches. Your company profile can also be found by people searching in Google.

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I recently came across a post on Hubspot called ‘9 Worst Ways to Use Twitter for Business’. The #1 Worst Way in this Hubspot blog post is ‘Be Overly Self-Promotional’. That’s a great insight. Most businesses are just so used to promoting their stuff that it’s not easy to switch their head-set to a more ‘social’ approach.

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Shameless Blog Promotion image of woman holding up signOK. You are just starting out with your blog or social media newsroom. You have written and published a great blog post, and it now sits there on your blog.

Because your blog posts are search engine optimised to your Keyword Strategy (On Page SEO), you will eventually start getting traffic through search engines.

But you also want some people on your blog TODAY!

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How to become visible on the social webI ran into a helpful little website called ‘We Are Visible’. It offers a couple of really easy to follow video tutorials, that help you set up a Gmail account, a Twitter account, a Facebook page and a WordPress blog even.

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Over the years, your old website has probably gained loads of incoming links from other websites.

These links do two things. They help people find your site from other websites, which gives you traffic. Plus, they also help improve your SEO – your search engine optimisation, which helps you get better search engine results.

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As a marketer, you or your department, will sometimes be dealing with nastly little executional issues related to publishing content on the web.

In my blog post last week I discussed adjusting the code from SlideShare presentations, so they look cleaner when you embed them.

Another problem you might encounter is the size of the object not fitting your blog. For instance a YouTube video might be too wide for your blog. This way the video will overlaps the column next to your content area.

The same could happen to a SlideShare presentation or to any content (video, image) you are embedding in your blog or social media newsroom.

Here’s how you solve it:

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A good part of my work involves helping my clients publish content, such as presentations, pdfs, videos, and so on, in social media channels.

In the process I often encounter messy tactical issues that need solving. To help you become a better marketer on the social web, I’ve made it a habit to share the solutions with you.

Here’s one:

I was embedding a SlideShare presentation into an article on a social media newsroom. As a default, SlideShare includes additional information – such as title and author – in the embedding code. Makes my newsroom look messy and ugly. Me no like.

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