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Create a beautiful car portal using Automotive Automotive is a vehicle directory theme powered by our Tevolution plugin. One might call Automotive a spiritual successor to the Automobile theme released back in 2010. Since Automobile v2 won’t be coming after all, we’ll be allowing existing Automobile owners to upgrade their license to Automotive. Those owners will be happy to hear that features such as advanced search and afront-end submission formare finally available. One of the requests we received quite often for Automobile theme was to include functionality that will allow people to manage both cars and vehicles such as motorcycles. Well, with Tevolution and it’screate a new post typefunctionality this is finally available. After a post type is created the plugin will even generate unique sidebar areas so you can provide content unique to that post type. Automotive is a mobile-friendly theme. Visit the demo site with your phone to see it in action Making Money with Automotive Since money-oriented themes are our “thing”, Automotive has been designed with one key purpose – generating revenue. Here are a few ways in which you can make money with Automotive: Charge for content submission on your site. Both pay-per-submission and pay-per-subscription packages are available Sell banner space. Banners can be easily inserted into all widgetized areas. Enable fees for featuring content on your site (available for both homepage and category page) Setup an online shop usingWooCommerce. Use it to sell cars, car parts and other car-related products. Create recurring payments/packages for a steady income Just like most of our recently released themes, Automotive comes with features such asautomatic updates andunlimited color schemes. This was just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to stuff you can do with this car portal theme. To get online using Arizona Web Design’s Automotive WordPress Theme Website, Contact Us for details. Arizona Web Design A Division of Tree Frog Media Design www.treefrogmediadesign.com ...read more
By Arizona Web Design May 28, 2013
9 Ways to Rock Twitter! bytreefrogmediadesigntaggedsocial networking,social-media,tweets|Permalink 9 Ways to Rock Twitter! You can be an awesome tweeter! It won’t happen overnight but, with a little time and patience, anyone can grow an audience and build rewarding relationships with mentors, peers and followers. I learned a lot by trial and error but you don’t have to do it the hard way. Here are nine of the most useful lessons I learned from my stumbles and from tweeps that rock twitter. 1. Learn the Lingo and Use Proper Twitter Etiquette If you want to build a following, don’t tweet like a newbie! Take the time to read about Twitter basics and etiquette before you dive in. Here are 3 excellent resources to help you to get started. support.twitter.com/groups/31-twitter-basics mashable.com/guidebook/twitter twittertips.org/ 2. Define Your Audience Your tweets will be lost in a vast ocean of tweets if you try to be all things to all people. If you are trying to drive traffic to your blog, you should target those who will be interested in your blog’s subject matter. If you are selling products and services from a website, you need to focus on those that need them. Choose an audience and focus on their needs and soon they will begin to see you as one of them! 3. Follow People and Companies Interesting to Your Audience Imagine yourself as one of your followers and try to find information you would find useful and interesting. Follow experts in those subjects. Follow their blogs as well as their tweets. If you want to keep followers, you have to stay interesting and relevant to them. 4. Stay Focused on Your Subject Staying on subject is critical. It is tempting to chase new audiences and subjects. But, if you want a loyal following, you will need to devote all of the time you can to learning and sharing information that is relevant to them. If you are always wandering around aimlessly, your followers will drop you like third period French! 5. Engage Your Followers The power of social networking is in the “social.” Retweet your followers’ tweets. Mention them. Thank them for retweeting. Engage them in conversations. You won’t be able to develop deep relationships with all of your followers but, I guarantee that your most loyal followers will be the ones you engage.6. Tweet Original Content If you have a blog, keep your content fresh. Tweet about your new posts. Don’t just retweet. Read blogs that would be interesting to your audience. You may not be the author of the blog post but, you can be the original author of a tweet that links to the post. Be yourself, have fun, and add something new to the conversation. You will develop your own unique twitter personality. 7. Use Hashtags Once you develop your subject you will want to grow your audience. The best way to get your tweets noticed by those who don’t follow you is to use hashtags. Hashtags are keywords that are preceded with the # symbol. Twitter users often use hashtags to search for tweets about topics they are interested in. By using Twitter’s search feature to search for hashtags, you can find popular subjects that are getting a lot of attention. If you tweet something about one of the subjects, you can add those hashtags and your tweet will be noticed by a much wider audience than just your followers. For example: “Great article on WordPress security! – wordpress.org/articlename #WordPress #security” You can also create your own hashtags. Create hashtags to describe special events. If you host webinars you can “brand” them with a hashtag, i.e.: “#TPCwebinar.” If you consistently use that hashtag in tweets about upcoming webinars, your followers will soon associate it with you and will be alerted to your upcoming webinar. Use hashtags to generate buzz about a topic, service, event or product. Once you understand a little about them, you will begin seeing how they are used in tweets. Just remember: hashtags cannot contain spaces, and they count toward your 140 character tweet limit.8. Use Lists to Organize A Twitter list is basically a group of people and their twitter streams. You can organize your twitter users into lists based on anything you want such as topic, city, coworkers, family, etc. Lists can be public or private. If you make a list public, other users can follow your list. You can also follow other users’ public lists. When you follow a list you don’t have to actually be following everyone on the list. A single list can have users you are following, users who follow you, and users you don’t follow. A list is a separate twitter stream of the list member’s tweets. Its stream is not part of the stream you follow. This is one way to keep from being overwhelmed by too large a stream. Lists can be used in many ways to organize tweets, users and streams. You can provide a curated list of interesting tweets for your followers. For example: I created a public list you can follow athttps://twitter.com/treefrogmd/lists. It is a recommended list of tweeps, tweeting about trends and current topics for the technical Internet, software and computer community, plus one for those interested in travel.9. Use Tools to Automate Tasks Tweetdeckis an app from Twitter that allows you to arrange multiple feeds in customizable columns. A feed can be a filtered search, a list, or a normal twitter stream. It will allow you to monitor and manage unlimited accounts. Two of its most powerful features are notification alerts for new tweets and tweet scheduling. I usually schedule tweets from two different accounts spread out over a couple of days at a time. Tweetdeck saves a tremendous amount of time. It will even schedule Facebook posts! Be sure and check out the Chrome extensions for Tweetdeck and Tweetdeck launcher too. Buffermakes your life easier with a smarter way to schedule the great content you find. Fill up your Buffer at one time in the day and Buffer automagically posts them for you through the day. Simply keep that Buffer topped up to have a consistent social media presence all day round, all week long. Tweepiis an essential part of managing my Twitter account now. The free version allows you to easily flush your “unfollowers,” follow your followers, and identify inactive followers. The premium version has many more tools and features that will help you automate Twitter tasks. Managing Twitter can seem overwhelming when you are following a lot of tweeps. Using tools to automate tasks and methods to organize users and feeds are essential components to your success as a Twitter pro! Written by Brent C. Johns ofTree Frog Media Design ...read more
By Arizona Web Design January 18, 2013
Facebook EdgeRank: Why 15% or Less of Your Status Updates are Shown to Fans bytreefrogmediadesigntaggedEdgeRank,Facebook,Tree Frog Media Design|Permalink A major development on the Facebook platform is the introduction of EdgeRank, a ranking formula that determines which posts are displayed on the News Feed of fans and friends. This algorithm filters and prioritizes the posts your fans will see and the order in which they are shown on their News Feed.This article describes EdgeRank and how it affects your Facebook activities? Facebook had to introduce a ranking algorithm to reduce the amount of clutter displayed on people’s News Feeds.To overcome the effects of EdgeRank, you need to understand how to create and manage the updates you post on Facebook, how to time these updates and how to engage with fans and friends using Facebook features like Likes, Share and Comments. Unless you fully embrace the concept of engagement, your status updates will simply not show up on the News Feed of your fans.What Is EdgeRank?EdgeRank is a Facebook algorithm that controls which status updates are displayed in each user’s News Feed. EdgeRank not only filters what posts are displayed, it also sorts and prioritizes the order in which they are shown.To start, let’s clarify the term edge as the ranking formula itself is based on this rather esoteric term. We shall clarify its meaning in an easy-to-understand manner.As it applies to Facebook, every interaction a user performs that produces a piece of content is known as an edge.For example, the following user actions are in themselves known as edges:* Posting a status update. * Uploading a photo or video. * Listening to a song. * Changing the classification of a fan or friend. * Clicking, liking, tagging, sharing, commenting and befriending people.Every one of these actions generates an edge which, depending on its EdgeRank score, may be displayed in a user’s News Feed. Looking at the actions shown in the above list, you can already see that EdgeRank monitors your engagement and this, to a large extent, determines if your status updates will be shown on the News Feed of your fans and friends.Now, let’s examine a more scientific definition of EdgeRank.EdgeRank is measured by the aggregation of three separate factors which, on account of the terminology used, may seem a little difficult to grasp.Affinity (u).This essentially tracks your interaction with fans. Each action produces a different weight that measures the effort involved which, by itself, demonstrates the level of interest a user has in the content posted. Posting and commenting produces a higher score than clicking or liking. Using Facebook parlance, the affinity score is also based on how connected a user is with an action. The more you interact with a particular person, the more connected you become.Edge Weight (w).Each edge category has a different weight (score) which determines what type of content Facebook considers valuable for posting onto the News Feed of fans and friends. Highest on their ranking is videos, photos and links. The more comments, likes or shares a post update accumulates, the higher its edge weight.Recency (d).This factor relates to the “time decay” of status updates. As a post ages, it loses points. It is assumed that Facebook adjusts the recency score based on the time elapsed since the user last logged into Facebook and also how frequently the user is active on Facebook.Like the Google algorithm that determines page rank, the precise equations contained in the EdgeRank algorithm are not publicly known and you can assume that the algorithm will change and evolve over time. However, the above explanations should give you a reasonable insight into the factors that determine whether particular posts will show up in your News Feed as well as those of your fans.Finally, do not assume that you can check, measure or calculate EdgeRank because there is no general score. You can, however, measure the effects of EdgeRank by using the Facebook analytics tools to see how much engagement from other users your posts accumulate. A separate chapter in my book describes the Insights analytics feature.How to Improve Your EdgeRank ScoreIf you market your brand, product or service on Facebook, you need to consider how you can best improve your EdgeRank score. The reason is simple. Unless you pay attention to EdgeRank, the majority of your fans and friends may never see your status updates.According to the latest available research, only 6% of your fans will interact with your content (Napkin Labs)Facebook recently claimed that only 15% on your fans will see your status updates on their newsfeed.Acquiring Likes has, in itself, become a fairly meaningless activity although you need to reach 400 likes in order to see certain data in Insights. “The more the better” approach is not the target you want to chase. Fostering engagement with your fans should be your principal goal as this is the only way to improve your EdgeRank score.Here’s the mindset you need to adopt when you post updates, photos or videos in Facebook:* Don’t try to trick the EdgeRank formula to rank your content higher. Instead, create content that motivates your fans and friends to like, comment and share the content.* Aim to create a community of followers.* As is the case with the Calls-To-Action items you embed in sales letters and/or squeeze pages, you must TELL people what to do or they won’t do it. Clearly state what you want your fans to do. “Leave a comment below”, “Click Like if you agree”, “Click the Share button now”. Every action your fans take will improve the Affinity score of the EdgeRank algorithm and this will increase the number fans that see your post in their News Feed.Pages Feed (November, 2012 Update)Facebook has responded to mounting criticism from users who want to see all status updates posted by pages the have liked.Commencing mid-November, 2012, a new menu item was added to the left-hand column of the News Feed page.You can enable this function in order to see all status updates from pages you have liked. However, if you have a large number of Likes, you may well be overwhelmed by the amount of clutter on your News Feed.Written by Brent C. Johns ofTree Frog Media Design ...read more
By Arizona Web Design January 17, 2013
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It used to be that you needed a lot of knowledge in hyper text markup language (HTML) to design web sites. Today, there are many software programs that make this once complicated task a lot easier. Anyone with basic computer knowledge is plenty capable of using these programs. ...read more
