While doing research for the Social Media Plan paper, I discovered several Social Media SEO tools that I thought I’d share.

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To add the “Fave This Blog” button to my blog, I went to my Technorati account and clicked “[Edit]” (you will be on the “My Account” page). Then I went on to:

• Click “Blogs” tab
• Click
• Scroll down to code. Highlight and right click to copy the code.
• Paste it into a “Text” Widget (in WordPress “Design”).
• Click “Save Changes.

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To add RSS Feed Options (“Chicklets”) to my blog, I logged in at Feedburner and clicked “My Feeds” in the upper left hand corner. I then went on to:

• Click my blog name in the “Feed Title.”
• Click the “Publicize” tab.
• Scroll down to “Chicklet Chooser” on the left menu of Services.
• Choose the “Chicklet” …(code appears).
• Right click and highlight the code; paste it into a “Text” Widget (in WordPress “Design”) .
• Click “Save.”

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To add a Social Media bookmarking and sharing application button, I went to AddThis . I then went on to:

• Open an account.
• Click (do not enter a blog type.)
  

• Choose the button.
• Cut and paste the top code (in the box) into a “Text” Widget (in WordPress “Design”) .
• Click “Save.”

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To add a Digg button to a blog post, I went to WordPress FAQs. I then went on to:

• Register the blog post at Digg.com (clicking “Submit New” in the upper right-hand corner).
• Enter URL for the blog post, click “News Article” and click “Continue.”
• Enter Title and Description
• Choose Topic and “Submit Story.”
• Click “Totally Original, I Swear.”
• Click “My Profile” (upper right-hand corner).
• Click on the “1 digg” button; copy the URL.
• Paste URL into blog post–and put around URL.
• Click “Save.”

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To Digg this post (for example) using the “Add This” button, click (the button is also on the right-hand column of this blog) and then click on the Digg link on the right column of the pop-up page (see copy of page below).

The “Add This” button links to 36 social media platforms (click here to see the platforms).

~ by beckblogic on April 12, 2008.

Posted in SCS Spring 2008
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