Facebook Marketing 101

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Establishing a Facebook presence for your blog should be one of the cornerstones of your social marketing strategy. It’s likely virtually all of your readers will maintain an active Facebook presence, and being able to reach them on a site they’re going to check multiple times a day is invaluable.

Bloggers often treat Facebook in the same way as Twitter: “maintaining a presence” involves setting up a plugin to auto-post your new blog posts for you and occasionally manually posting news. If you make one manual post and publish three new blog posts every week, then you’ve got yourself four new Facebook posts every week. That’s plenty, surely?

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How To Customize Your WordPress Theme

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Customizing your WordPress theme – whether it’s free or premium – is often a daunting prospect, and often the changes you want to make which should be straightforward quickly become very complicated.

How To Customize Your WordPress Theme

Thankfully, making simple changes — like changing the font, background or site colors — is a simple process and if you’re careful, you can even ensure the bits you do customize are protected from theme updates.

In this post I’m going to show you how to get started customizing your WordPress theme. These are the very basics, so if you’re after something more complicated check out WPShout.

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