Category "Social Media"

How to Manage WordPress Giveaways with Rafflecopter

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Giving away products on your website is one of the best ways to generate traffic for it. The process can be difficult unless you are using the right tools to track the steps that you would like your readers to take. Rafflecopter can help you with that. The service is available for you to try for free but you get a whole lot more if you pick a paid plan. The service lets you define steps you would like your visitors to take, add photos, and even set up a term & conditions link for your contest.

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How to Embed Vine Videos in WordPress

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Vine should not need any introduction. It is an exciting service that lets you share short videos with the world. Plenty of folks are already taking advantage of this service to share fun videos with the world. You could create your own Vine videos or embed the ones done by others. The Vine Embed plugin helps with that.

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This plugin is pretty simple to use. All you have to do is add the URL for your favorite Vine videos to WordPress, and this plugin does the rest. To embed the postcard type, you will need to use the “embed” shortcode though. You could always rely on a Vine search engine to find interesting content to add to your website with the help of this plugin.

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Vine Embed is simple to use and makes adding videos to your site faster. Simply gets the job done.

How to Add Twitter Cards Metadata to WordPress

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Twitter cards have been around for quite some time. They make it possible to attach media experiences to tweets that link to your content. All you have to do is add a few lines of HTML to your websites and users who tweet links to your content will have a card added to the tweet that’s visible to all their followers. Twitter Cards Meta happens to be an easy tool that makes adding Twitter cards to your site easy.

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How to Verify Your WordPress Site on Pinterest

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Pinterest should not need any introduction. It is an awesome site capable of driving a ton of traffic to your website. Pinterest is introducing new features for webmasters regularly to help them get more out of their Pinterest experience. In order to get Analytics and other useful Pinterest features, you will need to verify your site though.

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Social Networks Auto-Poster for WordPress

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Running a successful website takes time and effort. Those of you who have done it in the past know the importance of being flexible enough to wear multiple hats. When you have a small team around you, you will have to produce content, edit code, manage your social profiles, and more. Some of these tasks can be semi-automated. NextScripts’ Auto Poster sends your latest post updates to your favorite social sites so you don’t have to.

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