Showing posts with label social media. Show all posts
Showing posts with label social media. Show all posts

Thursday, 20 September 2012

Social Media Changes

Hey, I have been catching up with a few changes of late and that has meant updating my twitter and facebook pages, and other social media,  to reflect the new look I am going for which, as you see, is also reflected in the blog.

I dont know if you guys know but Twitter changed its profile page layout so now the text you wrote about yourself kinda covers up most of the text in an image if you are using one behind the text, this text used to be below the little bit about you? Its hard to explain but I doubt many people will have really noticed a difference as most of us tend to use an old link by typing it in as a url and hitting enter, thats certainly the way I do it.

I dont know what you guys think about my new image? is the text pretty hard to read? As soon as I put it up I did think that but hoped it wouldn't matter to much, yet!

Take a look at the one I made for Argyll Chalets Twitter:

 I really like what this does for their brand but I may have to move the background so that it sits higher up or try using a mirror image of the one I am using for them so that the word Apartment isn't hidden.

Brigid Visser
Professional, creative, media design from CR8:V-Design.
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Tuesday, 13 March 2012

SEO - search engine optimisation

Search engine optimisation is all about organic search engine listing. So when you add content to a webpage, update the meta tags in the header so they match the content.

So many companies out there offer search engine optimisation, as if they have some sort of secret that the rest of us dont know about and its not like that.

Its all about the links within your text, the content of the page, ensuring you add an 's' onto the end of some word's' for example in case the user at the other end puts in the 's' to find a whole lot of items containing that search term.

There is no point in stuffing keywords into meta tags that aren't relevant to your content, sure the user may click on to the page but will soon click away when they find they have been tricked into coming to the website.

These days SEO and pay per click go hand in hand. I detest pay per click. I always ignore those annoying boxes at the top of Google when I search for something because its never 100% relevant. Some marketing person has plucked it out of thin air and not thought of the consequences. However, if you do click on the page from that link - they get charged, and its an extortionate rate.

Social media is the new SEO. If people are talking about you then this increases the likeliness of people arriving on your website and increasing your ranking.

Brigid Visser
 
Professional, creative, media design from CR8:V-Design.
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Wednesday, 29 February 2012

Social Media Icon Mad

I was looking for a skype icon yesterday so I could put it in the footer of my website - http://www.cr8v-design.com/ but I wanted it to be the same style as the other social media icons I use, like facebook, twitter and youtube.

blogger

facebook

twitter
youtube

But I quickly found out that there were a million beautiful free styles of social media icon to choose from! I was so pleased with what I found and I am sure I will use them all in the future.

Some of my favourites;

Small skype icon

3d Linkedin Icon

Twitter bird bursting through the page

Youtube icon painted effect
See what icons I chose on my website, I love them!

Brigid Visser
 
Professional, creative, media design from CR8:V-Design.
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Contact me: Skype brigid.visser