Jeffrey Blake

Photofunia - Lives up to its name

August 14, 2010

Photofunia is another free online photo editing site. What is remarkable is not just the array of effects - but the use of face recognition technology. Photofunia can extract a face from a photo image and then super-impose it into different situations - as putting your mug on a billboard. I had crazy fun just playing with it. I imposed my wife's face onto Lulu the dancing girl. Give it a whirl at http://Photofunia.com

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Posted by Jeffrey Blake. Posted In : Promotion

SmarTweeter - Smart Tweets for Better SEO

August 10, 2010

SmarTweeter is a new tool to help small businesses promote themselves on the web. SmartTweeter will create tweets out of every page on your website. You can edit the twitter messages and can schedule the tweets to be sent out automatically - or you can do it manually any time you like. You can optionally use avoo.net to shorten all your urls. All you tweets can be saved as they go out into a Tweets Directory - giving you some extra link juice. SmarTweeter makes social media obj...

Posted by Jeffrey Blake. Posted In : SEO

Google Cheat Sheet

June 19, 2010

Google Shortcut	Finds Pages That Have...
nokia phone	the words nokia and phone
sailing OR boating	either the word sailing or the word boating
"love me tender"	the exact phrase love me tender
printer -cartridge	the word printer but NOT the word cartridge
Toy Story +2	movie title including the number 2
~auto	looks up the word auto and synonyms
define:serendipity	definitions of the word serendipity
how now * cow	the words how now cow separated by one or more words
+	add...

Posted by Jeffrey Blake. Posted In : SEO

Leet Speak 1337 Translation

February 10, 2010

Note:
- The commas are added to separate symbols
- The symbol | (Example: B = |3 ) is a "down-slash", or "pipe", and not a lower-case "L" or capital "i"
- The symbol ` (Example: T = 7` ) is not a standard apostrophe, but is a "Grave Accent" and is found on the tilde (~) key
- Also keep in mind that the use of /-/ for H for example, aren't used nearly as often as the normal letter in a quick conversation. To write an entire sentence this way would take three times as long, thus the quicker singl...

Posted by Jeffrey Blake. Posted In : Web Strategy

How to Invite All Your Facebook Friends

February 6, 2010

I thought this script was clever. I rarely want to invite all my friends to anything. But this script works.

I set up a couple of groups on Facebook and wanted to invite all my friends, but it would have taken an eternity because for some strange reason Facebook doesn’t allow you to “select all” friends when sending an invite. I mean, they’ll let you do it… but only if you click one at a time! Uugh.

Well anyway I went on a little search and found that you could cheat the...

Posted by Jeffrey Blake. Posted In : Facebook

Bing SEO Tips

February 6, 2010

Here are the Bing SEO tips:

1. Domain Age is Key
Bing appears to put a lot of stock into how long ago a domain was registered. For marketers, this means that you may look to purchase older domains if you want to get on good position in Bing.

2. Text Rules
On most search engines, the amount of text on the page usually isn’t usually a huge factor. However, Bing appears to really like pages with at least 300 words of text.

3. Link Out
With Google especially, some markete...

Posted by Jeffrey Blake. Posted In : SEO

William Arruda's Personal Branding Predictions

February 6, 2010

1. Video, Video, Video

Thanks to greater bandwidth, cheaper storage, and a proliferation of products and services that make shooting, storing, viewing, and sharing video easy (Flip video, iPhone 3GS, YouTube, vimeo, blip.tv, vodpod, etc.), video will be king in 2010. Video is ideal because it allows careerists to deliver a complete communication and convey their personality—a critical component of branding.

2. Hiring Process

Companies will be hiring brands rather than employees. The...

Posted by Jeffrey Blake. Posted In : Branding

Dont You Love Email Scams?

February 6, 2010

I was just cleaning out my spam folder and ran across these jewels. We have all seen variations of these things where in order to get money the dupe has to send some amount to free up a much larger amount. Not all of us have been educated about scams - and the good ones are always deceptive.

ACCEPT MY WILL!!!
From: CLAIRE WILLIAMS <info@williams.com>
To:

Good Day,

My name is Mrs Claire Williams. I am a dying woman who had decided to donate what I
have to you.I am 62 years old and was d...

Posted by Jeffrey Blake. Posted In : Email

Allen Bonde's 10 Steps To A Practical Social Media Strategy

February 6, 2010

1. Create a mission statement -- What are your top-level objectives for applying social media and Web 2.0? And how will you achieve them? Ideally, this can be boiled down to one statement, articulating both the vision and where you aim to focus in terms of specific strategies. Don’t skip – or skimp on – this one; it’s important.

2. Assign owners – Who will take the mission, build the team, secure the budget, identify the tools needed? And who will own each channel, like Li...

Posted by Jeffrey Blake. Posted In : Social Media

Link Facebook Wall Entries to Twitter

February 6, 2010

You might be wondering how you can automatically post your wall entries on Facebook to Twitter. You want anything new happening on your fan page to be shared on Twitter. Its really quite simple. First go to http://www.facebook.com/twitter You will see a simple page that directs you to make the connection. After clicking you will be taken to a page showing all of you fan pages that you have control over. Find your fan page and click the button that says "Link to Twitter".