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I’ve noticed more and more Facebook Fan Pages popping up and it’s great.  Fan Pages are a great way to connect with people, build your credibility and ultimately generate leads and grow your business. The problem is most people are making one BIG mistake when it comes to their pages.  More on that in a minute.  First let me give you an overview on what I’m going to talk about today…. What Are Fan Pages? Why Are They Important? Who Can Build A Fan Page Who Should Build A Fan Page The “Big Mistake” So Many People Are Making How To Build A Good Fan Page What Are Facebook Fan

A couple of weeks ago I had the deal with Mike Clough , who manages The Blog Zone group at LinkedIn. As the result of the deal, I became manager of his subgroup Guest Blogger and announced this subgroup as MyBlogGuest official home at LinkedIn. I am pretty much new to managing an active LinkedIn group like this, so I decided to do some research. In this post I am sharing my findings (that seem to be working for me!): 1. Start a

Google’s next order of battle for Google Buzz – Share Buttons. If you’ve felt envious of sites such as TechCrunch and Mashable which were quick enough to come up with their customized Google Buzz Share Buttons, Google will now let you do the same without having to hack through some codes and all. And it’s also the official Google Buzz Share Button. So Google announced that starting today expect to see Buzz buttons around the web particularly on sites such as The Huffington Post, Glamour, YouTube, Blogger, MySpace, GigaOM and more. These buttons will make it easier for you to share and post interesting items you encounter around the web to your Google Buzz account. In addition, independent sharing widget provides such as “Share This,” “Shareholic” and more have started implementing the Google Buzz share button. If you want to have a Google Buzz button on your own sites/blogs, you can easily do so by getting the codes from buzz.google.com/stuff . You can customize your button in a few clicks, copy the Javascript code, paste it to your blog/site code and you’re good to go. And while you’re there, you might also want to grab the code for putting a follow me on Buzz button as well. This will make it easier for your friends and fans to follow your Buzz posts. Check out the SEO Tools guide at Search Engine Journal . Google Releases Official Buzz Share

The Twitter blog is running a post today announcing some numbers related to Twitter’s overall growth not only in the U.S. but internationally as well. According to the post, more than 60% of Twitter users are from outside the U.S. This is definitely a huge leap from Twitter’s early days were users were primarily employees and their friends. Now, Twitter users have become a group with diverse identities. Some specific proofs of Twitter’s growth in other regions: In Chile, right after the recent earthquake, Twitter saw a 1200% increase in signups from most Spanish-speaking countries.  This is a big leap from November 2009’s 50% increase in signups. In Columbia, Twitter signups rose by 300% In India, signups rose by 100%, thanks to Twitter’s tie-up with Bharti Airtel of India which allowed Twitter users to send and receive tweets via SMS. plus other countries such as Indonesia, Haiti and more Interestingly, most of the incidents of increase in signups happen right after Twitter played significant role in providing a fast, realiable and real-time information updates  during national emergency situations, accidents, disaster and events. This only goes to show that Twitter has now evolved from a mere social networking micro-blogging platform to an effective, reliable and very updated communication tool.   Check out the SEO Tools guide at Search Engine Journal . Twitter’s Global Growth by the Official

Let’s face it, the more people you follow, the more challenging it gets to notice all important updates on Twitter. To me, following fewer people is not an option because I think this is anti-social. I follow back every single Twitter profile that seems valid and is related to one of the topics I love (like search, social media, blogging, etc). This way, as of today, I am close to following 3300 people which makes it really hard to really “follow” what everyone says. The clutter is enormous. All of my Twitter friends (as well as myself) retweet each other multiple times which makes the clutter even heavier. So how do you make sure you are properly updated of news coming from your Twitter friends? I am aware of two tools that seem cool for that ( please add yours in the comments! ). Cadmus Cadmus is the web based tool that claims to group your friends’ Tweets to help you focus on what’s important. I do wish it had some desktop application but the online version works pretty well to make it worth having the site bookmarked and checking it a few times a day. Each unique entry has “Related” tweets section containing similar conversations (those containing similar keywords). So if you get interested in more details, you can click on “Related posts” link: Here’s my stats for example: Cadmus has analyzed 108,411 of your updates and grouped 32,892 related ones, around 30% of all your updates. Another great feature is “Personal trending topics” which are like the trending topics in Twitter but it is just from the people you follow. This seemed like a great way to find out what your friends are buzzing about. ReadTwit ReadTwit , the tool I previously covered , allows to subscribe to your friends’ updates using Google Reader. The best thing about the tool is that it: Filters repeated links in ReTweets; Allows to exclude any user or hashtag from your feed (I wish there were also an option to follow only selected users). So how do you manage to keep an eye on what your friends are tweeting about? Check out the SEO Tools guide at Search Engine Journal . How Do You Un-Clutter Your Twitter