Social Media Safety Tips

November 11, 2011 Leave a Comment

FAKE FRIENDS

Not all friend requests come from real friends – or real people for that matter.

Some Facebook accounts exist solely to cast a wide net for spamming or extracting personal data from users. Only accept friend requests from people you know.

QUESTIONABLE QUIZZES

Clicking on an ad or a link that takes you to a questionnaire on a website outside Facebook can lead to unwanted results. In many cases, the quiz may ask you to enter your cellphone number before you can view your results. If the scammers get your number, you could find yourself subscribed to unwanted and expensive text messaging services.

TERRIBLE TWEETS

Direct messages may appeal to your vanity with a message that suggests you can be seen in a compromising or flattering way at a certain website.

The link to the website actually prompts you to unwittingly download malware to your computer.

GRIM GIFTS

Clickjackers on Facebook entice you to copy and paste text into your browser bar by posting tempting offers, leading users to inadvertently download malicious code.

Clickjackers then take control of your account, spamming your friends and further spreading their scam. Be sus-picious of any too-good-to-betrue offers, such as free coffee or pizza from well known retailers.

VIRAL VIDEOS

Videos with sensational headlines get users to visit an outside website and download malware in the disguise of a video player. If you click on the video, you will be prompted to “upgrade your Flash player now” and will then be asked to download a file that contains a worm. If you download and install the file, your computer will automatically log in to Facebook and send similar messages to your friends. Never download a file after clicking on a link.

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10 Best WordPress Plugins for Social Media

November 7, 2011 Leave a Comment

Check out the list!
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Share This

Share This is a really good WordPress plugin that allows choosing the websites you wish to target and then letting your readers vote for you using this plugin. You can even change the colors in order to match your website. The best part is that it also provides tracking reports.

Sociable

Sociable is one of the most popular social media plugin out there. This plugin simply puts buttons to various social bookmarking websites on every single posts of yours so users have the ability of easily submitting and voting for you. Sociable also lets you select the buttons you wish to include.

Antisocial

As the name suggests, this plugin simply adds nofollow tags to the links pointing towards the social media websites. This nofollow tag will keep the link juice on your pages, and this is obviously is better for SEO purposes.

Gregarious

This plugin allows promoting your blog posts on Digg, Reddit and Del.icio.us etc. Many options for customization are also provided.

Notable

Notable is quite similar to Sociable. This one also puts buttons to various social bookmarking websites on your website/blog posts.

Add to Any Bookmark Button

The name says it all. Add to Any Bookmark Button creates a handy bookmark button that lets users bookmark the page with any bookmark manager they want.

Add to Any Bookmark Button

This plugin is slightly different than the others mentioned in this list. It lets users vote for your website/blog posts simply through a drop down menu that lets them select a social media site at which to vote. This keeps less icons on your blog and makes it look neat and clean.

Digg This

Digg is a very popular social media website that has the ability of sending a lot of traffic to your website in a short period of time. So you should definitely place a ‘Digg’ button on your blog posts, which would make it easier for readers to digg it. And this is exactly what this plugin does!

SphinnIt Button

Sphinn is yet another social media website which targets internet marketing and search-related topics. This plugin lets your readers to easily Sphinn your posts.

WP Super Cache

These plugins would increase traffic to your website/blog so you should definitely get a plugin that has the ability of handling that traffic. Here is where WP Super Cache comes to help as it decreases the load on your server by providing the pages without even accessing the database, displaying them as if they were static pages.

Which plugins do you use to optimize your website/blog for social media? Tell us in comments below

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