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How to Specify Which Image Facebook Uses for Your Website

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Have you ever tried to share something from your website to Facebook only to have the image cropped funny, or have Facebook not share an image at all? It’s so frustrating to spend your valuable time creating great content on your website or blog and then have it look terrible when shared because you can’t figure out how to specify which image Facebook uses for your website…or how to make it the right size.

Good news…there is a simple two-step solution: design the right size image and upload it to the right place on your website. Sounds simple, right?

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5 Free Design Apps to Step Up Your Social Media Game

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Humans are visual creatures. It takes more than written content to catch our eye and entice us to dig deeper into social media posts. Businesses depend on imagery and graphics to create scroll-stopping content. Creating your graphics and social content doesn’t have to be complicated or expensive if you have a good eye for design (and yo, not everyone is good at this, so please, know when you aren’t!) Here are five free design apps I’m checking out that you can use to create some impressive social media content for your business.  

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How to Get Facebook to Show the Right Image for Your Blog Post

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Facebook recently announced changes to the platform that mean you need to be paying better attention to the back end of your website if you want people to share your content. From here on out if you don’t specify the Facebook Open Graph metadata on each page of your website,  you won’t be able to get Facebook to show the right image for your post and it will pull whatever info it can find. If it doesn’t look good, people may choose not to share it. Open Graph is simply a system set up by Facebook to enable communications with a website. In the absence of Open Graph tags, Facebook looks at other data.

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5 Things to Know About Yoast SEO for Beginners

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There are a multitude of SEO plugins you can install for your WordPress website/blog, and Yoast SEO is probably the most popular. It is the one I use on this website, as well as many client websites. Essentially it helps you put all the SEO data in all the right places so Google will find you more often. (Tweet This.) Using a simple green, yellow, red light system, it tells you how good your SEO is. You are aiming for all green lights, of course!

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Social Media Audit-Common Themes

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One of the social media management services I have been called on to do often is a social media audit – a thorough look at a client’s social profiles, resulting in a report of strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats. Here are some of the most common missed opportunities for small businesses in the social space. … Read more

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