10 Ways to Find Your Social Traffic Sources

If you've got a blog or website, you're probably trying to connect with new visitors using multiple social media channels. And when your content does go hot on Youtube, Facebook and Twitter, you want to find the people that helped and shake their hand. Today we'll examine 5 easy tools used to find the people that are helping to make you popular in social media.

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Online Listener Basics: 10 Tools to Help You "Hear" Online

Are you good online listener? As an online listener, you value knowing the needs of your audience and will strain your digital ears to truly hear your niche. You embrace strategy, perhaps a process or two and an array of online listening tools to achieve your objectives. Just what kind of tools, you say? Today I've assembled a list of 10 of them to help out the noble online listener.

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The Squarespace Twitter / Facebook Button Tutorial Post

Most people that have been to Big Picture Web in the past know that I'm a Squarespace blogger. I enjoy their beautiful design interface, thoughtful technical decisions and their ever-growing momentum as a software-as-a-service (SaaS) web publishing platform. This week they announced a series of updates, including the integration of HTML snippets. Today's post shows how easy it is to integrate your online Twitter, Squarespace and Facebook efforts using one of Squarespace's awesome new features.

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10 Advanced Twitter Search Tips to Cut Through the Noise

Have you ever tried to use Twitter's search engine to find new followers, monitor a brand or just plain find news/information? Have you been overwhelmed by the number of irrelevant results you get? With over 65 million tweets per day and now over 20 billion total tweets, the noise on Twitter is growing every day. Today we'll take a look at advanced twitter search tips to cut through the Twitter search results noise.

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Twitter, Flickr and Squarespace: Social Media Widgets are Live!

If you're a blogger, you know how social media networks like Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn can be a great source of traffic and engagement for your blog. That's why I was super excited last week when Squarespace, the blog/CMS platform creator and platform of choice for Big Picture Web, rolled out their new Social Media Widgets functionality. Today's post takes a look at the new Twitter, Flickr and RSS features of the Squarespace.

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