How To Make A Free Facebook Banner
Top of the afternoon ladies and gentlemen,
In this short blog post, I’m going to show you how to make a free Facebook banner and put that sucker on your profile in less than 5 minutes.
As you may or may not know, Facebook has recently been undergoing some major changes lately, and among those was their UI (user interface) which was completely redesigned from the ground up. As a result of this new update has come some new and really cool things that you can do with your profile, including adding a brand new Facebook banner to the top of your profile.
If you don’t know what I’m talking about, you just probably just skip to the video below to see exactly what I mean. But in case you wanna read about, I’m talking about the 5 boxes that now appear at the top of your Facebook profile. By default, these photos get updated when people tag you in them, but if you wanna do something REALLY cool, you can actually make an image collage, if you will, meaning that all 5 images go together to create on image that flows together.
You may have seen this kind of banner art on other peoples Facebook peoples profile and wondered how they did it. Well I’m about to show you and I’m going to make it EXTREMELY easy to do. However, you will need one very important resource before we start.
Once you either have Photoshop or the GIMP installed, it’s time to watch the video below so you can follow along as I create an awesome Facebook banner right in front of your eyes in less than 5 minutes.
As you can see, that was DEAD simple. I suggest you get one implemented right away. This will help you with brand recognition tremendously, every little thing matters online to make you look as professional as possible.
Now I know that I didnt go over how to use Photoshop in this quick video so if you wanna get a sick banner setup on your profile but dunno the first thing about image editing and Photoshop, then just let me know and I’ll hook you up with a top notch, professional banner for only $25 bucks.
Hopefully you were able to get it all figured out without having to fork over some money to me or another graphic designer, but just in case you didn’t, you can always contact me by leaving a comment on this post. Simply let me know that you want to get a banner designed and I’ll reply back with more info.
Also, if you enjoyed this video then please share it with your friends and anyone else you think would get some real value out of it.
You’re awesome and thank you for reading…
Talk soon,
Matthew
Facebook Poised To ‘Bitch Slap’ Google
Hey there,
Are you a marketer who’s been trying to get massive traffic from Google over the years only to fail to no avail?
Yeah, me too…
Let’s face it, Google really does not like marketers AT ALL anymore. In fact, they recently slapped 50,000 marketers, including home business owners, off of their network without flinching…
But you know what DOES make Google flinch?
Yeah, Facebook is literally neck and neck with Google right now, as far as traffic goes, and is actually WAY ahead in its user base. Facebook is confidently sitting at 500 million users right now and is highly anticipated to reach 1 billion users, in fact, its almost inevitable.
And right now, Facebook is the ONLY company to ever come close to reviling Google’s massive empire and they are doing it without even breaking a sweat.
There is no doubt in my mind that Facebook will become the worlds biggest Internet company and overthrow Google tyrannical throne.
If your a marketer, you have probably heard the big gurus ranting and raving about Google Adwords back in the ‘good ol days’ around 2003 and 2004 when Google too actually embraced affiliates. (hard to believe now) But none the less, TONS of millionaires where made during that time because the traffic was HOT, the leads where FRESH and people were taking action with their WALLET.
Well nothing has really changed much except for the fact that those people really aren’t ON GOOGLE anymore.
Guess where they went?
Facebook…
Can you guess where you should be if you are a marketer?
Yea, Facebook…
Right now Facebook actually LOVES affiliates and I imagine its going to stay that way for awhile as Facebooks PPC (Pay Per Click) advertising program is literally JUST getting started. We have seen massive advancement in just the last year alone, some features that even better Adwords itself.
So as Facebook reaches the 1 billion user mark and surpasses Google in daily amounts of traffic, its only a matter of time until every advertiser under the sun realizes this and starts putting their ads of Facebook too.
You need to get to Facebook before all the big corporations do. Because trust me, they will be there, they just won’t be there yet. They are always the late adopters of everything. They wait for it to be ‘proven’ over and over before they invest their time and money into something new.
Well guess what, we know that Facebook WORKS right now.
My buddy JB just released one of his first videos on Facebook Ads today and why Facebook is poised to seriously ‘Bitch Slap’ Google. And honestly, its about time Google gets what’s coming to them!
Check out this awesome video, you’ll love it!
Facebook VS Google
Read MoreFacebook Dropping Atom Bomb On Google?
If
you have been following the development of some recent stuff Facebook is working on, you’d know that there is going to be a new search engine in town.
Yes, that’s right, Facebook is launching a search engine. And it’s going to revolve around “Social Search”.
But before I get into that a little deeper here, I want to say that many who are in-the-know are probably excited because they would LOVE to see someone try and challenge Google’s empire. While very cool that might be, I’m actually REALLY excited for an entirely different reason.
Facebook is going to be the next frontier in SEO. It’s going to be the next big Kahuna when people search for stuff online. Can you imagine people saying, “Oh you can just Facebook that…” It might sound kind of weird right now, but if Facebook pulls this off right I believe that Facebook can put some serious smackdown on the notorious Google.
Not to long ago Facebook when after Google’s infamous Adwords advertising platform, and with much success has taken a large slice of their pie. If you notice there are less and less advertisers in the marketing and networking niches on Google Adwords. And for good reason, clicks are getting more and more expensive, marketers are getting banned over and over again, and Google will whip out that backhand quicker than Chuck Norris in an old western gun dual.
With that said, I don’t believe that Facebook is going to bankrupt Google or anything like that because Google’s search engine algorithms are almost super intelligent. But then again, the young dudes over at Facebook always seem to have some tricks up their sleeve…
Here’s how Facebook SEO is going to work.
The developers over at Facebook are giving you two options to optimize your page to appear in their search index. The first is a “Like” button that visitors can click on insisting that they “Like” this page. And second, a set of tags that allows webmasters to tell Facebook what their site is all about, also known as Meta Data.
So instead of web page rankings being based off of backlinks like Google uses, it will be based off of “Likes” thus giving real time personal feedback to the page and displaying, what could be even more relevant results.
You had better be getting your SEO skills polished by the time this sucker drops, here’s why…
With what Facebook did with Ads, it will do with “Social Search”. And since it has Bing powering it, you know it’s going to be a serious contender in the evolution of search online.
Facebook is giving all of us marketers are great opportunity to save some cash from those darn expensive PPC ads and get some free results with SEO that can bring in long term traffic time and time again.
I wanna know what you think? Do you agree or disagree with the statements made here in this post? Do you think Google will fall and Facebook with stand strong, or is it the opposite? Maybe you know something I don’t? Share them in a comment below.
Read MoreTribe TSA – SEO for Blogging
Tribe TSA on Facebook
With the literal eruption of Social Media lately Google has starting giving a HUGE amount of relevancy to blogs, and more specifically, WordPress blogs. And not those cheap, limited theme having WordPress.com sites. I’m talking about those epic self-hosted WordPress blogs, that’s what Google is lovin’ right now and that’s what you should have in your marketing arsenal.
If you haven’t noticed Google is beta testing something called “My Social Circle” and when you do a Google search it will appear at the bottom of the search results displaying info from peoples blogs you have recently been on. It’s definitely a sign the Google is loving YOUR content.
Recently since my blog as been getting massive amounts of traffic and my Google Page Rank growing more and more everyday, my website has been able to rank for specific keywords in almost no time at all. I simply just write a post, publish the thing, targeting a profitable keyword of course and then within a matter of hours that post gets rank in Google. It’s pretty awesome, and you can do it too!
That’s what I recorded this video for you. Well, actually it was for my core tribe, TSA but I suppose since you’re on my blog right now I’ll embed this sucker here for you to watch as well. Normally we keep this stuff pretty exclusive but I feel like this stuff needs to be shared with everyone.
Most “SEO Experts” would charge thousands for this kind of knowledge. In fact I was on a webinar the other night with some top SEO experts in the industry and they were charging upwards of $800 bucks just for their starter package. So when I give this stuff away for free I am really doing you a great service because most people price this knowledge high, but I just think that’s ridiculous.
Here’s the video.
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Will Facebook Overthrow Google?
You know, for the longest time the big bad Internet tyrant known as Google has dominated the webs traffic, holding down the number one spot for years upon years and not even a single web site has come close to matching it’s massive surges of traffic, until now…
With the rise of Social Media has come a new tyrant set to overthrow the big bad notorious Google, and this one goes by the name of Facebook. In fact, I’m sure you use both of them every single day.
But stop for a second and ask yourself, which one do you use more?
If you’re like me you probably paused to think for a moment because you use both multiple times per day but then thought that you Google stuff WAY more than “Facebook” stuff.
But that’s exactly what I’m getting at here, what if you could “Facebook” something you wanted the answer to instead of Googling it.
Ahh, now that raises a lot of interesting questions, doesn’t it?
What do you think would happen if Facebook decided to add a “Search Web” option to their Facebook toolbar? They already have more users than Google because they are a Social Network. Their users are probably more loyal than Googlers because of the comradeship Facebook creates even though most email accounts are probably tied to Gmail.
But whether or not this is going to happen has yet to be determined and only time will tell. All I can say for sure is that Google has officially declared Facebook a thick competitor in their market. Google is very aware of the threat Facebook poses to pull some of their revenue, and more specifically, advertising revenue.
Let’s Take A Step Back And Analyze Facebook
Recently an Internet Marketer named Ryan Diess released a program called FB Ad Power. If you’ve got your nose in your MacBook like I do then you’ve probably heard of it. But either way what that course did was teach people how to advertise on Facebooks new PPC network. Actually, it’s not that new, it’s just that people either didn’t know about it or didn’t know how to use it.
What FB Ad Power did was show Internet Marketers how to capitalize on the new surge of traffic coming through Facebook.
You see, social networks like Facebook have a unique way of advertising. Instead of the traditional PPC methods of targeting keywords like you would on Google, you now target peoples interests.
I’m sure you are familiar with how you add in your unique interests into Facebook under the info tab. Well this is what Facebook pulls from when decided how to serve an ad to someone, along with other things like age, sex, and location.
With this in mind the way you write you ad will need to differ a little bit as well. Instead of doing a direct sale like you would in Adwords you want to play on peoples interests and passions in Facebook. Basically you want to make your ad sound “cool” based on the demographic you’re trying to target.
Another great tip to know is that Facebook only reads the ads one page deep at this point. Meaning you can easily create a targeted video squeeze page for your ad and Facebook will love you for it versus Google trying to dish out a notorious slap for something like that.
Anyways, right now Facebook is basically the hot spot of traffic with low competition so if you’re looking to get your foot in the door through PPC advertising FB is the place to be. Or even if you want to expand on some more traffic and lead generating sources Facebook will do nicely.
If your interested in Facebook advertising then you need to watch this free video on Facebook Ad Power
