Spiders are everywhere

I spent some time this morning updating updating one of our other blogs - Making Sense of FCA Compliance.  

We also have software that tracks site visitors to our site and this is what happened within 20 seconds of the article being published :

	google-proxy-66-102-6-139.google.com	Making sense of FCA Compliance: Capital Adequacy For IFA practices and the use of subordinated loans
	google-proxy-66-102-6-144.google.com	Making sense of FCA Compliance: Capital Adequacy For IFA practices and the use of subordinated loans
	google-proxy-66-102-6-134.google.com	Making sense of FCA Compliance: Capital Adequacy For IFA practices and the use of subordinated loans
	crawl-66-249-64-29.googlebot.com	MaMaking sense of FCA Compliance: Capital Adequacy For IFA practices a

Which confirmed to me that having to submit sites to Google for them to be indexed is a myth. 

More on Facebook Security

Next time you go onto Facebook have a lok at the URL address at the very top of the screen.

If you see http: instead of https: they you do not have a secure session and you can allow hackers to access your account.

To rectify select Account / Account settings / Account Security - then select the run in https box where possible and click save.

For some reason Facebook decided to set everyone as a default unsecure setting - bless.

facebook newsfeed gone too quiet?

You may have noticed recently that your newsfeed has got a little quiet. Unfortunately Facebook have introduced a new setting that means that a large chunk of your friends/fans can't see anything you post and vice versa!!

Since the addition of the "New Look Facebook" there is a newsfeed setting that by default is automatically set to show ONLY posts from people you've recently interacted with or interacted the most

TO FIX THIS:

- Scroll to the bottom of your newsfeed on the homepage

- Click on "edit options"

- Click on "show posts from"

- Change the setting to "all of your friends and pages"

Hey presto, you can now see posts from everyone again (except those you have manually blocked)

....with thanks to Jane for the tip :o)

FACEBOOK FYI: ALERT

 As of Jan 1,2011, NEW PRIVACY setting called "Instant Personalization" that shares data with non-Facebook websites and it is automatically set to "Enable." 


Go to Account >Privacy Settings > Applications and Websites >Instant Personalization > Edit Settings, 


and un-check "Enable". 


BTW if your friends don't do this, they will be sharing information about you. 

Adding a survey onto a website

Go to  http://www.kissinsights.com and open an account 


Follow the step by step guide that they require and they will create HTML coding that needs to be added to your website:

After your opening  tag to start collecting valuable feedback from your customers:

Once the code has been added to your site, you can manage all of your surveys (e.g. edit existing surveys and create new surveys) right from the KISSinsights Dashboard--there's no need to add any more code to your site.

The KISSinsights code automatically works on both http and https pages and it loads asynchronously so it won't slow down your site.

setting up an auto responder on twitter

You may have noticed that a number of people have set up the facility to "thank you"

• Sign up for a free account at Socialoomph. 
• Add your Twitter account. Select Social Accounts - Add New Accounts - Add Twitter.
• Enter in the details of your Twitter account user name and password.
• Scroll down to the auto welcome check box - select Automatically send a welcome message to new followers.
• In the "Send this message" text box enter the message you want to send.
• Scroll down and select save at the bottom. You are done setting up your Twitter autoresponder.

Setting up feed from blogger to your twitter account

Before you start - have the following ready:

1. Target Twitter account opened 

2.The URL from Blogger for your blog

then go to twitterfeed - http://twitterfeed.com

Set up an account with Twitterfeed (or log in once set up)

Click on "Create New Feed". Enter your Twitter name and password, as well as the URL for your RSS feed. 

Set up a user name for the feed

Twitter will ask your permission to allow the feed - say yes!

Click on "create" and all done.

Now, when you create a Blogger blog post, a tweet will automatically be created and posted to your Twitter account.