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Adding a Facebook alternate name or nickname on a Facebook Profile

Do you go by a different name? Learn how to add a Facebook alternate name to your Facebook Profile in just a few steps.

Why add an alternate name

There are plenty of reasons why you would want to add an alternate name to your profile.

For example, you may have recently gotten married and friends you went to school with only know your maiden name.

Alternatively, if someone only knows your nickname, it can be difficult to find you in search.

Types of alternate names you can add

When you’re ready to add your alternate name, here are some of the types of names you can add.

  • Maiden name
  • Nickname
  • Professional name

To add your alternate name to your Facebook Profile, follow the instructions below.

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How to add Facebook stickers to Facebook Messenger

If you’re not impressed with collection of Facebook stickers you have in Facebook Messenger, you can add Facebook stickers.

What are Facebook stickers?

Facebook stickers are a way to send images from your favorite holidays or television shows to friends through Facebook Messenger.

They are a great way to add personality to your conversations on Facebook.

Besides sending stickers to friends, stickers can also be sent to business associates you are following on Facebook, but I would be careful doing this. Sometimes it can send the wrong message.

To add Facebook stickers, follow these instructions.

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Cleaning up Facebook status updates with Dirtymouth

Do you have a dirty mouth on Facebook? If you’re not sure if your content might be considered offensive, you should try Dirtymouth.

What is Dirtymouth?

Dirtymouth for Facebook

Dirtymouth is a free social media tool for Facebook users that can analyze status updates and comments on your Facebook Profile and tell you if it considers it to be offensive.

Does it clean-up our status updates? Here’s a review of Dirtymouth on our Facebook Profile. Let’s see if it worked.

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Link your Facebook Page and Facebook Profile to boost engagement!

A lot of people have the misconception that it is difficult to use your Facebook Profile for business. While you’re not supposed to run your business from a Facebook Profile, you can leverage your profile to promote your Facebook Page.

There are a number of ways you can do this. For example, you can like your own Facebook Page and share updates from your news feed on your profile.

This will help let your friends and followers learn about your Facebook Page through the content that you share.

While this is a great way to grow your engagement, you can’t do this until you get people to like your Facebook Page.

So what can you do to create a more permanent way to promote your Facebook Page on your Facebook Profile for all of your friends and followers to see?

The problem

You’ve want to feature your Facebook Page on your Facebook Profile.

The solution

There are two ways that you can feature your Facebook Page on your Facebook Profile. We’re going to start with the easier one. To link your Facebook Page to your Facebook Profile, follow these steps.

How to add your Facebook Page to your Facebook Profile

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Facebook hashtag marketing tips

Facebook rolled out Facebook hashtags as a way to compete with Twitter, Google Plus, and LinkedIn. While adoption has been slow and feedback has been mixed, they are still an effective way to track conversations on Facebook. Here are some Facebook hashtag marketing tips you can implement now to help you tap into the 1 billion active Facebook users.

Is Facebook hashtag marketing effective?

Not everyone agrees that Facebook hashtags are effective. In fact, some suggest that Facebook hashtags don’t help boost exposure at all.

This is rather surprising because the purpose of Facebook hashtags is to help group conversations across different Facebook profiles and pages and help marketers reach new audiences. To me, this suggests that we need to give Facebook hashtags some more time to develop, as it sounds like they haven’t yet caught on with everyone.

One other surprising stat reported by Consumer Reports is that just 28% of Facebook users make their Facebook posts public.

For those of you using Facebook hashtags, for them to be effective and to reach people, you want to make sure you tell your audience to make any Facebook posts they share that include a Facebook hashtag public. If they don’t make these posts public, this means the posts are not being seen when someone clicks into a hashtag, which means lower exposure.

Missed opportunities with Facebook hashtags

While I have personally used Facebook hashtags in some of my Facebook marketing posts, one thing that I consistently notice is that I’m seeing the same people using Facebook hashtags. This suggests that a lot of people are not using Facebook hashtags (or if they are, they are not setting them to public) so that everyone can see them.

This means there are a lot of missed opportunities for marketers.

This infographic from Prestige Marketing looks at different Facebook hashtag marketing tips to consider implementing in your digital marketing strategy.

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10 Tips for performing a Facebook operation [Infographic]

Everyone remembers the game, Operation, right? In a recent study, 82% of social media users think Facebook is a good place to interact with brands (tweet this stat). If your Facebook presence isn’t where you want it to be, it might be time to consider performing a Facebook operation.

What exactly is a Facebook operation?

While operations are usually permanent, a Facebook operation is where you tweak certain areas of your Facebook Page and can always go back and change them as the times change.

For example, you may have a great cover photo on your Facebook Page; however, maybe the only areas you need to operate on are to make your landing pages mobile friendly.

By performing an operation on your Facebook Page, you can greatly improve your Facebook presence and make your page more appealing to fans.

Remember, the more appealing and inviting your Facebook presence is, the more your fans will want to share the great content, photos, and more that you post.

Is a Facebook operation necessary?

52% of social media users find a business’s Facebook Page more valuable than their website (tweet this stat). I expect that number to continue to grow as more businesses are using their Facebook Page for leads.

If you’re ready to go under the knife and perform a Facebook operation on your Facebook Page, the team at ShortStack put together this great infographic with tips on different areas you should consider operating on.

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How to delete Facebook search history [video]

How to delete Facebook search history

A question I often get asked is “how to delete Facebook search history?” 

As a Facebook user, one would expect this option to be right next to the Facebook Graph Search box (the logical place) or at least included in the account settings menu.

So why does Facebook make it so difficult to delete Facebook search history?

While we’ll never know the logic behind why Facebook makes the decisions that it does, what we can do is walk you through the necessary steps to delete your search history.

But before we do that, let’s talk about the impact of deleting Facebook search history.

Should you delete Facebook search history?

While you can delete your search history on Facebook, should you? That’s a tough one to answer. It really depends on what your reasoning is.

If your parents have access to your Facebook account, deleting your searches might be a good idea – especially if there’s something you’ve searched for that you don’t want them to find.

The same can be said if you’re someone who is in a committed relationship  and you’re looking to meet someone else.

Outside of these two cases, there’s really not a need to delete Facebook search history. Deleting your search history means that if you frequently search for something, you may not get the results as quickly as you would like them. 

Also, it’s not like if you delete your search history, Facebook cannot use your data. Chances are they collect your data and analyze it before you can even hit the delete Facebook search history button. 

How to delete Facebook search history

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How to get more likes on Facebook [infographic]

How to get more likes on Facebook

When you talk about how to get more likes on Facebook, people often think you’re strictly talking about getting people to like your Facebook Page. There’s actually another type of like that’s more important to Facebook users. This is getting people to like your content that you post on Facebook.

Why should I try to get more likes on Facebook?

As I mentioned, it is more important to get people to like your content than to like your Facebook Page.

This is because when people like your Facebook Page, this only gets them to the door. It doesn’t get them to enter and to begin participating (engaging) with you.

When you get someone to begin liking your content on Facebook, this means that you have taken an even bigger step and you have their attention (if only briefly).

The good thing is that when you get more likes on Facebook content, not only have you helped out that user by providing something they found valuable (they liked your content, right?), but they’ve also told their friends, and also told you what kind of content that you posted that they find valuable

This can do a number of things.

For instance, when someone likes a piece of content, you just took the first step to building a more meaningful and long-term relationship with that user.

Additionally, they have told you what kinds of content they find interesting. This provides extremely valuable data on what types of posts you should be making on Facebook. You also now have the opportunity to grow that relationship with those users because you know what they want. All that’s left to do is post it!

So what types of Facebook posts should you consider making? Here are a few that are guaranteed to help you get more likes on Facebook:

  • Posting photos receives 53% more likes
  • Posting photos receives 104% more comments
  • Posting photos receives 84% more click-throughs
  • Posting 1-2 times per day gets higher engagement than posting 3+ times per day

So what other ways can you get more likes on Facebook? This infographic covers the ones I mentioned along with a number of others that can help you get more likes on Facebook content and improve your relationships with your audience.

How can I get more likes on Facebook?

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Changing Facebook photo privacy settings [video]

Facebook photo privacy settings on photo albums

Each time you upload new photos to a photo album, it is important that you have the right Facebook photo privacy settings set to help keep unwanted people from viewing your photos.

For most users though, this is a setting we often forget. This is because we assume that everything posted to Facebook is only available to our friends or because we find Facebook privacy settings difficult to find and change.

Unfortunately, that’s not the case. That’s why you need to be sure to set your Facebook photo privacy settings for each photo album.

Why set Facebook photo privacy settings?

When you don’t set the privacy settings on Facebook photo albums, you leave yourself vulnerable. In most cases, your photos are public, meaning anyone who isn’t your friend can view them.

Because of this, I recommend checking your privacy settings for every photo album that you have on your Facebook profile to ensure that you’re not letting unwanted people view  your photos.

So how do you set your Facebook photo privacy settings to keep people you don’t know or people you don’t want to view your photos out? We’ve compiled short video tutorial to help you do this.

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Facebook Profile Tips & 10 Things Not to Share

10 Facebook profile tips

When you first join Facebook, it is important to know what you should and should not share. We’ve compiled a list of Facebook profile tips on 10 things you should never share on Facebook.

Why should I not share these items on Facebook?

Before we get to our list of Facebook profile tips on things you should never share on Facebook, let’s quickly talk about why you wouldn’t want to share them.

A lot of people who first join Facebook assume that everything that is shared on Facebook is private. That’s not always the case.

Most of the information is public or it can be copied by your friends and shared without your knowledge.

We know that you want to share important updates with your friends and family. It is importnat though that you follow these Facebook profile tips and to not share this type of information on Facebook. Not only can it compromise your security, but it can also embarrass friends, family and even yourself because of the repercussions that can happen.

Sure, we love being social and sharing what we’re doing with friends and family, but know who it is getting shared with before you share it. What happen’s on Facebook doesn’t always stay on Facebook.

Let’s take a look at this list of Facebook profile tips and the ten items you should never share.

Facebook profile tips and 10 things you should never share

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