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Social Media 5

5 Optimization Tricks That Are Always Overlooked

Curated By ShareNova

Article from Searchenginejournal by Rocco Baldassarre

Optimizing an account can be quite a challenging task, but the process can be streamlined with a few often overlooked optimization techniques. This article will focus on unveiling them and ensuring you are able optimize faster and more efficiently.

Bounce Rate & Average Time on Site

How many times have you mused the fate of a keyword that performs okay but might or might not generate relevant traffic even if it has lower conversions? This can be quite a tricky matter, and you need find a way to optimize keywords that is not only based on conversions.

The best way to do that is to add the Google Analytics columns in your AdWords interface. In order to do that you need to make sure to link Google  AdWords and Analytics from both platforms.

How to link via analytics:

  • Log in your account and click on the admin tab

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  • Click on AdWords Linking in the central column and then complete the linking process

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How to link via AdWords:

  • Click on your settings tab and then on account settings

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  • Once in this new page, click on Linked Account and make sure to connect your Analytics and AdWords accounts via AdWords

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By doing that, you will now be able to add 4 new columns to your AdWords Interface: bounce rate, average time on site, average pages viewed per visitor, and % of new visits.

These stats are extremely useful to analyze the performance of a given keyword or adgroup and take more conscious decisions when optimizing.

Your Competitive Position

Have you ever wondered on how competitors are performing with the same keywords? This could be a very important to determine how to move forward in terms of budgeting and bidding.

In order to get this information you need to look at least a seven day range. Once you select your date range, go to the campaign view of your account and select the campaigns you want to analyze. You then need to click on Details and on Selected from within the Auction Insights Menu:

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You will now gain access to a ton of valuable information:

  • The impression share you currently hold for the keywords in a given campaign
  • The impression share other companies hold for the keywords you are targeting in your campaigns
  • The average position you currently have for the keywords in the campaign you selected
  • The average position of competitors while appearing for your same keywords
  • The overlap rate, which indicates how often a competitor shows up together with you on a search query for one of your keywords
  • Position above rate, which indicates how often a competitor shows up above you in auctions for the keywords you target
  • Top of page rate, which indicates how often you and your competitors appear on top of the page above the search results

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You cannot run this sort of analysis for display campaigns but you can for individual or a group of keywords in a search campaign. Use this information to alter your optimization approach.

Check What Your Competitors Are Doing for Top Performing Keywords

Your top performing keywords in terms of ROI are the pillars of your account. Whenever something goes well for your account it is easy to overlook threats, but it is important to stay vigilant. There are some best practices that you can follow in order to ensure everything keeps running smoothly.

First, run a keyword diagnosis for your campaigns. A keyword diagnosis tells you if your ads are showing up for your keywords and if not, it tells you why. In order to run a keyword diagnosis, open the keyword tab (at the campaign or keyword level), click on details and then keyword diagnosis:

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Google will now run a test in the target market you indicate and show up results in the status column. You will most likely get messages such as “ad showing now” or “low bid or quality score”

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A second test you should always be running involves your top 10 keywords. You should run these keywords in the preview tool and find out:

  • What competitors are bidding on the keywords
  • What type of advertising messages they are using (are they more appealing?)
  • Are your extensions (site links and call extension) appearing together with your ad?

Make sure to run this sort of analysis periodically and test new ads if you believe that the competition is catching up with you.

Finally, run an auction insights for the top 10 most profitable keywords in your account. This process, which we explained in the previous point, can be very useful in order to quickly assess your competitiveness level and intervene on it if necessary

Analyzing The Search Query Report

This is probably the most important point of all. You need to make sure what you are appearing for is relevant to your business. This process can help you spot issues with your account.

In order to get started with the search query report analysis, first select a date range with enough clicks for Google to be able to generate an accurate report. Play a bit around with a couple of ranges to find your sweet spot.

You need to go to the keywords tab and click on Details and then Search Terms and All (you can also decide to analyze the search query report of a custom number of keywords as long as they have enough clicks):

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The report is a list of search terms retrieved by your keywords based on your settings. Download this list in excel and be ready to analyze the search query report with three goals in mind:

  • Identify long tail keywords to add to your account as exact match
  • Identify long tail exact match negative keywords
  • Identify broad match negative keywords

To see an immediate boost in the quality of your traffic, this process should be carried out regularly.

Segment Your Geo-Targeting and Custom Bid

Many PPC managers prefer to target a whole country and then later on segment based on performance. Others tend to be proactive and set up campaigns with location targeting that is ready to be optimized with custom bids.

This approach might be the best since it allows to increase or decrease the spending in an area based on its ROI immediately.

Set it up by targeting a country by all of regions or states other than by selecting the whole country in the campaign settings. Once you do that, you will be able to go in the settings tab of the campaign and click on location to increase or decrease bids for each of the target areas by a custom percentage.

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All you have got to do now is to analyze the geographic reports both on Google Analytics and AdWords and find out whether you can optimize any of the location for a better ROI. You can locate the reports in AdWords in the dimension tab and looking at the view Geographic or User Location.

In Conclusion

Optimizing Google AdWords accounts the right way can make a huge difference in terms of ROI. Make sure to look at each piece of data and use the five techniques above to optimize things even further.

 

Do you have additional tips to share? We are all ears!

5 years ago Leave a reply List Building, PPC, SEO, Small BusinessBounceRate, ContentMarketing, GeoTargeting, Google AdWords, Google Analytics, Optimization, PPC, Roi, traffic

Now you can help translate Facebook into any language

Justin Smith•Apr 2nd, 2008
Facebook, International

For months, volunteer translators around the world have been using Facebook’s innovative Translations application to translate all 24,000 phrases on Facebook into Spanish, German, and French. Now, Facebook has opened up the Translation application to everyone in order to translate Facebook into every major language on earth.

Facebook Translations Application

How does it work?

1. Add the Translations app and choose your language. (Currently, there are translation projects going on in English, Français, Deutsch, Español, Català, Čeština, Dansk, Euskara, Galego, Italiano, 한국어, Magyar, Norsk, 日本語, Nederlands, Polski, Português do Brasil, Română, Русский, Slovenščina, Suomi, Svenska, ภาษาไทย, Türkçe, 中文(简体), 中文(繁體).)

2. Turn on in-line editing. This will highlight every word on Facebook that needs translating. You can click on each phrase and vote on translations submitted by others or submit a new translation yourself.

3. Browse the translations directory to view and translate more phrases. You can browse and vote on any of the 24,000 phrases. Facebook’s top translators have had thousands of translations accepted!

This is one of the most elegant approaches to localization I’ve seen, making it easy for everyone to contribute, if even only a word or two. Nice job, Facebook Translations team!

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7 Terrific Time Saving Social Media Automation Tools that you have to use!

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social media automation toolsDo you struggle to get all your social media tasks done every day?

Do you find that you perform repetitive tasks?

You have so many things to juggle on a daily basis.  You probably have a family or close friends, some hobbies, a job that is no longer 9 to 5 and an ever growing list of tasks to do.

Social Media Marketing is also so frustrating.  There is no end to it.  You never feel you have done enough.

But there is light at the end of the tunnel.

The social media tools are maturing and getting more useful and there is more automation that is available.

Here are 7 time saving social media automation tools:

1. Social Oomph

Social Oomph is a social media management tool with some great automation features.  One of the best features is the queue reservoir.

Evergreen content is content that doesn’t go out of date.

So when you post blog content that is evergreen it’s important to continue promoting it well after you initially post it.

As your social media presence evolves you get more fans/followers that have never seen your content before and also it is very likely that most of your existing fans/followers didn’t see your content when you first shared it!

When you post evergreen content you add it to your Queue and in this queue you specify how often you want content shared.

 

SocialOomph Queue Reservoir

 

When I put an item in the queue SocialOomph allows me to create multiple variations of the tweet so that you are not sending out the same tweet every time.

So for every item I add to the queue I have 3 different variations of the tweets:

{5 Tools to Market Your Business Using Mobile Social Media Apps|5 great mobile social media apps that you should download to-day!|Does your company have a mobile app? Here are some examples to inspire you:} http://bit.ly/1akwk7V

This is how SocialOomph will send out the tweets:

  • Tweet 1: 5 Tools to Market Your Business Using Mobile Social Media Apps http://bit.ly/1akwk7V
  • Tweet 2: 5 great mobile social media apps that you should download to-day http://bit.ly/1akwk7V
  • Tweet 3: Does your company have a mobile app?  Here are some examples to inspire you: http://bit.ly/1akwk7V

 

The queue reservoir is such a useful feature.  It saves a lot of time and it will also drive you more traffic to your site #winner !!!

 

2. Dlvr.it

When you post content out through your blog you want to promote it across all of your channels all of the time.

But you  don’t want to have to set up a tweet, Facebook update, LinkedIn update etc as this is time consuming.

Dlvr.it automates this.

In Dlvr.it you specify the source where you want to pick the content up from and the destination where you want to put it.

 

dlvr.it

 

When a new post is created dlvr.it will automatically send out your updates.  It current supports Twitter, Facebook (business and personal), LinkedIn (business and personal), Google + (business page). App.net and Delicious.

There is also very useful analytics in dlvr.it as well.  Because it uses it’s only web address shortener it can track who clicks on your link.

 

dlvr.it stats

 

Dlvr.it is a very reliable and useful tool that will save you a lot of time.

 

3. IFTTT

IFTTT (If this then that) allows you to automate a broad range of activities.  If a trigger event happens the automation kicks in and the corresponding action takes place.

For example,  a new blog post is added and a tweet is generated.

In IFTTT they have a concept of ‘recipes’.  These recipes are individual tasks that can be automated.  When you login you’ll see over 4,000 to  choose from.

 

IFTTT Recipes

 

Each recipe has some ingredients!  You have the source of what IFTTT is monitoring and then the resulting action.  In the example if a new blog post is added to the Razorsocial queue then a tweet is sent to my account @iancleary.

 

IFTTT Example

 

If you can’t find an IFFTT task amongst the 4k + examples you can also set up your own combination.

Once you set up your IFTTT recipes you can forget about it and the automation kicks in every time.

 

4. Zapier

Zapier is similar to IFFF except you set up Zaps.    A Zap is an individual automated task.  For example a Zap could be a task that monitors YouTube and when it finds a new video then a tweet is automatically generated.

There are over 250 services supported.  These are the ones you specify where the trigger event kicks off.

 

Zapier Triggers

 

You can use from the many Zaps that are available or you can build your own Zap.  They are very easy to set up.

 

Zapier New Zap

 

Recently we wrote an article about a 24 hour global conference that used Zapier to automate a lot of the tasks related to content distribution.  This article will give you lots of ideas in relation to the potential of a tool like Zapier.  Read this article here.

Another alternative to Zapier is Cloud work.  This provides similar functionality but some different applications are supported so it’s worth checking this out also.

 

5. Aweber

Aweber is an email marketing tool with some essential automation tasks built in.

When someone signs up to your email list you can set up one or a series of automated e-mails that goes to your new subscriber.

You can pre build all your email templates and have them all ready to go.

 

aweber

 

The automated sequence of email helps nurture your email subscriber and eventually bring them to a point of sale.  This automation is an essential component of your email marketing.

 

6.Postplanner

Postplanner is a Facebook page management tool that helps automate the sharing of content to your Facebook page.

There is a content discovery engine which allows you to discover the most popular content in your industry and then you can add it to a queue for later delivery.

Post planner will handle everything in the queue and automatically post out based on pre-configured times.

 

Postplanner Trending

 

Postplanner will save you a lot of time on Facebook!

 

7. Buffer

Buffer saves a lot of time by automatically handling all the scheduling of your posts.

When you want to catch up on your blog posts read them using Feedly and then share them out on Buffer.  Buffer will take any posts that you have scheduled and place them in a queue and send them out based on the next time slots that you have preconfigured.

In the following example we are using Feedly on a mobile device to read the content and then buffering the content out for sharing at a later stage.

 

Feedly and Buffer

 

 

Summary

Social media can be so frustrating because you don’t have enough time to complete all the tasks.

It can also be quite repetitive.

So why don’t you automate the repetitive tasks?

What tools do you use?  Would you use some of the tools listed above?

photo credit: eflon via photopin cc

About the author

Ian Cleary

Author: Ian Cleary is a technology guy with extensive experience in Social Media. He is a writer for Social Media Examiner and other high profile blogs and is very passionate about Social Media Tools. Ian is the CEO of RazorSocial and also RazorCoast which is a Digital Marketing Agency.

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  • Paul C Amatangelo

    Great post, thanks

    • http://www.razorsocial.com/ Ian Cleary

      Thanks Paul.

  • http://canmoneyonlinesolveit.com/blog Pat Brosnan

    Super content thanks for sharing this with us

    • http://www.razorsocial.com/ Ian Cleary

      Thank you Pat, glad it was useful!

  • Antonella

    Great Ian! Thanks for that!

    • http://www.razorsocial.com/ Ian Cleary

      Thank you Antonella!

  • http://www.thetravolution.com/ Cristina

    Ian I feel like you always let us in on little known secrets. Never heard of these tools! Genius!

    • http://www.razorsocial.com/ Ian Cleary

      Thanks Cristina, glad they are useful! Ian

  • Siobhan Joyce

    I use dlvr.it and find it brillant for both Facebook and Twitter for 2 of our RSS Feeds.

    • http://www.razorsocial.com/ Ian Cleary

      Thanks Siobhan, dlvr.it is a really reliable and useful tool. Ian

  • http://cashwithatrueconscience.com/rbblog Ryan Biddulph

    I use Buffer and socialoomph in the past Ian. Both great tools. Now I am addicted to Hootsuite Pro ;) Awesome list overall, thanks!

    Ryan

    • http://www.razorsocial.com/ Ian Cleary

      Thanks Ryan, I use the Hootsuite free option. What’s good about the PRO, is it the reporting?

  • http://warrenwhitlock.com/social-media-expert Warren Whitlock

    Great list. You nailed this one. I do like to add this reminder to any discussion of automation tools.

    Automation is great for increasing your productivity to get mundane tasks off your plate. Just remember that “doing social” is not a task. Use automation only when it helps you focus on the social part of social media.

    I used automation to make sure that an post from Ian is in my queue to read. I don’t automate the reading or replying :)

    • http://www.razorsocial.com/ Ian Cleary

      Well said Warren, I hate the mundane stuff but I love chatting and interacting with smart people like you. I hope to meet you in real life some day and buy you are beer! Thanks for your feedback, honored that I make your queue!

      • http://warrenwhitlock.com/social-media-expert Warren Whitlock

        Follow up. I have accounts on all the tools listed. Was not using one, so on your recommendation, logged in. Forgot I had been upgraded years ago.

        Thanks.

        Moral of the story. No tool works well if you don’t use it :)

        • http://www.razorsocial.com/ Ian Cleary

          Absolutely! People love hearing about the tools but you need to implement them!!

  • George Iovchev

    Precious information, thank you! You are showing us the near future of web promoting. I am using Social Oomph, but not the way you suggest here.

    • http://www.razorsocial.com/ Ian Cleary

      Thank you very much George, glad it was useful to you.

  • Rod Simmons

    Good stuff Ian!

    • http://www.razorsocial.com/ Ian Cleary

      Thanks Rod!

  • peggyduncan

    Great info, Ian. I’m using Hootsuite Pro for automation for my blog. On YouTube, automation is set up within YouTube. You’ve made me curious about Dlvr.it.

    • http://www.razorsocial.com/ Ian Cleary

      Thanks you Peggy, I find dlvr.it very reliable!

      • samarthsave

        Hey Ian, What do you think about OnlyWire?

  • Angelique Toque

    Thanks for article! Helped me a lot :) Just find new solution to spend less time on social media ‘stuff’ :)

    • http://www.razorsocial.com/ Ian Cleary

      You’re welcome.

  • pipo101

    checkout http://kout.co it lets you automatically post on twitter and facebook for free..

  • samarthsave

    I think you missed one. OnlyWire. I use it. its simple. and cheap!!

    • http://www.razorsocial.com/ Ian Cleary

      If used correctly it is useful but sending to a large range of social networks that you are not active on is not much use!

  • samarthsave

    I use onlywire. it works well for me. but i think these are good too

  • junaid ahmed

    That’s an awesome post I have found crawling at the Google while searching for news in social media. These really help in increasing brand image using social media smartly. Thank you for sharing the great article here.

  • Nikhil Tiwari

    Thanks for the well researched article. Please also consider Sociota to add on this List . This is a new but include lot of beneficial features.

    • http://www.razorsocial.com/ Ian Cleary

      Yes I certainly will, thank you

      • NikhilTiwari96

        Thanks Ian . Try the most intresting feature of sociota.
        here is the link sociota.net/magicbox

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10+ Tools to Translate Tweets in Twitter Automatically

Twitter users may not always tweet in English. You might follow many twitter users that do not tweet in your language. It would be surprising to see the updates in French, Dutch, Spanish and other languages which are unknown to you and you do not want to miss out a single tweet as those tweets might contain some useful information. But how to translate the tweets into English or any other language? Below is the list of some of the Twitter translation services with which tweets are automatically translated.

 

Twitter Translate – Twitter Translate is a greasemonkey script that automatically translate any tweets made by twitter users in other languages, back to your language. The source is currently coded set to “en” for English, but you can set it to any code available. After installing user script ‘Twitter Translate’, the next time you receive a tweet in language other than your native language, you will notice the tweets automatically translated into native language. Beneath the tweet you will also notice a GT icon with the words “translated from …”. This is a link that will expand with the original language if you are interested. Note- to use this script, make sure you are using firefox browser and Greasemonkey installed on it.

 

Twitlator – It is a Greasemonkey script that translates the tweets automatically. To test it visit the public timeline and find a tweet in a language that is unknown to you. Click the translate! link to translate the tweets. Supports on Firefox 3 or later

 

TweeTrans It is a twitterbot, a mashup between Google Translate and Twitter. To use it simply use the @Reply feature of twitter. Send a reply to @tweetrans using the following format:

@tweetrans 2en your message here , where “2en” is the code for the language you want to translate to (en = English). Then add a space and enter your message after that. The message can consist of one word, a phrase, or a sentence. Alternatively, you can specify both languages if the language detector does not detect the correct “from language” (i.e., a “translate from” and a “translate to” language) using the following format: @tweetrans en2es your message herewhere “en2es” is the code for the language pair you want to translate from (en = English) and to (es = Spanish). Then add a space and enter your message after that.

 

TweeTrans twitter bot runs and sends you an @Reply with the translation in the appropriate language in every 5 minutes after you submit your request.

 

Twitrans – It allows twitter users to quickly translate any short message to a number of languages. Just send a Twitter message to @twitrans followed by the translation requested (For eg., English to Chinese would be en2zh). A test message I sent: “@twitrans en2zh Hi friends, Twitter is a fantastic service.” Once send you will receive a message – ““Human translation started. You will receive the translation here in a few minutes. Thank you!”. Translation requests are handled manually, so we can expect better results as compared to Google Translate or similar automated translation services.

 

Available language codes- Arabic-ar, Chinese-zh, Dutch-nl, English-en, French-fr, German-de, Greek-el, Hebrew-he, Hindi-hi, Italian-it, Japanese-jp, Portuguese-pt, Russian-ru, Spanish-es

 

Twanslate – It is yet another twitter translation service. To translate the multilingual feeds –

Follow @twanslate and then send direct message. For eg., “d twanslate fr Hi friends, Twitter is a fantastic service “. Supports es,fr,de,pt,ja,it,ru

 

Cybersoc have created a Twitter Tweet Translation Tool using Yahoo Pipes. Twieee is another free service that translates automatically from twitter. Twittervision, transtweet and good-translation are on going twitter translation projects. If you are looking for a tool that can translate your native language to English or some other language then you can go for livetranslate.

 

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15 Resources to Create Images for Social Media

By Debra Eckerling
Published May 21, 2014 Printer-Friendly

social media how to Do you post images on social media?

Would you like to create attractive images to share?

When creating images for social media, quality makes a difference.

In this article we’ll share tools and resources to create professional and engaging social media images that you can use on multiple platforms.

Why Create Images for Social Media?

In this visual-centric world, it’s more important than ever to create high-quality sharable images.

Getting Visual With Your Content: 10 Effective Ways to Use Images: In this infographic from Fresh Take on Content, Lane Jones visually suggests different ways you can use images in your social media. Share product pics, recipes, team photos, location, checklists and more. “It’s amazing how by just taking ordinary words… and putting them on a background makes the difference between a post that barely gets noticed and one that gets liked, shared, retweeted or reposted,” she says.

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Find ways to use graphics on FreshTakeonContent.com.

 

Visual Impact: How Photos Ramp Up Your Social Media Strategy: Vanessa Doctor goes over the advantages of using visuals in social media marketing in this Hashtags.org article. Graphics are great for space-saving, convenience, higher engagement and more. Readers are attracted to visuals. Along with posts or hashtags, visual media also help with storytelling.

Top Tip: Using Photos in Your Social Media Strategy: “A picture will change the way you communicate on social media,” says guest author Kate Huffman on the ME Marketing Services blog. Since it can sometimes be a challenge to choose the best picture for your posts, Huffman shares things to consider, such as permissions, impact and relevance.

Find Photos Online

There are many free and paid options to find images online to use with your social media posts.

18 Top Stock Photo Libraries: This list from Creative Bloq includes image sharing sites, ones with free photos, pay-per-pic and subscription services. Each paragraph includes a screenshot, so you can get a feel for the site, as well as a description highlighting the service’s most distinctive features.

creative bloq article

Explore several image libraries on CreativeBloq.com.

Stock Photography Service Review: TopTenReviews compares and rates top stock photography websites. It includes a section on why to use a stock photography website, as well as one on things to look for when choosing a service. Criteria to consider are features, sort/search capabilities, quality and selection.

Take Better Pictures

If you don’t want to think about costs or permissions, or you’d just rather take your own photos, there are a variety of things you can do to take better photographs for social media.

Check out these tips for taking better smartphone photos from Mobile Tech Video.

 

Photography for Social Media: 5 Detailed Tips: Since “part-time photographer” is in the unofficial job description of anyone who works in social media, it helps to step up your skill set in that area. Daniel Lemin shares 5 ninja photography tips on the subjects of framing and composition, lighting, background and style, camera angles and resolution in this Convince & Convert article.

The Guide to Great Social Media Photos: Libby Turner’s post on Room 214 blog is jam-packed with tools and tidbits on how to take photos that encourage engagement. Two must-read parts: Opportunities (“the moments you might consider taking a photo to share on social networks”) and the Bonus Resources section, where Turner talks about focus, cropping, guiding your subjects and more.

room 214 article

Discover photo taking tips on Room214.com.

Tips for Taking Quality Photos With Your Smartphone: MarketAmerica has tips for making better use of your smartphone’s camera. It starts with logic-based recommendations: get acquainted with your camera and keep your lens clean. Other tips include using your flash only when you have to, using the highest resolution possible and getting in close to avoid using zoom.

Foodies rejoice. Here’s advice from Stephen Hamilton on how to take better smartphone pictures with a focus on food.

 

Use Tools to Improve Images

Once you’ve chosen or taken your photos, there are many free and paid web and mobile tools you can use to improve the quality of your photos, as well as create graphics or infographics. You can also use traditional software like Photoshop, Illustrator or a general paint program to prep your graphics to post on your social sites.

Visual Web: 5 Tools to Create Eye Catching Images for Social Media: Ian Cleary of Razor Social shares his favorite sites for making graphics more visually appealing. Pixlr, Quozio, PicMonkey, Canva and Fotor made his list of tools that can help you improve your social media pics.

razor social article

Learn about top image tools on RazorSocial.com.

14 Great Tools to Create Engaging Infographics and Images for Your Social Media Posts: This list from Buffer by Belle Beth Cooper has tools for creating quote graphics (more on quote pics below), collages and more. It also includes a section on different tools for creating infographics.

buffer article

Find more image creating tools on BufferApp.com.

10 Image Editing Tools to Make Photos Fit for Social Sharing: On The Next Web, Luke Chitwood from Simply Measured compiled 10 free and paid tools that will help you create, edit, manage and share images. Each one has a description, pros, cons and cost, and then gets a rating (0 to 5), based on function, ease of use and shareability.

the next web article

Discover image editing tools on TheNextWeb.com.

Create Quote Photos

Photos with quotes are very popular in terms of visual appeal, response and engagement.

You can use your own quotes or take quotes from podcasts or blogs (just be sure to attribute and link). And you can find famous (and not-so-famous) quotes on sites like BrainyQuote, Quoteland, The Quote Garden or Wikiquote. There’s a searchable list of quotes from TED and a Forbes article on Top 100 Inspirational Quotes to get you started.

10+ Web Tools for Making Quote Photos: As a word person in an “image-crazy world,” Courtney Seiter compiled a list of best quote pic resources on the Raven Tools blog. Each tool has a graphic example (the site’s name in the type of quote-style graphic they offer), as well as detailed info such as price (most are free), quote styles, post options, pros, cons and extras.

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Find easer ways to make quote images on RavenTools.com.

How to Quickly Create Your Own Quote Graphics to Share on Social Media: Jonathan Milligan on Blogging Your Passion shares his system for collecting, creating and tracking quote graphics to use on social media. “The point is people love to read quotes,” he says. “They are highly shareable and it can be a great strategy to grow your social media following.”

Final Thoughts

The images for your visual strategy don’t have to be over-the-top professional. However, there are things you can do to take things up a notch or two. An extra boost of professional zing could make all of your graphics stand out.

What do you think? Do you use graphics for social media? What are your favorite tools? What tips do you have to share? We’d love to hear what works for you. Please share your experience in the comments.

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