I just started a Facebook page for SEO-MIND site and was wondering how to make more people become a fan of the Facebook page. I have got some as fans but they are my close friends and most of them are not actually into SEO, Internet Marketing or blogging. Here are some ideas which I feel would help get started with a fan base:

1. Suggest a Friend: ‘Suggest to friend” option on fan page is a good first step and you can suggest to all your friends on Facebook. But then as I said, they mostly joined because they are good friends of mine and not because they really wanted to stay update on search engine news. But then if you have a big friends list then it’s a great way to get a whole bunch of fans. I have seen some friends having 500+ friends on their list.
2. Facebook Ad: If you are ready to spend, then this would be a good option. Create a Facebook Ad and place them on Facebook. You should be getting some good fan base in a month’s time if you have some interesting content on your Facebook page.
3. Facebook Fan Box: Promote your Facebook page on your blog or website by using the Facebook Fan box. Place it on a visible section of your website. The fan widget has a “Become a Fan” button which can get fans in a easier way.

Well, that’s the ideas I have right now. Anyone has newer ideas or better ideas, I can post them on this article with a link back to your website!

Many Gmail users were concerned to see the “Auto Follow” feature on its new Google Buzz. Well, how did Google ever think or have the guts to think that all Gmail users will want to reveal who they follow and their list of followers to the world?

With a huge number of Gmail users getting annoyed out of this bold authoritative decision over the common man, Google will now be removing the auto follow option. Well, Google did not give a straight apology but wanted to also backup their thoughts to it. Todd Jackson, Product Manger of Google Buzz states, “With Google Buzz, we wanted to make the getting started experience as quick and easy as possible, so that you wouldn’t have to manually peck out your social network from scratch.”

Todd also added, “Many people just wanted to check out Buzz and see if it would be useful to them, and were not happy that they were already set up to follow people. This created a great deal of concern and led people to think that Buzz had automatically displayed the people they were following to the world before they created a profile.”

The latest update from Google states that it will make “auto-follow” feature into “auto-suggest”. Guess that looks and sounds more safer.

Looks like Google is not satisfied with all its kills. Yes, it does get hungry often. With Google Buzz, it’s all against Facebook now.

With the recent Google Buzz, now Google allows you to automatically follow people you email or chat with. You can also share your ideas to the internet world or share only with your closest friends. Buzz also allows you to keep your comments in your inbox so you can keep the conversation going.

Google Buzz also allows you to import your profiles, photos, friends and network from other Google sites like Twitter, Flickr, Google Reader and Picasa.

With so much to offer and Gmail as a huge advantage, Google is all set to take on Facebook headon. Facebook on the other hand is still struggling on finding a clear business model. With its many recent updates claiming better features and user friendliness, the user experience has just gone from bad to worse. None better! But then on the other hand, not all products of Google have clicked. Anyone uses Google Wave or Orkut still? Well, most would have not even heard of Google Wave.

Many Facebook addicts are seriously concerned about Google Buzz. Google as you know is a money making machine and can make money out of any object that it steps on; even without the objects notice. Facebook users are posting messages asking Facebook to take some immediate steps:

1. Stop any synchronization with Google or its products
2. Do not allow Google to post any updates or info on any Facebook channel
3. Do not allow Google to crawl Facebook or gather any info on Facebook to publish on Google’s channels
4. Start a free web mail service like Google for Facebook users.
5. And many more..

Google’s Buzz has become a thing of hatred to Facebook lovers more than for Facebook itself. On the other hand, Google Buzz does not seem to be that much interesting to Gmail users. Just a interesting icon on their left hand gmail menu. Lets wait to see how much interesting this Google Buzz is to the social media world.

It’s time you spice up your Facebook profile page with your favorite artists, songs and bands. There are a whole lot of music apps available for free to help you make your profile page look cooler and more interactive.

Here is a list of the top 5 apps that you can integrate with Facebook platform.

Last.FM Music – This is an official app from Last.FM Facebook that helps you create your favorite playlist, compare with other music and also interact and share them with your friends. This is one of the most commonly used music app for Facebook.

iLike – iLike is another widely used Facebook app and has a whole lot of features in it. You can add artists, videos, bands, concerts and many more. You can share, comment and also create a personalized playlist of your favorite songs. Not just that, it lets you also see who are your friends favorite artists, which concert they are going to and you can even invite your favourite band to come to your town. This iLike may sure overtake Last.FM sooner as many cool features are being added on to it regularly.

My Music – This is the best for anyone who is addicted to iTunes. You can access your entire iTunes library with this little app in just a few clicks. Isn’t that awesome!

Yahoo Music Videos – import a whole lot of music videos into your Facebook profile from the massive Yahoo Video database.

Pandora – Pandora is for U.S users alone as it has been removed for outsiders due to licensing issues. However, if you are residing in U.S, it’s a great way to find your favourite songs and artists and add them to Facebook.

Many artists now have a presence in Facebook and have their songs shared on it. Facebook is a great way to share your music to the world. Many have even ended up with record deals and have grown their musical career out of it. Though we need to add a third-party music application to Facebook, there are some pretty cool apps like iLike and Last.fm that let you share your music easily to your profile.

So how do you add your music to Facebook? Here are few steps which can help you add music to Facebook at ease.

1. First and foremost, create a Facebook account if you don’t have one. (https://register.facebook.com/r.php )
2. Now create your band’s Facebook page.
3. Now click on http://apps.facebook.com/ilike/… Or any other music application you prefer. Allow it to access your profile.
4. Now you land on a page which has a whole lot of features for you to use. You can search for artists, search songs, videos, concerts, free MP3s and many more. You can get all these published on your profile. Isn’t that amazing?
5. Here you see a tab, My Music, where you can upload your own music too.
6. Now navigate to your profile and click on the ‘+’ icon on the top and select ‘♫ Music’
7. You are done now. Enjoy sharing your music to the world!

There are quite a lot of other music applications for facebook. Check the list of music applications for Facebook here!

Few small business owners and managers are joining the consumer trend towards increasingly using social networking websites and services, according to a new Citibank / GfK Roper survey.

According to the survey of 500 small business executives across the United States, 76 percent have not found social networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn to be helpful in generating business leads or for expanding their business during the last year, while 86 percent say they have not used social networking sites to get business advice or information. Continue Reading

Running out of gift ideas for your dad this year? Looking for some inspiration to get you in the mood? blinkx has created a Father’s Day video page sharing clips that will help you prepare for Father’s Day this Sunday, June 21.

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Bringing the fastest growing trend in online shopping — group buying — to the Washington, DC market is BuyWithMe.com launching in July and offering consumers exclusive special prices and discounts on shopping, dining, health clubs, spas and other in-demand services. With a simple premise — in order for a deal to kick in a minimum number of consumers must sign up — the effect of group buying is felt both by the buyers and the merchants. Continue Reading

Here is a small Scroll Box script that you can just copy paste in your MySpace profile. Scroll boxes are perfect to add any number of text and images in your MySpace profile page. Continue Reading

Search for the post you did on Digg and you would spend the rest of the day figuring out where the *@ll it went. End of the day you would assume that your post never got posted. Well, the fact is that your news or article did get posted. But Digg’s search engine was unable to relevantly sort it out. I am not the one to claim that Digg’s search was all screwed up. Daniel Burka of Digg recently accepted this fact. Continue Reading