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How to Optimize 7 Popular Social Media Profiles for SEO
If you want to strengthen your personal or business brand's visibility, then one of the top things you will want is to have strong social media profiles that rank in the top results for your name along with your website and blog. Having a strong online reputation that is comprised of nothing but content that highlights the best about your personal or business brand will allow you to keep undesirable results at bay, such as bad online reviews or mentions.
You've probably read lots of posts talking about how to properly optimize your social media profiles for search, and they've probably all sounded a little like this.
- Be active – Yes, this is true. Just like Google loves regularly updated blogs and websites, they equally love regularly updated social profiles.
- Optimize photo filenames – This only works on some networks, which I will mention below. It doesn't hurt to upload photos with your name or keywords in the filename, but networks like Facebook rename the photo filenames anyway, so for some networks, it's useless.
- Engage with your followers, fans, and connections – This is a good thing to do regardless of the SEO value of it. Engaging with others will keep your profile updated often, and being helpful will also lead to other's recommending you to their audience. Search #FollowFriday to see what I mean.
- Vanity URL – From what I can tell, the URL does not count for anything but branding except on specific networks. For example, my Facebook fan page name is Kikolani, and the username for the URL is artofblogging. The fan page does not rank for art of blogging, but does rank for Kikolani. But again, it all depends on the network.
While these are great tips for your overall social media strategy, they are not the end all of SEO for your social network profiles. Certain networks use specific elements of information that you supply in your profile to optimize each profile on their network. The following will guide you to the right fields to optimize for the best possible search optimization of your social networks. The best part is that all customizations noted are using each site's free accounts – no need to upgrade to Pro if all you're looking for is optimization!
Quick and Dirty Onsite SEO 101
Before we get started, here are some key things to keep in mind about the following mentioned SEO elements of your social profiles. The order of importance is generally SEO Title, Meta Description, header tags (H1, H2, H3), image ALT tags, image filenames, and bolded text. Also, when it comes to search results, the typical result will look like this with the SEO Title as the linked information and the Meta Description as the details beneath it:
But what if you don't care about the SEO?
That's ok – this post still has some great information for you! Usually the parts of your profile that are used for search optimization are also used for the network's own search results. So if you don't want to think of it as SEO work, think of it as simply social optimization!
Google+ Profiles
Let's start with the hottest new social media network of them all – Google's own Google+. Whenever you are filling out your Google+ profile, be sure to note the following areas of information that will enhance the search optimization of your presence on this network.
SEO Title: Your Name – Google+
Google+ is all about the personal branding, and they insist that you use your real name for your profile. So don't try to stick keywords or business names in your profiles – not yet at least!
Meta Description: Your Name – Your Headline + Your Occupation
The Meta Description for your Google+ profile is a combination of different pieces of profile information, starting with your name followed by your headline (the line below your name), your occupation, your first employer listed, and then your introduction text. So make sure that the first 160 characters count by writing a great headline and occupation title. Also make sure those areas are set to be seen by anyone on the web.
Extra Search Tidbits: Your Links
From what I can tell, the links within the introduction content as well as the ones under other profiles, contributor to, and recommended links are all dofollow. So don't shy away from anchor text as this is a prime Google property!
Facebook Pages
Assuming that not much changes when Facebook decides to revamp the fan pages as they have recently with the personal profiles, the following areas of information contribute to your fan page SEO.
SEO Title: Your Page Name | Facebook
If you didn't consider keyword optimization when you created it, and you have less than 100 fans, you're in luck. You can still change your page's name. What you will want to keep in mind is that your branding may be more important than your keyword rankings, especially if you want people to be able to find you if they are searching your brand.
Meta Description: Your Page Name + Your About Description | Facebook
To edit your About information to make a great Meta Description, go to your page and Edit Page > Basic Information, and fill in the About field with a 140 character description like you would with any website Meta Description.
Extra Search Tidbits: Your Fan Page Updates Have SEO Value
Did you know that each of your status updates on your Facebook fan page have a page of their own (click the timestamp of one to see). If you're posting a standard status update, the SEO Title for the individual page of your updates will be pulled from the first 18 characters (though sometimes it is a bit less). If you're posting a link to your fan page wall, you'll have an option to "Say something about this link…" – the first 18 characters of what you enter in this field are going to be the SEO Title of that status update.
If you're concerned about optimizing your updates while considering them as individual pages under the umbrella of your fan page, then you might want to consider sticking some keywords right at the beginning of your comment. So if you're posting an update about keyword research, just start the update with keyword research. It is a simple, effective way to keyword optimize each update.
Twitter Profiles
Twitter doesn't have much in the way of traditional SEO elements for your public profile, but it has a few important things to keep in mind.
SEO Title: Your Name (username) on Twitter
On Twitter, your name under the Profile Settings and your username are the title tags for your profile. So keywords in your username might just be worthwhile if they are still available.
Profile Image: Filename and Your Name as ALT Tag
When it comes to your profile image, be sure to optimize it by using your name as the filename. Twitter will automatically use your name under the Profile Settings as the ALT tag for your profile image as well.
Extra Search Tidbits: Keywords in Your Bio
While they may not come up in the standard SEO elements for your profile, your bio information is key. Services like Klout pull your Twitter bio information as your Klout profile description. FollowerWonk, Formulists, and other Twitter search engines use keywords in your bio in search results when people are looking for similar tweeps to follow. You can also include a link or another Twitter handle if applicable.
LinkedIn Professional Profiles
LinkedIn, the leading professional social network, has the most user-controlled SEO elements out of any other network I've checked out. Here are the areas you can customize!
SEO Title: Your Name| LinkedIn
While some people suggest adding keywords to your name field, the LinkedIn terms of service discourages this practice. Be confident that your personal branding is strong enough not to need the extra keyword stuffing that you can do later in your profile.
Profile Image: Filename and Your Name as ALT Tag
Just like Twitter, you should make sure you use your name as the filename for your profile image. LinkedIn will use your name as the ALT tag for your image as well.
H3 Tags: Your Job Titles
Are you ready to get some keywords into your profile? Make sure your job titles for current and previous positions include some great keywords and those keywords will be in your profile page's H3 tags. Mine include freelance writer, blog marketing expert, photographer, and guest blogging contributor.
Extra Search Tidbit: LinkedIn Search Optimization
According to the LinkedInfluence program by Lewis Howes, if you want to rank well for keywords searched within LinkedIn's people search, you will want to include your targeted keywords in the following:
- Your Professional Headline
- Summary
- Specialties
- Skills
I also think that belonging to some industry appropriate groups that are publicly listed on your profile can add to extra keyword usage on your profile. So choose your groups wisely!
YouTube Channels
YouTube offers a lot of great SEO options, from the channel to the videos. Here is what you'll want to make sure you include in your profile.
SEO Title: Your Username's Channel – YouTube
This is one of the cases where your username which doubles as part of your URL counts in terms of the search optimization, so make it count – just be sure you do so with your branding in mind more so than keywords. It will be a lot harder for people to find you if they search SEO company vs. Your Uniquely-Named SEO Company.
Meta Description: Your Channel Description
Whenever you are setting up your channel, pay extra attention to the Channel Description which is under the Profile > Edit settings. This will be your channel's Meta Description!
Extra SEO Tidbits: Your Website & Your Videos
Ever wanted a backlink from a PR 9 domain? Then your search is over – whenever you create your YouTube channel, be sure to fill in your website link. Granted it has no anchor text, but it's a dofollow link sitting on a strong Google property.
When it comes to videos, the reason they do so well in search is because the video title doubles as the SEO Title and the video description doubles as the Meta Description. And even though Google doesn't supposedly care about Meta Keywords, they do use the video's tags in that space – just group multiple keywords in quotations. My search story uses the tags "kristi hines" "freelance writer" "online marketing consultant" scottsdale arizona. Keep these fields in mind to rank well in both the YouTube and Google results.
Also, be sure to get your video-specific keyword ideas using YouTube's own keyword tool. It looks at what is searched the most on YouTube itself.
Biznik Professional Profiles
Biznik, another popular professional social network, has some areas that you can customize to optimize your profile for SEO.
SEO Title: Your Job – Your Location – Your Name
The SEO Title for your Biznik profile combines three important parts of your profile – your current job title, your city and state, and your name. It's perfect for keyword optimization, local search optimization, and personal branding!
Meta Description: Your Google Summary
Unlike most profiles where you have to condense your About Me information into 140 characters, Biznik allows you to have a What You Do description for visitors and a separate, optimized Google Summary for your Meta Description.
H1: Your Name + Your Job
In case the SEO Title and Meta Description are not enough, Biznik also uses your name and job title as your profile's main H1 Tag. Nothing like a little extra optimization!
Profile Image: Filename and Your Name as ALT Tag
Just like Twitter and LinkedIn, you should make sure you use your name as the filename for your profile image. Biznik will use your name as the ALT tag for your image as well.
Extra SEO Tidbits: Your Website
Your Biznik profile allows you to add one website link with your preferred anchor text (you can have two if you go Pro for $10 / month) . It's dofollow, so don't miss out on adding it for visitors and for search engines!
Quora Profile
Quora, one of the hottest question and answer networks, offers a little SEO optimization for users who join their community.
SEO Title: Your Name – Quora
As is the trend for most networks, Quora uses your name in your profile's SEO title.
Meta Property: Your Long Bio
Quora is a bit unusual in the sense that they use the Facebook Developer's Meta Property="og:description" instead of the traditional Meta Description for search results. For this, they pull the information that you include in your Long Bio which should be one to two sentences long. If you search your profile in Google, however, you will see that it pulls your name, your Short Bio, and then your Long Bio as the actual Meta Description snippet.
H1 Tag: Your Name + Your Short Bio
The H1 Tag for your Quora profile will be your name plus your Short Bio. It unfortunately cuts off your tag at 50 characters, so be sure to get your main keyword into your short bio first.
Extra SEO Tidbits: Including Your Websites in the Long Bio
Although the links are nofollow (and mashed up into some crazy looking code), one thing I have noticed about Quora is that you can generate a lot of views and followers fast by answering questions. So SEO value or not, be sure to include your main website links in your Long Bio box. Just type out the URL – it will automatically hyperlink.
About.me Profile
About.me is one of my favorite online business card sites. It allows you to compile your social profile links, blog, and a short description all on one page. The nice part is that it is a well-optimized page!
SEO Title: Your Name (Your Username) on about.me
About.me is another network where both your name and your username count heavily in the optimization of your profile.
Meta Description: Your Biography
Although you can write as long of a biography as you want on your profile, remember that the first 160 characters count for your Meta Description. This also means if you use a link in your biography, it will be counted as part of the Meta Description, so try to save the links until after the first 160.
Extra SEO Tidbits: Website Links
There are two ways to add website links to your About.me profile. One is through the biography mentioned earlier. The other is through the Services as Flat URL's. I prefer adding them in the biography because not only are they dofollow, but the coding within the biography is cleaner than the coding used for the Flat URL's. It may not make much of a difference, but since every bit of link juice helps, it doesn't hurt to use the most cleanly coded HTML possible.
Bonus: How to Check Your Profile's SEO
Curious about more networks than the ones listed? Check out your social profile's SEO by doing the following in Google Chrome using the SEO Site Tools extension.
- Logout of the network. You want to see your profile like a search engine sees it with whatever information you have made public and accessible to anyone, not just those logged into the network.
- Click on the SEO Site Tools magnifying lens button and look under Page Elements. Here you will see your SEO Title, Meta Description, and Meta Keywords.
- Scroll down through the Page Elements for additional information such as Img Tags, H1 Tags, H2 Tags, H3 Tags, and H4 Tags.
Chances are you will see elements in your social profiles that you can control in those tags – be sure to optimize your profile accordingly from there!
I hope you enjoyed this post! Please be sure to share it with others so they can also reap the benefits of a SEO optimized social media profile for better personal and professional branding! If you're curious about the SEO optimization elements of other social networks, feel free to ask in the comments and I will check them out for you! And let us know what profiles rank the best for your name or brand!
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Great post Kristi. You're just everywhere. 🙂 I opened the post and saw you're the author of the post, it gets me more excited to read the post. Anyway, there's just one thing I've noticed, you use the same profile image in every website you're in, that I guess another strategy to strengthen your brand online.
Another good idea is to actually hyperlink from one profile to another. Basic but effective.
Good call!
Awesome, Just followed this post and created my optimized social profiles…
Hi Kristi, Excellent advice! I'm finding more benefits from using YouTube but I hadn't thought too much about Quora. It's amazing how SEO Site tools can help you hone in on everything from DoFollow to the meta information – even on your social profiles.
Biznik looks like something I need to sign up for. Thanks for the awesome content Kristi!
Really interesting article, So we can use Google+ profile, Youtube Channel, About.me and other social networking sites to get free do follow links. I didn't know about it. After readig your post I can easily say that I'm not using my social media profile at it par.
Hello Kristi,now i am worried about my few social media profile's SEO,especially Google+ and youtube,because they are not as much optimized as you have described here.Do follow links are missing from my Google+ profile.This article is like a treasure hunt for me,i am gonna practice this right now on my these social media profiles.Thank you for sharing this valuable info.
Very cool Kristi… You've taken what I knew about this and tweaked it up a level.
Great to have the breakdown of which where are the meta tage, dofollow links and such. Makes it easier to sculpt profiles for maximum results.
Many thanks!
Hi Kristi,
It's Marbella. You have given me all afternoon booked out with this stunning article, I've done wrong in most when I registered myself in Facebook, Google + and LinkeIn. The other four, I'm not in, but will sign me up now. Thank you.
This is great information about SEO to social sites. So far I am using it to fanpage only. Will slowly get into other social media. I'll check out SEO Site tools too. Any similar plugin for fire fox? I am not really into Chrome…
What an in depth, well articulated post on social SEO. Recently I have been noticing links shared on social media pull higher in SERPs than the original page. Ignoring this isn't an option, especially if you're a small business. Thanks for sharing!
Oh my what a fabulous post on SEO! So well written and communicated!
AWESOME, AWESOME, AWESOME Article on how to optimize a profile. Very nice work and very thorough information.
Kristi, this is amazing. I got a few of these right, but not all. Wow, you and another favorite blogger of mine are gonna keep me busy all week long 🙂
Should mention that rel="me" is on bio links for Twitter. Author Authority ftw
Hi Kristi. Excellent stuff here! I have always had SEO & Optimization in the back of my head when putting together my Social Media stuff, but now you have put everything together in a clear and easy to understand format, I think I may have to revist to ensure I have ticked all the boxes! Wonderful Stuff!!
I just thought my sites were well optimized until I read this post! Thanks, Kristi
Hi Kristi,
More and more is trendy the concept that social media is affecting SEO, so it's vital to have optimized your social channels (and the shares) for boosting in SERPs.
Great collection, and I didn't know about Biznik. How much traffic or new relationships you see coming from Biznik and Quora?
I'd add to the list the hidden source of traffic StumbleUpon, now equal or more than Facebook, in terms of sending traffic 😉
WOW! Great insightful article. I definititely took a lot away from this post and immediately made some changes to my Google + profile.
Thank you.
Excellent piece. Really like the about.me had not used it before. Well done
Thanks Kristi… and now I have a few pages to update.
Wow, didn't know all these sites can be SEO optimized and have dofollow links. I'll definitely look into what I can do to better my profiles =D
Thank you for an excellent article! I'll be referring back to this one often! Question, In your opinion, for a merchant or shop owner, what are the 4 most important social networking platforms? Also, are people still using myspace?
Great post some really good info there, fair play for writing this – very handy and useful.. I google+ this as well 😉
My favorite part of this post were how you used pictures of profiles and bubbles and arrows pointing out the different SEO aspects. VERY COOL. It's a night and day difference between just saying where everything is vs. showing where it is.
Thank you Kristi for taking the time to do this and show what a ninja job you're doing of putting these strategies to work for you and reminding me how bad I'm doing with mine 🙂 and how I can improve.
Wow. I haven't seen the Social Profiles ever mentioned in this manner before. What valuable information. And you obviously put in some work on that post with all the images. Thanks! I've got some work to do!! 🙂
Kristi, this is a brilliant post! I just shared it on my FB page. Really, really solid tips here. I just wish I could go back and change the name of my FB page. Oh well. 🙂 Thanks for this!
I understand that +1 profiles are going to change structurally during Q4 of 2011 and are going to allow for a ton more SEO data to be included…just a rumor.
That makes sense since it is so new.
Thats nice info on how to optimize on Social media…
Wow, this is an awesome post. I'm just trying to learn stuff about SEO and all that. I haven't been paying attention on setting my profile. Thanks for these.
Wow Kristi very comprehensive, I have no idea where you get so much time!! Your posts are always so in depth and just about every other blog I read, I see your comments on there lol!
Anyway thanks for this list, we add social profiles for clients and haven't focused enough on the specific SEO techniques for each one, particularly the dofollow links.
One thing worth mentioning with Google+ is I've noticed lately when I google 'website design' in Australia it's now showing my pic which is quite cool and it's because I have linked my blog to my profile with Google's rel=author syntax http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=1408986
This potentially a big deal SEO wise at least while they are playing around with this author thing. The other thing you can do is add each site that you contribute to to your Google profile and ask the site to link back to your Google+ profile with the same syntax, powerful stuff.
Thanks again
You're right Dan. I think there is a lot of value SEO locked up in all of these profiles.
Excellent post, I found it really useful. Thanks!
when the social ecommerce user meet any suggestion tips for ecommerce site customers?
Nice blog…I came your blog in the first time and I got many usefull stuff here. I will recommond your blog with other as well.
Very thorough, thanks for the info.
Never knew it was so much fun in editing my social media profile, it took me about an hour to update my Google+, Twitter and Facebook profile and it looks more nicer and professional, thanks for sharing this awesome tips about social media profile for SEO, I didn't really know about their importance till I read this post, and now I will be getting all the other social media profile as far. 🙂
Really great tips, I hadn't even heard of Biznik honestly and am going to sign up and create a profile today.
Hey Kristi,
Very cool post. I have to admit that there were a couple places I'd never heard of, and I'd only recently found About.me. I'll be going over here in a few to upgrade that one as it looks more like a billboard and less like a business card.
Thanks for all this wonderful information.
Very interesting, Kristi. Photo file names, never thought about that one before! I mean.. I've optimized pictures like a maniac, across the board on sites, but never thought about this kind of.. social profile optimization. Killer article. Sweet breakdown.
Thank you for your wonderful article Kristi! What I didn't get though about LinkedIn especially is how I can put my current and previous positions in H3 tags.
Thank you in advance. 🙂 🙂 🙂
I've been working on SEO for months and haven't found anything that summed up social SEO in such an easy to follow format…thanks so much.
Hi Kristi.
I just come across from blog to another blog and found yours. Very well said and a helpful one. Having an account in various effective social media sites is really a must. Owning a compelling one is one way to attract visitors which will in turn be your client. It's is good to know that social media sites have so many great benefits could bring to people at any level. And more and more b2b marketers are engaging to it as part of their marketing campaign tool.
This is a very useful post but are you sure about the DoFollow URL on the YouTube channel page?
Wonderful post!
Saw some new stuff I will implement!
Nice articel. Shows me that Iam on the right way.
Hi Kristi – A superb read and very valuable information. Thanks so much for encapsulating and sharing this information with us. All the best. Shannon
Hi Kristi,
This post is just filled with great information. I appreciate the section on optimizing your Linkedin Profile – Thanks for all of the tips!
How do I access the comments on this page. It states 100 comments but only shows 2. I cannot find the link to all comments.
Thank tyou
This is a very descriptive blog. I figured this would be about 4-5 paragraphs of information, but you mention how important it is to be SEO friendly for the top rated social media platforms. While you are correct about the importance of SEO friendly sites, it is also important that we do not focus all of our attention on SEO. Sometimes good content is lost when the author writes in SEO language. Make sure everything flows fluently. If the content is poor, your visitors will leave your social profile very quickly anyways.
The key in the case of social media is just making sure your descriptions sound natural. I manage to get six keywords / phrases into mine and it just sounds like someone trying to describe what they do in a fast elevator pitch. 🙂
Great tips Kristi! I always appreciate your annotated screen shots. They make it so easy to follow your examples and quickly implement your suggestions. I need to make sure I've optimized my Google Plus profile. Thanks for the help!
Thanks Sheryl! I'm pretty visual, and if a tutorial doesn't have screenshots, it makes it harder for me to follow. I figure this way, readers and visual learners are satisfied. 🙂
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Wow, Kristi! This is just amazing. I have been a member of most of the social media tools that you mentioned here but I never figured that I could exploit the profiles page that much. Now, they are just everywhere and I can actually use them – thanks for this wonderful post. Right after this, I will be editing many things 🙂
Thanks Dimaks! Happy editing! 🙂
Hi Kristi
I went to Quora but you need an invitation to create an account. Any idea how I can do this?
Hi Kristi
thanks for this motivating blog post! I have been thinking about updating my profiles for months now – but now it gonna happen!
That's still a bit in the unknown area, but as far as your personal profile goes, if someone searches your name, your Google+ profile should come up pretty high in the results. A commenter earlier also said that his profile was optimized in a way that, when you search website design in Australia, his image comes up first in images. So it depends on your keywords and optimization.
Thanks for posting this Kristi. Just a quick point, Meta Description is almost always (probably always) a part of the source and not the front end. It doesn't do anything for SEO, but it does help in generating clicks on the SERPs if users find the copy intriguing enough.
Either way, good stuff.
If you can customize it, even just to generate clicks, that certainly makes it well worth it. There are several networks where no meta description (officially) is pulled, so it's nice to know which ones you can work with. 🙂
Great post Kristi! We even recommend our real estate clients hyperlink their keywords on their about.me profile for a little extra Google Juice!
Great recommendation Bobby. I'm sure you've seen it, but Active Rain is a great network just for realtors!
It is an interesting post. Never thought of personal branding. Looking forward to try these ideas and find amazing results. Thank you for these tips.
You're welcome Jitesh! I think personal branding is extremely important no matter what you're doing online. 🙂
Thank you so much for writing this pots. I am so behind when it comes to social media and just trying to learn how to really utilize them. This post is one of those that Is going to help me go one step farther. Thanks as always Kristi.
You're welcome Satrap! 🙂
Hey Kristi— This is a great post. I knew quite a bit of what you wrote about, but I always learn a lot more from you, and I really appreciate the fact that you so readily share your knowledge!
Thank you!
You're welcome Denise. I love sharing the knowledge! 🙂
Nice work. This is good for me and my site performance. Keep up the good work!
Another great, detailed post. You rank so well for your name in virtually all of these locations. Thanks for the informative graphics too as we can see what information on the social media sites is relevant, indexed, and do follow.
Thanks Richard. Personal branding was a bit of a challenge. I had to beat out another person with the same name. I still feel a bit guilty for it. 🙁
I'm in awe when I saw this. I hope I had the skills you have now it's really amazing. I can't say anything else but Good Job.
I never knew the profile description is very much important in a profile to be seen.
Anyway nice running across your blog on twitter.
Stay Awesome!
Armand Polanski
Thanks Armand! I'm glad you enjoyed the content. 🙂
Very useful and thorough information. Thanks.
This guide is pretty awesome. I knew about the general SEO stuff [frequently update, engage, etc] but, I didn't really have a solid idea [or a clue] about SEO for social profiles. I'll definitely be sharing this!
Great guide! Really love how you broke out which data is used for meta elements. Really helpful because I typically use all these sites when marketing, plus aboutus.org which doesn't quite fall under the social umbrellla.
Can I suggest a similar post for local profile sites like Yelp, Kudzu, Merchantcircle, etc?
Great post Kristi, I was looking for this kind of tips for long time.
Thanks for the information Kristi, excellent article
Good Article Kristi! I loved your blog!!!
Keep on helping SEO developers!
We don't know much enought about SEM. This article help us a lot!
Kind Regards!
SEO Tunning Staff.
Any thoughts on adding Etsy to your list? I would love some tips on how to optimize that profile 🙂
Great post!
Kristi, Fantastic article about social media and SEO! Check out my blog on Social Media And SEO here http://www.awoa.com/blog/
I'll keep an eye on yours too… Great graphics and explanation as well.
It's amazing how many people say they don't care about SEO, Kristi.
All I want to say to them is "WHAT? You don't want free targeted and leveraged traffic from the search engines?"
I suppose more room for the rest of us. LOL
Your post reminds me that I haven't updated my social media profiles for a while; about time I go check on them.
Your social media count for the post is truly impressive, but then again, how would I expect anything less?
I just wanted to say that this is an excellent article, things so simple that many probably overlook it completely, I did on my ATV related social profiles! Bookmark worthy in fact, thanks Kristi.
Thanks for this informative post.
I've bookmarked it for future reference. I'm sure it will be useful as we add more clients with social network needs.
Thanks again,
You left me impressed with this poost. My sincere congratulations.
Love it when I learn something new! I went straight to my social sites and ALT tagged the profile pics.
Thanks for the great info!
thanks kristi, you have shown such very useful points for social media that help us get in the way to create right profile persona . .congrats
Aloha Kristi, I truly enjoyed your post, very informative and full of great tips. I like your layout and how you simplified your list, very nice. As online marketers, we have to constantly keep these important factors in mind to stay on top with marketing strategies. Plus if you have the knack for creative writing, folks will flock to you naturally, as they do here for you. Keep it going, girl! Glad I came by. Mahalo, Lani 🙂
Glad you came by too Lani – always nice to virtually meet new Arizona bloggers! 🙂
Thank your for the great tipp about social media branding. I´m also using the same profile picture in all my networks . That´s perfect for social media branding.
Got you back after a while but appreciate this post very much. a superb way to get authoritative links that can ensure you a good pr value.
Very Nice Article Loved it.. Thanks for valuable Information… you can even follow me in twitter with username: Gurubabu, Digg: seogururaj19, facebook: /gururajm. Thanks for following
Hi Kristi,
very nice, concise and helpful post, thank you very much. I bookmarked it for future use, but just wanted to say thanks as well.
Best regards,
I thought I had this pretty much covered but still found some useful tips I had missed, Thanks Kristi
Hi Kristi,
As I'm just starting to build up my freelance copywriting business, these are great tips for making the most of the social media sites I'm already a part of and I've discovered some new outlets that I wasn't aware of. Cheers!
Hi Kristi – I work for a marketing firm here in Houston, Texas and am always trying to keep up with what is going on in social media and how to best utilize it. Thanks for the post, the visuals are really helpful. "How to check your profile's SEO" has been extremely helpful!!
Thanks again for sharing! – Aly
I'm a huge fan of the SEO Site Tools – it makes it so simple to check your SEO elements anywhere! 🙂
Kristi, I discovered an added bonus when employing your recommendation for the Google+ profile–After I put in my introduction text on my Google+ profile, I checked my Google Knol profile (I have a Knol on there) and it copied my Google+ profile word-for-word, and kept the dofollow links intact.
Nice trick Michael! I didn't mess around with Knol that much, but I have heard having links on as many Google properties as possible can be helpful. 🙂
Excelent information, I'm doing this in with my website http://www.planeaciondelaproduccion.com inmediately. Thanks a lot
Well, this covers it ALL! Kudos to you for putting in all this energy to teach people how important this is. I loved the graphics which made me understand it better. There were so many things I need to incorporate. Thank you for this important lesson.
Be Blessed,
Donna Merrill
You're welcome Donna. I'm glad it helped you find some more things to optimize on your social profiles! 🙂
After a few days of thinking about your post, I've identified many things I can do to improve my social profile as well as one of my client's profiles. Thanks for that.
I admit I have an aversion to social media, in part because I don't understand how to measure SM performance. What metrics should I follow and what tools are available for tracking? Again my goal is website clicks from targeted (high conversion) visitors. How can I measure if SM effort is resulting in click throughs?
Any advice you have would be appreciated.
Thanks again,
Hi Bill,
You can't track everything with social, but there is a bit you can do in Google Analytics. I wrote a post about it here: http://unbounce.com/social-media/measuring-social-media-roi-goal-conversions-with-google-analytics-5/ Hope it helps! 🙂
Thank you for the great information. I follow all you advice and fix the one I have. Now I need an invitation for Quora.
Such a useful post! One question: when I look at the page source for a twitter profile, the is Twitter, and not the user's name or username. I viewed the page also as Googlebot, and same results. Am I missing something?
That's strange. I see yours like mine as "Miriam Schwab (miriamschwab) on Twitter." That's how it comes up in search results as well.
Strange. I wonder what I'm doing wrong. I get the feeling the Ajax-iness of the page is affecting the page source, but I wonder how to look at it and get the code you see. Oh well.
Thanx Kristi, this is a very great post. Av never valued social media to this level, my attitude has now changed.
For many online business owners, up-coming entrepreneurs and professionals this is an area that so many miss the boat on. In fact, when you even say SEO a lot of people run! So Kristi I appreciate you putting this very well written, easy to understand and informative article on SEO for your profiles.
I like to also say to be 'consistent' throughout all your socail platforms is another key. But this is a very handy cheat sheet, that people can print off and refer to when setting up their profiles – or folks could go and change their profiles right now to give them that SEO magic!
I like that Lynn – SEO magic! 🙂
Thanks for this post, Kristi, it was very helpful.
thank you giving this post this was helpful to us
ketchup is a social site that is based on communicating people more easier and users can also share files such as music,pictures and etc……..
Hi Kristi,
many thanks for the well written post. Some of the sites you've mentioned are also new to me thus, this will be of great help as I try to employ better practices in my real estate social media endeavors.
So I went through the code on the LinkedIn bit. I can't seem to locate the h3 you speak out. Do you know whether they've changed it?
Thanks for a good article.
That makes it lot to read. It's really a good strategy to make social network profile work for search engine optimization.
Good post This is an excellent tip. using the same image across all public profile site is a great idea to brand yourse
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Saw you won a contest with this post. Looks like they are right, this is probably one of the best posts I have ever read. Also one that gives me a lot of work, he he, but its good work!
Thank you,
Whow! What a informative post!
There is one thing you missed as I know, You can add a backlink to your site in your facebook page "about" field to get a dofollow link. (I havn´t checked this the last weeks)
Thanks for sharing this information!
I have used your tips on my linkedIn profile and it gives me great boost on search visibility. Great information thanks for sharing.
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Kudos Kristi! Well Written!. I'm tweeting and sharing this with my folks.
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I thought that I was kindof informed about the web, but I had never even heard of Quora before…
better head over there and see what it is all about:)Thanks
Hi Kristi,
After reading your blog I have realised what little I have been doing with optimising for social media and how much more I have to do in the next week or so. You have some really great points.
I was quite interested to see that you can get dofollow links into google + and I will definitely be checking this out. I also like the idea of being able to check your profiles SEO with google chrome.
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Almost hesitant to comment on this post because there's so many comments but I must. I'd done all the stuff except for taking real care of my G+ profile, but based on your recommendations and what you showed I went back and spruced it up drastically last night. Thanks for that, and this really was a great post Kristi.
I've used your tips on Facebook and Twitter and I think it works great.
Thanks Kristi Hines, Great Tips and Screen Shots of Social Networking Site SEO Optimization.
What a terrific compendium of social media and how to maximize SEO value. Thanks, Kristi. The advice to stay active you clearly embody in your own activity level!
Never thought about some of these things before…..
Now I need to get to work and see if I can use this great info on my site.
I know I can write How To articles about so many things in my line of business..
Maybe I will start there:)
Great article. As a person just delving into social media I found this to be very informative and useful information. All tips will be helpful in building my business brand. Thanks
Don't forget about the Google Authorship Markup. You have to apply the markup code on your website and apply it to your Google+ profile to get that extra boost!
This is really useful, thank you. You're right that all I'd read on the subject before was basically those initial 4 points, so the depth of information about what constitutes meta tags etc. is fascinating. Thank you!
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Kristi this is a great post, Thanks a slot.
social media profiles optimization are often overlooked.
Its great you emphasized how important it is to do your social marketing properly and that you took the extra steps to demonstrate each social site.
Great Job!
Great post Kristi! Heard you won the contest. So proud of you! I really liked this entry of yours – didn't' know it was your ace in the hole for a contest!
Great advice. One thing you overlooked is that even social media tools- like HootSuite- have profiles. And they are also really helpful with SEO. My HootSuite profile is considered of more value (according to my SEO tools) than my profiles on the social media sites themselves. Interesting.
Anyway, you inspired me to clean up my Google+ profile, and I appreciate that!
I've recently learnt that one's name have a strong affect to his own business brand if it is ranked high on SERP. But beating millions of other same name and ranking number one on SERP is not an easy task, but you advise made this sounds possible, thank you very much, Kristi!
I really find all the 7 social media techniques to be useful for seo. I find it appropriate for my website so i will surely use it.
These are strategies that I am starting to implement for my own profiles. Thank you.
Wow! I didn't know about.me is do follow! Thanks for letting me know Kristi.
Great article, Kristi! The Google+ optimization tips are super helpful!
Great article. I just passed it onto my team. I just installed the SEO Site Tools extension for Chrome. WOW what a cool tool. I can see why people would move over to Chrome as their default browser. They're giving Firefox some competition.
Excellent article!
Plan to read and use on my blog.
Brilliant article Kristi, there are some great actionable steps to follow in here. I will be forwarding this on to a number of my clients and updating some of my own profiles as well! Thanks for the great post!
Hello Kristi,
I am very happy to have found your article on "how to optimize the 7 popular social media profiles for seo".
I am really interested in optimizing my Google+ profile, but I am very lost. I tried using to create links, but the code shows up in plain text instead of my intended link. Is there a place you can recommend that would give me more detailed instructions?
You have shared a very nice information to build backlink for our blogs using social profile . I had heard about the profile link building but unaware about it's process . thanks for writing this great article and helping us .
Good post, I'll be revisiting this next time I'm updating social media profiles for clients. Thanks
This is a great post Kristi for people wanting to optimize their social pages, or for making people aware of the fact that they can do this. Most people would overlook these things when filling out their social profiles.
I think that opstimize the social page is one of the foundamental activities for anyone who want make the difference on the Web. U have done a great job with this post.. i have learn some things that really i didn't know 😀
I wold ask a question to u.. if is possible. Have u a guide for pinterest?
Thanks alot Kristi
Yes, this is the answer I was searching for. I've got one question. Should I make link wheel with social networking profiles around my site or it doesn't matter, the could be linked however I like.
Wow! Amazing information, uniquely written up. Accept hearty congrats from an anthropophobe! 😉
Great great great post. I really wanted to find what key steps should be taken to optimize one's profile on social media. These are great tips to look for.
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Awesome advice and excellent imagery given with instructions. Have to admit I need to re jig a few profiles! Thank you for putting this information together certainly handy for those of us been around a while that should no better 🙂 and for newbies.
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Great post on getting your sites linked to via your social media pages. Thanks for the dofollow and other descriptors.
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Thank you for the information. Unfortunately you have to pay for biznik. I was always looking new ways to improve my photography site backlinks. Keep posting!!
Great Information. It would be nice to see http://www.onetock.com added to the list of social networks
What a great read! It gives clean concise ways to improve profiles. Thanks for sharing.
Very detailed information and also important. SEO is something no business online can ignore
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Hi Kristi,
I am just learning SEO with Sean Si and have just read your article which is great and very helpful and informative. I have a question: I have a facebook page in my own name plus one with our business name. I am having trouble getting "Likes" on the business page and after reading your article, would I be better using my own personal page to promote articles of my business website than trying to use my facebook business page ( the business page is not a paid page). I am very new at all this stuff and still don't even know how to set up a blog on facebook !!
Thanks again
Great article,
SEO, SEM at it's best. Not just for the beginner. Very useful information.
Thanks for the valuable information.I am so glad after visiting this site.You have shared such a useful and valuable information.
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Great! I would like to add more tips.
I've come back several times to re-read this post. The information you provide is complete and very much worth coming back to.
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The width of the div is 1000px and it is center aligned using the property margin:0px auto; When I view this in the desktop browser, it is fine. But in a mobile browser(iPhone Safari), I get an unwanted horizontal scroll, also the entire page floats hrizontally and diagonally.
Why does this happen?
How can I fix this issue which is specific to iPhone/iPad browser. I have not tested in other mobiles.
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Should I put a comma before last item in list?
I would like crackers, cheese and some soda.
I would like crackers, cheese, and some soda.
Should I put a comma before last item in list?
Using a comma before the last item in a list is known as the Oxford Comma, sometimes the Serial Comma. It is used before conjunctions in a list like this with three or more items. Its use is purely written style and optional. It is more common in America outside journalism, and much less common in other English speaking areas of the world. There are arguments for and against which usually come down to comprehension. Wikipedia quotes these ambiguities:
Also on that wiki page you can find lots of links to certain style guides. Comma use is something of a grey area though, and everyone has his own style. Pick what reduces ambiguity.
Language log has an interesting article on how reading comprehension can be improved with comma use, including this type.
Not using that comma can lead to factual errors, as in the apocryphal book foreplate:
The highest-scoring answer to this question asserts that using the serial comma is "purely [a matter of] written style and [therefore] optional." To demonstrate that neither including serial commas nor omitting serial commas leads in all cases to ambiguity-free sentences, he cites a familiar pair of amusingly misinterpretable dedications:
Arguably the writer of the first example may be referring to four personages (two parents, a mortal author, and a Deity) or to two (two parents, one of whom who happens to be a mortal author and the other of whom happens to be a Deity). Likewise, the writer of the second example might be referring to three personages (one parent, one mortal author, and one Deity) or to two (a parent who happens to be a mortal author, and a Deity). The inference we seem to be invited to draw from these examples is that you can't win under either system of punctuation, so objectively it doesn't matter which one you choose: The two systems are equally unsatisfactory and equally susceptible to confusion. I think that this implicit argument misrepresents the case to a significant extent.
It is certainly true that each system fails in one of the examples above. But in other situations, the serial-comma system has an undeniable advantage over a strict no-serial-comma system. This fact is obvious from the advice that The Associated Press Stylebook (2002) offers publications that follow its (usually no-serial-comma) style. As I noted a year ago in my answer to a post about Serial commas in quotations, AP makes two important exceptions to its normal no-serial-comma rule:
Establishing these two exceptions amounts to temporarily adopting the serial comma system in two specific situations where a strict no-serial-comma rule might yield ambiguous or difficult-to-follow sentences and where the serial-comma system has no countervailing disadvantages.
In short, the strict serial-comma system runs into ambiguity problems with certain appositive constructions, while the strict no-serial-comma system runs into ambiguity problems with certain appositive constructions, with certain series that contain one or more integral elements requiring a conjunction (as AP puts it), and with series whose elements are sufficiently complex.
As for the appositive ambiguity that plagues both systems in connection with God and Ayn Rand, I think that reworking the sentence to avoid the problem usually makes more sense than suspending your normal rule for including or excluding serial commas. Under either system of comma use, you can remove any shadow of potential ambiguity—in the more common circumstance where God and Ayn Rand are not your parents—by reframing the dedication as follows:
I once encountered the following biographical snippet intended for the close of a magazine article:
Our house style was to use a serial comma, but the author's description of his familial complications suggested that he might be risking a change for the worse in his current living arrangements if his wife (the ferret) got wind of his characterization of her. Retaining the serial comma after ferret clearly wouldn't do, but omitting it wouldn't get us out of the woods either. After all, just as one might describe a person as "a genius and a madman who knows he is a genius," one might (foolishly) refer to one's spouse as "a ferret and a cat who thinks [he or she] is a ferret."
My solution to the problem was to rework the sentence to relieve the overmatched comma (and its stripped-out doppelganger) of the burden of clarifying the relations between the named parties:
Ultimately a writer's best weapon in the struggle against unwanted ambiguity is neither the serial comma nor the lack thereof, but the ability to rephrase to avoid trouble.
The basic question here is about disambiguation. Does the comma give you information that you need in order to fully understand the sentence? If it does, you want to include it. If not, it's not necessary, although it can still be used. It's common in the United States, not so much in the U.K.
In addition to the examples itrekkie listed, you could also consider this:
"I leave all my worldly possessions to my nieces Sarah, Jane, and Carol." This sentence implies that each niece would receive 1/3 of the estate.
"I leave all my worldly possessions to my nieces Sarah, Jane and Carol." This sentence could be read to imply that Sarah gets 50% of the estate, while Jane and Carol each get 25%.
Sometimes the serial comma is necessary to delineate the final two items in the list when the final item is a compound item (containing the word "and").
I'm not sure if anyone really drinks a vodka+Jack+Coke, but it could happen!
In my book Rules for Writers - Diana Hacker
She provides an example:
She comments:
The comma before the "and" is called an Oxford comma or a serial comma. Despite being called an Oxford comma, Brits don't commonly use it.
From Wikipedia:
I, too, was taught never to use a Serial comma, but it is by no means solely an American thing to add the extra punctuation — the extra comma is actually frequently known as the Oxford comma, because it is the house style of Oxford University Press, one of the oldest and most influential publishers in the world.
I agree with Wikipedia on this issue — opinions on the use of the serial comma "vary among writers and editors."
This is known as the serial comma. There is a whole discussion in Wikipedia about its usage in various style guides.
There is no need for a comma before and in such cases unless its omission creates ambiguity.
The latter example is known as the serial comma, Harvard comma or Oxford comma, these last two names coming from the style guides of Harvard University Press and Oxford University Press insisting upon it.
Opinion varies. If you are writing to a style guide then you should follow the rules placed upon you (Chicago Manual of Style insists upon it, while the Associated Press Stylebook advises against).
It's more common in America than Britain, but both styles are found throughout the English-speaking world.
There are a few cases where it can avoid ambiguity, but otherwise if you don't have a style-guide dictating on the matter, it's up to you.
The preferred style in the US is to always use the serial comma; elsewhere, it is less common, particularly in the UK. Choosing not to use the serial comma has little benefit other than reducing the number of marks on the page, whereas its omission has two notable drawbacks.
As ever, the priority is consistency.
In styles that use a serial comma, an exception is made before an ampersand, which is a display element, not a word. When an ampersand is used in a list, the serial comma is omitted because it's visually jarring.
If the comma before an ampersand is needed to avoid ambiguity, the best thing to do is change the ampersand back to the word "and."
Urban legend has tried to teach people that the comma before the "and" in this situation is optional, but it isn't. The legend of removing the comma originated back in manual typesetting days when newspaper print space was at a premium, and that particular comma became expendable. That's the origin of this errant "omission rule" that, I believe, has made it into the AP style book.
Think about this for a minute: what would it actually mean for using the comma here to be "right" or "wrong" and why would your teacher be the authority on this? Did your teacher have special exclusive access to a special 11th commandment on comma usage issued by God?
What you're dealing with is a stylistic preference. There's no "right" and "wrong" here. What do you prefer or feel is more sensible (easier to read etc)? Or, where applicable, what does your editor/publisher's in-house style guide prefer to you to do in these cases?
If you are making the decision, that competing factors you might want to weigh up:
Which of these factors (and any others you might think of) do you feel wins out overall?
Thank you for your interest in this question.
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The Alumni Association is a division of the HCC Foundation. College Alumni play an important role for the College in many ways. Alumni offer new and innovative ideas and can serve as an avenue of communication for students and the community. Many alumni serve their alma mater by becoming volunteers as student mentors, student recruiters or as college supporters in their community to give something in return to the College that helped shape their lives.
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The Office of Alumni Affairs develops relationships and establishes lifelong connections between Housatonic Community College and its alumni and friends, leading to increased support for the institution's mission and goals. Successful relations are the result of the strategic and deliberate cultivation of alumni as leaders, volunteers, advocates, and donors for Housatonic Community College.
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The Amazing Pizza Goat of New York, a.k.a. Cocoa, is back in the city. Eagle-eyed reader Dan spotted the Amazing Pizza Goat dining at an outdoor table at Serafina, an Italian chain restaurant on 55th and Broadway. The content of her meal is unknown.
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On the Tuesday, February 10, 2015 John Batchelor Show, Terry Anderson discussed the next generation of free market environmentalists, as well as his new book, Free Market Environmentalism for the Next Generation.
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How well does enforcement of the Endangered Species Act preserve wildlife habitat? On the John Batchelor show, Terry Anderson talks about how the ESA has affected spotted owls, bald eagles, silver grayling, and wolves.
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In a Hoover Institution podcast, Terry Anderson discusses market approaches to environmental problems in his talk entitled "Adapt, Adapt, Adapt: Market Responses to Climate Change."
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Friday, June 20, 2014 -- John Batchelor interviews Terry Anderson on his recent article written for the Hoover Institution about climate change adaptation.
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DENISON, TX -- The new owners of an old theater in downtown Denison are giving you a chance to help rebuild a piece of history.
"It was built in 1920. We found several business cards and candy wrappers from the 1930s and 20s and things like that."
One of the first movies Greg Guymon remembers seeing in the Rialto was Jaws in 1975.
Now, the Guymon family wants to bring back that "going to the movies" feeling.
"I enjoy the entertainment business. You know, music and movies, and the fact that we can bring both of those here in the process it's going to be fun," Guymon said. "My brother Garrett, has been in the entertainment industry, been on the road, it's time for him to be off the road and come on home. It's an endeavor that we are bother happy to be involved with."
The Guymons have been working on breaking down walls, hammering nails, and putting up a new movie screen for six months now. It's getting close to the end of construction and fans of the Rialto are getting excited.
"It blossomed actually, we mentioned it to a couple of people and there are so many people that are looking forward to the Rialto being open , that they've volunteered to come and help us do a clean up day," Guymon said.
The new owners invite anyone, who wants to come help, sweep up the dust, to come out Saturday.
Downtown Denison Director, Donna Dow, says the extreme makeover on the Rialto is going to give Main Street the boost it needs.
"It's very exciting, because I think it's going to bring a lot of traffic to downtown. They are going to be doing movies and music and that's something that people want to come to," Dow explained.
The Rialto hopes to open the freshly painted theater just in time for Valentine's Day.


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BLANCHARD, Evelyn V., 91, of Unionport, OH, died Sunday morning October 28. 2012, in Trinity West.
She was born on December 18, 1920, the daughter of the late Kenton and Cora Bowman Greaver in Wellsburg, WV.
Evelyn was a graduate of the Wellsburg High School Class of 1937. She was also preceded in death by a brother, William (Spud) Greaver.
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Evelyn worked for the Unionport U.S. Post office and Red Oaks Country Club. During the World War II time she supported the effort by working in a local steel mill. In her youth she enjoyed big band music and attended many shows.
Evelyn was a member of the Christian Church in Unionport, Ohio, Unionport Aux. 45. She enjoyed her flowers and gardening and watching the birds. She was known for her quick wit and sense of humor.
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A stabbing victim showed up at a local hospital over the weekend. But he left when he learned authorities were on their way to speak with him, according to a police officials.
The man later turned up at another hospital but left before police could speak with him up there.
Leavenworth police initially were called to Saint John Hospital for a report of the stabbing victim, who's been identified as a 19-year-old Lansing man. The report came in at 5:19 a.m. Saturday. The man fled from the hospital when he found out police had been called, according to Maj. Dan Nicodemus, deputy chief of the Leavenworth Police Department.
The man reportedly had injuries to his leg. Nicodemus said authorities believe the stabbing may have occurred in Lansing, and the Lansing police were notified.
Lansing Police Chief Steve Wayman said the stabbing victim apparently later went to a hospital in St. Joseph, Mo., but again left to avoid speaking with police.
Wayman said the victim apparently was accompanied by the suspect in the case.
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Mary Garnett Richey says, "About five years ago was the first that I knew about our Rosenwald School."
Rosenwald Schools were built through out the south in the early twentieth century. A millionaire named Julius Rosenwald teamed up with Booker T. Washington to provide funding for the schools. The schools were built to provide education for black children living in the south.
Richey says, "There are not many of these schools left. We feel very fortunate that we have the building."
Kentucky once had 155 schools, including the Caney Fork School in Allen County.
Annice Conner says, "The school actually was built in 1921. I have here a copy of the July 2nd, 1921 Allen County School Board minutes. It was voted that a Rosenwald school would be built here, according to the recommendation."
The property was deeded in the 1800's. According to Annice Conner the property may have been deeded to a Phillip Shipley.
Mary Sears says, "I am interested in it because if the Phillip Shipley Mrs Conner is talking about, if he's the one who actually had the land donated to him, that was my grandfather."
Sears' mother taught at the Caney Fork school. She only has a few memories of her mother talking about the school.
"Of course she always talked about how they had to build the fires and all this stuff, when everybody talks about one-room schools."
Now these women and others have formed a committee to restore the schoolhouse. It could be used for a community center, Martin Luther King Jr. Day activities, or a black history museum. Sears says it's important to make today's children aware of the past.
"Oh I hope it makes them more interested, especially in Black History because the kids nowadays don't realize what people went through to get an education."
The Caney Fork School closed in 1936. At that time black students in Allen County were bused to a school in Scottsville. Schools were not desegregated until 1963. The committee is looking for ways to get funding to preserve the Caney Fork School.


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Several times I've heard the claim that any Lie group $G$ has trivial second fundamental group $\pi_2(G)$, but I have never actually come across a proof of this fact. Is there a nice argument, perhaps like a more clever version of the proof that $\pi_1(G)$ must be abelian?
I don't know of anything as bare hands as the proof that $\pi_1(G)$ must be abelian, but here's a sketch proof I know (which can be found in Milnor's Morse Theory book. Plus, as an added bonus, one learns that $\pi_3(G)$ has no torsion!):
First, (big theorem): Every (connected) Lie group deformation retracts onto it's maximal compact subgroup (which is, I believe, unique up to conjugacy). Hence, we may as well focus on compact Lie groups.
Let $PG = \{ f:[0,1]\rightarrow G | f(0) = e\}$ (I'm assuming everything is continuous.). Note that $PG$ is contracitble (the picture is that of sucking spaghetti into one's mouth). The projection map $\pi:PG\rightarrow G$ given by $\pi(f) = f(1)$ has homotopy inverse $\Omega G = $Loop space of G = $\{f\in PG | f(1) = e \}$.
Thus, one gets a fibration $\Omega G\rightarrow PG\rightarrow G$ with $PG$ contractible. From the long exact sequence of homotopy groups associated to a fibration, it follows that $\pi_k(G) = \pi_{k-1}\Omega G$
Hence, we need only show that $\pi_{1}(\Omega G)$ is trivial. This is where the Morse theory comes in. Equip $G$ with a biinvariant metric (which exists since $G$ is compact). Then, following Milnor, we can approximate the space $\Omega G$ by a nice (open) subset $S$ of $G\times ... \times G$ by approximating paths by broken geodesics. Short enough geodesics are uniquely defined by their end points, so the ends points of the broken geodesics correspond to the points in $S$. It is a fact that computing low (all?...I forget)* $\pi_k(\Omega G)$ is the same as computing those of $S$.
Now, consider the energy functional $E$ on $S$ defined by integrating $|\gamma|^2$ along the entire curve $\gamma$. This is a Morse function and the critical points are precisely the geodesics**. The index of E at a geodesic $\gamma$ is, by the Morse Index Lemma, the same as the index of $\gamma$ as a geodesic in $G$. Now, the kicker is that geodesics on a Lie group are very easy to work with - it's pretty straight forward to show that the conjugate points of any geodesic have even index.
But this implies that the index at all critical points is even. And now THIS implies that $S$ has the homotopy type of a CW complex with only even cells involved. It follows immediately that $\pi_1(S) = 0$ and that $H_2(S)$ is free ($H_2(S) = \mathbb{Z}^t$ for some $t$).
Quoting the Hurewicz theorem, this implies $\pi_2(S)$ is $\mathbb{Z}^t$.
By the above comments, this gives us both $\pi_1(\Omega G) = 0$ and $\pi_2(\Omega G) = \mathbb{Z}^t$, from which it follows that $\pi_2(G) = 0$ and $\pi_3(G) = \mathbb{Z}^t$.
Incidentally, the number $t$ can be computed as follows. The universal cover $\tilde{G}$ of $G$ is a Lie group in a natural way. It is isomorphic (as a manifold) to a product $H\times \mathbb{R}^n$ where $H$ is a compact simply connected group.
H splits isomorphically as a product into pieces (all of which have been classified). The number of such pieces is $t$.
*- it's only the low ones, not "all", but one can take better and better approximations to get as many "low" k as one wishes.
**- I mean CLOSED geodesics here
The elementary proof that $\pi_1$ is abelian applies more generally to H-spaces (spaces $X$ with a continuous multiplication map $X \times X \to X$ having a 2-sided identity element) without any assumption of finite dimensionality, but infinite-dimensional H-spaces can have nontrivial $\pi_2$, for example $CP^\infty$ (which can be replaced by a homotopy equivalent topological group if one wants, as Milnor showed). Thus finite-dimensionality is essential, so any proof would have to be significantly less elementary than for the $\pi_1$ statement. It is a rather deep theorem of W.Browder (in the 1961 Annals) that $\pi_2$ of a finite-dimensional H-space is trivial.
Hopf's theorem that a finite-dimensional H-space (with finitely-generated homology groups) has the rational homology of a product of odd-dimensional spheres implies that $\pi_2$ is finite, but the argument doesn't work for mod p homology so one can't rule out torsion in $\pi_2$ so easily. It's not true that a simply-connected Lie group is homotopy equivalent to a product of odd-dimensional spheres. For example the mod 2 cohomology ring of Spin(n) is not an exterior algebra when n is sufficiently large. For SU(n) the cohomology ring isn't enough to distinguish it from a product of spheres, but if SU(n) were homotopy equivalent to a product of odd-dimensional spheres this would imply that all odd-dimensional spheres were H-spaces (since a retract of an H-space is an H-space) but this is not true by the Hopf invariant one theorem. There are probably more elementary arguments for this.
Here's another proof based on the structure of the flag variety G/T of G. A compact Lie group G has a maximal torus T, and G is a principal T-bundle over the quotient G/T. Borel showed that G/T is a complex manifold, and gave a CW decomposition of it with no odd-dimensional cells. (This is not deep but still astonishing, and the start of a long story; I like the context given by Hirzebruch's eulogy for Borel, available on page 9 here.)
Since pi_2(T) = 0, we have an exact sequence
0 --> pi_2(G) --> pi_2(G/T) --> pi_1(T)
We can conclude immediately that pi_2(G) is torsion-free, since pi_2(G/T) = H_2(G/T) is a free group on the 2-cells in G/T. After Allen's answer (Hopf's theorem) this shows pi_2(G) = 0.
With a little more Lie theory one can show directly that the connecting map pi_2(G/T) --> pi_1(T) is injective. pi_1(T) has a linearly independent subset of simple coroots, and the 2-cells in G/T are indexed by simple roots. The connecting homomorphism matches these up in the natural way, which one can see by considering rank 1 subgroups (subgroups of the form SU(2) or PSU(2)) of G. As a consequence you get a formula for pi_1(G) in terms of roots and coroots.
There's a proof that $\pi_2(G)$ is trivial for compact semi-simple Lie groups in section 8.6 of Pressley and Segal's Loop Groups. They say "This proof is in essence the same as Bott's Morse theory proof" but it has some differences in treatment even if the substance is the same. The major difference is that they don't approximate $\Omega G$ by a finite dimensional manifold but by an infinite dimensional one.
In slightly more detail, the idea of the proof is to find a Grassmannian model for $\Omega G$. This is done by considering the action of $G$ on $L^2(S^1;\mathfrak{g}_\mathbb{C})$ and then taking the restricted Grassmannian of this space. Within that, one can identify a sub-Grassmannian that is diffeomorphic to $\Omega G$. They then find a cell decomposition of this Grassmannian and analyse that. One of the important pieces is to consider the subgroup of polynomial loops in $\Omega G$. This corresponds to a certain sub-Grassmannian and it's easy to see that for this Grassmannian then all the cells are of even dimension, whence $\pi_1(\Omega_{\operatorname{pol}} G)$ is trivial. The final step is thus to show that the two Grassmannia (corresponding to $\Omega G$ and $\Omega_{\operatorname{pol}} G$) are homotopy equivalent. Then $\Omega G$ and $\Omega_{\operatorname{pol}} G$ are homotopy equivalent and so $\pi_1(\Omega G)$ is trivial.
Thus $\pi_2(G)$ is trivial since $\pi_2(G) = \pi_1(\Omega G)$ (incidentally, one doesn't need the long exact sequence for fibrations to see that $\pi_k(X) = \pi_{k-1}(\Omega X)$; that's either by definition or by using the adjunction $[\Sigma X, Y] \cong [X, \Omega Y]$).
As I said, Pressley and Segal say that this is in essence the same as Bott's proof; meaning that it proceeds by a cell decomposition based on "energy". However, it treats the infinite dimensional spaces as infinite dimensional spaces so I like it! Also, Grassmannia are more obviously structured so the cell decomposition may be simpler to see and understand in the Grassmannian model for the loop group.
For the classical Lie groups, I think that an easy way to obtain the result is through the fibrations:
$SO(n-1)\to SO(n)\to S^{n-1}$,
$SU(n-1)\to SU(n)\to S^{2n-1}$,
$SP(n-1)\to SP(n)\to S^{4n-1}$
and the homotopy long exact sequence and $\pi_m(S^n) = 0$ for $m$ less than $n$, and $\pi_2(SO(2)) = \pi_2(SU(2))=0$ and the isomorphism of $SP(2)$ and $SO(5)$.
This is proved in the book Representations of compact Lie groups by Bröcker and tom Dieck and reviewed here. It is Proposition 7.5 in Chapter V. The proof is for compact, connected Lie groups, but any connected Lie group has the homotopy type of its maximal compact subgroup. (Everything here is for finite-dimensional Lie groups, of course.)
Edit: Maybe I should add, given that two of the other answers mention similar proofs, that the one in this book does not use Morse theory. It uses only basic covering space techniques once it is shown that $\pi_2(G)$ is isomorphic to $\pi_2(G_r)$, where $G_r$ are the regular elements, itself not a difficult lemma.
Edit: The following is wrong! It is only true rationally, which is why I didn't remember having seen a proof of the general case :)
Also if you believe that simply-connected compact Lie groups have the homotopy type of a product of odd spheres, then this follows. It is fairly easy to see that this is the case rationally, but do not remember whether the general statement is hard to prove.
There is a sketch of the proof using the maximal torus as an exercise in Greub-Halperin-Vanstone's book.


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In Taken 2, the characters end up in Istanbul. In the film we end up seeing quite a bit of a market and surrounding buildings. Were any of the scenes actually filmed in Istanbul? If so, which ones?
Neesson during a roundtable interview with a number of other journalists. During the group interview Neeson talked about how the sequel came together, what it was like filming in Istanbul. They set it in Istanbul and he thought, ok that's certainly one city I would love to see.
Yes, definitely. You can see the Galata bridge (which connects Eminönü and Karaköy) very often, and the Eminönü district in the background with its Mosques..e.g. when they are on the ferryboat..and there will be also a guy selling Turkish tea on those ferryboats (www.sehirhatlari.com.tr). But I actually never saw a Mercedes cab there, and I think they used retired police cars - but the car chase itself was in Istanbul, too.


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I find that any hole, cut or tear larger than a pinprick is impossible to repair with normal patches because they are too soft. Even a 2-3mm slit will cause the repair patch to balloon out and burst at that point. Is there a way around this?
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I don't think that you will have a problem with the patch ballooning out as long as the tube is inflated while fully mounted with rim and tire. To my experience there just won't be any room to balloon to.
If you fear that this will be a security risk, I would recommend a new inner tube when the old one has such a big hole. When you are on a ride and have no new tube at hand, even with a 2-3 mm slit a standard patch should be enough to get you home.
Two points:
1) Tubes are pretty cheap. Better to replace one with a large hole rather than attempt to patch it. (Though 2-3mm cut should be easily repairable with a standard quality patch.)
2) If you have trouble with the tube "ballooning out" then it's not being properly supported by the tire. You must have a cut in the tire that (if it doesn't render the tire damaged beyond repair) requires a durable "boot". A tube is intended to be completely supported/contained by the tire and should not "balloon out" even if infinitely thin and pliable.
First of all: do not bother trying to patch too big holes. If it is just too big, just trash the tube. It is cheap enough and it's better than struggling and trying 10 patchings, wasting a whole patch kit all just to end up with it leaking and having a flat tire in the middle of nowhere.
Now, I have already successfully patched a hole as big as 5 mm. It was that big that the tube could not even be inflated to find the leak, it was not a leak, it was just an opening...
For that I used of of the bigger patches that are included in most kits. That worked just fine.
Apart from that I learned that my biggest mistake of patching over time was not to let the cement dry long enough. 5 or 7 minutes seems about fine before applying the patch. And do not hesitate to put it on a large surface to make 100% sure 100% of the patch surface is on a treated surface. This is actually easy to overlook especially on narrower tubes (such as those for 23mm and less tyres). And when applying the patch, make sure to press it hard on the tube, and especially the edges: these are the critical parts that you want the most to stick to the tube since they will be the first to "suffer" when facing an inflation, and if an edge loses adherence, it is the whole patch that is compromised.
I also had the feeling that the "feather" edges attach better handle better the expansion when inflated than the straight edges.


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Then, I set
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Safari does not play video
I add some videoclips into Animator. But video does not play into Safari.
Any idea?
26 Jun 2012 7:38 AM #2
Hmm, looks like Safari (desktop version, mobile version does not support auto play) is having some issues with the auto play attribute. Another way to approach the issue would be to star the video with js using the start action on the scene.
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Hi again,
Sorry for the long.
Can you show how to get the action?.
I do not see an action to start playing scene.
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He means that you put custom code in the start action of the current scene.
So you open the scene where you work in.
Click outside of the Scene "stage"
on the right you will have the "actions" bar in the sidebar.
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Check to ensure that the freezer temperature is at or below 0 °F, and the refrigerator is at or below 40 °F.
In case of a power outage, the appliance thermometers will indicate the temperatures in the refrigerator and freezer to help you determine if the food is safe.
n Freeze containers of water for ice to help keep food cold in the freezer, refrigerator, or coolers in case the power goes out. If your normal water supply is contaminated or unavailable, the melting ice will also supply drinking water.
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