Social media optimization play an important role for driving viral traffic to our sites.As the top social media site,facebook’s popularity is growing day-by-day and its necessary one to optimize major features of facebook for better visibility and online presence.Here are 16 simple tips which helps you to get maximum exposure for your facebook profile.

1.Profile picture should be neat,professional and attractive.Users first pay attention to your  profile picture as soon as they reached your profile page.

2.Add your real picture rather than adding fake pictures or cartoons.This will help the users to recognize you as a authentic person.

3.Create an intro video about yourself with a welcome message to your new friends and add the video in your profile.

4.Below your profile picture,there is a mini info box.Describe about yourself shortly and upto the point.

5.Dont add bulk of information or more links in the mini info box field.

6.In the information section,make sure to show your relationship status,current city and your website.

7.If you have both your personal and business contacts in facebook,hide your friend’s info by changing the visibility settings.By making this adjustment,your personal contacts will not get disturbed by your business contacts.



8.Show your activities and updates from other social sites.Though you are able to add updates of your other social sites through third party facebook applications,some of the social sites applications has no feature to synchronize with facebook.By default,facebook lets you to import your updates from other sites.This feature is currently supporting to 13 sites including delicious,digg,youtube,flickr,google reader etc..,To do this,go to the options below the share button in your wall,then click settings,then choose your other sites to import your activities of them in your wall.

9.In the “Stories posted by friends”,uncheck “friends may post to my wall”.Let them to only send message via DM.

10.You are able to control which applications can post stories on your wall via application settings.

11.In the Info tab section,completely fill all the blank fields giving relevant information and just hide your e-mail in the contact info to avoid contacting you without your prior permission.

12.Use any  rss importing application or networkedblogs application to update your latest posts in your wall automatically.

13.Share links in your wall with thumbnails.Links without thumbnails dont get attention from your contacts.

14.Keep an eye on your friends activity in your profile.Reply to their comments and likes made on your profile.

15.Customize your wall settings to be seen by your friend’s of friends.

16.Update your status often in your wall with useful and eye catching information so your contacts are willing to participate and make comments in your updates.


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