Here it is… As any of you watching yesterdays keynote from Facebook’s F8 conference CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced the Universal Like Button – 1 Billion sites served daily! Now that’s a bold statement… but we thought we’d help out. Actually I thought WP plugin guys would have been all over this like a fat chick on a twinkie, they weren’t! So I complained a few times on Twitter… still nothing So as with anything else in life – if you want it done right, you’re gonna have to do it yourself!

That being said… I contacted two of my favorite guys in Lancaster, Pa. (the owners of Mind Development & Design Zim & Chad) 3 hours later, as you can see at the top of this post, the Universal Like Button is a wordpress plugin! It’s not been approved by WP yet but we’re running the latest version 2.9.2 (as of the date of this post) and it works like a champ. Just go download the Facebook Universal Like Button <— there upload it to your wp-content ==> plugins folder. Log into your admin panel, go to plugins ==>activate the plugin ===> go to ‘Settings’ (put in your settings, for example I have mine set to top left & show avatars) adjust yours as you wish…. then simply start using it!

I’d also like to say – if you are not currently one of my buddies on Facebook then you probably won’t see the avatars at the top of this post. So you can go and add me http://facebook.com/SEO-101 and please hit the Like button on this post so that we can continue to show / help any of the newb’s that want to use this on their wordpress site!

Hidey Ho tweeps! I know it’s been a long time since I’ve put anything of substance up on the site. So today… something useful, quick, affordable, and oozing awesomesauce! Those of you that know me… know I’m a total analytics freak / geek. So when I start to notice trends I do what I can to appease those fine folks that visit my humble online abode.

With the increase of US based mobile users, (and more importantly all of the fine folks that check my site out from their phone) I started to take a look at a few of my older sites to see how long they took to load on my iPhone…. were they borked? Did they load quickly? There’s nothing more irrating than trying to get a site to load so  you can quickly call them when your lost and need directions, oh yeah and in heavy traffic. That being said… all of my sites got a big fat whopping F!

So this morning I set out with the ’simple goal’ of making a mobi version of this site. Tried a few hacks, messed up my .htaccess file… grew more gray hair, pulled some more out… then I stumbled across Crowd Favorite which (if you click the link) you’ll find a plugin called WordPress Mobile Version. Three minutes later my entire site was up and mobile! Fast, browser friendly, stripped down from the web version (with the option to switch over)

Point being… if you take a look at your analytics and notice an increase in mobile users visiting your website, well take the 3 minutes to download > unzip > FTP > activate the plugin and Viola! Anyone visiting your site from a mobile device will get a fast, clean, crisp, Awesomesauce version of your site on their hand held device!

Alright I figured I’d post a real quick one… don’t have much to say today, as I spent a good part of my day writing the “How to become a Twitter Rockstar – Sort of…“  post yesterday.  The Martin Bowling Zima Meme has brought about a Zi.ma URL shortening service that our dev guys made a WP plugin for & just put the finishing touches on… So here’s what should happen… I publish this post and my favorite 700 tweeple (the tweeps following me) should get an auto post to my twitter acct. ****This is only a Test**** but the video is funny so if you haven’t seen it… check it out!

Hope you enjoyed,