Fresh Bit #2 – Redirects and Your Social Networks

One of the important components of being a web socialite is the ability to throw out URLs like business cards. You might have seen how many people waited patiently to get their vanity URL on Facebook. There is a simple way (if you know how to edit your .htaccess file) to create a redirect to your page.

So, you can simply forward something like http://www.yourcompanyname.com/facebook to your Facebook page.

Here’s how:

1. Open your .htaccess file
2. Add this line of code

   redirect 301 /old/old.htm http://www.you.com/new.htm

3. Save your .htaccess file

So there you have it. For more information on .htaccess and further examples, visit the htaccess 301 redirect tutorial

Fresh Bit #1

I’d like to start a little section I call “Fresh Bits”. This is where I share with you guys my little tips and tricks on how to manage my social networks. I welcome any tips from my readers as well! Just leave a little comment on my blog. Thanks!

Ok Fresh Bit #1 – If you use gmail and you receive email notifications on from Twitter like new followers, direct messages, how do you filter through them amongst all your other mails? Simple, type in “label:inbox from:twitter” into your search box in gmail and voila! You get a list of emails sent with the From field containing “Twitter”.