Spring Cleaning: Your Social Media Sites

Spring is coming to Central Virginia, and I can’t wait! We’ve been working on indoor projects, and the weather has been cold and messy this winter. I’m definitely ready for some outside time after the spring cleaning. Make sure you add the clean up for your websites social media sites as one of your tasks this season.

The Follow - Unfollowers: There are so many folks who follow you and then unfollow you after you follow them.

• About once a quarter, I use the free version of Analyzer Plus (phone app) to remove unfollowers on Instagram.

• I also use the free version of Twitonomy to clean up Twitter.

Audit Your Website: Go through and look at all the pages on your site.

• Update or delete anything that’s outdated.

• Check all of your links and forms to ensure they’re still working.

• Is it time to update the photos?

Review Your Bios: Look at all the bios on your social media sites.

• Make sure they’re current.

• Make sure you check on the ones that you don’t visit very often.

• Make sure any links still work.

New Headshot: Does your headshot still look like you?

• We change (especially after a year of quarantining).

• You want people to be able to recognize you online (and one day, in-person).

All Your Books: Are all of your publications on your sites?

• Are your most recent publications listed?

• Check all of your links to make sure they still work.

Where Are You?: Check it out.

• Google your name or penname and see where you are on the big, wide web.

• You may find some places you forgot about. Make sure your bio and information are current.

Happy Spring!