For folks that have a personal profile (a “standard” account), you can use a clever trick to invite all of these friends to fan the page. There is no way to automatically import. When you’re on the Facebook fan page that you want to invite all your friends too, you hit “suggest to friends” under […]
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For those of you who are wondering why the “like” button isn’t working on your website any more, it’s not you. Facebook developers are aware this is priority 1 in their bug tracking system. We’ve been putting the like button on a number of sites. And all of them are broken! This is not the
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Did you know that if you paste your Facebook fan page url into your status bar, it not only allows you to choose what thumbnail picture to include but also shows how many fans the page has? While we don’t have concrete evidence here, I’d have to think that a page with 2,000 fans will
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Yesterday afternoon, developers all over began complaining that they couldn’t create FBML pages, the necessary elements of custom landing pages. The new rule was that you had to either have 10,000 fans or have an account rep, which means that you’re spending money on advertising. We have some clients that spend $200k on Facebook ads,
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Facebook’s ad tool gives you demographic counts. Here are the number of people 18+ in Singapore– 1.8 million: We’ve left the setting on both genders and all relationship statuses. Now we look at just the females. There are 903,840 of them, which is about half the population. Now let’s look at females who are seeking
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I set up Google Alerts to monitor a number of keywords– and increasingly I’ve noticed how updates to Facebook pages are now showing up. Part of this is the fact that Google is increasingly using social signals to determine rankings, since what might have gotten hundreds of links a few years ago will today get
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Is this just me or are you also seeing 3 ads on the Facebook homepage? This reminds me of the days when Yahoo! and Google would insert more ads on pages to increase revenue. Could imagine what Facebook would look like if they inserted ads all over– leaderboards on the top and bottom, and regular
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A couple of weeks ago, Facebook released community pages– an attempt to auto-tag the web and build a rival to Wikipedia. Great SEO strategy, as these are in-text links coming from people’s profiles, allowing Facebook to extend their rankings from not just people’s names to businesses, but now to organizations, concepts, favorite foods, common complaints,
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We get this question all the time, so I’m going to answer it here and then point people back to this post. Alexa is the most well-known of the traffic measurement services, but also the least accurate. Let me explain why. Alexa rankings are based on the behavior of the folks who have downloaded the
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Many folks speculate why Google has overtaken Yahoo! in search or why Facebook has dominated in social networking, versus Friendster. I believe there’s one key factor— if you’re running a technology company, you need a technologist at the helm. Larry and Sergey of Google were Ph Ds (or about to be) in Computer Science. The
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