While Facebook already provides a page insights tool for Page administrators to track traffic to their page, there is still a lot of information which is unknown. So how can administrators determine how well their landing tab is performing? There are a number of techniques to monitor your Facebook Page traffic, four of which are described in this article.
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Jonathan Levy is the co-founder of Lookbooks.com. He will be part of the core conversation “Extreme Profile: Makover Edition” at SXSW with the editor of this site, Nick O’Neill, and Leora Israel.
Want your friends, family, and potential lovers to be more attracted to you? Facebook is an amazing tool for making you shine. Perfecting your Facebook profile can be considered art form, and is often referred to as “online persona creation”. The art involves a masterful combination of images, writing and information. Here are five simple tips for creating a more attractive and interesting online persona through Facebook:
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You’ve probably already heard that Facebook accounts are hacked to gain personal information, but you might not be aware of how easy that just might be for hackers. With hackers increasingly targeting Facebook as a primary source of collecting user information, and corporations using your information to make decisions about your rates (see this article about insurance companies raising premiums of social media users), you really should have a plan for protecting yourself.
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You know you’ve considered quitting Facebook in the past, except you couldn’t manage to stay off the site. Three years ago, when I really started to investigate the social networking phenomenon, only a handful of my friends were using Facebook. Years later, after a successful appeal to users’ emotions and hopes for online social interactions, the tool has grown indispensable. Today I look at just what is indispensable about Facebook and highlight the types of people who keep getting drawn back in every time they try to quit.
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While not all your friends want to read every update from your company’s blog, there’s a lot of value in cross-promoting your blog posts on Facebook. If you want to learn more about effective cross-promotion strategies, read day 25 of our Facebook Pages guide. While there are numerous blog platforms, we highly recommend Wordpress, as we use it to power this site. Below is a list of 10 of the most useful Wordpress Plugins and applications that integrate your blog with Facebook.
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Playing Farmville may make you feel like you’re enjoying the hearty exercise of yard work at times, but there’s no mistaking your virtual digging, plowing, planting, and harvesting as activities that are truly good for your health. Here is an overview of eight Facebook applications that will help you stay healthy by connecting you to a network of motivated friends, family and fitness buffs alike.
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Facebook Groups are a strange and interesting phenomenon that highlight this new social world. Groups with simple, fun concepts, or titles that just elicit a laugh, are like the Bazooka Joe comic strips for this generation. They are worth a quick giggle or groan, and then you toss them away. In the same way, people like to join these groups for a quick laugh. Given that groups are indexed by Google, we decided to do some digging around and found one trend that inexplicably stands head and shoulder above the rest: the quest for 1-million-members group.
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According to Mike Arrington, Facebook is preparing to roll out its own email client, code named “Titan”. We’ve suggested to Facebook in the past that they roll out an email client as they have an opportunity to redefine the product. Additionally, Paul Bucheit, the lead developer of Gmail, is now an employee of Facebook which means he may have another opportunity to redefine the email experience (update: Paul Bucheit denies that he will be creating an email app at Facebook).
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When Google chrome was first released publicly on September 2, 2008, it quickly gained market share of 1% despite the ongoing development of other browsers and the dominance of Firefox & Internet explorer. But the real surge started with the beta launch of its extensions gallery a couple of months ago in December 2009. Barely in 8 weeks, the extensions have grown from 300 to over 2000+ and are contributing to Chrome’s rising share.
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Facebook Pages have had a varied history. When they were first released, the goals of Facebook Pages were a bit fuzzy. They have since evolved to be equal to Facebook Profiles but with no limit on the number of fans a company, product, or celebrity can have. With Facebook Pages now a central component of the Facebook experience, there are millions of pages set up for companies, organizations, celebrities, products, and more. Here, we take a look at the top 10 Console/PC Video Game Fan Pages, and discuss how each of them use the page to increase engagement with their users.
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