Happy New Year! Hopefully you didn’t party too hard. Just in case, I’ll make it short and quick. I also build custom Facebook Squeeze Pages for businesses that are running ads on Facebook. The normal cost for these are $125. Today ONLY, New Years Day, January 1st 2012 you can buy one for your next…
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There’s a few things that make a Custom Facebook Page special. One is the fact that Pages are the only thing that are indexed by Google (or other search engines). Yup! not your Profile, not Groups, and not Events – only Pages! Another is the fact that they can be run anonymously by a team….
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It’s been a little while since they changed the rules but a recent comment in a Facebook Group got me to thinking I should update the old post “How to hold a contest on Facebook” that was written over a year ago. A lot has changed since then. Facebook has radically changed the guidelines for…
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I wrote earlier about creating Facebook Pages around a lifestyle or community. You can read more about that idea at Facebook Strategies: Community It’s a great strategy, requires a bunch of work, but the rewards can be pretty fabulous. For some it’s much less about engaging around a lifestyle and more about reinforcing a Brand….
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EdgeRank is to Facebook what the Google Algorithm is to Google. EdgeRank determines what posts, photos and comments show up higher in your newsfeed than others. The basic components of EdgeRank were affinity, weight and time. The number of LIKE’s did not matter. That was Past Tense. It seems Facebook’s recent change from the dual…
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This could be considered the opposite of yesterdays post: Convert your Profile to a Page? A while ago Facebook announced the new SUBSCRIBE Button to much hoopla. Subscribe? Yeah, It essentially gives people the option to subscribe to your ‘public’ posts on your Profile without having to become friends. I have quite a few people…
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So you joined Facebook in the hopes of getting more business. Matter of fact, all of your Facebook action is about business. You are a Facebook Marketing Machine. Until yesterday. That’s when someone pointed out that using your Profile was a violation of the Terms of Service. Terms of Service? Who reads that? Today you’re…
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I’m at a conference today and will have a booth. I’m not a real ‘booth’ kind of guy. No fancy setup here, just a table and maybe a laptop or two. But then I thought about how to best show off the various pages I’ve done. My good friend Flickr to the rescue! I put…
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I was one of those that knew early on that Facebook had dropped the 25 LIKE requirement for Vanity URLs. I purposely didn’t tweet it, didn’t write about it, didn’t mention it. I started out thinking that My reasoning? Cyber squatting. With the new rule, anyone can create a page and instantly secure the valuable…
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Full disclosure: I build custom applications( Apps) that create the default landing tabs for Facebook Pages I have a gallery of Custom Built Facebook Pages. What’s a default landing tab? If you have a Facebook Page, you can designate the first tab a new visitor sees when your page loads. This would be for anyone…
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