adage.com - 3/10/2009
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Facebook Sending More Traffic Than Google to Some Sites Will Search-Marketing Dollars Also Shift to Social Media? by Michael Learmonth Published: March 09, 2009 NEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- Marketers spend billions to attract search traffic from Google, but late last year Facebook started becoming a ...
blog.facebook.com - 3/12/2009
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blog.facebook.com —
Last week, we shared our philosophy behind the
new updates and changes on Facebook to give you
a better understanding of why we make certain product decisions...
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Welcome to Your New Home Page
facebook.com - 3/5/2009
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facebook.com —
We've updated our home page to make it
easier to understand what's going on with the people
you care about. Now your friends' posts are streamed in real-time and you have more control over what you see.
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Facebook: New Facebook Home Page
techcrunch.com - 3/5/2009
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techcrunch.com —
Facebook made a number of announcements today about
changes to its home page, profile pages, and activity
streams. Taken together, these represent a concerted response to the rise of Twitter as a real-time message broadcasting system that goes beyond ...
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Facebook’s Response To Twitter
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Around the Net In Online Marketing: Facebook Sends More Traffic Than Google To Big Pubs
MediaPost | Online Media News —
... however. Since the beginning of the year, PerezHilton.com has received 8.7% of its visitors from Facebook, compared to 7.6% from Google, according to Hitwise. Meanwhile, TMZ, another wildly popular gossip site, received 12.2% of its traffic from Google, compared to 3.8% from Facebook. Facebook has also become an important source of referrals for video sites. Traffic from Facebook accounted for 3.3% of visits to video sites in February, up from less than 2% last year, Hitwise says. Read the whole story at ...
Facebook Referring More Traffic to (Some) Big Sites than Google
Search Engine Watch Blog —
... traffic: Twitter, whose buzz as of late seems a bit of a threat to both Facebook and Google. The threat is less for Facebook, who benefits from user mashups allowing status updates to appear on Twitter and vice versa.
Facebook sees about 1/3 of the U.S. traffic that Google does. So, it's surprising to see this trend happen so soon.
Still, Microsoft seems just a little more brilliant for becoming Facebook's search partner last year.
via AdAge ...
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8 Tips For Getting Your Fan Page Found In Facebook Search
searchengineland.com 10/19/2009 — Have a Facebook page or creating a new one? Do yourself a favor and be proactive in setting your page up, so users can find you when they are looking. Too often, companies and brands don’t take the proper steps to be found and have to make adjustments ...
Why Blog When You've Got Facebook?
buildabetterblog.com 7/6/2009 — I got a really good question last week via twitter/email and after yesterday's twitter problems , it's appropriate to address this now. Here's what I was asked: From your perspective on blogging, what's the advantage of actually doing a blog, over having a well-developed page on Facebook--where ...
How Facebook is Gunning for Google (And Killing SEO)
copyblogger.com 6/24/2009 —
This weekend, my mother-in-law asked me to enter a life of crime.
Not in the real world, of course - she’d like the father of her grandkids to remain jail-free. No, instead she invited me to play that Mafia game that’s so popular on ...
Using Facebook Traffic to Drive Brand Loyalty
webpronews.com 25 days ago — WebProNews recently covered a study from Chitika, which found that Facebook was the most valuable social media tool for driving repeat readers to content sites. The study was based on 33 million unique users across Chitika's publisher network in ...
Facebook Advertising
nickthrolson.com 5/5/2009 —
Facebook is no stranger to the public eye. You ’ ve probably heard of Facebook, touted as perhaps the best social networking available today. With over 200 million active users worldwide, Facebook not only provides the perfect platform for socializing, but also to do a little bit of ...
Facebook needs common sense, not democracy
econsultancy.com 2/27/2009 — Last week I wrote about Facebook's latest privacy flub which involved a change to the Facebook terms of service that didn't go over too well with Facebook users and the media.
In response to this, Facebook's CEO Mark Zuckerberg issued his standard ...
How to Prepare for Facebook ‘Usernames’
10e20.com 6/12/2009 —
In case you haven’t heard, Facebook is allowing for the creation of vanity “usernames” that will allow you to customize your Facebook address. This change is a permanent and non-transferable … so select wisely.
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The Influence of Twitter —
Top News - WebProNews 3/9/2009
Reports suggest that social networking is now more popular than email . Twitter in particular grew 33% in only a month according to Compete data. Skittles increased its own traffic by 1332% in one day after a campaign that sent Skittles.com ...
Facebook Can Drive More Traffic Than Google —
Top News - WebProNews 3/11/2009
I recently discussed Twitter as a great source of traffic to sites, but the even more popular Facebook can do and is doing the same thing. In fact, reports have Facebook driving even more traffic than Google to some big-name sites.
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