Tag Archives: Facebook

Facebook Pages Of Brands Taken Down For Violating Policies

by Shabbir Akhtar on 24. Jun, 2011 in Facebook

Facebook has disabled the pages of some brands like Cadbury Bournville, FCUK India, Pizza Hut India etc. The reason shown by Facebook is that the brands disobeyed Facebook’s policies. These companies lure users to like their pages by the help of promotional events administered through the wall. As a punishment, the brands have been denied [...]

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Facebook Credits Come To India

by Shabbir Akhtar on 22. Jun, 2011 in Facebook

Previously, Facebook had instructed third party developers on their platform to use Facebook Credits as the only virtual currency. Today they announced that Facebook Credits will now be used as payment methods and payout workflow for developers.

This will be introduced on or within first week of July. A blogpost on the Developer Blog by Facebook [...]

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Facebook Promotes Private Sharing With The Launch Of Send Dialog

by Shabbir Akhtar on 18. Jun, 2011 in Facebook

Facebook launched a new feature called ‘Send Dialog’. This is the second attempt on a row by them to increase referral traffic to the publisher’s websites. The first attempt, ‘Send Button’, introduced on 25th April 2011 was quite successful and Facebook is hoping that ‘Send Dialog’ will also live up to expectation.

Some websites have added [...]

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The World Belongs To Facebook

by Shabbir Akhtar on 17. Jun, 2011 in Facebook, Infographic

The June 2011 edition of world map of social networks by Vincenzo Cosenza shows that Facebook still holds the number one slot in most countries around the world. Canada and United States are in this list. So are United Kingdom and many other countries across the Western Europe. In some countries however, Facebook hasn’t been [...]

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More Facebook Shares Lead To Better Search Ranking: SEOmoz

by Shabbir Akhtar on 16. Jun, 2011 in Facebook, social media marketing

SEOmoz published their annual report called ‘2011 Search Engine Ranking Factors’. The report demonstrates the correlation between better search engine ranking and Facebook shares. The correlation hasn’t been put up flatly though. The way the entire matter has been dealt by SEOmoz, there raised the philosophical segregation between correlation and causation.
If it’s only a coincidence [...]

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SMBs Warming Up To Facebook Ads: MerchantCircle

by Shabbir Akhtar on 15. Jun, 2011 in Facebook, social media marketing

The quarterly Merchant Confidence index survey by MerchantCircle shows how SMBs are handling Facebook marketing. The survey considered 5000 small and medium enterprises. Most of those business owners (94 percent) are cognizant about targeted ad offering on Facebook but a very small percentage (22 percent) has actually used them. The good [...]

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Facebook Testing Real-Time Feature: Happening Now Feed

by Shabbir Akhtar on 10. Jun, 2011 in Facebook

Facebook will soon roll out a new feature — Happening Now. Currently, it’s accessible by a very small number of users. The feature gives a user real time updates of what his friends are doing on the social network — whom they are adding as friends, what they are sharing, etc.

TheNextWeb reported that Amit Misra, [...]

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Online Sharing Dominated By Facebook: ShareThis

by Shabbir Akhtar on 07. Jun, 2011 in Facebook, Social Media Tools, Twitter

The more the web is evolving, the more prominent is becoming sharing. In fact, it won’t be a hyperbole to say that the future of web lies in sharing. TechCrunch reported that in order to determine how much impact sharing is in the present time, ShareThis conducted a study in collaboration with StarCom MediaVest Group [...]

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Facebook Nears The 700 Million Users Milestone

by Shabbir Akhtar on 06. Jun, 2011 in Facebook

Facebook is approaching the 700 million users milestone according to SocialBaker, a Facebook tracking site. SociaiBaker reported that the Palo Alto based social network had mustered 200 million new members since summer 2010, when it had 500 million members. The reason behind this insuperable growth are countries such as Brazil, Indonesia, Philipines, [...]

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Prestigious Brands On Facebook Are Not Monetizing Fans Aptly?

by Shabbir Akhtar on 03. Jun, 2011 in Facebook, insights, social media marketing, social media roi

L2, in collaboration with Buddy Media observed how the most prestigious brands use social media and end up with some significant findings. The chief finding, which would surely surprise anyone, is that some of the top brands underestimate Facebook. Scott Galloway, who founded L2, wrote in this context, “Although many prestige brands maintain monocular focus [...]

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