What Are Facebook’s New Unpublished Page Posts?

marcus-headerIf you want to create pages that are not visible but that you can sponsor – read all about Facebook unpublished Pages

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What Are Facebook’s New Unpublished Page Posts?

Facebook Algorithm Update – What Will It Mean For Your Business?

Facebook AlgorithmOn the 6th of August Facebook announced a major algorithm update, mainly affecting how the News Feed works: “We are continually working to improve News Feed and from time to time we make updates to the algorithm that determines which stories appear first. We’ve heard from our users and Page owners that we need to read more »

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Facebook Algorithm Update – What Will It Mean For Your Business?

Friday Talk: Product Innovation Leadership with Katie Mitic of Facebook

How to get to the forefront of developments? How to be really innovative and be a leader at the same time? Katie Mitic, Director of Platform & Mobile Marketing of Facebook, talks about Product Innovation Leadership.

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Friday Talk: Product Innovation Leadership with Katie Mitic of Facebook

Google Gets “Lowest Score Ever” In Customer Satisfaction Survey

There’s a mystery surrounding the latest customer satisfaction numbers released by ForeSee Results (for the American Customer Satisfaction Index [ACSI]). Published late last night, they indicate the lowest levels of consumer satisfaction with search engines (and portals) since 2003. The…

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Research Shows Only 2% of Social Shares Occur on Google+

Gigya Social Sharing percentagesNew research shows Google+ lags behind Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, and LinkedIn in terms of social sharing, accounting for only 2% of content shares.

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Research Shows Only 2% of Social Shares Occur on Google+

Maximizing The Synergy Of Paid Search & Social

Are there any two online activities more ubiquitous than searching and socializing? According to eMarketer, “search is the first stop on the Web when it comes to finding information on anything,” and 90% of U.S. Internet adults regularly use search engines. Social is also huge. Research…

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Yes You Are being Spied On, But It’s not the Government we Should look at

james-bondPeople don’t want the government spying on them but at the same time tell the world everything about themselves.

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Yes You Are being Spied On, But It’s not the Government we Should look at

Is Facebook Stepping Up to Search & Display?

If there is one company on a mission to capitalize on search and display, it’s Facebook. Recent evidence this year shows that the social giant is stepping up its game across both channels – in search, they have announced the Graph Search, and in display, they have made big waves with…

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Facebook Hashtags for Digital Marketers

fbHashtags coming to Facebook has been a source of intense debate within the Search & Social circles for the past week. Here are the 4 main pros and cons of using Facebook hashtags in your social media strategies.

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Facebook Hashtags for Digital Marketers

Search, Answers & Knowledge Graphs Galore

Google is leveraging the knowledge graph brilliantly, while others have their own version of knowledge graph search. As the knowledge graph changes the SERPs, Google is pushing adoption of semantic technology, gradually replacing its traditional SERPs based on links. The search giant’s…

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Friday Talk: Sheryl Sandberg about Having Too Few Women Leaders

Sheryl Sandberg looks at why a smaller percentage of women than men reach the top of their professions, and offers 3 powerful pieces of advice

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Friday Talk: Sheryl Sandberg about Having Too Few Women Leaders

Facebook To End Sponsored Search Ads — For Now

Facebook has said that it’s getting rid of sponsored search results for the time being. It’s not walking away from “search advertising,” however. In the future, there will be ads in Graph Search. But, the company is still in the process of working all that out. Facebook told…

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Google Beats Apple & Facebook For Most Favorite Tech Company With 83% Favorable Rating

A Washington Post poll ranking tech giants Google, Apple and Facebook revealed most Americans favor Google. Of the 1,007 Americans surveyed, 83 percent gave Google a favorable rating, while 72 percent gave Apple a favorable rating. Facebook scored the …

Graph Search Turns White, Looks More Like A Traditional Search Box

This morning many hardcore Facebook users will be surprised when they login and look towards the iconic top blue bar. The coloring of Graph Search has been inverted and now features a bright white centered search box in the midst of the top bar. Searches still act the same and provide the same…

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