The 30 Day Facebook Fanpage Challenge started on Monday in a flurry of activity and mad clicks. One of the tasks within the Facebook group is to add your Facebook page to a document – basically so we can get to know other pages of interest to us and follow along. It was a great […]
How To Run A Facebook Competition (Or How Not To Get Your Page Shut Down)
Who doesn’t love a simple Facebook competition? Click like and share and you can win… Simple Effective Viral Win-win all round… NOT Over the last couple of weeks, I have spoken about Facebook competitions more times than I care to count with various small businesses looking to get their name out there. Many have seen […]
Facebook Graph Search Announced – Is Your Local Business Facebook Page Ready?
The web over the weekend was all a-flutter over what the big announcement would be from Facebook. Yesterday, Facebook put anyone who cared out of their misery by announcing Graph Search. What is Facebook Graph Search? Anything Facebook does when it comes to search is a massive improvement. Graph Search is social search. It allows […]
Yoast WordPress SEO: Open Graph Tags and Twitter Cards [Video]
My recent blog post about setting social sharing image thumbnails with Open Graph tags was perhaps not the most tech free and simple as it could be! If you use WordPress, these Open Graph tags can be set really easily using the Yoast WordPress SEO plugin. While I was in the Social section of Yoast […]
Basic Facebook Netiquette: Do’s and Don’ts for Busy Business Owners
Facebook – love it or loathe it, it can be a great tool to gather and nurture connections and potential clients. The temptation is to dive straight in gung-ho and get your name out there as quickly as possible. After all, with Facebook reaching a billion users this month, the urge to get a piece […]
Why Did My Facebook Page Likes Decrease?
UPDATED March 2015 Why are my Facebook Page Likes Decreasing? The sky is falling!!! Facebook are removing Page likes. Panic not! Facebook are once again purging their platform. In a recent change, Facebook are updating the way Likes are counted by removing deactivated and memorialised accounts. Decreasing Likes Is A Good Thing Removing inactive accounts from […]
How Not To Run A Facebook Ad Campaign – A Lesson From The BBC
I’ve been watching with interest the Facebook Ad fake likes story reported over on the BBC online technology channel. I’d love to know how anyone with obviously no clue how things work can run not one but three stories (so far) on reported fake likes from Facebook ads. I’m not going to jump in and […]