Janet Fouts

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Facebook Metrics Update

Janet Fouts

Some important changes are taking place on Facebook around the way the site measures how popular and therefore worthy of being seen by your fans your posts are. Likes, comments, shares and clicks are all ways to show affinity. For example a comment has more weight than a like. Affinity, Weight and Time decay.

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There Is No Free Social Media For Business

Janet Fouts

Blogs were in their infancy and we used bulletin boards and comment streams on posts to communicate with our user-base and we loved every second of it. Many businesses have shifted to using social sites as customer support venues, marketing platforms and communities. Those shareholders and the press are all asking the same thing.

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Marketers are freaking out about Facebook

Janet Fouts

Engagement on brand Facebook pages has been in the tank for a long time now, Larry Kim recently wrote a post showing a significant drop in engagement with content on the site down by more than 20% in 2017. It’s what most of these sites were originally designed for. ” This has a whole lot of marketers freaking out.

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Should you start a Google+ page for your business?

Janet Fouts

The only way to know if your page has new comments is to browse the feed for the page. Pages can’t +1 other pages or web sites. Pages can’t comment or even +1 a conversation unless that person is following the page. Add them in the comments and give us some hope. Here’s a short list of just a few.

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NEVER Feed the Trolls

Janet Fouts

There’s a saying in social media that goes something like this “You know you’ve “arrived&# when you’ve got trolls commenting on your work&#. They look for high profile sites or people to grumble at, generally to make themselves feel more important. Trolls are a special breed. That’s right.

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Could a lot of fans hurt your Facebook page?

Janet Fouts

check your Edgerank here ) To put it simply Facebook looks at how many friends you have for your Facebook page, how many times your friends have interacted with your posts (share, liked, commented), The algorithm runs and checks to see if there is an affinity between you and each fan. Have you commented on something they posted?

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Google+ Tips and Tricks

Janet Fouts

This is where you can add other email addresses to login with, decide what applications have access to your profile, turn Google+ on on non-Google sites etc. comment on your posts go to your phone. If you get one for every time anybody comments it will drive you bats. Return or Enter Start a comment. Profile and Privacy.

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