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Ultimate Guide to Facebook Pages. Are you using content marketing as part of your digital strategy to grow your business? If so, you're not alone. According to the Content Marketing Institute, the lion's share of marketers (some 92%) report using content marketing. In the fast moving world of digital strategy, things are always changing. What should you expect in 2014 to change in the world of content marketing? Hana Abaza of Uberflip has put together an infographic detailing five key content marekting trends for the coming year. In summary, they are: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Facebook Questions Opens To Limited Public Release. Long expected, Facebook’s new Facebook Questions service is now being offered. It allows Facebook users to specifically ask question to and get answers from others in Facebook’s now 500 million strong community.

The service just went live at 1pm Pacific Time today, and we’re working on a detailed look at all the features (this is now live, see Up Close With Facebook Questions). That will be posted shortly and linked to from this article. Facebook has a short blog post about the service now, highlighting: All questions are made public to anyone, not just to your friendsQuestions can be tagged with keyword to associate them with topicsYou can browse questions asked by topic How can you use Facebook Questions?

Facebook is randomly selecting a small number of its users. Facebook is only the latest in the large number of companies that are offering Q&A answer services, including: Yahoo Answers is arguably the biggest success in the space, at least in terms of traffic. Facebook and SEO | Search Engine Optimization | Search Engines. Are you spending valuable time thinking about FaceBook and SEO? If so, then read on my friend and we'll have a look-see if that time has been well spent. First things first, I don't really like to think of FB as a search engine per se.

At least not a web search as we're traditionally accustomed to. This is not a cat fight between Google and FaceBook. A traditional search engine crawls the web, locates, indexes and retrieves information. FaceBook is more of a 'site search' application than a (web) search engine. Ever since they announced the open graph and search enhancements we've been hearing more and more about the world of FB search and of course, optimization for same.

What we know about OpenGraph Ok, so from what we do know the results are being partially ranked/scored based on 'likes'. We also have a bit of semantic code at play here, not dissimilar to what we know already with RDFa/micro-formats. What's the Value of FaceBook SEO? That my friends, is the real question here. Bing??? Facebook to write “new chapter” of its mobile strategy. Facebook is going to go beyond rolling out standalone applications for iPhones, Google Android devices or feature phones and start considering itself a platform for developers to distribute mobile apps with. “Where we’re going from here is a platform strategy. We’re going away from a one-off app strategy,” said Erick Tseng in his first public appearance since joining Facebook as head of mobile products. Speaking at VentureBeat’s MobileBeat conference today, he said the company will start building out this effort over the next several months.

“We want to provide mobile developers with all the goodness of the open graph,” he said. Such a move would parallel what Facebook has done for the non-mobile web with a platform that now supports more than 550,000 applications and 1 million developers. Tseng pointed to location as one area where social features could strengthen user experience. He did say that, “Inevitably, app stores will become more social. FB Dev. Where Facebook's half a billion users reside. Facebook announced this morning that they now reach 500 million active users (just five and half years after launching).

But where do these half a billion users reside? Refreshing my post from February, the share of users from Asia continues to rise and now stands at 17% of all Facebook users1. Africa is the other fast-growth region and I’m expecting the region’s share of active Facebook users to rise sharply over the next year. In terms of market potential, the number of active users in Asia is 2.3% of the population (1% in Africa) so the company still has lots of growth potential in the region: The share of users age 18-25 remains higher in regions outside the U.S., especially in Asia, the Middle East / North Africa, Africa, and South America. 14% of users in the U.S. are 55 or older, the corresponding figure in Asia is 2% (in Europe and Africa it’s 6%, in the M.

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