Adware | Facebook Help Center. See a Huge Ad on Your Facebook Profile Page? It's Adware. The Biggest Facebook Posting Mistake You Can Make. What if there were a way to post to Facebook that would reduce your interactions with fans by up to 70 percent? You’d want to avoid that, wouldn’t you? As you may know, lower interaction rates result in less visibility in the news feed. Fewer of your fans see you, and those that do may care less. It reduces your reach and hurts your brand. The biggest posting mistake is: using anything other than Facebook’s own interface for sharing via desktop (Note the exceptions below.). Typical alternate post publishers include CoTweet, HootSuite, Involver, various Twitter feed services, SocialOomph, and others; exceptions include Buddy Media, Involver, Vitrue, Syncapse, Shoutlet and Context Optional (although Facebook may change its policies to give all third parties equal treatment).
The normal Facebook web status update publisher is shown here: If you publish from most of the other custom publishers like HootSuite or Ping.fm, you may be doing harm to your entire Facebook fan campaign. Facebook Timeline For Fan Pages: 21 Key Points For Marketers. If you have not yet converted your Facebook fan page over to the new Timeline design, your page will automatically convert on March 30th, 2012 which is coming up fast. This post covers the majority of basic settings and features you need to know. Even if you’ve upgraded, you’ll find some tips here! First, review this marked up screenshot for a tour of most of the features — click the image to view full size (you may need to click again on the image on the next page): Facebook Timeline for Pages - Guide (click to see full size) Cover image replaces default landing tab One of the biggest feature changes that many businesses are upset about is the removal of a default landing tab. That is, where you can create a custom landing page for non-fans using an iFrame app, and add rich media, an opt-in box and/or a compelling reason to join your fan page.
The good news is you can still have custom tabs, plus the like-gating element still functions. 21 Key Points To Know About Timeline for Pages 1. 2. Flip Text » Write Upside Down Text. How to delete the "Friend Activity" tab on a Facebook Page. - Alan C. Baird. How To Stop Facebook From Publishing Recent Activity To The News Feed. Are you tired of your friends knowing about every group you’ve joined or every Facebook Page you’ve become a fan of? Do you want to RSVP for an event without your friends knowing that you are attending?
Sometimes users just want to keep things private and after numerous emails in my inbox, I thought it would be useful to post a short guide on how to prevent Facebook from publishing stories about every single activity you make on the site. With the removal of news feed settings in December, many users have become confused about blocking information from their profile. This guide will tell you how! Before jumping into our guide, I thought it would be useful to discuss how published content through Facebook were previously handled. The other big issue is how news feed stories are published every time you join a group or join a Facebook Page.
After following the guide above you should now have more control over what information your friends can see. 7 Tools For Updating Facebook Timeline Pages, Profiles. Timeline has a way of making pages with infrequent posts look more naked than they really are, making it more important than ever to post regularly. Here are seven ways to get this job done. We’re about to discuss six different third-party tools for publishing to pages, but before we get into any of that, let’s talk about doing it directly on Facebook, inputting text and links in the status field. Here’s why it makes sense to do it this way: The algorithm that determines post placement in Facebook’s news feed tends to lower the priority updates from third-party apps. If there are good reasons not to use third-party tools, then why would you want to use them at all? With that in mind, here are six of the top tools that social media experts, brands, and agencies are using to update their pages. Argyle Social allows you to schedule and publish updates across top social networks like Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn.
Updates can be sent to your Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn accounts.