Tuesday, 27 December 2011

Facebook removing app profile pages

Facebook removing app profile pages

Facebook developer view Apps profileExisting way, add page to tab

"By February 1, 2012, we are removing App Profile Pages. You can migrate Likes and the Vanity URL of this Page to an existing Facebook Page with
the same name and Product/App category."

Current Facebook App Profile Pages will be shut down by February 1st, 2012.

If you are the administrator of these pages, you can transfer the page and likes to a new fan page. New Facebook Vanity URLs are subject to availability. The Like migration will start instantly, and can take up to 7 days.

If no action is taken before February 1st, 2012, your App Profile Page will be deleted and Facebook will send all App Profile Page traffic directly to your App.

Read more: https://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/611/

Extra Tips:

1. To view your Apps, go to https://apps.facebook.com/YOUR_APP_ID/
e.g: https://apps.facebook.com/198991846862332/

New waym to add page to tab

2. To add page tab dialog, insert the following code within the iframe body:

<code>
<body>
<!--Insert code start-->

<div id='fb-root'></div>
<script src='http://connect.facebook.net/en_US/all.js'></script>
<p><a onclick='addToPage(); return false;'>Post to Feed</a></p>
<p id='msg'></p>

<script>
FB.init({appId: "YOUR_APP_ID", status: true, cookie: true});

function addToPage() {

// calling the API ...
var obj = {
method: 'pagetab',
redirect_uri: 'YOUR_URL',
};

FB.ui(obj);
}

</script>

<!--Insert code end-->
</body>
</code>


Successful fan page: https://www.facebook.com/hitsclubkl

Detailed documentation: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/dialogs/add_to_page/

Post to Feed: You can change the text, remove it or make a nicer button.

Monday, 19 December 2011

SEO, Search Engine and Buying trend

When purchase a product, do you make your own decision or you relied on search engine for answer? Google serve more than 1 Billion queries daily, and 74% of users use search engines before making a purchase. The most important, search engine purchase trend is keep increase.

Besides typing in browser "www.yoursite.com" and referal link; search engines are the only way people can find your website. When a target business keywords is not showing in search result, you are missing lot of traffic and potential client.

Why You Should Not Ignore SEO
Infographic by- 广州网站建设 Guangzhou Web Design Company

Friday, 16 December 2011

Content is the king, social signals are queens?

Content is the king, social signals are queens? Why is content so important for SEO?

Google Panda helps users by filtering out quality sites, and reducing the amount of low quality content such as duplicate content.

Quality content encourages users to stay on, and read more of a site. Through click through rates and the number of social signal shares, quality sites gain more visibility with search engines.

Branding tells a story, and stories rely on content. An outstanding site will become the authority in a particular niche, and an authority site creates a branding effect. Statistics show that 50% of users are more likely to click on a search query, if the brand appears a couple of times in the result page.

Brafton's Infographic: Why Content for SEO?

Wednesday, 14 December 2011

Stars of Search Engine Optimization

Stars of Search Engine Optimization (August 31, 2011)

Top 5 Followed
Chris Brogan (Human Business Works) 191, 135
Danny Sullivan (Search Engine Land) 169, 882
Matt Cutts (Google) 128, 666
Avinash Kaushik (Google) 52, 169
Rand Fishkin (SEOMOZ) 37, 015

Top 5 Liked
Chris Brogan (Human Business Works) 6131
Danny Sullivan (Search Engine Land) 3270
Matt Cutts (Google) 1988
Tony Adam (Search Engine Land) 1900
Rand Fishkin (SEOMOZ) 1761

History of Search Infographic

Tuesday, 13 December 2011

Black Hat SEO Risks

SEO methods can be classified into 2 major categories:
white hat SEO, methods that search engines recommend as part of, good content, good design and well struture. White hats tend to improve (Search engine results page) SERP that last a long time.

Black hat SEO, methods that not approve by search engine, such as link farm, content farm, hidden text.
Black hats is more hoping on instant result with minimum effort to boot up SERP. Their sites may eventually be banned either permanently or temporarily once the search engines discover their activity.

Black Hat SEO Infographic