{"id":14317,"date":"2010-04-23T18:16:50","date_gmt":"2010-04-23T18:16:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mysocialmediasolution.com\/?p=385"},"modified":"2010-04-23T18:16:50","modified_gmt":"2010-04-23T18:16:50","slug":"facebook-traffic-nipping-at-googles-heels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/marketing\/social-media\/facebook-traffic-nipping-at-googles-heels\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook traffic nipping at Google&#039;s heels"},"content":{"rendered":"<table border=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.publicityhound.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/facebooklogo-250-x-88.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-382\" title=\"facebooklogo 250 x 88\" src=\"https:\/\/www.publicityhound.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/facebooklogo-250-x-88.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"88\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.publicityhound.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/google-logo-250-pixels.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-384\" title=\"google logo 250 pixels\" src=\"https:\/\/www.publicityhound.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/google-logo-250-pixels.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"88\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>By Joan Stewart<\/p>\n<p>If you still aren&#8217;t on Facebook because you&#8217;re late to the party, recent traffic statistics should convince you to hop onboard NOW.<\/p>\n<p>A chart at social media strategist Sally Falkow&#8217;s blog shows that Facebook&#8217;s traffic is almost dead even with traffic from Google.\u00a0Facebook now has more than 400 million users worldwide, \u00a0up from 350 million in December.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what that means to you:<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re not on Facebook, get going. \u00a0You can find instructions for almost every part of the site in Facebook&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/#!\/help\/?ref=pf\" target=\"_blank\">Help Center,<\/a> which you can always access on the bottom right corner of your screen. \u00a0You&#8217;ll start by reading the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/help\/?guide\" target=\"_blank\">Getting Started guide,<\/a> and then creating your profile.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve been on Facebook awhile and you&#8217;re using it for business, be sure to create a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/help\/?ref=pf#!\/help\/?page=175\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook fan page.<\/a> This is the only place that Facebook lets you promote, and it will help solidify your brand, build a huge fan club and interact with your fans by doing everything from passing along helpful tips and videos to offering them coupons. (See <a href=\"https:\/\/www.publicityhound.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">11 Ways to Avoid Missed Opportunities on Facebook.<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>By the way, if you ran into problems on Facebook this past week, don&#8217;t despair. We did too. So did many of our friends. Feeds weren&#8217;t feeding properly. We couldn&#8217;t wrap text around photos in our Notes. And even today, we&#8217;re finding that many links in the Facebook Help Center aren&#8217;t working.<\/p>\n<p>Such is life when a company grows too big, too fast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Joan Stewart If you still aren&#8217;t on Facebook because you&#8217;re late to the party, recent traffic statistics should convince you to hop onboard NOW. A chart at social media strategist Sally Falkow&#8217;s blog shows that Facebook&#8217;s traffic is almost dead even with traffic from Google.\u00a0Facebook now has more than 400 million users worldwide, \u00a0up\u2026&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/marketing\/social-media\/facebook-traffic-nipping-at-googles-heels\/\" class=\"rmlink\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","iawp_total_views":4,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[638],"tags":[67],"class_list":{"0":"post-14317","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-social-media","7":"tag-google","8":"entry"},"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Joan Stewart","author_link":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/author\/jstewart\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14317\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}