Who Would Get a Facelift on their 6th Birthday? Read full article | SUMMARY: Facebook! Facebook is getting a new look. Their 6th birthday was Feb 4th and the new layout (which will roll out to all users soon) offers more intuitive navigation on the profile home page. The goal was to make it even easier for Facebook users to find what they want and engage with relevant content - which included moving the Search box to a more predominant position. Sections that will see a facelift include: Messages, Friends, Photos, Events, Applications, and Games. These sections will be a dashboard of activity showing most important info and updates. FYI to FB Marketers: The new layout will allow Facebook Ads to be displayed in a wider format (but the image in the ads will be slightly smaller (110 x 80 pixels) - to better fit the new format).
Even wjile Facebook rolls out new design changes this week, it's important to note that this social network also grew to more than 400 million users. Thus, it's not surprisingly that there has been a lot of talk about Facebook becoming a top new source in the near future.
Top Menu. Find newest notifications, request, and messages by clicking an icon and seeing items in a drop-down menu..
Left Side Menu. Completely reworked the menu to help you access your messages and other common features in one place.
Webmail (coming soon). If Facebook offers its own email services, users will probably spend more time on Facebook (since they won't need to go elsewhere for their emails). This would open up another opportunity to receive news, newsletters, alerts, and more.
Display Ads. Microsoft announced changes that its Facebook partner will now take over its own display advertising, plus a more feature enhanced version of Bing for its web search.
How Google Rates Links from Facebook and Twitter Read full article | January 15, 2010 SUMMARY: Google treats links on social media platforms (Facebook, Twitter, Digg, etc) the same as other sites, including blogs, government sites, or education sites. The only hindrances occur are when the individual platforms have their own issues. Examples:
Facebook. For profiles marked “private” (there are many private profiles in Facebook), Google does not crawl them. Since Google doesn’t see the outbound links, it does not assign PageRank to those pages and there is not benefit gained for those destination pages.
Twitter. Most links in Twitter are “nofollowed”, which means that Google does not follow the links (or crawl them either).
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