I've done quite a bit of marketing on Facebook and while the cost per click (CPC) has sometimes been pretty good (i.e. affordable) I've also found the cost to be quite high, sometimes approaching the price of Google depending on the market. I've only ever run traffic to landing pages outside of Facebook and I […]
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Facebook Advertising Costs on Average About $2.30 Per Thousand Impressions?
Back in May comScore reported that Facebook served about 346,000,000,000 ads in the first quarter of 2011. Facebook is so large that it now accounts for about one out of every three ad impressions in the U.S., according to the latest statistics from comScore Ad Metrix. In the first quarter of 2011, comScore estimates that […]
Facebook and SPAM – The size of it!
I read somewhere recently that Facebook has got over 750 Million, that's 750,000,000 members and growing fast (as every business owner jumps on the bandwagon for cheap traffic and instant buyer riches…). An article on the Huffington Post recently about Facebooks automated system for dealing with (or trying to at least) deal with spam was […]
Facebook Most Popular Search Keyword in 2010
Well I have to admit I find it hard to believe that people search for Facebook and related terms but there you go. Here's an article that describes the details; New York, N.Y., Dec. 29, 2010 – Experian® Hitwise®, a part of Experian Marketing Services, has analyzed the top 1000 search terms for 20101 and […]
Facebook & User Privacy
No doubt this will be an ongoing issue for years but with the popularity of Facebook and the number of developers creating applications it's going to be hard to police and control! The Wall Street Journal said applications were providing access to Facebook members' names and, in some cases, their friends' names, to companies that […]