Alec Gordon's Tech Blog

How Many Likes do I Have on Facebook?

2012-05-19T18:49:00.000-07:00

"How many likes do I have on Facebook?” Crowdfind.me will answer the question “Who likes my page on Facebook?” If you would like to see a cross section of everyone who likes a certain public Facebook page, place, event etc. use the the CrowdFinder at www.crowdfind.me. The number of “Likes” your Facebook page has accumulated is an accurate measure of how popular your Facebook page really is! Getting More "Likes" helps to increase the amount of times your Facebook page is shared, mentioned or “Liked” again.

Now, to find out how many Facebook “likes” you have credited to your website’s homepage URL or to an individual page in your web site you will need to use Facebook’s URL Debugger.

Even if you don’t have a like button on your web site you may have accumulated some likes to your sites Homepage URL or interior URLs of your web site. The URL Debugger will show you how many times a specific URL has been shared or “liked” on Facebook. Facebook’s URL Debugger is located here: http://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug

The Debugger will force Facebook to crawl your page and index it or re-index it as well as the photos. This is also useful if you are having problems trying to get Facebook to crawl your images when uploading a link. The Debugger will also show you who "liked" or shared your URL if they are within your circle of friends. It would be interesting to see everyone who liked your page however it looks like Facebook only allows you to see which one of your friends liked a certain link. Any comments or ideas?

Crowdfind.me is the world's first entirely human edited and fully crowdsourced visual Facebook Pages and Interests Directory. With Crowdfind you can see exactly who is liking your Facebook page or any public Facebook page, you can also share crowds, pair crowds and manage your Facebook crowds, It's Fun!

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Social Media SEO

2011-11-09T20:34:00.001-08:00

In this post I am going to list many Sites for Social Media SEO where webmasters can create profiles and pages. These pages and profiles will grow and create backlinks for SEO as well as establish a social presence and following for your Website or Blog.

#1 Facebook Pages

Keyword Specific Url: YES (only after 25 people like your page!... see this post)

Website backlink on Profile: Yes

No Follow Tag on Profile backlink: No

#2 Twitter

Keyword Specific Url: YES

Website backlink on Profile: Yes

No Follow Tag on Profile backlink: No

...to be continued

Google Page Rank 9 and Facebook is Page Rank 10

2011-06-30T11:03:00.000-07:00

You may have noticed that a couple of days ago Google did a page rank update and your sites might have gone up or down depending on how Larry's link analysis algorithm is ranking you. What is interesting is that what I have been predicting now for awhile is starting to happen. Google has a lowered page rank of 9 while Facebook now has a Page Rank of 10. Google's Page is now seen as less important than Facebook's page in Google's own eyes.

I've noticed that Google has assigned page rank to many internal Facebook pages visible to the public without logging into Facebook. And that many of those pages with my backlinks on them in the news feeds are being counted as links by Google and seem to be passing page rank to my interior pages. Those are easy links to get and often times the page owner will click the "like" button on your post giving you even more benefit from the link.

Facebook Pages are now playing a very important part in my link-building strategy and Google seems to have decided that they like those links since they are human edited and will most likely have to pass the approval of the page owner. more thoughts on this later...

If you are not familiar with Page Rank yet more info can be found here: Page Rank

Firefox toolbar order

2011-06-09T15:08:00.000-07:00

Hmm... "How do I change the order of my Firefox toolbars?" I recently upgraded to the latest version of Firefox 4 and have been very happy with the improvements and have been going about updating all of my add-ons for webdesign and SEO. I noticed that my Alexa tool bar had moved down a notch and my tool bars were now rearranged into a different order.

Immediately I set about looking for the controls and found that if you want to re-order your toolbars you will need to use a handy Add-on as Firefox does not have a built in control for changing the toolbar order in Firefox 4. Unfortunately The Add-on doesn't work for Firefox 4 yet. Does anyone have any ideas of how to rearrange the toolbars in Firefox 4?

Google isn’t God anymore

2011-06-08T18:46:00.000-07:00

I’ve been getting ready early for the coming changeover from Google’s spider and robot based search soon to be obsolete and replaced by a new facebook search which will produce much more relevant results than Google. I am simply putting the facebook “like” buttons all over my sites. You can see all of the “like” or “recommend” buttons I’ve installed on my sites here: Bay Islands and here: Osa Peninsula

I would recommend that all webmasters install the like buttons now or be forever trying to catch up on “likes” to improve your ranking in facebook search.

Thanks to facebook companies can now spend their money on their own sites quality and product quality so that they collect “likes” from real people instead of wasting millions of dollars a year on SEOs to create tons of useless links constantly trying to fool Google into thinking the site is popular etc. We are finally moving away from a spider and robot based Google Search to a more human, active, organic and living search governed by how many real people “like” our sites on Facebook. Think of the millions that have been wasted on endless linking and “SEO” that companies could have invested back into themselves!

Google’s Spider and Algorithm based search results can never really be considered “organic” because they are calculated after information is collected by a non “organic” spider or program. Facebook seach when it is finally rolled out in all of it’s glory will be truly “organic” as organic people will be clicking on the “like” buttons. Facebook only allows real people in their system, so by detecting fake accounts facebook should be able to catch the SEO cheaters much easier than Google can.

Thank God! or shall we say Thank Facebook! that Google isn’t God anymore.

fb_xd_fragment and sms_ss

2011-06-08T18:34:00.000-07:00

How to Fix the Facebook fb_xd_fragment “like” button bug and the Add This sms_ss problem. First if you are not already aware of the issue with the Facebook “like” button please see:

http://forum.developers.facebook.net/viewtopic.php?id=60571&p=3

http://www.searchmarketingman.com/2010/09/how-to-fix-like-button-bug.html

http://ben-collins.blogspot.com/2010/09/facebook-like-button-pita-fbxdfragment.html

I am using the 301 redirect to address this issue. After checking my stats I realize now that I was loosing most of the traffic to my sites from Facebook due to this bug. After I implemented the 301 Redirect my traffic has gone way up and my site’s like buttons and backlinks from Facebook are working properly now and providing traffic. The 301 redirect that works for me is:

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^fb_xd_fragment
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.travel-quintanaroo.com\/$1? [R=301,L]

HOWEVER! I was checking my stats and found a new URL from Facebook that was also referring my visitors to a page with a blank screen.

HAS ANYONE SEEN THIS IN THE URL?: sms_ss

I believe it is caused by the Add This version of the like button I am using on that site.
sms_ss was in the URL where the fb_xd_fragment was appearing, with the fb_xd_fragment appearing further along in the URL. Consequently the above 301 Redirect did not work in that situation.
I tried this and it works… I included this additional 301 redirect:

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^sms_ss
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.travel-quintanaroo.com\/$1? [R=301,L]

I’m watching my stats now for anything else in the URL’s that cause me to loose visitors. It looks like more than half of my visitors from facebook were getting the blank screen… maybe its because I have many like buttons on my sites for example see: Bay Islands or Osa Peninsula or Nicoya Peninsula or Quintana Roo those sites get “like” or “Recommend” button traffic.

Now with the 301 Redirects everything seems to work and I can see visitors come in and surf around instead of just bounce after 10 seconds. I’m interested though in something better than this solution, as the 301 redirect is processor intensive.

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