Small Update: Facebook Recommendations in hub sidebar
Yep... No Doubt Another Clear Avantage would no doubt be more of these
Having now seen this FB item on my hubs... I have to wonder why (as someone without a personal FB account with FB) would direct my hard researched and earned SEO generated traffic away from the opportunity for me to earn a few cents to FB.. so they can benefit from peanuts that this monkey worked for?
If it is your intention to promote the monkeys rather than the peanuts via their profile page... then there are some benefits.
Right Now my hubs are potentially directing traffic to FB and HP is gaining an undeclared Benefit that wasn't previously disclosed....
To limit the potential damage of that...
Should we make our hubs shorter?
(To end before the impression)
Should we reduce the amount of keyword work that we do?
(For FaceBook)
How Do WE EARN from this relationship?
Thank you Paul.
Nice update, HP!
I think it'd be a great addition on our profile pages, too.
Wonder what the next update'll be!Well I can see the potential increase in site value and other commercial benefits to HP from developing this style of association with FB...
They might even see the extended benefits of offering you a cheque in the longer term for a site that is so accomodating to their 2nd tier marketing needs/trends....
So... What is the REAL BENEFIT of this to the writers here Paul?
(Keep in mind that we have alot of Teachers on this site - Who don't appreciate FB's bullying re: their desired ownership of the words 'Face' and 'Book' )
Will we then be obliged to FB to no longer use those words in our collective writing?
Please... Don't be offended by the kiwi candor here... Consider that most of us Trust YOU with the future directions of OUR writing and net presence. Facebook has not earned that priviledge and likely never will.
As they say Paul... When you have such trust.. you can Bank On It... can't you? .... Until you loose it!Ditto.
Our traffic is diverted to facebook because of this. I see this as more of distraction.
Agreed. I do not like it on my hubs. Could care less if it's on my profile.
I just went to my hub on chocolate-hazelnut spread, only to find the follow FB posts listed:
- 15 Reasons to Stop Eating Meat
- Yahweh Will Bring the Nations Into Judgment
- Lady Gaga is Joe Calderone
- Why Build the Mosque
Ummmmm.... I'm rather speechless.
Thanks for trying though! It's nice to see that you guys are always thinking and trying new things for us.not good!
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Facebook is a massive distraction for many people, this function will just siphon off visitors - its a big leak
and the recommendations are crap and unfocused to content unless the user is logged in.
I absolutely do not want to provide a showcase for the idiotic recommendations that are currently displayed about heated religious debates -No, that was to sunforged.
No not at all. You seem to be more concerned about your cause than any additional monies the extra exposure might have brought (although I'm sure some extra cash would be nice to
). And to me, that's as good a reason as any to be featured, and most likely the reason you are featured, because despite a few meat-heads bugging you, you're obviously getting plenty of genuine likes.
What I meant was, if I log in one day and see 'Buy my eBook and make a million dollars a day' type hubs in the top spot, I'll be more than a little suspicious about through what means they got there. It can be very easy to manipulate these things if the pay-off is worth the effort.
Are you ready with the violin Mr. Music?
Where is that place that we joined; which made us feel like we were special (and we are!) and we really, genuinely felt that as 'special' and loyal people; we could help grow the site for the long term 'mutual' benefit of all who positively contributed to it?
Realistically sites that say 'No' to FaceBook will realistically have a long term future! That's part of being Special.. and part of Leading the Market, rather than following the ones that will eat you anyway... unless you're smarter, with a stable full of special and loyal writers to rely on!- Nelle Hoxieposted 14 years ago
0If your hubs are being liked on Facebook, by anyone, you potentially benefit.
It's really rather difficult for someone's hubs to be liked on Facebook without them having an account on Facebook. Because, who would post a link to begin with? Plus, those who have more 'friends' on Facebook would potentially benefit more than someone who doesn't accept friendships with everyone who comes along.... It seems to me that adding Facebook links is just another popularity contest for the world within HubPages to deal with, not that there's anything wrong with that, if that's what you're writing for....
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I understand what you mean, but the Facebook plugin is just one of the various things we've instituted on the site to enhance the site's overall SEO, visibility to searchers, and traffic diversity, all of which benefit everyone...including you.
Imagine if someone shares/likes one of your Hubs on Facebook, and because of that, friends of that person who are on HubPages later see that your Hub is recommended to them by someone they know. That's a pretty powerful endorsement to check out your Hub.
I also have my suspicion that Google is able to detect and follow share/like links on people's Facebook walls that are public, so there might be an SEO benefit as well to the Hubs (directly) and everyone else on the site (indirectly). But that's just my speculation at this point.
Well thank you for pointing at the bottom line Jason. You know there are actually some quite commercially bright people on this site... perhaps building the bridges with some of the clever ones who double up as poor old writers, instead of as I said earlier; chasing the FB Dream round the block may well be far more beneficial and far more immediate + result-wise.
It appears that this is a done deal already irrespective of how we feel about it.
I guess when it comes to what it means to be a FB Dumbass.. we don't need crocs to look the part!
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Oh well... The next biggest thing on fb is geared to be the Human Centipede... so I guess the keyword 'blowass' will be very relevant.. as will 'optorectomy' and 'recyclable dietry fibres'.
Just what the fb doctor ordered... perfect trendy hubs, stitched together in classic 'tongue in groove' joinery.
Film Director John Six puts a whole different slant on 'foot long hot dogs!'
Can you imagine the traffic for the hubs on this movie?
'It is probably happening more often than you think.'
True enough.
I noticed the other day that one of my hubs had had over seventy 'likes' since those top tabs were implemented. I was pretty shocked, I'd always assumed that the majority of my traffic hit the back-button within seconds and cursed me for diluting the quality of their net-surfing experience.
Wow, that's impressive!
Now that means that friends of those 70 people (which would be approx 9,100 people if there were no overlap and they were average Facebook users) who land on any other Hub, and that are logged into Facebook, are going to see a recommendation from someone they trust to check out your Hub.
Keep in mind we get over 28 million visitors on HubPages every month...
Perhaps the FB box could be positioned under the google ads at the bottom of the hub.... so that the reading experience isn't compromised at all
I'm getting the general recommendations both logged in and logged out of Facebook, because I use Facebook to connect with real friends and family and have never shared a hub there, nor have any of my friends.
I'm okay with the 15 REASONS TO STOP EATING MEAT because it's a decent, if biased, hub and the Gaga hub because Hope Alexander is hilarious. I am NOT pleased that my hubs are now promoting fundamentalist religious c*** by default to anyone whose friends have never Liked a hub.
(It does amuse me that it's fundamentalist Jewish religious c*** though.)
Can we have an opt-out option? By default, the sorts of hubs that will tend to be promoted by this widget will be the controversial ones, and more suited to the forums than a serious, informational hub of the sort I (mostly) write.
