Subscribe by Email

Your email:

Browse by Date

Browse by Tag

Popular Posts

My Grades



Inbound Marketing University

Attending IMU

Ellie's Blog

Current Articles | RSS Feed RSS Feed

I Made An Internet Marketing Geek Discovery!

Posted by Ellie Mirman on Wed, Mar 25, 2009 @ 08:26 AM
Submit to Digg digg it | Add to delicious delicious | Submit to StumbleUpon StumbleUpon | Share on Facebook Facebook | Share on Twitter Twitter | Share on LinkedIn LinkedIn 

Yeah!It's no secret that I'm an Internet marketing geek. In particular, I spend a lot of time learning the ins and outs of Facebook to share how businesses can use the social network for marketing.

Well, in doing just that, I made a discovery! Yesterday I discovered a loophole that allowed me to create links from Facebook to my website that pass SEO (search engine optimization) credit.

This is a pretty big deal because (1) a link from Facebook.com is incredibly valuable, and (2) almost all links from Facebook are either "no follow" (don't pass SEO juice) or "redirects" (first bring you to a page that warns that you're leaving Facebook). But through the custom-coded FBML (Facebook Markup Language) application, I could code whatever link I wanted - the target URL, the link text, everything!

For at least an hour, I was jumping in my office seat. Of course, after sharing my news with the marketing team, I was volunteered to write a blog article about it.

Read my post: Facebook Gives SEO Credit to Links in FBML Applications

Photo credit: futurowoman

Tags: , , ,

Comments

You know if you would have asked I could have told you this five months ago. ;) 
 
We were flipping out about it back then in the Higher Ed world about designing College business pages. 
 
Just sayin'...
Posted @ Thursday, March 26, 2009 7:50 AM by Kyle James
What?!?! Where were you when I was freaking out about this in the office? I tried to search the interwebs and couldn't find anyone talking about this. This is pretty huge! I'm surprised that people aren't going nuts over this.
Posted @ Thursday, March 26, 2009 7:53 AM by Ellie Mirman
Probably just working away in my office in the back changing customers lives one at a time... ;) 
 
It's huge except for the fact it's at least six months old. Guess we just need to get you better plugged in... lol
Posted @ Thursday, March 26, 2009 7:57 AM by Kyle James
Post Comment
Name
 *
Email
 *
Website (optional)
Comment
 *

Allowed tags: <a> link, <b> bold, <i> italics

Receive email when someone replies.