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Is Facebook Turning into a Personalized Experience

by Dennis Goedegebuure 3 Comments

My question for this post is: Can Facebook becoming the startup page/portal like AOL tried to be back in 1995, but than smarter? There are a number of features I see on Facebook which are helpful for me. Take the games for today, with their scores, in the right bar. Ad first, I only see 4, […]

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How to Grow Facebook Search Queries Exponentially with one Simple UX change

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On November 11 this year, I posted this tweet: Anybody still in doubt what $FB intentions are, proof they are serious about their role in search. This was my reaction to the little balloon prompting me to do a search for the hashtag of the moment; “#GOPDebate”. A month later, the opportunity for Facebook in […]

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Facebook does not even makes minimum wage!

by Dennis Goedegebuure 7 Comments

When I read the article on Mashable about Facebooks revenue, I thought the company is growing really well. However, after just one minute my mind started to wonder if this is really true.  I know Facebook is just building a business, and I know they started ramping advertising up just recently, and I know revenue […]

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No more garbage ads?

by Dennis Goedegebuure 1 Comment

I hope these garbage ads I recently wrote about will be history once and for all. It seems the FTC’s Bureau of Consumer Protection is going after the Government grant scammers who widely advertise on both Google Adsense network, and through Facebook Ads. I recommend to everybody not to fall for these get rich quick […]

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Facebook Ranks #3 for Barack Obama

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Pretty good job for Facebook SEO team. They currently are ranking #3 for Barack Obama. (if you take the News Universal Search results not into account). Facebook is even ranking higher than the Whitehouse.gov page, displayed in highlighted red here. It was brought to my attention when I saw this Tweet: Obviously, with all the […]

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Facebook pulls new T&C’s

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After all the comments over the long weekend and today, Facebook returned to their old Terms and Conditions. Tonight I got this message from my friend Alex: Check the top of your newsfeed and trust me we learn from our mistakes. And at the top of my Newsfeed there was an extra message: A couple […]

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Get Rich Quick with Facebook Ads

by Dennis Goedegebuure 7 Comments

OMG, Oh My F*** God, what is up with these Ads on Facebook. The only Ads you see are from Get Rich Quick Scams. And the worst part of it all, the Ads all link to the same kind of websites, of which the majority even use the same template and even the same pictures […]

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Facebook Ads, Not Successful

by Dennis Goedegebuure

At least not for me… As I have been writing to go try to score some extra cash with Facebook Ads, I have to report back that I miserably failed! Although Shoemoney is making money with Facebook Ads, this does not mean everybody can do it! As I don’t have the time to invest more […]

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Are You a Fan of Masturbation on Facebook?

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Yesterday Facebook announced the ALLFacebook Pages Tracker, with which you can track which pages are most popular. From their post on AllFacebook: Want to know what the most popular Facebook pages are on any given day? Now you can! If you haven?t read it on Techcrunch, over the past month we have been tracking over […]

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Testing The Facebook Ad Platform

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After following my friend and ex-colleague Alex presenting on Facebook Ads on the Affiliate Summit through Twitter, I though I might give the Facebook Ads a try myself. As Alex mentioned, Europe has got some virgin waters laying ready to be explored by smart Internet marketers. Thank god they have not showed up yet, as I can […]

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