Facebook.com
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Receiving more visitors than every other website except Google, Facebook is an immensely popular social networking site with more than 900 million users; more than half of which visit daily.
Originally launched in February of 2004 as a website exclusively for Harvard University students, Facebook has grown worldwide to over 900 million people.
Headquartered in Menlo Park, California, Facebook is continually expanding it global reach. As of July 2012, Facebook has over 3,500 employees, and offices in 18 countries. The site is available in 70 languages.
Registration for Facebook profiles is open to all individuals over 13 years of age.
People can create personal profiles to share up to the minute statuses on their day to day happenings, post photos and videos of themselves and their friends, coordinate events and gathering with members of their social community, and generally engage with people and brands that impact their world.
Features such as Facebook Pages offer a way for local businesses, organizations, brands, artists, public figures, causes, and communities to create a presence on Facebook for publishing content and engaging with the worldwide Facebook community.
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edit Facebook.com Profit Generation
Facebook.com earns profits from advertising such as banner ads and sponsored groups. It does not charge its members any membership fees. Its advertising is somewhat unique in that rather than being primarily based on the context of the page, ads are targeted based on the information that people supply on their profiles. An advertiser can choose any combination to target specific demographics, such as women aged 24-28 living in California with a Bachelor's degree who have the term "web design" in their profile.
edit Facebook.com - How it Works
People can register on Facebook.com for free. They create their own personal user profile, reveal their interests and preferences, upload photographs, correspond with other users through private or public messages and join groups to stay connected to other users with similar interests.
Only people from the same network or a member’s confirmed friends can view a member’s profile data. Facebook.com has implemented a number of privacy mechanisms to empower users with fine-grained control of how their information is shared. Facebook continues to improve its security policies.
In a nutshell, Facebook.com provides a good way to meet new people, keep in touch with old friends, display your most recent photos and express your thoughts and feelings in your very own blog. Facebook.com also has an excellent search and browse function that allows members to find others using just about anything as their search string.
edit Facebook.com Usage and Popularity
In terms of actual usage, TechCrunch said in a recent report that 60% of all Facebook.com members log on daily, 85% at least once a week and 93% at least once a month. Members spend about 18 minutes a day on Facebook.com, according to website spokesman Chris Hughes.
In a 2006 study conducted by Student Monitor, a New Jersey-based limited liability company specializing in research concerning the college student market, Facebook.com was named as the second most "in" thing among undergraduates, tied with beer and losing only to the iPod.
edit Other Facebook.com Purposes
On occasion, police authorities, colleges and universities use Facebook.com for investigating students based on the information they upload. For instance, many colleges and universities detect violations of underage drinking and dry campus policies by sifting through photos of illicit drinking behavior at parties or on campus. Some reports say employers also examine the Facebook.com profiles of prospective new hires.
Such practices have earned the ire of members who argue that police and college administrators violate Facebook’s Terms of Use that states: "the website is available for your personal, noncommercial use only". In a special security option for members, Facebook.com provides settings that allow a member to classify his/her profile as "private", allowing only approved individuals to view his/her profile.
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edit KristinaWeis's Comments on Facebook.com
- KristinaWeis (delighted) : I've been a huge fan of Facebook and have loved every new feature that has been added along the way. I use it for just about everything to connect with my friends online. I love being able to tag friends in photo albums, invite people to events, have pages for non-people entities like this one for AboutUs, keep up with Twitter-like updates, and customize my privacy and who I want to connect with. My only frustration is with the various unwanted application invitations. 14:52, 23 May 2008 (PDT) reply
edit Eric Wester's Comments on Facebook.com
- Eric Wester (delighted) : Where would we be without Facebook? Facebook is a great tool that allows you to connect with old friends, network with other people, play games, and much more! 08:32, 22 October 2008 (PDT) reply
edit Brian Whelan's Comments on Facebook.com
- Brian Whelan (delighted) : I see all the hard work has paid off - Facebook has finally overtaken MySpace. A big welcome to Dublin for the recent office opening. From Hidden-Dublin(.com) Sun Feb 22 20:46:02 UTC 2009 reply
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Title
The title of a web page appears in search results as the link to that page. Learn more ...
Purpose
The title of a web page appears as a clickable link in search results and bookmarks. A descriptive, compelling home page title with relevant keywords can increase the number of people visiting the site.
Search Engines
Search engines view the text of the title tag as a strong indication of what the page is about. Accurate keywords in the title tag can help the page rank better in search results.
Length
A title tag should have fewer than 70 characters, including spaces. Major search engines won't display more than that.
Content
The title tag of your home page (and any other page on your site) should not contain the site’s domain name or URL. These will appear near the title in search results, so use your 70 characters to tell people what the page is about. The title tag should not contain any HTML, because it will be displayed incorrectly or not at all.
- Good: This web page has a title tag.
- Good: The title tag is a good length.
- The title of this site's home page:
- “Welcome to Facebook - Log In, Sign Up or Learn More”
H1 Headings
The H1 heading is an important sentence or phrase on a web page that quickly and clearly tells people and search engines what they can expect to find there. Learn more ...
Just one H1
In most cases, a web page should have just one H1 heading. Using multiple H1 headings is okay if that is a logical way to organize the page, but they should be used sparingly. That’s because search engines can view multiple H1 headings as an attempt to signal that all the content on a page is equally important, a tactic that’s seen as an attempt to game the search engine algorithms.
Purpose
Search engines look for an H1 heading to determine what a page is about. Human visitors do, too.
Content and placement
The H1 heading appears on the web page itself, unlike the page title, which people will see mostly in search results.
The H1 tag (which contains the H1 heading) is usually listed first among the other heading tags for a page. None of the major search engines, however, will penalize a site for listing H2 through H6 tags ahead of the H1 tag.
The H1 heading for a page should be different from its title. Each can target different important keywords for better SEO.
- Warning: This page has more than one H1 heading. It should have just one.
- H1 headings for this site's home page:
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- “Connect with friends and theworld around you on Facebook.”
- “Sign Up”
Facebook.com in search results
You can see below how most search engines will display this site's home page in search results. The title is used as the link to the page, and the meta description appears below the title.
Welcome to Facebook - Log In, Sign Up or Learn More
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Links & Images
Sites You Link To
Outbound links tell search engines which websites you find valuable and relevant to your own site, and help your visitors find what they need…even if it’s not on your site. Learn more ...
Search engines
Including links to relevant sites is good for your website's standing with search engines. The Web is all about linking, and carefully chosen outbound links tell search engines that you understand their value to site visitors. These outbound links also help search engines classify your site in relationship to others.
Here, we identify only the outbound links on this site's home page, but outbound links add value to any important page on a website.
Site visitors
Outbound links tell people that you want to provide them with good information, even if it’s not on your own site. These links can also prompt other people to link to your site, which can boost its reputation and ranking in search results.
Here, we identify only the outbound links on this site's home page, but outbound links add value to any important page on a website.
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| fbstatic-a.akamaihd.net | 4 |
Image Descriptions
Image descriptions - also called alt text - are the best way to describe images to search engines and to visitors using screen readers. Learn more ...
Help for visitors with impaired vision
People with impaired vision use screen readers to help them “read” websites. If you provide descriptive alt text for images on your site, people using screen readers will know what the images are about, and will get the same full understanding of your site that others do.
Good for search engine rankings
Describing images on a web page with alt text can help the page rank higher in search results if you include important and relevant keywords. Do not be tempted to stuff irrelevant keywords into alt text just so a page will rank well for those words. Search engines can recognize this ploy for what it is: an attempt to game results.
Writing image descriptions
This is what an image description looks like in HTML:
<img src="image.jpg" alt="This is the image description">
You can write image descriptions, or alt text, by writing the HTML directly into the code for a web page. If you’re using a content management system or online commerce software package, it will probably have a feature to help you quickly create alt text for your images.
Caution: While some software packages automatically generate alt text, they don't always do it well. Always check the quality of automatically generated alt text.
- Problem: None of your images have descriptions. They should.
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Robots
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Purpose
Website owners usually use robots.txt to let search engines know which pages or sections of their site shouldn't be indexed — for example, web contact forms, print versions of web pages and other content that's duplicated elsewhere on the site. Robots.txt can also be used to request that specific robots not index a site. For more information, read How To Use Robots.txt.
Be careful!
If you're going to use robots.txt, be careful not to accidentally exclude search engines from pages you want people to find. To learn more, read Don't Block Search Engine Crawlers.
Search engine robots
You'll need to know the names of specific search engine robots - or "bots" – if you’re going to exclude any or all of them from any part of your site.
- Google’s bot is called Googlebot. Google is the world’s largest search engine, and is where many people discover new websites.
- Bing’s bot is called msnbot. Bing also provides search results to people using Yahoo to search the Web. Together, Bing and Yahoo are the second largest search resource, after Google.
- Baidu’s bot is called Baiduspider. Baidu is a major search engine in China, and the number of people using it is increasing rapidly.
- AboutUs.org’s bot is called AboutUsBot. To create a Site Report, AboutUs uses crawling technology that’s similar to what search engines use.
- Good: This website’s robots.txt file is not blocking major search engines from crawling its pages. Your website can appear in any engine’s search results.
Canonical Url
This website can live at www.Facebook.com or Facebook.com. It's best for your site's visibility to live at just one URL, or web address. You'll want to create a 301 redirect to the URL you choose from the other URL. Learn more ...
Choose one or the other
Whichever of these URLs you choose, make sure your website lives ONLY at that location, which is called the canonical URL for your site.
Be careful!
If you choose www.MyWebsite.com for your site, make sure people who don't type www can get to your site, too. Create a permanent 301 redirect from MyWebsite.com to www.MyWebsite.com.
If the same web page exists at two different URLs, people can choose to link to one or the other. Links from other sites to your website are valuable — they tell search engines that your site is important to people. By splitting valuable links between two identical pages, you're diluting the power of those links to help a page rank higher in search results.
Learn more about why you should have just one home page: Read Twin Home Pages: Classic SEO Mistake
- Problem: Both Facebook.com and www.Facebook.com are redirecting to different locations.
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Web Presence
Search Engine Visibility
Check this site's prominence around the web and in major search engines.
Indexed Pages
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| value for Bing | 0 |
Rank
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| value for Alexa | 2 |
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Social Visibility
Check this site's presence on news sharing and community sites.
Social Media Visibility
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| value for Dmoz | 525 |
| value for Google Groups | 45,200,000 |
| value for Yahoo Answers | 1,618,256 |
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Redirectory
Below we show domains that redirect to Facebook.com.
We survey every domain on the Internet ending in .com, .net, or .edu to see if any redirect to this website. Large or famous websites like Amazon.com often have many sites redirecting to them.
Domains that redirect to the home page of Facebook.com
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Capture visitors who type the wrong name
It can make a lot of sense to redirect a domain to an existing web page. For example, many people are likely to type wikipedia.com when they are really looking for wikipedia.org. Creating a redirect from wikipedia.com to wikipedia.org helps these people get to the site they want.
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Domains that redirect to a page within Facebook.com
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Get people to a specific web page
Creating a redirect from a simple domain name helps people find an existing web page that has a long, hard-to-remember URL. For example firefox.com redirects to http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/.
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- redirects to: http://facebook.com/login.php?api_key=109064422482399&cancel_url=http%3A%2F%2Falbumdownloader.com%2F&display=page&fbconnect=1&next=http%3A%2F%2Falbumdownloader.com%2F&return_session=1&session_version=3&v=1.0&req_perms=user_photos%2Cfriends_photos
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- redirects to: http://facebook.com/OnlineChristianFellowship
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- redirects to: http://facebook.com/TheJamesMaslow
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- redirects to: http://facebook.com/kplarkin
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- redirects to: http://facebook.com/group.php?gid=377818286512
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- redirects to: http://facebook.com/pages/Community-Mythology-Project-CMP/156765801030293
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- redirects to: http://facebook.com/pages/Community-Mythology-Project-CMP/156765801030293
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