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Dashboard to aggregate Google Analytics, Facebook, YouTube etc tracking data?

I'd like to see as much tracking data as possible about my online presence, in one single dashboard - so views/conversions from Google Analytics data, the performance of my Facebook campaigns via the ...
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Should a facebook 'like' button on a website use the actual website url as the 'liked' item, or the url of the website's facebook fan page?

E.g. should the like button use www.somewebsite.com or facebook.com/somewebsite as the 'liked' item? Just to clarify, I realise that individual pages would do better with their own like buttons, ...
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How do I analyze vague Google Analytics data re traffic from Facebook?

We have one Facebook fan page and two personal profiles that could be sending traffic and then there are the many facebook pages of friends etc. I am also running an ad campaign from my FB account ...
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Should users be deleted after inactivity on a website?

When you have a social website or a website where you can register, would you eventually delete them after a certain time (after a year of inactivity) or would you rather keep their account records ...
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Is there a need for a Facebook specific page title?

I see that Facebook's Open Graph asks you to have a meta property "og:title". Why don't they just use the HTML title tag? In my PHP code I started going through all page types and coding the ...
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How to index Facebook & Twitter company pages by location?

I own a regional business directory and want to collect and add URLs of company Facebook Pages and Twitter pages by location (City and/or Zip code). What would be the best method to accomplish this ...
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How auto load image work when an status is post to social website?

When posting a status update on social website like facebook.com and linkedin.com which contain an URL, it will automatically scan the images available on the particular website and put it at the ...
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How to show a preview thumbnail on Facebook of a imageless website?

I have recently designed a website with no img tags, only one big fat CSS sprite with everything in it. Though, when I try to publish that website on Facebook, it won't show a preview thumbnail — ...
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Why do some large companies use a different domain for sending emails?

I've received notifications and newsletters from Microsoft and Facebook in the past and noticed that both emails came not from an address such as something@facebook.com or something@microsoft.com. ...
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Facebook Likes Vs Website Likes [closed]

for what I've seen, I cannot connect the likes from my website to my facebook page. Meaning, for website example.com I can have 4 likes and for the facebook.com/example I can have 1 like, instead of 5 ...
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Facebook and Crawl-delay in Robots.txt?

Do Facebook's webcrawling bots (for example facebookexternalhit/*) respect the Crawl-delay: directive in robots.txt files?
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Facebook Share Button and Counter no longer displaying any Count

Is it just me or did the Facebook Share button that displays the count of shares and likes just stop working over the past few days? The sharing still works, the count of shares no longer displays. ...
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Facebook cover different file size for page cover [closed]

As per my knowledge, Facebook reduces the file size of cover if the image is bigger than 50 kb. Facebook says that it's standard cover is 851px × 315px having 50kb or less file size. But recently, ...
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Share buttons vs sharer urls

As some people might know, adding share buttons from Facebook and Twitter can cause a page to slow down. I've seen many sites pass on the common iframe implementations that these sites offer and ...
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How to add facebook like button to VBulletin 4.2 posts?

The title pretty much contains the question. I'm new to VB and could not find the hack, if any. Appreciate your help.
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Facebook comments plugin with multimedia support [closed]

I like the Facebook comments plugin, the only issue is that I'd like users to be able to post hyperlinks, media or videos just like they can on their wall. Does there exist another comments plugin for ...
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Facebook contest policy no-no?

I would like to post a link on a Facebook page where it will exit Facebook entirely and go to a client's website, where people will be on a page (client's) where they can enter their e-mail address to ...
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Facebook Like Button on Individual Pages

There have been a few questions like this asked before but not in the same way. I want to put a Facebook Like or Share or Recommend button on all of my website pages. The site is somewhat like Yelp ...
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Is it possible to add a facebook 'like' button to a website without the numer of 'likes'?

I'm pretty sure this used to be possible, but there doesn't seem to be an option any more. Is there any way to do it?
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Should I use heroku or should I have my own ssl? [closed]

Base on your experience, can you please advice what will be better for me? Issue : I build applications and there are 2 major constraints. 1. ssl is needed since I used facebook api's. So, only ...
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Share on Facebook does not show thumbnail images

I have a PHP application which has a "Share on Facebook" button that, On the development server shows the thumbnail images correctly and allows the user to select between them On the live server, it ...
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Can i have a facebook fangate between pages of my website

I am not sure whether this is possible can i have a fan gate between two pages of a website, so that before a visitor can access a particular url it would be mandatory to like our fan page on ...
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Facebook crawling [closed]

Does a normal person is allowed to crawl all the publically visible links of facebook for research purpose with the help of automated bots? And whether there is any API provided by ...
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Summary of usage policies for website integration of various social media networks? [closed]

To cut to the chase... I look at Twitter's usage policy and see limitations on what can and can't be done with their logo. I also see examples of websites that use icons that have been integrated ...
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Facebook like button for a Facebook feed item

Here is what I do: When the admin of a website i'm creating adds a new 'news' item to his website, it directly posts the same item on the Facebook 'fanpage' of the website. This is done by an ...
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Who liked my website? [closed]

Is it possible to know specifically who liked my website? I already know the numbers, I need to know the users who actually liked my website so I can contact them and enter them into a contest. Thank ...
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Facebook Connect with CodeIgniter login problems

Im having a problem using Facebook Connect on my latest website. Im running it using the CodeIgniter framework and Elliot Haughin's library (http://www.haughin.com/code/facebook/). Everything is ...
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Facebook Like button warning, but prevents sharing

I added a FB Like button to my Wordpress template, and when I click Like, I receive an error, which pops up and says: There was an error liking the page. If you are the page owner, please try running ...
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Most of my Facebook Likes have disappeared from my website

Until two days ago, I had 417 Facebook Likes on my website http://www.ridiculouslife.net/ Now i have just 33. Even when I input my url into the Facebook developers Get the Like Button generator it ...
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Open Source Bulletin Board with Facebook Group Integration

I'm working on a an open-source community-oriented project which needs a highly social component where users can post discussion topics and questions and interact with each other. It would be ideal to ...
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How to share post to G+ Twitter and Facebook

I have fb profile connected to twitter and when I write to twitter it will be shared to fb profile I have G+Twitter plugin which will post to twitter since I post to G+ but it doesn't share the post ...
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Facebook like flyout cut off [closed]

I have included a facebook like button in the footer of my site. I used the button code and the open graph tags from the facebook developers page. When clicked, a pop-up window appears prompting ...
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Will moving to Facebook/Disqus Commenting lighten the load on my server any?

I manage a site that gets about 50 million hits a month. It's a Wordpress site, load balanced over 6 servers, and has a varnish caching system setup. Right now, 95 - 97% of the time, page views hit ...
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Is it legal to reward points when users click share button?

Every website will desire its content to be shared by its users. Is it OK for some website to award points each time its user clicks facebook share or like button? assume that the website knows the ...
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Facebook like in business model

I have a website "www.example.com" and a Facebook page for www.facebook.com/example/123456 My website need active users. Now in my website I would like a like button, now the question is: From a ...
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lost facebook likes after making changes to the button

I just changed the facebook like button to "recommend" and specified image and content in meta, and now have lost all my previous likes. Why did this happen and what can I do about it? Oh I also just ...
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How does facebook/google plus save posts? [closed]

On Facebook and Google Plus you can see the original post, who posted it, when and all of the comments that follow. How do they save the posts, then load that data with php? XML Files?
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How can I point the facebook page to show the likes of my website? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Confused about facebook like I have a facebook like button on my site. Each Like button throughout the site shows about 400+ likes. When I log into facebook page, it has ...
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Is there any jquery plugin for facebook like button in a lightbox

I am trying to find a plug-in for showing like our web site on facebook message for new visitors of my web page. Is there any jquery based plugins for that ?
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Facebook sharing won't pull through ANY images anymore, [closed]

I have created a company blog and have begun implementing various social sharing plugins, had a look at integrating with OG and now Facebook won't pull any images when the page is shared. The ...
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How do you customize a Facebook like box?

I've found a few articles that allow you to customize the Facebook like box, but it's mostly just background and border color. Is there a way to customize the text color on a facebook like box? and ...
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Do I need multiple accounts in Facebook for each of my product site?

I've a dozen sites which include for-profit ones as well as for charity. For each site I've created a Facebook company/charity account. After creating those accounts it dawned on me that I could as ...
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How do we customise FB share function without affecting SEO?

FB share currently pulls the page title tag and first body text by default. However our title tags are optimised for SEO and we want to customise what people see when the website is shared. I ...
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Posting a link to our page on facebook doesn't resolve correctly within FB

We have a product page, there is a javascript popup that requires users to enter an email address to gain access. But the page behind the popup is fully rendered (for SEO value and such). ...
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300+ likes on brand new FB like button

I just added a Facebook like button to a website, and somehow it already has more than 300 likes, it's really strange because this website never had a like button on it in the past. Is there some sort ...
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Facebook Chat or Chat in site

I will put my site Facebook Chat or Normal chat for users.However, I want to believe that this will be benefical. Is there a graph for that shows it increase pageviews for sites? I really need it
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Retrieve Facebook Like count after changing URL structure for entire website

I just changed the URLs for my entire website. I have set up 301 permanent redirects for all old URLs to new URLs. Rel=canonical are set to new URLs. All Facebook Like buttons count have returned to ...
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Which forum applications can integrate with Facebook? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: What Forum Software should I use? What is the best/most compatible forum software which features almost complete integration with Facebook? The main feature I ask is ...
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Facebook Insights numbers don't add up

I'm having trouble understanding the Facebook stats for a Fan page under reach as they don't seem to add up. Under the reach tab, if I expand the countries demographics at the top, then the countries ...
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Blogger widgets speed problem [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Make blogger load faster Recently I installed Google Analytics on a Blogger account. I was shocked when I saw load times for the landing pages between 10 and 60 seconds. ...