PageWise Social Media

22/03/2018

These days, a lot of people are wondering how to download their Facebook data. Log onto Facebook on a PC and you'll find the option under Settings/General. The option doesn't seem to be available on an android phone. (Hmmm, why not, Mr Zuckerberg??)

09/01/2017

How about letting us REALLY take control of our newsfeed? Are you listening, Mr Zuckerberg??? Helloooo ???

26/04/2015

What you need to know about Facebook's new algorithm:

Facebook is constantly evaluating what’s the right mix of content in News Feed and we want to let you know about a change that may affect referral traffic for publishers. Referral traffic to media publishers from Facebook has more than...

26/04/2015

If you depend on Google to bring traffic to your website, you need to know about Google's new update, which penalises sites that aren't "mobile friendly" in their search rankings. If you have been putting off making your website mobile friendly, now is the time to take action!

Looking at the early impact of Mobilegeddon this post analyzes what's happening and what this means for both mobile and desktop SERPs.

08/04/2015

Here are some excellent tips on using Google to search like a pro. Very useful to test how your site is (or isn't) ranking in the search engine.

Have you ever used search operators in Google? We use these a lot when analyzing a website. Find out more on our website!

12/03/2015

It's important to remember that you can never be absolutely certain that stranger won't see your posts to Facebook - no matter how carefully you have set your privacy settings. This article is a reminder of some of the things you shouldn't post to Facebook at all, ever.

For the sake of the safety of you and your family, there is some information that you should never post on Facebook. Here are 5 things you should consider removing or not posting to Facebook and/or other social networks.

29/01/2015

Google is now helping mobile users to find sites that are easy for them to read and navigate on their small screens. Search results on a mobile phone will have the label "Mobile-Friendly" added to websites that meet their criteria. (big enough text, responsive screen width, etc). They have even provided an online tool that you can use to test any website.

23/10/2014

Interesting new notification from Facebook, showing the number of "new views" a page has received. Do you think this will be useful?

15/10/2014

A useful reminder of how to block some of the trivial nonsense that Facebook serves up..

Are you tired of constant game requests to play Candy Crush Saga? Here's how to silence these notifications and live a cleaner Facebook life.

27/09/2014

Have you been mystified by the text and images that Facebook displays when you include links in your posts? Well here's how you can control what appears in Facebook when you share a link from your own Wordpress site:

Have you ever wondered why some web pages have well-designed images and description when their links are shared on Facebook? The truth is that you can control what users see when your link is shared. Enter Facebook Open Graph Facebook Open Graph is not new, but some small business owners and socia…

29/08/2014

Google has scrapped the "authorship" feature which lists the author of a webpage in search results. This is more than a little annoying for those of use who invested a lot of time and effort to set it up for our websites, but what can we do ....

Google has officially dropped authorship bylines from within the search results. In addition, Google will stop tracking content written by authors as tied

25/08/2014

Facebook has tweaked its algorithm to give preference to posts that use Facebook's built-in Link format (like this post does) as opposed to posts that put a url in as the caption to a photograph. (as in the example below). So, if you had been doing this to take advantage of the higher ranking given to Photo posts, you may have to change your strategy to get the maximum reach.

Tired of shady techniques used by publishers to get you to click? So is Facebook. The company announced Monday that it is battling click-baiting by punishing pages who use this tactic to get traffic to the website.