{"id":165,"date":"2010-03-18T18:03:47","date_gmt":"2010-03-19T04:03:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pananadesign.com\/blog\/?p=165"},"modified":"2020-04-15T16:08:57","modified_gmt":"2020-04-16T02:08:57","slug":"facebook-beats-google-whats-that-mean-for-your-seosem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pananadesign.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/18\/facebook-beats-google-whats-that-mean-for-your-seosem\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook Beats Google &#8211; What&#8217;s That Mean for Your SEO\/SEM?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As you may have read, Facebok just passed Google as the #1 Visited Site on the Web. That&#8217;s big news. But what does it mean for your Internet Marketing &amp; SEO? Your strategy has to change, right? Yes &amp; No.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, it does raise Facebook&#8217;s importance to even greater heights than before. It means more business will be, and should be, trying out Facebook&#8217;s advertising program. Going where the eyeballs are is always a good strategy. But what about our SEO and search engine marketing efforts, including PPC?<\/p>\n<p>Facebook&#8217;s win shouldn&#8217;t change that at all, at least for now. When people go to Google they&#8217;re actively looking for a product or service. It&#8217;s still an incredible system that gets you in front of real prospects. If you&#8217;re doing it right.<\/p>\n<p>The Facebook visitor is, by definition, a lesser prospect. Their main intent is to connect with friends, play some games, upload photos from a trip. They&#8217;re not in the frame of mind of someone who&#8217;s ready to buy.<\/p>\n<p>Is there still a lot of potential to marketing and advertising on Facebook? Absolutely. But it&#8217;s not a replacement of AdWords or Google rankings. It&#8217;s another avenue that should be pursued, though. It just might be a very lucrative one, but don&#8217;t expect it to replace Google for getting customers through you door.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As you may have read, Facebok just passed Google as the #1 Visited Site on the Web. That&#8217;s big news. But what does it mean for your Internet Marketing &amp; SEO? Your strategy has to change, right? Yes &amp; No. Yes, it does raise Facebook&#8217;s importance to even greater heights than before. It means more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[13,53,65,54,38,39,12,59],"tags":[],"content_audit":[110,105,111,112],"class_list":["post-165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-google","category-google-adwords","category-internet-marketing","category-pay-per-click-ppc-or-paid-search","category-search-engine-marketing","category-search-engine-news","category-seo","category-web-20","content_audit-audited","content_audit-outdated","content_audit-redirect-to-better-post","content_audit-refresh"],"modified_by":"Jonathan Cook","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pananadesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pananadesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pananadesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pananadesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pananadesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.pananadesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":166,"href":"https:\/\/www.pananadesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165\/revisions\/166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pananadesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pananadesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pananadesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165"},{"taxonomy":"content_audit","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pananadesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content_audit?post=165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}