Sorry. Yes, when running a CPC campaign on Facebook, you get 45% off per click if the landing page is a Facebook page. That's one good reason to have a Facebook landing page. I"m sure there are other good reasons too, like if you want them to get straight to your community engagement area.

Regarding the "likes". Go with a smaller box. The huge box that pulls in your feed plus has the people pictures gets approximately zero traction. The largest FB widget I would put on a site would be similar to the one SEOMoz has on the right.

Looking at click patterns across several properties and niches, bigger isn't better with the FB widget. It's a laughably bad black hole in the heat map, and generates an astonishing ~30-40 requests per load, slowing down the page.

Thanks! Interesting info I didn't know, will try and run some more FB campaigns to test this

I actually saw this link and thought I would share.


How to Build a Fan-Worthy Facebook Page
http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/222729

Oh hey, thanks for the link. Didn't know they lifted the 25 likes requirement before being able to claim a fan page URL.

No worries. I actualyl didn't know that you couldn't change the name after 100 likes. I had a friend who wanted to name a fb page 'SEX' and then he wanted to change the name at a later date after he had thousands of users, to a business page.

Well played Fb, well played.

If you had to choose between 2 names: example.co or example.us which is better?

Obv. bought both but wondering which should be primary? The .com and .net are squatted on so there's no competition with regard to becoming established.

Without researching, I don't think it matters.

I would go with .us

.co just seems like a misspelling of .com.

Stick to .net and .com. You're better off trying to rank a Non-EMD .com or .net

.co and .us are pretty worthless in google's eyes these days. I wouldn't waste my time with them.

You can't do private registration on a .us if that matters to you.

Always go .com IMO.

Well obviously go .com or .net, but he can't. :-/ I would rather add a hyphen or pluralize something than go with something crappy like .co or .us.

Yeah go for .com if it means compromise. Problem with getting a name.us domain is when you start getting bigger people will start typing name.com in their browser all the time.

There's a handful of non .com sites I visit, the latest being inbound.org but it took me a few goes to break the habbit of doing inbound.com, inbound.net before I remembered it was .org. I think it's pretty much always a mistake to go with a non .com (unless your a government or education place etc)

I still regularly type in apple.co.uk never understood why apple havent purchased TLDs for each country... especially given how much they spend on icloud.com

Quick question. I have a bunch of domains I use for my private back link network (see my previous post). After the recent PR update I am wondering if some of my sites would have more value if I sold them for their name. As an example I own appledeals (dot) net. Does this domain have any inherent value based on name and age alone? Should I try to sell it? It is only a PR1 so it doesn't have much value to me. And just to clarify I am talking about the value of the domain and not the site. Its a bunch of nonsense content wise right now.