Asia Became The 2nd Largest Continent On Facebook!
67 Shares
Socialbakers
Staff Writer
Published:
28 Jun 2012
Views:
6561
Statistics
facebook
facebook stats
Pinterest
Facebook
Asia Became The 2nd Largest Continent On Facebook! image
Facebook is changing its global face! Don’t miss the greatest milestones brought to you by Socialbakers Facebook statistics!
North America used to be the largest Facebook continent. It´s only a couple of months ago since the countries of the oldest continent increased their speed of Facebook adoption and moved Europe to the fist place, where it remains until today.
North America Dropped to Number 3
Recently, Asia, the most populated continent yet still quite neglected by Facebook, made its way to the top. Only a couple of days ago, Asia gained 5 million new users and surpassed its rival continent – North America. With more than 229 million users, fast growth and only 6% of online penetration, Facebook is showing its rising strength and popularity in the Asian continent.
Pinterest
Facebook
continents 28.6.
Statistics as of June 28th 2012
Pinterest
Facebook
continents 18.6.2012
Statistics as of June 18th 2012
India is Asia’s Number 1
According to our Facebook country statistics, India remains Asia’s flagship country. With almost 50 million users and a 20% steady increase, this country is a perfect demonstration of Facebook’s potential in Asia. It´s followed by Indonesia, the Philippines and Thailand – social countries with promising online user penetration growth. For more statistics, visit our daily updated section of Countries on Facebook.
Pinterest
Facebook
asian countries
P.S.: Don´t forget to save the date for the upcoming Engage 2012 event taking place October 23rd in New York City! Find out more here.
How Social Media Can Boost your SEO: The Organic Factor
Steve Hall • June 22, 2016 • 0 Comment
0
FLARES Twitter 0Facebook 0Buffer 0BufferGoogle+ 0LinkedIn 0
inShare
boost-your-SEO
It is a common misconception that your social media networking efforts won’t affect your search rankings. The misunderstanding occurred when Matt Cutts, the former head of the spam team at Google, stated that the Facebook likes and Twitter followers do not affect the search algorithm and search rankings.
In reality, although it is evident that there is no direct correlation between your social media popularity and the very search algorithm; signals of your popularity (brand mentions, shares) are resonating through multiple different channels, and those channels affect your rankings significantly.
Not only that, but you can also use your social media impact in order to affect your SERP status directly. That is a common practice, and there is even a possibility that you are doing this already, not knowingly.
Keep reading to find out how your social media networking can affect your SEO, and how you can use this to your advantage. But first, let’s explain why you shouldn’t worry that much about your SEO if you have a well-developed social media marketing strategy.
Social Media vs Website Conversions
First of all, it is not unusual to have a social media profile ranking higher in the search than the official website. In fact, a lot of small businesses are focused on social media metrics, primarily because Facebook shares bring much more conversions than your average blog conversion rate (1.4%).
Facebook is actually the most lucrative platform when we are discussing conversions. In average, conversions on Facebook add up to 1.85%. When compared to Twitter (0.8%) and LinkedIn (0.4%) average conversion rates, it is understandable why businesses prefer spreading brand awareness through Facebook.
Why is this so? Well, perhaps it has something to do with the human factor and its impact on conversions. However, your Search Engine Optimization will still remain important, and SEM will still continue to present one of the dominant channels that can connect you to your audience (there are 40.000 searches happening this very second).
Link Building & Social Media
The Value of No-follow Vs Do-follow Links
Building links has always been a reliable way to establish your presence online. If you can find relevant sources to link back to your website, and build those type of links (do follow links) on the regular – you will have no problem with staying on top of your SEM game. Since gaining these type of links is extremely beneficial for the overall rankings of your website, getting these type of backlinks has become an extremely difficult undertaking as well.
For example, all social media links are “no follow” links, and while their counterparts refer search engine crawlers from one website to the other, and boost your rankings in the very algorithm, the “no follow” type of links are purely organic. Which doesn’t necessarily mean that they are not valuable, on the contrary, organic links are more conversion friendly in general.
So, when you are posting your blog content on your social media networks, concentrate on the headline, on the quality of the content that you are publishing, and make sure to monitor your click through rate.
Link Prospecting through Social Media
Social media networks present an inseparable aspect of every link building process. The fact is that most business owners won’t check domain authority status, or search rankings at all, when they are evaluating opportunities for cross promotions and backlinks. Instead, they are focused on the organic reach of their efforts: number of followers, average shares, and audience reach in general.
On the other hand, platforms like Twitter can also be a very rewarding tool for finding new websites and companies for your off-site SEO efforts. Utilizing search preferences of your social media platforms can help you gain new opportunities.
There are a few services that actually employ and integrate various social media metrics in order to find valuable prospects, like this link prospecting tool developed by Four Dots, and using them can save you hours, if not days of research. Especially if you are operating within a competitive market and there are literally thousands of websites that you should go through in order to gain valuable link building opportunities.
Facebook Contest Campaign as a Link Building Hack
Social contest campaigns are great for generating buzz and driving traffic to your business. They are great for gaining actual leads, getting new email signups and they are an absolute champion when it comes to social media engagement. Getting new email leads is reason enough for every business to invest in a social contest, with email conversion rates variating from 2% to 12% in average.
But, apart from that signup form, maybe you could try and add an entry in your contest that can actually benefit your SEO directly. If you encourage people to link back to you from their websites in order to gain bonus points, or similar prizes in your contest campaign, you will automatically receive their link juice as well, with hardly any actual effort invested at all.
This will affect your domain authority, your rankings, and can be a serious boost in your SEM since you will gain links from your audience, which is usually the most relevant source that you can find. Not to mention that if your contest generates enough buzz, people will link back to you from their websites on their own initiative as well.
Brand Awareness
At the very end, Social Media is the main channel that can help you raise brand awareness. If you are gaining followers and shares, and you are pushing your brand on the market, people will start searching for your business online.
Raising brand awareness will definitely help you with gaining valuable leads, and when people start looking for your services and products online, and they reach your website and find what they need – that is the most valuable signal that you can send to a search engine, and will certainly help your SEO and your SEM.
Remember that both SMM and SEO are all concentrated on the end user, and your vital factor that can make or break your business will always remain the same: it is your organic traffic.
This article was originally written by Nate Vickery for the Heyo blog.
0
FLARES Twitter 0Facebook 0Buffer 0BufferGoogle+ 0LinkedIn 0
inShare
Overview Social Promotions Facebook Twitter / Vine Web Mobile Instagram Pinterest Video Photo
Copyright © 2015 Binkd
:)
by ARJUN WALIA
Source: Collective Evolution
DNA is fascinating, and we stand to learn so much about who we are, where we came from, and what we are capable of (biologically speaking) from its study. Our capabilities in particular have yet to be studied in-depth by the mainstream scientific community. Yet the study of phenomena like the placebo effect, distant healing, telepathy, and the physical impacts of human intention, not to mention the Mind-Body connection, has yielded statistically significant results which have been available in ‘reputable peer reviewed journals’ for decades.
How does this relate to DNA? Well, there are many codes in our DNA that scientists have yet to crack. Parts of our DNA, for example have no known biological function, or at least we have yet to discover them. Maybe they have spiritual applications, or are connected to the non-physical realm in some way. These seemingly useless DNA are referred to as ‘Junk DNA,’ or ‘non-coding DNA.’ But we are learning more about them each day, as Scientific American reports, so the label isn’t entirely accurate. We may think we know a lot, but the things we think we know and hold to be true are always changing. Science was no less valid to us 50 years ago than it is today, but theories have changed because we have learned more. And our knowledge of DNA has just changed again, as physicists have confirmed that there is a second layer of information hidden in our DNA, meaning that there is more than one way that DNA mutations can affect us.
The way DNA folds plays a role in controlling which genes are expressed inside of our bodies. When it comes to biology, we’re taught that DNA ‘makes us who we are’ through a sequence of letters. These codes would then determine which proteins to make in order to produce the necessary result. For example, there is a code for a protein that will make your skin brown, or your eyes dark, etc. All of this is determined by the way DNA is folded. Since the DNA in our body is extremely long, spanning a length of up to two metres, it has to be wrapped and folded in a certain way to fit inside of our bodies. Scientists have known for a long time that the way it is wrapped and folded determines what proteins are expressed. Right now, biologists are currently working on isolating mechanical cues that determine how DNA is folded, which is influenced by a number of environmental factors, and other concepts like epigenetics. Even the way we think and perceive the environment, how feel, and what we believe can shape our DNA.
Some of these mechanical cues have been identified by a group of scientists at Leiden University in the Netherlands. Led by Helmut Schiessel, they were, as Science Alert explains, “able to show that these cues affected how the DNA was folded and which proteins are expressed – further evidence that the mechanics of DNA are written into our DNA, and they’re just as important in our evolution as the code itself.”
The discovery suggests that one day, we may be able to manipulate the mechanisms that determine the way DNA is folded in order to hide certain genes that produce deadly disease.
YOU CAN ACCESS THE STUDY HERE. Is The Genetic ‘Tweaking’ Of Humans On Its Way/Already Here?
Genetic manipulation is already occurring, and in fact we recently published an article about the first human being to have their DNA manipulated to make their white blood cells 20 years younger (you can read more about that here). And all my research into black budget programs suggests that human genetic engineering is already happening to further militaristic agendas. The evidence for the existence of multiple super soldier programs and other, equally frightening projects is compelling, but that’s a discussion for another article, as is the black budget topic that’s linked above.
Today, it’s hard to know what’s real and what’s not, and it’s unfortunate that it takes a mainstream media outlet to acknowledge something before the masses consider it to be real. That’s a tremendous amount of power to hold, and we know the media has been corrupted by financial, corporate and other elitist agendas. (This is a much broader topic than I wish to address in this article, however; you can learn more about it in this article we published on the it.)
It really is fascinating to imagine what we may be capable of. Perhaps one day we will eradicate all disease by learning how to manipulate our genetics, turning certain genes on and others off, even discovering new ones. What if there is already an intelligent extraterrestrial civilization out there somewhere in the universe which has learned to tweak their DNA so they can live for hundreds of years? The future of genetic manipulation holds endless possibilities, and while many people worry about the consequences of us playing God, I argue that perhaps these types of discoveries were just waiting there for us to stumble upon, and our natural progression toward these discoveries was all part of ‘the plan,’ if there is one. Perhaps we create it ourselves.
One thing is for certain though — as with any new discovery, it does not matter what we find or what technology we develop, it’s the consciousness and intention behind how we use this knowledge that matters. Our history of innovation has been consistently marred by violence and the misuse of power, so I can only hope we are approaching a more peaceful era at this stage of our development.
Sources used not listed within article:
http://phys.org/news/2016-06-layer-dna.html Aaron L Meileiac via Google+2 days ago - Shared publicly
PHYSICISTS DISCOVER A SECOND LAYER OF INFORMATION HIDDEN IN OUR DNA
by ARJUN WALIA Source: Collective Evolution DNA is fascinating, and we stand to learn so much about who we are, where we came from, and what we are capable of (biologically speaking) from its study. Our capabilities in particular have yet to be studied in-...
