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Ah ! Good tip ! Thanks but in this case the brand is actually unheard of since brand new b2b biz being launched into Turkey so no brand related kw search volume yet. Hence i will use Turkish language of brand name and hyphenate.

Thanks again and have a top weekend !!

HI Dimitri

yes i have also tried firefox and same issue , the loading box pops up and swirls around a bit (to indicate a dialogue box is about to load) but then just disapears.

I presume if pop ups were not enabled the dialogue box would not even begin to load ?

cheers

dah

Hi

Im trying to use the invite friends feature on Facebook pages to send a page invite to some email contacts, as per #3 in this SME recent post of FB tips: http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/five-lesser-known-facebook-page-features-for-marketers

However whenever i click the 'invite friends' option the dialogue box swirls for a bit then disapears and nothing whatsoever happens, not just not being able to see invite email options but nothing at all happens, the loading box just disapears.

Does anyone know if this is a current know issue bug or other way of doing this so it works ? (I have tried on 3 different pages)

Many Thanks

Dan

Hi Kate

That's great thanks so much for confirming

Yes i have asked client if they can get a Turkish speaker/assistant etc there to edit the Turkish home page content and make it more 'social' for facebook users.

Cool re mission etc makes sense, but guess if they do a good job of the long descrip can copy and paste the appropriate sections of that into those.

Re vanity url - thankfully the brand name includes primary target kw i.e. 'Franks Leisure Centers' so for example will change Turkish FB page name & vanity url to: 'Franks Eğlence Merkezleri' (Which is Turkish for 'Leisure Centers'), make sense ? Do you think should still add 'Turkey' to end though ?

One final question re URL - whats best practice for FB urls, to hyphenate or not ? So /Franks-Eğlence-Merkezleri/ or /FranksEğlenceMerkezleri/ I presume same as any other url which is to hyphenate ? I understand some peeps recommend not so its easy to describe to people what your FB page address is but ive never ever heard of anyone asking anyone else what their FB page url is and presume best to concentrate on best practice urls structure as one would for a website (& hyphenate) ?

Sorry for more questions and thanks for all your great help !

All Best
Dan

Thanks Deacyde,

I agree with you that scheduling is better but is it better to schedule via Facebook scheduler or a 3rd party tool, does the 3rd party posts have reduced reach as compared to scheduled posts via FB own tool. (As i have heard they do)

I will be scheduling one way or the other, and ideally using Buffer etc since already set up but i thought i would review the current landscape of opinion regarding this matter before proceeding. If 3rd party posts have reduced reach i will likely use FB instead, since with FB organic reach dropping all the time anyway we obviously all want as much of what little organic reach remains

Opinions of others still definately welcome ?

All Best

Dan

Great thanks for commenting Thomas !

Anyone else out there experienced similar (or not) ?

All Best

Dan

Hi,

Does anyone know latest up to date info re potential downside of using 3rd party social posting tools (such as Buffer and Hootsuite etc) in regard to reduced post reach ?

I remember hearing a while back that some independent marketing labs/testers had established that auto-posting from 3rd party tools did result in much reduced reach for those posts.

Can anyone confirm if this is definately the case or not ? If so i take it one should use FB own post scheduling features ?

All Best

Dan

Hi,

Im just setting up a FB fan page for a client

How terrible is it to use clients websites home page descriptive copy as the Facebook page long description ? Language is in Turkish which i don't speak so i'm not able to edit a new version of it just for FB and no budget to hire Turkish speaker to come up with something. So was going to copy & paste but that would be duplicate with HP obviously.

How important is it to fill in 'Mission Statement' & 'General About' ? Especially if long description likely to already include that info ? I think long descrip is important for FB pages on seo etc etc but a good one eliminates importance of 'Mission' & 'General About', or is it still advisable to fill these in or are they just extra boxes for flexibility ?

I take it when it comes to securing a vanity url (once we hit 25+ fans) for a foreign language version FB page it should ideally be brand name (which includes a keyword) in the local/target language ?

The page name is already the brand name in English but since contains keyword is it best to rename into local target language similarly to the url for consistency and local targeting or better to keep one in Turkish and one in English ?

Many Thanks

Dan

Just in case anyone's reading this or generally interested since may have encountered same issues, for the account in question this now seems to be resolved

Just found out this a known issue !

C'mon Google pull your finger out you should have notices over Search Console where its a known issue so we don't spend so much time trying to try and fix something that's not broken!!!

Hi

I've just done my usual Monday morning review of clients Google Search Console (previously Webmaster Tools) dashboard and disturbed to see that for 1 client the Site Map section is reporting 95 pages submitted yet only 2 indexed (last time i looked last week it was reporting an expected level of indexed pages) here. It says the sitemap was submitted on the 10th March and processed yesterday. However in the 'Index Status' its showing a graph of growing indexed pages up to & including yesterday where they numbered 112 (so looks like all pages are indexed after all). Also the 'Crawl Stats' section is showing 186 pages crawled on the 26th.

Then its listing sub site-maps all of which are non HTTPS (http) which seems very strange since the site is HTTPS and has been for a few months now and the main sitemap index url is an HTTPS: https://www.domain.com/sitemap_index.xml The sub sitemaps are:http://www.domain.com/marketing-sitemap.xmlhttp://www.domain.com/page-sitemap.xmlhttp://www.domain.com/post-sitemap.xmlThere are no 'Sitemap Errors' reported but there are 'Index Error' warnings for the above post-sitemap, copied below:_"When we tested a sample of the URLs from your Sitemap, we found that some of the URLs were unreachable. Please check your webserver for possible misconfiguration, as these errors may be caused by a server error (such as a 5xx error) or a network error between Googlebot and your server. All reachable URLs will still be submitted." _ 
Also for the below site map URL's: "Some URLs listed in this Sitemap have a high response time. This may indicate a problem with your server or with the content of the page" for:http://domain.com/en/post-sitemap.xmlANDhttp**s**://www.domain.com/page-sitemap.xmlAND https://www.domain.com/post-sitemap.xmlI take it from all the above that the HTTPS sitemap is mainly fine and despite the reported 0 pages indexed in GSC sitemap section that they are in fact indexed as per the main 'Index Status' graph and that somehow some HTTP sitemap elements have been accidentally attached to the main HTTPS sitemap and the are causing these problems.What's best way forward to clean up this mess ? Resubmitting the HTTPS site map sounds like right option but seeing as the master url indexed is an https url cant see it making any difference until the http aspects are deleted/removed but how do you do that or even check that's what's needed ?  Or should Google just sort this out eventually ? I see the graph in 'Crawl > Sitemaps >  WebPages' is showing a consistent blue line of submitted pages but the red line of indexed pages drops to 0 for 3 - 5 days every 5 days or so. So fully indexed pages being reported for 5 day stretches then zero for a few days then indexed for another 5 days and so on ! ? Many ThanksDan

Hi Dirk

I sure did and thank you both for your help

All Best

Dan

Great thanks for confirming that Andy !

Many Thanks

Dan

Cool thanks for confirming that Andy!

They also offer a premium listing so i presume those ones may be perceived as paid links and potentially be risky if done the same way ?

All Best

Dan

Thanks Dirk

If so then that should be fine for an unpaid listing but they also offer a premium listing so i presume those ones may be perceived as paid links and potentially be risky ?

All BEst

Dan

Hi,

Im creating some listings for a client on a relevant b2b directory (a good quality directory)

I asked if the links are 'followed' or no 'followed' and they said they are 'server side redirects' so no direct links.

Does anyone know how these are likely to be perceived by Google ?

All BEst

Dan

Brilliant ! thanks so much for all that great info i really appreciate it !!

However the Mozbar highlighting doesn't have an effect on links in graphics like banners etc, only on text type links etc as far as i can see. Am i missing something here ?

All Best

Dan

Hi Clever PHD dont spose you can advise in regard to my last question (or anyone else in MOz team) ....That Moz bar can look at elements beyond the page level so i can determine if banner ads on a page have been 'no followed' ?

Also if these links are showing up in GWT/Search console does that mean that they are 'followed' or does search console show all links it finds ?

Cheers

dan

Which bit of it will ? thought MOzbar just looks at the page (rather than specific elements of it, like a banner ad) ?

cheers

dan

any tips for quickly checking if an ad has a 'no follow' on its link i.e. a browser based tool etc ?

much appreciated !

all best

dan