Facebook Competitors watch

Facebook 'pages to watch' update has been an option for sometime now.

Social Media has always been one of the easiest options to track your competitors. Facebook has made it even easier with it's 'Pages to watch' option.

Facebook Pages to watch helps you monitor five of other Facebook pages, wherein you can add your competitor pages. If yourself have multiple pages, you can compare them and know what works and what doesn't work.

This is has not been rolled out publicly. It has been understood that you will have access to it if someone adds your page to the watch list. It is also noted that the business who's watching your page will be known to you.

Haven't you got access to it yet? Share your experience and throw us some light as comments below...

Facebook Enhancement - Reply option to comments

Facebook has updated an option to reply for comments. Facebook pages now can reply to a comment(directly) posted on their page and other pages.

The person/page, for whom the reply has been posted, will be notified on the reply. It should be available for most of the pages by default.

Read through the post by Vadim Lavrusik, Journalism Program Manager on  Facebook + Journalists

Improving Conversations on Facebook with Replies

Check the enhancement yourself and post your comments below.

Facebook like a page and similar page list

Facebook might not broadcast all the features they update. It has become our responsibility(as a community) to keep people and businesses updated on the new enhancements.

Here is a recent update rolled out by Facebook.

Facebook similar page list for liking a page:

If you go to a page and like it, you will be listed with a suggested list of pages to like it. Check the screenshot below.

This is for the Facebook users to know.

For Businesses, you now have the option to control whether or not your business/brand page should be available on anyone's suggestion list.

This has been newly introduced in the Settings tab of your page's admin options. Would you like change similar Page suggestions for your page?

1. 
   While on the page that you manage, click 'Edit Page' on the top


2. 
   Click 'Manage Notifications' and the first option is what you need to change and don't forget to 'Save Changes'

 

Check the change and let us know below in the comments how you like it...

Facebook Updates - Post privacy gating

On the previous post, we discussed on the recent Facebook Updates.

Now, let us explain in detail on how to apply/make use of these changes, as we did for ‘Tagging Ability’ in the earlier post.

What is ‘Post privacy gating’?

With this option, you can choose a targeted audience every time you post an update on your Facebook Page. Nobody outside of the target audience will be able to see the posts.

You can target your audience based on :



Do not forget that the earlier option for selecting target based on Location and  Language is still available as of now.

However, the difference with the new option is that the post will be seen in your page timeline as usual by Public. You can hide it from the page for the public to see it, if you want to.

Where is it and how it works?

• Log in to your Admin Facebook profile


• Go to the page’s ‘Manage Permissions’ admin page/option


• You can see the option ‘Post privacy gating’
  
  


• Check the option and ‘Save Changes’


• Come back to the page (for which the change was made) and on the status update box you can see the changes.


• Click ‘Add Targeting’ and select your Target before posting your update

Check on the help video below.

Try this option and post your experiences below.

Stay tuned with SocialNetGate to know more on the other recent Facebook Updates.

Facebook Updates

Facebook has been constantly in the verge of making changes and adding new features to their social media platform. Here are some of the recent changes that might not be well noticed by all. Knowing on these features could make your effort to reach your fans/followers will be great.

Additional Permissions

Tagging Ability:

People can tag photos posted by your Facebook page

You can enable the option to allow photo tagging for photos uploaded to your Page by following these instructions:

1.     At the top of your Page, click Edit Page

2.     Select Manage Permissions

3.     Check the box labeled People can tag photos posted by [your Page name]

Check this on Facebook Help Center

Post privacy gating:

Byenabling the Post privacy gating Settings, you can choose a targeted audience every time you post an update on your Page. Nobody outside of the target audience will be able to see the posts.

However, the post will be seen in your page timeline as usual.

Changes on Facebook Page Notifications

Facebook has rolled out a new feature for users to opt in to receive notifications every time a page makes a post.

If you like a page and enable 'Get Notifications', you will receive a notification similar to friends posts/messages on your Notifications Inbox.

Show in News Feed

If this option is enabled, the posts by the pages you like will be listed on your 'News Feed'

Facebook Questions Feature

Questions feature is not available for profiles now. Whereas it is available for FB pages still. Click the + sign next to Offer, Event on the page you admin to explore the Questions feature.

 

Post any updates that you have noticed as comments below.

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Facebook Pages update

Facebook is trying to make the options that are used to manage Facebook pages are as effective as possible.

Here's an update from facebook that may affect how you connect with your audience:
Improvements to Insights: You'll now see a new public metric called People Talking About This underneath your fan count to show the number of people on Facebook who have engaged with your page in the last 7 days. Learn more in your Page Insights (Insights are only available to pages which are liked by at least 30 people.)

Discussions: The best way to encourage conversation and feedback is through posts and comments on your Wall. To focus on this, facebook will be removing the Discussions app on October 31st. Learn More about this from Facebook Help Center comments

Check Facebook blog for more updates.

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