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Social media marketing for businesses differs from one network to the next

02/18/201302/16/2013 Jorge Gonzalez

Many companies are asking themselves which is best for their own results. Though Facebook is holding its top place well ahead in the social media marketing environment, Google+ recently overtook Twitter for the second place, causing many to wonder if positions will continue to change over the next little while. It is also causing businesses to take a second look at Google+, which has been underestimated for a while. Small businesses, especially, are beginning to discover that there are some considerable advantages to social media marketing using Google+ instead of…

Social media marketing war between Facebook and Google heats up

01/21/201304/13/2014 Jennifer Goula

Google CEO takes aim at product line from Facebook and blasts its quality levels. According to Larry Page, the chief executive officer at Google, Facebook doesn’t know what it’s doing when it attempts to create a quality social media marketing product that is up to the standards of the best in the industry. Page recently opened up in an interview about his opinions regarding the problems at Facebook. He shared what he felt were some of the problems that he had seen at the most popular social network in the…

The gloves come off in 2012 for Facebook and Google

01/02/201201/02/2012 L. Green

In 2012, analysts are anticipating that Google will be making some significant efforts – far more critical than have been seen until now – to up the popularity of Google+ and become a serious competition for Facebook, which currently holds the leader in the social network market. Google, which holds the position of the largest internet company in the world, still has yet to come near Facebook’s top spot as the largest social network. Next year will have them battling each other head-to-head on a much more regular basis, and…

Rapidly changing Facebook likely has nothing to do with Google+

09/26/201109/26/2011 Jennifer Goula

The fact that Facebook users have been inundated with new features, layouts and other changes to the social networking platform and are becoming rather fatigued with the lack of consistency would make many suspect that it Google+ would benefit, but experts are saying that this is not the case. Over the last three months, there have been at least 14 new official features added to Facebook, including a new photo viewer, video chats, comments features, and an overhaul to the news feed. This wasn’t long after the photo facial recognition…

Google+ will likely be unaffected by new privacy features by Facebook

08/27/201108/27/2011 Stephanie Beck

Though Facebook’s members will certainly be pleased with the increase in the number of privacy controls that have now been made available to them by the social networking platform, most experts are agreeing that this likely won’t have any direct effect on the popularity of Google+. At the very heart of the social network run by Google is the ability of its users to have a direct control over who will be able to see the various elements of their profiles. The “social circles” feature of Google+ allows users to…