Deciphering Facebook backlinks
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I monitor our web traffic in real time using Woopra. I often make on-the-fly decisions about which AliveChat window to activate based on the backlink. The FB backlinks are encoded with something like http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http://www.mydomain.com/&h=PAQFRib7D
Is it possible to see which FB page that link originated?
Best,
Christopher -
I'd love to hear how it works for you! Be sure to respond once you've had a chance to install it and watch a couple days worth of data.
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OK, thanks Jen, will do.
Best,
Christopher -
I'm saying, add the Facebook Insights for your website, which shows popular content and other information based on what's being shared on FB from your website as opposed to what's happening on your FB page. Then you can get that information. Check out the post I linked to which gives you instructions on setting this up.
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Hi Jen, thanks for responding. I'm probably missing some key point, but I can't seem to find what I want. Insights says quote, "Who Is Talking About Your Page". That's precisely what I want to know, but it only shows demographic charts, and does not show who is talking about my page.
I got a viral lift this week and I have no clue why. Are there features that will reveal this information, I do I just have to guess at it?
Best,
Christopher -
Hi Christopher! First off, I'm really sorry I actually thought I had responded to this a few days ago! Maybe I only responded in my head.
So, as far as I know you can't tell exactly which page it came from by the URL id. However, I wanted to ask if you have FB Insights for your site installed? You can read a bit more about it in this post: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/4-facebook-marketing-tactics-you-might-not-know-about. This might be able to get you what you want. Sadly I just went in to double check our data, but it doesn't seem to be working at the moment. I'll try to check back later though! I'd give that a shot.
Hope this helps,
Jen
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I received an unusual lift today from Facebook, but I don't know how to interpret the FB back-links so I don't know who posted something about our site. Any ideas on how to interpret FB links? I can't imagine this is a unique request, but I don't see any discussion searching with Google.
Best,
Christopher
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