It's a fact: Most publishers rely on Facebook for a significant portion of their referral traffic. As such, they watch carefully as Facebook makes decisions about what kind of content to prioritize in the all-important News Feed product that is at the center of the social network.On Wednesday, Facebook announced a big change, intended to prioritize content from the friends and family of users in the News Feed, likely to the detriment of news article links from publishers.Facebook announced a similar change to its algorithm in April 2015, but, engineering director Lars Backstrom wrote in a blog post, the company seemingly didn't go quite far enough. Continue reading at AdAge.com Continue reading at 'Advertising Age'
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When it comes to referral traffic from social networks, there's Facebook and Pinterest — and then there's everyone else. Facebook accounted for more than 10% of overall traffic to publishers in September, by ... Continue reading at Editor & Publisher
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