I know it's about as boring as anything to complain about Facebook homepage redesign, but, well, here are: complaining. This isn't a crank about how it looks different, though. We all know that there are plenty of people that will bust a gasket at any change, but my perspective is on web statistics. And if your experience is anything like mine, Facebook's new design will slice your referrals by about a quarter. Every Friday, I post my favorite song of the week on my music blog Naive Harmonies , and I used to promote it by feeding the site's RSS into Facebook. I got almost no referrals from Facebook, so a few weeks ago, I stopped the automatic posting, and instead manually posted a link. I could include a short writeup about what exactly I was posting, and I could often include a picture. The effect was dramatic. I went from one or two Facebook referrals each time to about twelve to fifteen, plus would get between four or five comments and a few likes, none of which I ...
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