Ranking Tools: This Week in Social Media

Welcome to our weekly edition of what’s hot in social media news. To help you stay up-to-date with social media, here are some of the news items that caught our attention.
What’s New?

Multiple Google+ Page Managers Now Possible: There are a few new features on Google+ Pages including multiple admins, or page managers. You can now have up to 50 page managers for your business page. There are also notifications for page managers to stay in the loop.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=20UXgGxssAo
Learn More About Facebook Ads: After recently announcing Sponsored Stories will show up in the news feed in early 2012, Facebook published a page for learning more about Facebook Ads.

It's easy to find out how Facebook Ads work.
Here are a few social media tools worth noting:
Shareaholic’s Top Posts App: This app shows bloggers their most popular content, keywords, traffic sources and demographics for 2011 by leveraging Google Analytics. Check out the Top Posts in 2011 on Social Media Examiner:

There's an embeddable app available for wider blogs.
ZoomSphere: This nifty tool ranks the top brand pages on Google+, Facebook and Twitter.

Discover the brand pages leading on Google+.
incentiBox: This is a free community rewards program solution to allow e-commerce stores to create their own social media–based customer rewards program.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbelOd6fi8s
Frrole: This allows you to follow locally relevant social news on Twitter.

Frrole currently gives you the news from 20 cities and is expanding to 50+ in the next couple of months.
Here’s an interesting infographic:
Friends and Frenemies: Why We Add and Remove Facebook Friends:

Learn more about your Facebook friends.
And don’t miss this:
Social Media Examiner presents Small Business Success Summit 2011 (online conference). On sale for 50% off for a limited time.
Join 28 experts, including including John Jantsch (author, Duct Tape Marketing), Anita Campbell (founder, Small Business Trends), Michael Stelzner (founder, Social Media Examiner and author, Launch), Mari Smith (co-author, Facebook Marketing), Jesse Stay (author, Google+ for Dummies), Hollis Thomases (author, Twitter Marketing), David Siteman Garland (founder, “The Rise to the Top” and author, Faster, Smarter, Cheaper), Joe Pulizzi (founder, Content Marketing Institute and co-author, Get Content, Get Customers), Brian Clark (founder, Copyblogger Media), Lee Odden (founder, TopRank Online Marketing), Ramon Ray (founder, Small Biz Technology and author, Technology Solutions for Growing Businesses) and Lewis Howes (co-author, LinkedWorking)—just to mention a few (scroll down to see full list)! Go here to learn more.
What social media news caught your interest this week? Please share your comments below.

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