Just looking to build a list of the top New Zealand facebook pages by fan count. It’s somewhat of a manual task, so feel free to leave a comment with ones you think should be on the list.

I’ll start with these ones:

• NZ Herald 58,000 fans
• Stuff 51,000 fans
• All Blacks 561,000 fans!
• All Whites 129,000 fans
• Air New Zealand 50,000 fans
• Gotta Love NZ 94,000 fans
• I Love NZ 136,000 fans
• 100% Pure New Zealand 259,000 fans

These fan number are as at 30/10/2010.

Do you know of any others with decent fan numbers?

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Well these guys have come up with a way to do so…
Google Analytics for Facebook Fan Pages by Webdigi.co.uk

It’s a simple configuration.

1. Setup Google Analytics account. If you already have one, create a new website profile. You can name it facebook.com or facebook.com/your_page_name. You will finally get your tracking code which looks like this UA-3123123-2
2. Create your custom img tag for each of your pages you like to track. EG: contact form, services, products etc. Get this by creating a custom image link
3. Add the entire custom image html tag from step 2 to the bottom of each Facebook fan page that you need to track.

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While in the sandbox, the caffeine update rarely effected rankings. It was more about the speed of which the results would get returned and the number of pages that it would return.

Since this update has made its way into main search about the only thing noticeable is when looking at the number of pages indexed through doing a site:example.com search. This has stepped up across a number of sites. Seeing jumps in pages returned like:

Pages Indexed on sella.co.nz

Before this update, combining the number of pages indexed to the amount of search engine reach.  This gave a quick overview of how well indexed a site is. When dealing with a large site this is critical.

The information on Google is very basic, there’s no movie description, trailers or reviews.  I’ll be sticking with Flicks for now. Check out their movie trailers, movie reviews and competitions.

In reply to this, twitter kicked into life:

Will this rock the reliance on such a giant?
Somehow I don’t think so. Picture if Google had an outage for a few hours. Would people stop using it? Probably not.

However in recent weeks sella.co.nz has increased their presence by partnering up as an online auction component for the Big Night In telethon. What’s the chances of sella picking up some of these disgruntled trademe users?

What’s your thoughts?

Anyway like the early days of 1-day, 3deals has fallen short. Either the servers not responding and dishing up a 404 error page or the page is not there so returning a 404. 

Things you should do:

1. Make sure you can handle the influx of traffic. Majority of it is going to hit straight away
2. Make sure your site works!

BTW: Awesome thanks, now that the site loaded, i’ve missed out on getting an iPod for $1. Hopefully the site holds up better tomorrow.

Tracking Code Implementation

Firstly, implement the event tracking code on events within you site. When deciding on what actions to track, the skys the limit. From tracking lightbox triggers, external links and actions within a flash file. Event tracking can be made to fit a number of required tracking metrics.

Now To view the reporting here’s what you need to do: 

1.  Login to analytics and view the dashboard of the account that you want to view the event reports on
2. View a specific report, such as the “traffic source” report
3. Modifying the start of the url to: https://www.google.com/analytics/reporting/events followed by the string of variables. As below:

now you can view all the tracked events…

The aim now is to include archiving of:

• Rankings in search results
• Number of pages indexed in the different search engines
• Google Page Rank
• Back link numbers from Google and Yahoo!

Might also look at lower quality metrics such as alexa ranking.

Is there anything you’d recommend archiving?