Traffic analytics firm Parse.ly recently published data that shows more traffic to news and media sites is now driven by Facebook than Google, see the chart below. It appears that people are finding content in their Facebook feed and clicking through to articles directly from their feeds.
“Anyone who works for a major news website or publisher knows that social referrals—that is, links that are shared on social networks such as Facebook and Twitter—have become a crucial source of incoming traffic, and have been vying with search as a source of new readers for some time. ” forbes.com
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