Facebook continues to dominate social referrals

Facebook recently changed its News Feed algorithm in an effort to get more pages to use its visual link-share format, claiming that it’s more effective. A new report by Shareaholic, measuring social referrals, shows that the social network is right. Since September, referrals from Facebook have grown 48.85 percent, and represented 17.41 percent of all website referrals in November.

Facebook was one the biggest gainers among social media sites, along with Stumbleupon and Pinterest.

This shows that more users are clicking on stories with Facebook’s improved sharing format, placing an emphasis on big, bold images.

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