Over the past year, we have been gathering feedback from marketers about our ads products. One point we heard loud and clear is that we need to simplify our product offering. As the services we provide to marketers have grown, so have our new products; while each product may be good on its own, we realized that many of them accomplish the same goals

Facebook is known more for it 'social' aspect rather than the business angle. However this is fast changing as Facebook is becoming a detrimental business tool for  conducting online business.

Keeping in line the eCommerce business operations, the social networking giant, announced on Thursday that it will be simplifying its ad marketing options for marketers.

This is a Guest Post by Craig Kilgore. Craig is an SEO with Mainstreethost. Craig has been practicing SEO for roughly 5 years with Mainstreethost. You can follow him on Twitter @ckilgs or contact him via email at ckilgore@mainstreethost.com.

If you use Facebook, you might be familiar with “sponsored stories” showing up in the right hand column of your news feed. Sponsored stories can include information from pages you like, stuff that your friends like, check-ins and a number of other things. Facebook is making some changes to how they display these sponsored stories (surprise!) going forward into 2012.

Facebook says this: