Comments on: Using Facebook Pages to Promote Your Blog

By: Celeb News

Celeb News — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 20:51:21 +0000

I have tried using Facebook, but it just wasn’t my style. I am more of a Youtube and Google SEO guy. I think the other stuff is kind of a waste of time. But that’s me. I know it works for some people… it just depends upon the person.

By: Bill Dixon

Bill Dixon — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 16:01:39 +0000

Great article. I will start implementing this strategy A.S.A.P.
Also…keywords DO make a big difference in the “search” option so choose your keywords carefully.

Bill

By: Jane Hunt

Jane Hunt — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 20:00:17 +0000

Great advice – thanks! Would you also suggest setting up a group or does it become counterproductive to the fan page?

http://www.janehuntart.com

By: Casey Stubbs

Casey Stubbs — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 05:14:23 +0000

Thanks for that Article after Reading the article I followed your advice and created my own facebook page. Now all I have to do is get people to go there.

Thanks again.

By: Hesham

Hesham — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 13:58:23 +0000

i have a page for medical students
now there are 7,000 fans
can i earn from it ??

By: martinact420 @ Great Ways to Make Money Online

martinact420 @ Great Ways to Make Money Online — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 19:24:29 +0000

I have been wanting to set up a face book page for my blog but have yet to find any good information on the process. Thank you for the post. I like that you do not have to have a link to your profile from your Facebook page.

By: Aviad

Aviad — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 23:11:05 +0000

Thank you so much for this post!
I created a group for my green networking website (www.altglobe.com) on facebook and now I will create a page too, thanx to your important advice. Free traffic is good and I hope the quality will not disappoint.
Best luck,
Aviad

By: Mahesh

Mahesh — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 07:08:41 +0000

I am worrying about my blog’s promotion. This article helps me doing better for my blog. Thank you for posting!

By: Besido

Besido — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 15:35:23 +0000

Another great post for Problogger! I've been wondering if I could use Facebook to drive traffic to my blog Novice AffiLiate for some time now, but just couldn't seem to think of a way. I'm definately going to start a Facebook Page and a Group this week. Thanks man! Adrian

By: Sangesh

Sangesh — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 15:23:50 +0000

Nice post and quite informative too, specially for me. I have never used facebook advertising system and was quite amazed to know about its power. I guess, creating a profile page would definitely would help me a lot.

By: chinesealbumart

chinesealbumart — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 09:55:03 +0000

I never thought of Facebook as advertising but this week, when Visa offered free $100 advertising budget for installing their Visa Business Network applications, I jumped on it.

Wow… it really diverted quite a lot of traffic to my web site. The impressions are great (several hundred thousands) but more significant was the clicks (several hundred) which was really great !

By: Deon Gordon

Deon Gordon — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 20:54:33 +0000

Great post, Darren…

You gave people a lot of ideas on ways they can promote their blog (or business, in general) using Facebook Pages. It’s arguably one of the most cost effective (read “free”) ways a blogger can promote their site.

I recommend using Facebook Pages in conjunction with Facebook Groups. One the surface, they appear to be virtually identical. However, there are profound differences among them. Regardless, they both should be used to leverage Facebook’s power.

Using Pages and Groups is an excellent way to build a community around your blog/product/service. Both offer high levels of engagement and can be used to capture the attention of Facebook members.

I’ll leave with this tip: start a group on Facebook. Promote it! And then add “officers.” It’s a superficial feature that really serves no particular purpose. However, it does ENGAGE your group members.

Making someone an officer plays into human behavior. We all want to feel like we’re *really* a part of something. You’ll find that a lot of the most popular groups have a lot of officers. Take notice and follow suit.

I’m interviewing some people who are effectively taking their blogs and businesses to the next level just by using Groups…

They’ll be up soon at my site:
http://www.socialmediasidekick.com

P.S. The ability to add officers is one of the ways Pages differs from Groups.

P.P.S. My apologies for the long reply ;-)

By: Online Dividends

Online Dividends — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 19:13:46 +0000

How do you promote your blog on facebook, when noone knows about it?
Has anyone succeeded in adding subcribers through facebook? I haven’t been able to do that at all.

By: Simon Stapleton

Simon Stapleton — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 13:51:50 +0000

I hate to be devils advocate all the time (as its not in my nature)… I would be concerned about building up such an asset (as it would be worth something and requires investment) that is in the control of someone else, particularly if they can disable it or mess with it without your permission. Worse still, steal it!

By: Wakas Mir

Wakas Mir — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 10:30:57 +0000

Nice one. I have used facebook advertising system and was quite amazed by its power. So yes creating a profile page would definitly help a lot as well :)

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Simple yet complicated talks..
http://www.WakasMir.com

By: David Walker

David Walker — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 09:58:30 +0000

This is a great idea in principle and there is obviously a lot of potential for driving traffic from Facebook to your other websites.

However, it’s all well and good creating a Facebook fan page, but unless your are already a well known subject, celebrity etc it is going to be difficult to get fans.

Perhaps for a follow up article you could suggest some ways on how to grow the popularity of a Facebook page?

By: David Walker

David Walker — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 09:58:14 +0000

Hi Darren,

This is a great idea in principle and there is obviously a lot of potential for driving traffic from Facebook to your other websites.

However, it’s all well and good creating a Facebook fan page, but unless your are already a well known subject, celebrity etc it is going to be difficult to get fans.

Perhaps for a follow up article you could suggest some ways on how to grow the popularity of a Facebook page?

By: David Hinchliffe

David Hinchliffe — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 09:19:01 +0000

The idea of using a page is a good one. My advice is to enter into it carefully.

It’s easy to setup a page, but difficult to build a community around it. You need a decent number of people actually using the page for it not to look a bit like a graveyard. Which may be worse that not having one at all.

This is what happened at my old page and so when I joined a new website I have changed tactics.

The answer may be to have a plan before you create the page. What are you going to use it for and how are you going to ancorage people to join up and actually use the page?

That’s what I have done this time. Time will tell if it works better.

For a popular blogger like Darren pages simple: build it and they will come. For smaller blogs it’s a more difficult route.

Consider all the alternatives and outcomes before setting off.

By: Rajesh

Rajesh — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 05:17:09 +0000

Only people who are already popular can get more popular thro. these pages…otherwise no one will care to visit your page…can you quote an example where an unknown guy became popluar thro. a facebook page? For get about obama…

By: Rebekah

Rebekah — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 00:02:38 +0000

Facebook has been a priority for me since I launched my freelance marketing & public relations venture, Renown Promotions. I have been able to create a wide network of friends since I have been a user since 2005, but when it came to getting the word out about Renown, my friends are not necessarily the most interested because they are not client potential. I have not had the most experience with the marketing side of Facebook before because of how I thought of it-as a social media to keep in touch with friends. However, now that I have my own business-that viewpoint has to change. The Facebook Marketer page will be the perfect answer because I can finally have “fans” that will mean something to my business, whether it be a referral, a blog reader, or just a supporter-I can use every bit of it. Thanks for the insight-

Rebekah