Has anyone used facebook to promote their website
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Hi i have seen lots of facebook pages that are being used to promote a company and would like to know if anyone is using facebook or any other social network such as myspace to promote their website without having to pay a fee.
I would love to see some examples and learn how to set up a facebook page that is there to promote a website.
What i would like to do is to have one that promotes my travel website where i can post travel stories on facebook and promote my website and also drive traffic to my website from facebook.
any help would be great
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i have opened a facebook account but i think i have done it wrong. i think i have opened a business account which according to what i have just read on facebook does not give me many features which include the search bar and it also says that it is hard for people to find me.
here is my page https://www.facebook.com/pages/In2town-holiday-magazine/298905640155110?sk=wall
which way should i have done this to attract visitors to my page and be able to promote while still being able to get people to find me if they are searching for holiday news
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no i am not saying that joseph, i am saying that i want to use facebook to increase the brand awareness and post news on there so people will then go to my main site and read the rest of the news article.
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There is no charge for creating a business page or any other type of organisation page: Start here
Are you saying that you plan to use Facebook as your main website? That is all well and good but I would question whether you will gain much traffic via the search engines where you will be competing with websites that will have a lot more control over content for SEO. Your best method for gathering traffic on a Facebook page will be through effective engagement with the Facebook community... you might find that difficult if you are not familiar with how Facebook works - I would recommend reading a guide first.
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what is the best way to set it up without facebook saying hold on a minute this is a commercial site we want paying.
when i have looked at this when you sign up to facebook it wants a human name so how do sites such as this site http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100001816305285 manage to have the name weight loss
what i want without paying is for people to search and find my page on facebook and know it is about travel
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I've help a couple of my clients to set this up. It's a double edged sword because if they dont stay on top of it and keep it up to date, the Facebook page looks like old news and will give a negatove slant towards reputation management for them. If they do work at it though, they can benefit assuming that anyone on Facebook cares a damn about their products or services. I have a client who repairs boilers. He's #1 in Google for all his terms but nobody cares about boiler repair on Facebook.
If you can:
- tell a funny story related to your business
- share a related video that will amuse people (perhaps even go vial) - say something relevant to what people are doing (at xmass for easter etc)
then it can help. People who read something amusing or captivating on Facebook are far more likely to check out a link to the site owners web page. It just needs some real effort and proper thought. The odd post saying something uninteresting just wont help. In which case, its a waste of energy IMHO.
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