Written on December 9th, 2008 by Matt Giovanisci
How I Use Facebook to Build Traffic For My Blog / The ADsense Challenge Update
Posted In Social Media, The Adsense ChallengeWhile trying to build traffic to my ArrestedDevelopmentBlog.com website, I was asking my followers on Twitter what I should do. I got a lot of recommendations saying to use Facebook.com
Now I have a personal Facebook that I use to keep in touch with friends from High School and other personal things and I was curious if I should use that. My advice to you is if you already have a pretty good Facebook Account use it to your advantage. You can sign up for groups in your niche and start your own. And you can act like you have nothing to do with the blog you are trying to promote and just trying to give people good information.
I’ve noticed that Facebook is really tight with who they allow on. If you try to add too many friends or join too many groups, they will find out and try and stop you. The idea of Facebook is to try not to seem like you are trying to market something.
I know this because I started a Facebook account soley for my Arrested Development Blog. I was trying to add a bunch of friends from Arrested Development groups and Facebook was trying to slow me down. I just wanted everyone to join my Arreseted Development group to try and get them to go to my website. What you have to do is engage. Just like any other social media site. But I’m engaging and adding friends so I can engage more. It comes to a point where you have to rely on other people to recommend you and find you.
So is it worth starting a new facebook account - yes. If you don’t mind working at it a little or if you don’t have one at all!
ADsense Challenge Update
3 Responses
I think that what your suggesting is a pretty good idea. I initially used facebook like you said to get in touch with old friends from high school but I have started and joined a few groups. I recently setup an event for me and a reunion for me and a bunch of friends that used to work at a web design company here in Houston. So it can be used in this way to setup networking events etc. Also something when I have a new blog post I’ll post a link either on my page or on the page of one of the groups. Your right though the key is to be social about it and not to come accross as if you are using it just for promotion. Facebook will want to limit this because they also offer advertising.
-Gerald Weber
Cheers for the advice. What is your opinion on Facebook adverts? I have created a facebook page for our company, but have heard some negative information about creating an ad.
I can build traffic with Facebook but I would not recommend using it for advertising. Social media sites are good for traffic but terrible for making money.