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3 Ways To Promote Your Blog On Facebook

June 21, 2014 by Marc Guberti Leave a Comment

Facebook is the biggest social network around with billions of users, and people in the United States spend a combined total of 114 billion minutes every month on Facebook. Despite the size and popularity of this social network, many people do not know how to promote their blogs on Facebook. Promoting your blog on Facebook will allow you to get more traffic and stronger connections. Promoting your blog on Facebook is important, and these are three ways that you can get started.

Share it on your personal account’s newsfeed. The easiest way to get more traffic on Facebook is telling your friends about your blog. Implementing this strategy generally results in a steady flow of traffic that increases over time as more search engines pay attention.
Create a Facebook Page. Creating a Facebook Page and building a presence for that page will take longer than your personal account. However, you will be able to build more connections and get more visitors with a successful Facebook Page than you would be able to get with a personal account. It’s always good to have both.
Post at the right time. As you get more people to visit your Facebook Page, you will get access to better analytics. Facebook provides all of its analytics for free, but when your page has over 100 likes, then it is easier to see when a majority of your fans are on Facebook. Post your content when most people are going to see it.

By getting more people to see your content on Facebook, you will be able to build a strong presence on a social network that grabs people’s attention throughout the day and has a format that encourages people to overshare content. What are your thoughts on the list? Do you have any additional tips for promoting a blog on Facebook? Please share your thoughts and advice below.

10 Ways To Improve Your Facebook Page

June 19, 2014 by Marc Guberti 4 Comments

The two components that decide how many likes and engagement your Facebook Page gets is the way it looks and the content you post on that Facebook Page. However, many people are not optimizing these two components well enough in order to see better results. The better you implement these two components, the more likely you are to be successful on Facebook. In order to make your Facebook Page better, follow these 10 tips.

Facebook prefers that you use 180×180 pictures but then converts your picture to 160×160. That means the avatar picture you choose for Facebook needs to look good even if it is 160×160. Make sure your entire company’s logo or the picture of you shows up on the entire avatar. If part of your company’s logo or your headshot gets cut out of the picture, then you need to fix that. There’s nothing worse than having a sloppy appearance prevent you from getting more engagement on Facebook.
Make sure your background picture further emphasizes what your Facebook Page is about. A picture of your company’s logo or a headshot does not necessarily tell people what your Facebook Page is about. If you put a headshot of yourself on your Facebook Page, then your background picture needs to show people what your posts are all about. If you only write Facebook posts about Facebook marketing, you can have a picture on the background related to Facebook marketing. If you write Facebook posts about motivational quotes, you can have a background picture of the sun rising with your favorite quote in the same picture. No matter what you post about on Facebook, your background picture needs to give everyone a good idea about what you post. As a side note, the ideal dimensions of your Facebook Page’s background image are 851 pixel width by 315 pixel height.
Make sure your Facebook posts are only 80 characters. The longer your Facebook post is, the less likely someone is to read the entire post. If you want to get more likes and engagement on Facebook, you need to create short and sweet posts that are easy to read and have a clear message.
Include pictures in your Facebook posts. Facebook posts with pictures get more engagement than the Facebook posts without pictures. Although pictures are optional for Facebook posts, you should make it a point to have at least one picture in a Facebook post.
Experiment with your posts. When you first start to see more engagement and likes coming in every day, it is important to identify what kind of content your fans like the most. There are a variety of factors that decide how much engagement your Facebook posts get such as the character count, topic of choice, way you worded what you said, the color of the picture, and other factors as well. You will be able to identify which factors work for you by posting a lot of content and seeing which Facebook posts get the most attention.
Have an effective short bio. People get to see your short bio directly under your picture. They don’t have to click an About Me Page on the menu like you have to do with a blog. Instead, it’s right there. Your short bio can give people an idea of who you are and what you do. Since a short bio does not take a lot of time to read, most people will read your short bio before reading any of your posts.
Post videos on Facebook. Videos grab our attention differently from the way a typical post grabs our attention. Posting videos will keep someone on your Facebook Page for a longer period of time. That’s long enough for someone to like that Facebook post, leave a comment, possibly share it with their friends, and repeat the process for some of your other Facebook posts as well.
Get more likes for your Facebook Page. These are a bunch of ways that you can get more likes on your Facebook Page. Getting these likes makes your Facebook Page look more popular. Whether it is actually very popular or not, potential fans will see your Facebook Page and believe that it is very popular. These people will then engage with your posts and like your page because they see that so many other people have done the same.
Post every day. New visitors are more likely to like your Facebook Page if you post every day. Posting every day shows that your Facebook Page is active, and if visitors like what you have posted in the past, then they know they need to like your Page in order to get your future posts in their news feed. The average dormant Facebook Page does not get as many likes as the average active Facebook Page. Facebook also does a really good job at telling people when they have not posted on their Facebook Pages in a while. If you ever get that kind of email, you need to stop what you are doing and immediately post something on Facebook and then schedule posts for the days to come.
Time your posts based on what your audience is on Facebook. In order to get the best engagement from your Facebook posts, you need to send these posts out when most of your audience is on Facebook. Facebook provides analytics that contain the number of people who visit your Facebook Page for every hour of every day of every week. That is a powerful statistic that Facebook gives you for free. If it’s free, it doesn’t hurt, and in this case, the statistics can be the difference between your Facebook post getting 25 likes or 50 likes.

By constantly improving your Facebook Page, you will continue to see better results over time. Your engagement will go up, more people will hear about you, and by implementing circular viralocity, your blog and all of your social networks will be able to go viral. Having an effective Facebook Page is just one piece of the puzzle.

What are your thoughts on the list? Do you have any additional tips? Please share your thoughts and advice about improving your Facebook Page below.

10 Ways To Get More Comments On Your Facebook Posts

April 13, 2014 by Marc Guberti Leave a Comment

There are some people on Facebook who do not receive many comments for their Facebook posts while there are others who regularly get thousands of comments for their posts. Getting more comments on your Facebook posts will allow you to interact with your audience and build more connections in the process. The businesses that see the best results from their Facebook pages are also the ones getting thousands of comments for their Facebook posts. Comments are an important way to show people you are popular, and in this blog post, I am going to share with you 10 different ways to get more comments on your Facebook posts.

Get more friends. This is a simple and easy way to get more comments on your Facebook posts. The person with 1,000 friends on Facebook (whether those 1,000 friends are really friends or just acquaintances in real life) is going to get more comments for their posts than the person with 50 friends.
Post things that people would want to comment on. Did you have a fun time at Bermuda, buy a big house, have some really cool fan art for your fans, or feel like being motivational? Those are some of the many things that people will comment on. This is a common sense tip, but few people tend to take this one seriously.
Include pictures. It has been proven on every social network that including a picture will result in more likes. Saying that you are in Bermuda and taking a picture of the pink sand and posting it on Facebook are two different things.
Ask questions. Do you think Mark Sanchez should have stayed with the Jets? Do you think aliens are going to invade the earth? Asking questions will encourage people to leave their opinions–in the form of comments.
Be comical. A joke always gets the job done. People will either tell you that your joke was really funny or let you know how bad it was. Either way, you get more comments on your posts.
Interact with the people who leave comments by tagging them. By tagging people on Facebook, they will be notified on Facebook and through their email that they were tagged. This will allow conversations to eventually develop into strong connections.
Comment on other people’s Facebook posts. By commenting on other people’s posts on Facebook, you will encourage others to return the favor by leaving a comment on one of your posts.
Be active on Facebook. In order to be noticed, you need to be very active on Facebook. If you are not posting on Facebook at least 3 times every day, you are not getting as many likes and comments on your posts as you could be getting.
Use direct messages to have conversations with the people who have already left comments. These conversations will allow you to interact with your friends and customers and build strong connections. Direct messaging someone says that they are special because the message is private.
Promote your Facebook account or business page on your blog. The people who visit your blog would be eager to see where you are on other social networks. As you continue to build your presence as a blogger, some people will feel honored when you tag them, like one of their posts, or reply to someone’s comment.

Those are the 10 ways to get more comments on Facebook. As your Facebook posts get more comments, your readership will grow, and you will be able to build stronger connections. What are your thoughts about the list, and do you have any additional tips you would like to share?

10 Ways To Get More Likes On Facebook

December 23, 2013 by Marc Guberti 5 Comments

Facebook has over a billion users and is the most popular social network. Being the most popular social network also makes Facebook the noisiest social network in which getting noticed is difficult. However, there are certain ways to get noticed on Facebook and get a lot of people to like your page. Here are 10 ways to do that:

Post consistently. People need to see you as an active user on Facebook in order to remember who you are and go back to your page often.
Host weekly contests that require likes in order to participate. People will like your page to be a part of the giveaway, and soon some of that person’s friends will also want to be a part of the giveaway. You can giveaway your product (book, training course, etc) and get more likes at the same time!
Build your following. The bigger your following is, the more likes you will get. Hosting successful contests is a great way to grow your following on Facebook.
Post what your fans like. If your fans are into social media, posting interesting articles about social media will get more likes.
Embed Facebook posts on your blog. More people will be able to see your post, and as a result more people will like your post.
Post videos. There are some videos that are getting hundreds of thousands of likes on Facebook.
Use humor whenever possible. If you give someone a good laugh, they are more likely to click the like button.
Post random facts that are still relevant to your page. If your page is about social media, posting a daily social media statistic will get the job done.
Post infographics. Infographics are very popular on the web, and most people read the entire infographic because it comes text with pictures.
Post inspirational quotes. Those always get liked on Facebook and shared on any other social network as well.

Those are 10 ways to get more likes on Facebook. These methods will allow you to get more likes than ever before.