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Social Media for your site?

Postby Sam » 06 Sep 2013, 06:13

Do you have a Facebook or Twitter for your website? Have you ever found it to be useful in marketing your site?

I have a Facebook and Twitter page for HolderHost.com but I don't update. The most success I have ever had with social media was for a webmaster autoblog I owned where twitter effectively brought in 9,000 visits a month.
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Re: Social Media for your site?

Postby Fergal » 06 Sep 2013, 07:37

I use Twitter and FaceBook for my sites. Honestly I'm not sure how effective they are. But they are a good way of staying in touch with people interested in the sites. Plus when I post a link in Twitter, it generally gets about 40 clicks almost straight away, which is a good way to promote an interesting forum topic.

Sam wrote:....The most success I have ever had with social media was for a webmaster autoblog I owned where twitter effectively brought in 9,000 visits a month.

That's a great result, can you tell us a little more about how you achieved that?
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Re: Social Media for your site?

Postby TimeRider » 06 Sep 2013, 09:04

I use Facebook, It's easy and better as Social Media Advertising is quite effective. I don't use Twitter as much as I use Facebook.
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Re: Social Media for your site?

Postby Eternal » 06 Sep 2013, 12:06

I normally have a facebook, and twitter for my sites. I'm honestly not sure how effective they have been for bringing in traffic.
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Re: Social Media for your site?

Postby wasi90lk » 07 Sep 2013, 02:15

I do not currently have a Facebook page for my forum, although I may launch one soon.

I think it is important nowadays to have these social network accounts.
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Re: Social Media for your site?

Postby Sam » 07 Sep 2013, 06:51

Fergal wrote:
Sam wrote:....The most success I have ever had with social media was for a webmaster autoblog I owned where twitter effectively brought in 9,000 visits a month.

That's a great result, can you tell us a little more about how you achieved that?

Sure. :)

The site was: webmasterdaily.net. It auto posted from various sources and tweeted the post title and a shortened link.

I didn't get it right first go. I purchased 140,000 odd fake followers. Twitter slowly deleted these. They did serve the purpose of getting me over 2000 followers to be allowed to follow others. In the end I had 9,000 odd fake followers and 4500- 5000 real followers.

I used the following exchange sites:
Twiends
SocialClerks
and a couple of others but I am sure there are better ones around. Twiends brings in quality followers so that's where you want to focus, exchanging every day. I also got the odd non exchange follower from FP.
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Re: Social Media for your site?

Postby Fergal » 07 Sep 2013, 13:37

Thanks for the explanation Sam, sounds like it worked well for you. Perhaps you can replicate that success for another site or blog?
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Re: Social Media for your site?

Postby MoneyBox » 07 Sep 2013, 18:29

Shame to see that website went down Sam.

I personally use Twitter and Facebook little. I have not really tapped into it as much as I should or could. That been said, I will start very soon!
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Re: Social Media for your site?

Postby jacktheking » 08 Sep 2013, 04:20

I have a twitter for my website. I dont have a facebook page yet. I think that I should have more member first before having a facebook account. I also set-up a youtube account for my website which I dont have time to upload video into it.
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Re: Social Media for your site?

Postby MoneyBox » 08 Sep 2013, 16:50

jacktheking wrote:I have a twitter for my website. I dont have a facebook page yet. I think that I should have more member first before having a facebook account. I also set-up a youtube account for my website which I dont have time to upload video into it.

Always worthwhile setting up a FB page. Google likes to see social media impact on your site so if you Facebook a few links they are more likely to get indexed.
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Re: Social Media for your site?

Postby shamzblueworld » 13 Sep 2013, 14:47

Yes I used twitter and fb, but twitter is the most effective one as it brings so much traffic, great for blogs.
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Re: Social Media for your site?

Postby Bananaman » 24 Oct 2013, 07:37

I have a Twitter and Facebook account for my forum.
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Re: Social Media for your site?

Postby Rick Ace » 27 Oct 2013, 17:16

Sam wrote:Do you have a Facebook or Twitter for your website? Have you ever found it to be useful in marketing your site?

I have a Facebook and Twitter page for HolderHost.com but I don't update. The most success I have ever had with social media was for a webmaster autoblog I owned where twitter effectively brought in 9,000 visits a month.


I've always found Twitter to be much more professional. It's short and descriptive, and rarely annoys people with massive notifications. :P In general, I've noticed that most of my best traffic isn't from social media though.
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Re: Social Media for your site?

Postby Anushajain » 29 Oct 2013, 14:35

I have a page on facebook, it brings normally 50-60 visits when promoted properly..
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Re: Social Media for your site?

Postby shamzblueworld » 30 Oct 2013, 04:12

Now I have a facebook page for my blog, it does bring a lot of visitors and some of them comment too.
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Re: Social Media for your site?

Postby Bananaman » 01 Dec 2013, 00:45

I think twitter's great when utilised as a news feed.
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Re: Social Media for your site?

Postby Rick Ace » 28 Dec 2013, 04:21

I can't say I've had success in using social media. :( I've never really given it a try. Twitter hasn't been too useful. But I haven't been using the #hashtags yet.

Has anyone tried Pinterest? It generated some popularity.
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Re: Social Media for your site?

Postby shamzblueworld » 08 Jan 2014, 13:25

I now have all big three for one of my websites, twitter, facebook and google+. Using all three to socialize my website.
And I think its quite engaging and useful.
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Re: Social Media for your site?

Postby ImmenseFox » 08 Sep 2014, 20:49

I find that if i have a facebook page for my gmod server, it gets alot more people to join.
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Re: Social Media for your site?

Postby yashrajkarthikey2 » 31 Dec 2014, 07:40

Facebook and Google Plus are irresponsive about this, but Twitter can bring good rankings for your website. But, Google plus is valued by Google. So, it is better to have autoblog for Facebook, Twitter and Google Plus.
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