3 Things Not To Do On Facebook
Do you want to start growing your own highly devoted and lucrative audience on Facebook? Then read further for some tips on 3 things not to do on Facebook. If you ignore these tips, you will either "kill" your ranking and visibility on Facebook or you will be thrown into "Facebook jail".
Don´t worry, it is not difficult to avoid these 3 mistakes. If ignored it can cost you dearly if you have a growing crowd of followers or have just started on the platform. It is all about using common sense.
The 3 Things
- AVOID having more than 3-4 lines in a paragraph. Make sure to have some "white space" between paragraphs. It will help readability. People will skip your post if you just throw a text of 100 characters without formatting it. I know I would.
- Emoji´s are good 🤓. But don´t overdo it. Done right your post will stand out from other posts. Emoji´s gives life and feeling to your post. Too many emoji´s will mark you as a "try- hard", and people will skip your post.
- Do not EVER put links in your posts that drive your audience off the platform. Facebook want you to stay on their platform as long as possible. Putting links in your post will automatically kill your reach on Facebook. You can instead provide people with the link and details in Messenger or similar instead.
Summary
As with other social media platforms it pays to do a bit of deep-diving into the rules of engagement on the platform. Facebook is, as said previously, a great source of organic traffic. It is an easy platform to use, but as with your blogging, you need to be diligent and consistent with one or 2 daily posts. And don´t forget to be a human being on the platform, don´t try to sell all the time.
Stay tuned for some more tidbits related to Facebook😊
Roy
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Thanks Roy. It is a bit late for me, though. I'm not sure I did any of the things you mentioned to get the boot. In fact, they never told me what I did wrong, even after I asked them. They wouldn't tell me. They just kept saying that I violated some policy. I asked which one, and they refused to say. So I am trying to see it as "good riddance" to them. I was spending half of my time just trying to keep FB happy with me, and that is way more time than it was worth, for me. So, I am trying to find other ways, without a whole lot of success. Any suggestions would be much appreciated!
It seems that your experience is the same on most social media platforms. I have the same experience as you on Pinterest and Twitter.
They don´t bother explaining what is the reason for suspending you, and they often don´t reply either.
I lost a fair amount of traffic in my pets niche from Pinterest to my website, when I was suddenly permanently suspended from Pinterest. No matter what my effort was, to this day I still don´t know the reason other than Pinterest accused my website to be spammy.
In relation to other options, Instagram and YouTube are very good alternatives. it could be worthwhile writing gon Medium and engaging in forums on Quora and Reddit.
Roy
Unreal, isn't it?
Instagram is tough for me, because I don't really use a phone. And YouTube would mean I have to make videos. Which I would be okay with, except it is a lot of work just to have the same thing happen.
I think the biggest strike against somebody like me (natural health - publicly opposing Big Pharma, etc.) is that all of these platforms are just arms of the same monster, which they don't want anyone getting in the way of. I wish that I had thought to do this even a few years ago, before things went completely rogue, and there was still some free speech, and some vague concept of right and wrong, where the rules somewhat still applied to everybody, not just the "peasants".
Anyway, not the place for a diatribe, sorry!
I appreciate it Roy, and the more I think about it, I guess I'm going to have to try YouTube...
I am in Vietnam, so not sure if different from the USA. But I can post links under my business on Facebook and in groups associated with my niche. Have also done it with my personal account, what Facebook doesn’t like ( I got a temp post ban ,lol) is inviting over 10 people at a time to your business account.
Great post, got people talking, thanks.
A great addition to the thread, Stephen. It is very important to utilize every available area on your FB profile and FB page, which allows for adding your URL´s, social media etc.
And as you also write, several FB groups related to the different niches allows you to post your links within the group.
I was actually doing exactly the opposite to your point 3 and I see Schalk making my point under. It was always my belief that we could drive traffic to our website through links on social media. But you are quite right to point out that each platform has rules and it would do us well to check these and not assume.
Spot on, Hugh. Every social media platform has its own ways of letting us link to i.e. your website, Usually in the profile bio. None of the platforms likes to have their audience directed away from them.
The ley is to take the time to read the guideline of each platform.
Roy
Roy I get you when you saying that putting links that directs away from FB will kill your reach on Facebook but if you do not put e.g. a YouTube link that directs to your YouTube video ,is there then any point? The chances that someone is that super interested in the topic that they will go as far as to actually try to send you a message on messenger. What are the chances? I would not think that great.
So how do you approach this? Say for example you are trying to drive traffic to a YouTube video of yours by doing a FB post.
Also are we talking about sharing on your own FB business page in terms of reach or sharing in FB groups?
If the YouTube link is already there for people to click on it is so much more likely for them to click on it and check it out than to actually go to all the trouble asking you in messenger to provide them with the YouTube link.
A bit of clarity will be much appreciated. A very interesting topic for discussion. Thanks!
Something worth looking into and to experiment with. In YouTube videos you will however have links to click through to the products advertised in the YouTube videos which won't be possible if the videos are uploaded to FB.
However, you can't have your cake both ways and eat it so is worth seeing if this strategy will work to drive traffic to your website more effectively.
So what would you do for articles then? Just upload a related photo to do with the article with your website url displayed on the photo perhaps so people can go read it there if they really interested?
Tricky as people are lazy and will often not go to the trouble to navigate to Google to go pop in a website url.
I will certainly experiment with this though and see how it goes.
I have been using video snippets on YT, FB and IG to drive traffic back to my site. A little early to see performance however.
The key here is to get the audience to your post to ask you for the link or how to see the article/video etc., i.e. it is you that will send them a message in Messenger.
This can be done with the appropriate CTA in your FB post, which can be:
- "Ask me how in the comments"
- "For more details ask me in the comment"
- "If you want to know more, you know what to do"
When they do so, respond that you have sent them the details in Messenger, and send them the link in the Messenger message.
In that way, you can add people to your "messenger" list, just like an autoresponder. You are actually building a targeted buyers list because they want your info and are willing to watch your video.
It will be easy to do the follow up with them as they already are on your list in Messenger
Add the url to your YouTube channel in the FB profile/FB page info, just say that they can follow that URL to see the video post.
I hope this was clarifying,
Roy
Thanks, worth trying and see. Only thing is that spammers and scammers have so often used this technique that gives it a very bad rap as they usually try to add you to telegram or whatsapp etc. to continue their scam there.
Usually when I see claims of dollar signs of how much money they making and then say ask me how then I see massive red flags and scroll by. I am wondering why so secretive? Why do you expect me to follow you on telegram, whatsapp etc. if you can share that info with me right here publically. The reason is often that they cannot share dodgy links in FB of course.
But I guess it depends what your post is about and how it is formulated. So if it works for you, I may give it a go.
But I do think scammers really gave this method a bad rap though.
Ahhhh ok this was a good clarification. I link between my business FB and website. Thanks Miss Tee
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Hello,
That's good information to know. So do you not recommend sharing your post from your website on your FB. I think it just shows an excerpt, but it also shows the website link. If you are promoting Wealthy Affiliate, what type of posts would you share on FB if you shouldn't share links? Just curious as I'm just starting out. I have a little over 1000 followers, but that is from my crafting and personal site, so I'm sharing new things with them.
Any more suggestions is greatly appreciated.
Have a blessed day.
Connie
Yeah I would share from my website and do individual posts with nice graphics, catchy phrases and hashtagging covering my niche topics. I am Mikey and signed up today.
Thanks so much.
You're very welcome.
By all means, share excerpts of your posts on your website on your Facebook Page or your personal Facebook profile. But I would keep any link away from the Facebook post itself
The trick is to elaborate a little bit about your website blog post on Facebook and add a call to action to get people to ask for the link to your website in the comments to your Facebook post.
Then you can either give them the link in your answer to the comment or tell them that you sent them more info/ link in Messenger or you can direct them to the hyperlink to your website that you can be set up to how in your Facebook profile
I hope this answers your question, Connie.
Roy
Thank you for that info. Good to know.
Connie
Thank you Roy.
I really appreciate your response.