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The Love/Hate Relationship with Facebook. Admit it, we all have it. I’m surprised there’s no support group established for those of us in this state.
It appears that I’ve had a presence on Facebook since 2007. I’ll be the first to admit that I’m not using the platform anywhere near its capabilities. Of course if I only knew what those capabilities were, I’d be way ahead of the game. Over the past 5 years I’ve managed to gather 1,090 “Friends”, posted 39 photos, posted or referred to 114 maps and “Liked” 1,482 pages or items.
I took a look at some Google Analytics the other day and found that Facebook is nowhere to be found in the 130 domains that have links to my site. This data goes back over the past year. Now, I’ll be the first to state that I’ve not been intentional in making sure that I cross post or reference everything done here to Facebook. However, I’ve got links to my site from domains with which I’m not completely familiar, so the word is getting out somehow.
Since July of 2012 I’ve had a fan page or business page for my journalistic and writing endeavours. Facebook in it’s infinite wisdom requires 30 likes in order for me to have full access to whatever it is that Facebook has to offer. So far I’ve had 26 “likes” to the page. I consistently post via the page and the postings are SEO linked and distributed.
I’m not really in favor of spamming all of my Facebook contacts to, “Like” the page so I’m curious as to what the best practices are in gaining more “Likes” or followers. I’m thinking that once I reach that threshold I’ll be able to offer more content and other services. So the question, is what is the best way to approach growing this portion of my social media presence.
