Sick and tired of Facebook. Any alternatives?

I have a weight-loss weblog and use all the primary public networking programs. However from a visitors perspective they do the best in the following order:

Pinterest
Facebook
Twitter
Google+
Linkedin
Delicious
Reddit
StumbleUpon
Social social bookmarking sites

I have also discovered a identical issue with Facebook or myspace and discover that Facebook or myspace does not like it if you publish to it more than twice a day and discover that on Facebook or myspace some awesome public networking pictures and weblog articles is all that you need.

 

I think twitter is the best alternative available , Here is some tips for you :
1- search twitter for users that are related to your niche and try to find those who have big amounts of active followers
2- follow everybody that retweeted the last tweet of each user you found
3- don't follow more than 300 a day
4- by following this steps you'll find out that you're getting at least 100 active and targeted followers .
5- unfollow those who don't follow you back
Goodluck

 

My last Facebook post reached less than 1% of my following! Are you blogging? Or try Reddit

 

I haven't gotten a chance to play with this one much, but it seems to be focused on simplicity (bot in UI and human interaction): ello.co

Also, I really like are.na – it's like a more obscure pinterest.

 

You can go for Pinterest, Instagram for images and Google+ for lengthy content. Twitter is also good.

 

I was so surprised when one of my post was getting so much visits from facebook only by using relevant hashtags. Facebook is awesome.

 

I agree with @danasurvey we need to create interesting posts in social media, until we don't put any interesting content people won't see it and unlike google crawler which don't have any sense like humans, we have to make post interesting for people. Next important thing is the selected domain in which we are posting the content that matters most. Once you have these two conditions fulfilling then only you would get any social media traffic and yeah thats tremendous amount of traffic

 

I think that Google+ should be your next step. It is something like natural move, regarding your Facebook experience.

 

Twitter, Linkedin and Google Plus work well for me. I guess it depends on the niche and how hard it is to reach your audience on the platform, but Twitter seems to be the best IMO. It is very easy to build a following on Twitter and people love to RT interesting stuff, so you are missing out on a ton of traffic if you aren't scheduling tweets, keeping the account active and alive throughout each and every day of the week.

 

To expand on the Twitter suggestion above, one of the very best ways of getting your twitter following up is by interacting with authorities in your niche.

- Search for hashtags related to your niche (i.e #weightloss, #fitspiration)
- Open up Excel (or a similar program) and make a list of the top 50 (minimum) people with a large following. This list will be useful later on as you start to build out your own epic content and want to interact with the influencers to get your message out.
- Follow those influencers, and start to interact with them directly
- Do this by replying to useful posts (preferably ones that already have several retweets or other replys)
- You can also retweet some of their more useful tweets
- This will attract people who end up following you (without you having to follow them first).
- You are building a relationship with the influencers, while building your own authority.
- As you create your own valuable pieces of content you'll want to find articles written by the top influencers, and link to those articles from within your own content (don't be afraid to link to competitors!)
- Golden Nugget: Find that influencer on Twitter, and let them know that you thought their article was so cool that you referenced it in your own (include link to your content)
- You have a decent chance of getting them to tweet it out, follow you, and continue building an important relationship for the future.

Hope that helps some people!

 

I think Facebook and G+ have the most number audiences although it would be nicer if you have other alternatives like Pinterest, Instagram, Twitter, and so on.. You can also try youtube or vimeo if you have original videos to share.

 

Yeah in my experiences Facebook is a bit hit or miss. Glad to hear its been working for you though I personally find Instagram to be a strong driver of traffic

 

Hi Az

Unfortunately, Google has discontinued the use of Authorship. Matt Cutt's said one of the main reason was because not enough people were using it. I think it was because people were starting to abuse Authorship. Remember when Cutt's said that guest blogging was dead. I think the abuse on Authorship had a lot to do with the message behind that video. So many low quality post were being published for the sake of building a higher Authorship.

I think we should carry on just like Authorship was still around since we now know for a fact what type of information Google is looking for. Just because Authorship is not around doesn't mean they are not still collecting data on everything we do around the web especially on Google+.

 

Totally agree!

 

Instagram is also a good way to get more followers and yes whenever I post something I use relevant hashtags there as well.

 

if you like fast indexation use google+

 

I totally agree! At one point awhile back FB search results were horrible. Now, with the implementation of hashtags, when used properly, we can get good results!

 

Try out Vk.com, it's the Russian alternative, it is a bit easyer to master and has big potential.

 

I think, in terms of coverage and audience FB has no alternatives. It doesn't matter, whether we are fed up with it or not - we still use it. As for other networks, I'd recommend focusing on twitter, G+ and Linkedin.

 

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