The Power of Facebook Fanpages

I will be the first to admit that when I would hear about how great facebook was for promoting a website I thought to myself "yeah right." But nearly 6 months after I started a fanpage for my website's topic I am seeing great results. I think what it boils down to is finding people who are interested in your niche and going things that way.

A common problem I had when I first started promoting this way, was getting people to like or become fans of my page. I struggled for weeks and finally almost quit because I wasn't seeing any large results. As a last ditch effort I finally hit up one of the users on fiverr to blast my fanpage to their friends. This is when things began to change.

These people can be a great resource, but don't think that a little research work on your behalf is not required. If you just pay the $5 to have your page blasted to anyone things may not work out too well. What I did was contact the people who would do this work beforehand and tried to figure out the demographics of their friends.

What this meant was I could request that my fanpage could only be blasted to females if I felt the niche was a women's interest, or vice versa for men. One guy even went as far to give me a summary of the age of the friends which helped even further. Bottom line was that I saw great success with their friends liking my fanpage, because I tried to target them the best I could.

After my first day of doing this I was truly surprised at the amount of fans the page gained. Then I began promoting my newest articles from the website on the page and the traffic I gained was crazy. I expected less than 100 visitors to my website from the fanpage and was pleasantly surprised to see nearly 500 visitors from the page when I would post a link. What was even more surprising was that they weren't just hitting the page and then immediately leaving, showing the advantage of specifically targeting certain demo's for niche's you feel would interest them.

Simply put, a Facebook fanpage is one of the best places to generate targeted traffic for your website.

 

I totally agree with you. Facebook fan pages are really powerful tool for generating traffic.

 

my fan pages growing good and I get much traffic too

 

you are 100% right.today fan page is very effective for marketing.for this case need to create a good page with good design.i really enjoying this work and getting a very good result.

 

I second that! Facebook fan page is super awesome to generate traffic!

 

I would've used Facebook fan pages for DrewryNewsNetwork, but the advertiser Walmart is not feeling the use of social networks, Twitter, nor YouTube. Hopefully, that'll change someday, and they may see things differently.

 

I also gained a huge boost in my traffic

Am always looking ahead to find and implement new things

 

Its a good and informative post

 

I agree whit bathroom_design, thanks for sharing!!

 

I've had decent success with Facebook pages too but still think Twitter beats it hands down.

 

facebook is an excellent marketing tool. Anyone who doubts it's capabilities will be surprised when they try to use it.

 

Make a fanpage growing isn't easy.

 

It is so easy actually ... it is only hard when you are selling crap that nobody wants

I already have 3 500 fans in 1 month and a half

 

Wow, amazing success story.

Also, even having a normal page like "I like Potatoes!" can be beneficial if you can get alot of fans, as you can advertise sites on your page, thus making alot of money. You could even go as far as selling the page, and believe me, they can sell for alot of money.

 

Facebook is usually my #2 or #3 referrer after Google. It is super effective. Facebook Advertising can also be extremely effective thanks to targeting.

 

Facebook advertising costs way too much.

 

Really Great success story. I like facebook and always use it fans pages for website traffic.

 

Yeah I know what you mean. But then again you have to advertise the facebook to get advertisement for your site if you know what I mean. or atleast thats what I feel like.

 

Thanks for sharing information with us. Facebook website pages has been providing backlinks for my sites.

 

facebook is a good network but a bit pricey