Can FaceBook page hurt your website?

[mikey_w]

@mikhailblacer

And those businesses are probably based in a small city or a town, right? If they ditched their websites for Facebook PAGES (Facebook “websites” is an incorrect term), then you don’t have to follow suit.

Yes, typically smaller businesses.

@mikhailblacer

As for social media being ridiculous part, it’s not actually SM being ridiculous - it’s the users. Sadly, there are teens, immature adults, and self-obsessed people who tweet or post status updates every hour.

Correct. But it makes me hate social media. Just like how I hate smart phone. And how I am even starting to hate guns. People ruin everything in this world…

@mikhailblacer

However, you have to understand that SM isn’t only one-sided, it is also a medium for disseminating news, current events, and in forming connections. You CAN also promote your business, you know.

I suppose.

@mikhailblacer

By the way, it’s not an obsession to some: it’s already a NEED in terms of communicating with loved ones and in manning their business accounts.

Would you rather gaze into the eyes of a pretty girl sitting across from you in a booth at a restaurant or send her a Facebook update sitting across from her in the same booth?

Would you rather see or call your daughter to talk about her new son, or send her a tweet?

Is it necessary to call someone while you take a crap?

@mikhailblacer

This is NOT how Facebook pages work. Nobody posts FULL articles on their pages - instead, they post a link and an article preview. Users click on them and visit the website after doing so, thus giving you an inventive.

And Facebook makes $$$.

@mikhailblacer

@mikey_w

His website, no. My personal website, yes.

How?

The website I am working on has messaging and subscriptions and will have RSS and everthing that Facebook or other sites have.

So who needs Facebook as a middle man?

On my client’s site or mine, if we are on page 1 and one of the top chocies, then I would hope people would come, read, enjoy, stay, subscribe, etc and stay in touch all without a need for social media.

Of course my client’s site is nowhere near as sophisticated as mine.

@mikhailblacer

I’ll ask you this: how many people in your locality look for auto-related content in Google? You’ll probably have a dozen searchers, and if your website (IF) is on top of the SERPs, then you’d probably get a few dozen clicks.

Sadly, I am learning this the hard way.

The problem is not that I built a bad website or have bad search results, it is that nobody gives a rats ass about auto-mechanics…

@mikhailblacer

That aside, I’d like to point out the difference between a Page and an Account.

A page is this - https://www.facebook.com/UPBOFFICIAL (it’s a basketball page I’m running).

And an account is a personal one - https://www.facebook.com/HaileyThomasMe

My personal website looks closer to the first link.

@mikhailblacer

You’d be surprised at the amount of people looking for local businesses on Facebook. If they don’t find you on Google, they’ll find you on FB.

It seems as if most of the world cannot function without Facebook.

@mikhailblacer

But it does make your business visible on a platform with billions of people.

It does. And my “hang-ups” towards social media are likely my downfall.

Then again, if more people don’t standup for what they believe in, then we get what we have in America today…