Promoting site on Facebook really helps?

Is it for sure that if i promote my website on facebook then i will the the good amount of traffic to my website?

 

nothing is for sure nowadays....

 

It does help but then u should promote it in places where ur niche is bieng discussed

 

I think to promote website through facebook will boost your traffic temporary, But for the permanent traffic you also have to focus on other tricks and social networks.

 

So, you have a new fan page. It displays your brand graphics, has your company info, and you put up a few posts. But you have only 34 fans, and most of them are your own employees or family members or people trying to sell you something (how rude!). How do you get the word out to your target audience, cheaply and effectively, to jumpstart your Fan Page and tap into all that social media potential?

Happily, traditional outreach efforts are only half as important, because simply making your current fans happy increases the likelihood that they’ll recruit their friends as fans too. So, here’s an overview of the basics to get the process rolling. I’ll be covering more of these topics in detail in future posts.

1) Use SEO best practices to get your fan page to show up in the first fold when people google your keywords. Do it right, and this technique is easy, free, and ever-so-effective.

2) Use Facebook ads to help drive interested traffic to your spiffy new Fan Page.

3) Implement a holistic online strategy: Connect all of your other social media to the Fan Page, link to it in your e-mail signature, get domains that reroute to it – it’s your new online über-business-card.

4) Provide real value. Add informational content and apps that cater to your audience’s desires – coupons, interactivity, relevant news, etc. Make it exclusive, a great catching point for those online ads.

5) Make sure your content is fresh and relevant. Update frequently and regularly so that users learn that there will always be something new – large gaps in updates indicates you’re asleep at the wheel. Apps can greatly facilitate the updating process, so it’s easy, fast, and efficient.

6) Add apps that allow you to implement fun promotional strategies. Contests, fan lotteries, polls, giveaways, and other treats will boost engagement. Try a scavenger hunt on your page, or provide cool (branded) virtual gifts for your fans to share with their friends.

7) Be social. Your fan page isn’t a bulletin board or a soap box – it’s a soon-to-be-packed clubhouse. Respond personally to your fans, give them an app that allows fan-to-fan interaction through your page, and use the opportunity to immediately and positively address any non-positive feedback and turn it to your advantage. Remember, you’re establishing conversations with your fans to engage them and get them excited about your brand.

Promote Your Fan Page

 

Two possible ways to promote your website on facebook without using facebook cpc/cpm ads.

1- Create Fan pages and let the friend's know about your pages.
2- Build Facebook Application and run your own banners.

Thanks

 

When promoting your Page off Facebook, encourage your customers to interact with your Facebook Page and show their support as “fans”. The more fans that interact with your Page, the more opportunities your business has to generate interesting social stories that can spread virally through Facebook. A Facebook Page thus provides you with powerful ways to generate awareness, connect with your customers, and build relationships with your fan base on Facebook.

 

Promoting website from facebook, is making groups. Try adding more and more members to this group. In this way, when you will be having thousands of members in the group, then you can promote your website and get great amount of traffic from those groups. See how thousands of members can be added in few hours at facebook.

 

This is a great discussion, thank you. We're not fully utilizing Facebook potential yet.

 

creating fan pages is the best way as far as I am concerned and would let you get into the profiles of many people, as well as promoting or advertising your page in an effective way...

 

Well you can get traffic to your website from facebook by joining the groups which are relevant to your sites...

 

yes for me it helps. As you can find people with the same interest in facebook groups, you can make friends and invite them to visit your site.

 

Yeah it is very much true if you promote your site on Fcaebook you will get some good traffic for your site

 

You should not only concentrate on Facebook to promote your site. Use other social networking and social bookmarking as well like Delicious, Reddit, Friendster, and many others.