Have you been using Facebook to promote your site?

I just read that Facebook is used by 25% of internet users worldwide. I have also read articles that says Facebook is the "new internet." Maybe they're sensationalizing. But I do see that most sites now use Facebook buttons all over. What does this do to the SEO stuff we've been taught about?

I think it won't work with the business as a quality promotion is done with the FB but the customers are not that serious as they comes for just social networking nor for business .I personally believe that there are not such way of marketing which will help to get the maximum business.

I have tried using facebook as a marketing aid, though not extensively, and still need to find success with it. May be I'm doing something wrong or not working enough on it. But I have heard from many successful people that facebook can be a gold mine if the marketing is done right.

Facebook is a huge pile of junk when it comes to actually making sales, yeah you can get traffic with ease, but it's not targeted and just random people.

Facebook is trying to push their crap on you because they want your money, that is it.

Good for traffic, YES, good for sales, NO.

Yeah you'll get some here and there, with enough traffic you always will, but it isn't as great as Facebook themselves try to make you believe.

Originally Posted by mac I just read that Facebook is used by 25% of internet users worldwide.

And that is why we should use it for advertising. In what other field of advertising can you mimic those conditions? No TV program or radio channel will be seen and heard by 25% of the World population.

Originally Posted by Wilkerson I’ve been thinking about getting into Facebook ads also. I assumed they would have higher conversion rates because of how much information they have on their users that you could really target a specific audience.

I quite agree with this. Perhaps Facebook ads have some potential as they are targeted to specific users. But this doesn't hold true for random Facebook Promotion creating FB business pages. If you really need to enlarge your fanbase, you need to participate at other social medias too and in the process may get your Fan Page ranked in search engines too.. its kinda good for branding but sales? a big no no for me.

Just think about it, facebook has more private info on people than any other social site which is why facebook ads are more accurately delivered to the people who may find them useful.

Originally Posted by FreeStylencer Just think about it, facebook has more private info on people than any other social site which is why facebook ads are more accurately delivered to the people who may find them useful.

Quite Agreed. They made room for application providers first so a to promote their business and this interested the users. Just this particular thought kindled the entire concept and the rest of the achievement just followed.

I use Facebook for personal issues only: can get in touch with people I used to go to school with or work with. I am not too keen on using it for promotion, but, who knows in the future ...

We claimed our spot on Facebook for our biggest websites, but we find Twitter is a better traffic driver in our case.