Does your Facebook business page bring you in work?

[Steve Bullman]

I don't believe its a ranking factor, at least not in the same way as other incoming links. But if its sending traffic to your site then that certainly adds to its value.

 

On that note, people are using facebook all wrong in my opinion. Posts on facebook should be links to longer blog posts on your site. Having facebook posts on your site that lead people to facebook is totally the wrong way of going about things in my opinion.

[Mark J]

47 minutes ago, Steve Bullman said:

I don't believe its a ranking factor, at least not in the same way as other incoming links. But if its sending traffic to your site then that certainly adds to its value.

 

On that note, people are using facebook all wrong in my opinion. Posts on facebook should be links to longer blog posts on your site. Having facebook posts on your site that lead people to facebook is totally the wrong way of going about things in my opinion.

I agree with you there.
Updating your site with new content and linking it to social media seems to be the way to get the most interest.
Maintaining a Facebook page can still be useful in the earlier stages if you haven't got a website set up or are planning on getting one.
People are more likely to trust businesses that have been around for a while.

 

[naturarbo]

as most here said,its waste of time,with us out of 10 enquiries 3 jobs...webpage around 8 jobs per 10 enquiries...youtube some jobs already,this 1 is very new to us,by the way take a look at our promo and comment

 

[Mick Dempsey]

Watched about a minute.

 

I do wonder if sometimes we forget what advertising is for, ie. to get us in front of the client, rather than win a Golden Globe.

 

It was easier in the old days of course! Ad in the local paper and the parish mag, tell the salesman from Yellow Pages to piss off, and that was it.

 

I remember when this was all fields you know.....

[Paul Cleaver]

2 hours ago, Mick Dempsey said:

 

 

 

 

 tell the salesman from Yellow Pages to piss off, and that was it.

 

 

oh yes I remember that one :)

[Nikk]

Hi did try FB but found to many people asking stupid questions, then not wanting to pay the price. Was advised to offer incentives like discounted services. 

But in the end closed FB down, joined Checkatrade and haven’t looked back ,along with my free listing and some work word of mouth doing ok.

[peckerwood2016]

I get 99% off my work of my fb page woodyssawmilling get a few daft questions but costs nothing to run you can boost your page for a £1 a day which I done 18 months ago but don’t bother anymore ‘ works for me

[ARV]

We're selling a product rather than a service so use Facebook marketplace a lot. It does generate a lot interest, but as has been said there are a lot of people who can't be bothered to read the advert.  But we have had quite a few customers through the adverts and once they know about us quite a few have become repeat customers. We also use the market place ads to highlight or Facebook page.

With our Facebook page we use it to advertise the business in general rather than a specific product. We have used the boost a post option with some success.

[roseyweb]

All time wasters and people who can't use google, 

Any FB job you will be quoting against builders and gardeners 

[richy_B]

On 01/07/2019 at 09:46, roseyweb said:

All time wasters and people who can't use google, 

Any FB job you will be quoting against builders and gardeners 

Nail on the head there. Our local FB groups are full of tinkers.