Comments on: With Facebook Pages, Who Needs a Website?

By: Brisbane SEO

Brisbane SEO — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 04:37:21 +0000

Great discussion, just wanted to add that using the facebook platform on fb pages lets customize different type of html therefore you can add discount and product catalogue banners through the box app but we can also track every single click that comes through making facebook pages a great online marketing tool
do you guys know any other options for static fbml?
Thanks

By: Jacob Klein

Jacob Klein — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 16:24:31 +0000

Hi my name is Jake and im 26 years old and living in philadelphia. I realized the multifaceted marketing benefits of Facebook long ago and began to market facebook as a service for setting up a “Virtual Business Front” for local businesses, as well as operating facebook accounts for high profile individuals/ celebrities. This is not the death of websites in my opinion……I still see the benefits of operating both facebook and a website in accordance with each other and even doing a twitter account, all to increase internet visibility by linking them together. I have turned all of this into a monthly paycheck that all of my clients are happy to pay me. If you are interested to see what i do please take a look at Kenny Gamble’s, of Gamble and Huff fame, facebook page. I am open to all inquiries and look forward to helping others benefit from this. Thanks. -Jake

By: Ishak Latipi Mastan

Ishak Latipi Mastan — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 06:25:02 +0000

What an interesting discussion! FB has shopping carts now. Thanks to Payvment.com
Personally, I need both: a good presence on the social media platform and a good website. Both should compliments each other.
Cheers from faraway Malaysia.

By: cara mandart

cara mandart — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 02:12:45 +0000

A basic website would be good only to capture those not on Facebook. I view website as only a springboard to point to all the business’ social sites.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 20:02:46 +0000

Facebook is a marketing tool and a social networking forum thats it, combined with a quality website it can generate traffic and buzz but alone you are mixed together with 5 million other users. Not to mention it does NOTHING for SEO or email marketing systems.

By: Seo Firm

Seo Firm — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 07:03:28 +0000

Well, now a days there are many ways introduced for internet marketing in which social networking is also a very popular way amongst all. There are some other ways for SEO like blog posting , forum posting but i would also prefer social networking like face book and twitter and many more as they are quick and popular.

By: Jess

Jess — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 10:40:00 +0000

Hi Paul,
I do agree with you to only a certain extend that Facebook is a good way to market a biz. I have a fan page in here but what good is it when currently my biz is undergoing a new facelift and rebranding and I can’t change the name of my already existing page to the new name? Instead I have to recreate a whole new page and move all my fans (customers) over so that they won’t be backdated on updates?

By: Paul

Paul — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 19:21:28 +0000

Facebook, like the myriad of other social media sites, are simply just another way for companies to get exposure; which is the key word.
Facebook does NOTHING for SEO and cannot integrate with CRM or email marketing systems. You will still need a server to take business mail (unless you want to use a free service; which is nowhere close to professional). You still need something to process online orders if your industry works that way.
We view social media as a way to funnel people to the sales funnels. Send people to your blog from your Twitter. Take people to a demonstration through your LinkedIn. Have a link to a sales page on Facebook.
We authored a blog post that talks about which social profiles really count:
http://www.jivesystems.com/blog/2009/06/which-social-profiles-really-count/

By: Lars Jeppesen

Lars Jeppesen — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 11:34:21 +0000

I just lost my Facebook page – including hundreds of Fans because one of the admins wanted to “Spring Clean” his Facebook account and didn’t realize that Delete did not apply to his account only… and is there a way to recover? nope.. Did Facebook reply to my panic call.. nope..? Was an email sent to all admins notifying about the change… nope.. Was a message sent to “fans”… nope… I think we have to be careful about how excited we get here.. free means free and even if you are paying for ads… Facebook still considers that they are providing a free service, so not much support and is given or committed to.. SAD SAD SAD…we need a Charged/ paid for.. professional version of Facebook with business support and business features

By: Jonah

Jonah — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 15:21:18 +0000

Don’t be silly. There are plenty of things provided by one’s own website that is simply not provided by a facebook page.
For instance, vanity URLs are currently only available to a select few, and nobody is ever going to remember a URL like http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#/pages/Eugene-OR/Eugene-Coffee-Company/55218291775?ref=ts
Plus, not everybody uses facebook, and even of those who do, not everybody is even sure what a page/public profile is.
Search engine optimization is optimal for a personal webpage…
Most of all, the whole reason that companies are expanding out to things like public profiles in the FIRST place, is to have MORE of a presence on the web. Its simply not enough to have one rather static location on the internet, but by no means does that mean you need to take it down.
I could go on, but the long and the short of it is… a web-page is absolutely mandatory.