Tip for Increasing Your Facebook Klout

Wow. so kewl. I am not sure how or why I ended up here but I did check my Facebook and I had “like and share restricted. I now have it worked out. Thanks so much

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Thank you for this wonderful and beautiful Added

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I am currently getting started with Facebook to increase the viability of my site(s) and while things are starting out slow the minimal increase in traffic has already paid dividends
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Well i have tried the way you just mentioned here, it did worked but not more than through manual updates. I think making manual updates can help you the best. Thanks for the round-up!!!

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I have just downloaded the App for my iphone for Facebook, i am such an addict of facebook. Sometimes i wonder if i could do without facebook…LOL

Thank you for you interesting post.

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I love it, great tips. I’ve actually had success running paid ads to generate “Likes” for my fanpage and this has a spider web effect where the news that someone “Likes” my product gets broadcasted to all their friends as well.

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Gail, its interesting to hear you having a hard time with Facebook as its the exact opposite story I hear from so many regarding Twitter yet you obviously make good use of Twitter.

I teach both platforms extensively to both social media marketers and affiliate bloggers alike and they both have their strengths but they are not the same creature by any stretch of the imagination. (The same is true of LinkedIn.)

My Facebook Page – not profile but page – is found here http://www.facebook.com/Ask.Kim and is where I spend most of my time, using it like a publicly viewable, SEO relevant, profile. It is also where I take time to pay attention to Facebook EdgeRank which is their own version of SEO and controls who does/does-not get to display in an individuals “Top News” stream, making a HUGE difference in exposure.

Drop in on my page on several different days of the week and you’ll find that depending on the day I use a little automation (imports my blog posts that I am NOT playing the EdgeRank game with, which in those cases I remove the automation post and repost by hand for more “points”), I also use it to schedule some posts for optimum traffic times, using Hootsuite. Then I do a lot of real engagement on my page – and if you watch the little lines get added to my profile you can see I get out and like and comment on other people’s pages/profiles which just like blog commenting makes a huge difference. Then round that out by encouraging others to share with ME – giving others what they want – exposure – and reducing it as a “I’m only interested in my junk” platform which ALL social platforms have a tendency to digress into.

Beyond that though I do not stream a lot of automation into Facebook, the platform just is not built for volume like twitter is. Its built for a couple quality posts a day and extended engagement on those posts. Just like with blog posts, calls to action and attention grabbers are the key on Facebook.

Twitter users do not really appreciate being passed through to an intermediate facebook page before they can get where they are going – they want to stay within their platform as long as possible. The same is true even more-so with Facebook… while NetworkedBlogs creates a bridge, Facebook users dont like to EVER leave the platform when its avoidable and so it takes a careful mix of real engagement and proof of worthiness of a link to the outside to get it clicked… especially when the link is a pass through to somewhere like stumbleupon, digg, even ow.ly frames. This is also the reason that businesses are building internal facebook Pages rather than having any success driving traffic with ads straight out to their website – internal pages get better clickthrough and the marketing just has to adapt. People come to facebook FOR facebook (and for pleasure not for marketing) and any attempt to “hijack” them into leaving at all they resist.

While Twitter is a micro-blog, Facebook “approximates” a real blog a lot closer with the same notion of less is more – personal authentic genuine self-posted trumps automation – and with the expectation that you will visit others profiles and pages and engage with them, just as we visit each others blogs.

Another thing about my page use that has helped it grow is encouraging OTHERS to share on it… asking questions, showcasing their stuff, highlighting others, promoting their page, different events each week. Facebook *IS* another blog in fact in the more real sense than Twitter is (although twitter also is). Both of these platforms have to be given their fair respect and enough time to be useful the same as a blog does. Each has a learning curve.

I’ve been pretty clear with my students that there is a lot to be learned and gained from good twitter use, but approaching the platform with pre-existing frustration and trying to adapt it to how they want it to work, rather than just learning to roll with its fail whales will only cause negative experiences and the same is certainly true of Facebook.

Looking at your profile on facebook – you’ve turned it into a Digg/Stumebleupon… a social bookmarking site… which almost always kills engagement. Facebook is a social networking site but not much of a social bookmarking site, yes links get shared but they cant be the only thing in the stream. I scrolled back 10 days and I see nothing about you personally, nothing about the family, no random tidbits, nothing about what you’re up to today, no one liners that open discussion for others to talk with you, nothing we would hangout and discuss over coffee, none of the stuff that will make the platform work. I counted three real comments you left for others in the last 10 days which is really low (though I know you’ve been sick). I did see real “personal” message from you back on the 5th, but it came through an application rather than the platform itself so it never would have made it into your friends top news and been seen. On the positive note the one thing you have going for you that most people struggle with is that your wall is not a spam-fest meaning when and if you ever decide to actually spend time with the platform you will not have any prior bad reputation to clean up. Its fine to leave the wall “idle” like this while you do other things but if you decide to be active with Facebook then you’re going to have to be willing to share a little bit about the Gail we want to know more about (rather than just the Gail’s business and blogging interests, which are more what a Page is for and even a page would need more personal touch).

You handle quite a few platforms like a champ and at the moment you don’t really have a need of Facebook and so it harms you little to just let it idle. It would be better though if you were able to lose the frustration and ulcer it gives you and accept it for what it is regardless of whether you ever decide to make anything more of it. It really takes a unique understanding and love of quirkiness to appreciate BOTH twitter and facebook and its why majority of people have their biases. I’d love to meet more that use both extensively but the numbers are slim and the people hide out in two very opinionated camps.
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Very innovative! thanks for sharing the tips which will prove to be very helpful in future as well…

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