Nowadays getting traffic from Facebook is being the most difficult task. Some of you definitely will not agree with me because they have already Facebook page since last few years with tens of thousand and even hundreds of thousand followers. They have enjoyed their honeymoon period but bloggers like many of you who have just started blogging and created a Facebook page to get traffic to food blog from Facebook. But people who spend a lot of time and write only on digital marketing tricks can have huge FB followers. But what about us who had to spend a lot of time in other tasks like traveling new places, 😉 cooking and exploring new street foods 😀 . We definitely have to find an about of the box tips to get traffic to food blog from Facebook to survive. What do you say?
Basic tips to get traffic to food blog from Facebook
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Create own FB page:
Create your own Facebook page for your blog, put a nice profile picture and wall paper. Write something about your blog in about section and start sharing your blog posts. Share your own blog posts, others posts, share some important updates and ask something interesting to your followers on FB page. Allocate fixed time for doing so and do not for getting to interact with your audiences.
Create FB group:
Create a GB group for people with similar interest. Interact with your group members actively. Share anything important comes in your mind, reply to the query of your other members. This activity may be little time consumable and not so effective to every type of blogs. So take helps your friends or appoint somebody to manage this or start doing so later on when you will start getting a certain amount of traffic every day.
Use similar public FB groups:
This is the easiest way to get some social traffic to your blog and that too so easily. Your first task is to find out some FB group which are related to your blog topic. Those FB groups must be public groups where you can share your posts weekly. So select such 7 groups and allocate each day of a week for one particular group. Now start sharing your blog posts every day on such groups and you will have different FB group for each day. This way you will get some traffic and very much effective for initial days when you have just started blogging.
Use your own FB profile’s wall:
Sharing blog posts on your FB wall may attract some traffic as your friends and family will come to know about it and they may show interest about what you wrote. This may work to some extent but not sustainable as once you will start sharing such posts on your wall then many unknown people will show interest to be your friend what will irritating because every day you will see a lot of friend requests. If you accept their friend requests then your friend list will be full of unknown people what you definitely do not want. I also started doing so and neglected FB page of this blog. I did this mistake because initially I was getting good traffic and so I was happy. But I never understood that it would be a great blunder of my blogging journey.
Food bloggers like me who can spend less time (or have less knowledge in digital marketing) to grow Fb page followers but still want to get traffic to food blog from Facebook can try these tips, those tips may help you to some extent if you can afford few minutes in a day or do some productive when you are just surfing the internet in your leisure time. |
Tips to survive with fewer Facebook followers
- Build an FB page what you can call the mother of all of your FB page. 😉 . You definitely follow movies, fashion, entertainment news on the internet. AND kill some time during the whole day. Is it true? Then BINGO! You just need to create an FB community page about movies/ entertainment. AND start sharing whatever you will read or want to read. You can definitely share at-least 10-15 without any effort. You can even share movie trailer, comedy comment, anything related to entertainment. I think that you can do effortlessly. But do not specify any time for that. Just start doing so whenever you will read some thing and want to read in future, just share it on the page. AND also start liking few of those shared posts after one or two days. This FB page will be an asset for you. After 2-3 months you can start sharing one or two posts of your any blog. BUT TRY THIS TRICK ONLY YOU HAVE INTEREST IN MOVIES, MUSIC, COMEDY ETC. Otherwise, drop this trick and move ahead.
- Nowadays if you have a food blog then you can not get traffic to food blog from Facebook page without cooking videos. Actually Facebook new feature – Auto streaming video kills the effectiveness of food photos. Most FB users nowadays are interested in watching cooking videos or food related videos. But not everybody can create good videos, so you NEVER can draw attention without food videos. So you definitely need photos on your FB page. In such case, you can try a trick for just limited period (suppose one month). The trick is, start sharing food videos from Youtube and other sites on your FB page. It will definitely draw the attention of Facebook users. AND they will start following your FB page. But two risks are there. First, you will redirect your existing fans towards other site and your new followers may leave you after the campaign when you will stop sharing those videos. But you can take that risk if you are really not getting FB follower.
Also read
Why should you think again before starting a food blog?
5 things to do before you start your food blog
How to be a successful food blogger? – Must know this now
What do you say? Are you interested in increasing website traffic this way? If not then you can hangout on some other sites on check some other tricks on my page also. But if you want to really leave this page then before leaving I would request you to share your opinion here. I will be happier if any food blogger shares an opinion here by leaving a short comment below.
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