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At FinCon, we found out that most bloggers are not doing a good job with Facebook and we all need to do better. 

I'm trying to do more on Facebook, but I haven't seen much impact yet.
- post more pictures

- post more personal status updates

- ?

Any of you guys getting good traffic from Facebook? Any tips?

JD Roth is doing a great job on Facebook. I really like his status updates. 

Twitter on the other hand is more useful for keeping up with blogger friends.  

I get about the same amount of referral from Facebook and Twitter. Facebook visitors spend a bit more time on the site. 

I have 58 likes on Facebook and over 1250 followers on Twitter.  Even when I do update Facebook or promote it somehow, I can still get 10 Twitter followers for every new Facebook like.  With limited time to dedicate to building my social media, I would rather not slow down the Twitter growth for the sake of maybe getting a few more likes.  Meaning that by and large my Facebook presence is non-existant. 

If there's a better way other than trying to dedicate more time (which I really don't have) or paying someone to manage (which isn't ideal), I'd be interested to hear your thoughts.

I think if you don't have time to do it, then it's probably not worth it. 

Keep in mind that successful bloggers like Rami Sethi and JD Roth poopoo the whole social media promotion. 

I have about 2x twitter followers than facebook fans and I get about the same traffic from both.

Facebook seems like such a missed opportunity though…

Twitter is all the way for me. I get traffic, I made some great friends, people from Twitter who spent quite a bit on my site, I talk and interact. I just love Twitter. FB never did it for me. It is okay but I'd rather be tweeting. :)

Perhaps I am in the minority.  I have 9x more Twitter users than Facebook users.  I've had a Twitter account for almost a year longer than a Facebook account. 

Facebook has sent 100 more visitors to my blog than Twitter for all time.  Twitter takes more time and effort than Facebook.  I literally post a link when I publish and then maybe a random fact or two between posts and that's it.

I do like interacting on Twitter, but my Facebook community gets a much bigger bang for the buck, er effort. Make your Facebook page visually appealing and it will work for you.  I've been approached for reality shows through my Facebook account.  Don't neglect it!

Facebook is my biggest referrer after search. Mostly because when my wife writes, she'll post about it and she has an amazing network of friends online.

I haven't been able to put a ton of time into social media, but I think the most important thing is the interactions. I feel that Facebook has a MUCH better opportunity for this than twitter.

I'm shutting down both and only using G+…

Twitter is my hub, but get a bit of traffic from FB too with the little promotion I do. I Use Buffer or Hootsuite and post the same content to FB, but don't spend more than 5 minutes on FB. 

In real life I like FB much better than Twitter, but for blogging purposes I like Twitter better. Since I blog anonymously (for now at least), I find it really hard to promote my FB page because it's linked to my personal account. Networking on Twitter is just easier because I have an entirely separate account for my blog.

What I do is link Twitter to FB, so all my Twitter posts get posted on my FB page as well. So if someone other than my mom does happen to look at my FB page, at least there's something there.

I like Twitter better than Facebook. Mainly because Twitter is much more interactive & easier to spread links around.   I find getting Facebook likes is too hard (for me at least) and now with some of FB's changes its not even guaranteed that all your FB posts are being seen by those who like your page. 

RB40, you mention JD Roth and Ramit poopoo'ing promotion thru social media, but I'd wager a guess that each of them had already built a very large audience before FB and Twitter really "exploded"