Is anyone using FB or Twitter to promote?

I'm using both Twitter and Facebook, linking Twitter into Facebook to automatically post my "tweets" on my Facebook wall.

It's not a perfect system, and mostly it just keeps people that are already a member on my forums in touch with new information. Occasionally, it gets a new member, but not much of the time.
 
I do have its facebook and twitter page, though, to be honest, I don't devote myself to promote the site. I like more trying to retweet interesting info i come across and keep in touch with some people.
 
I do have a fan page for EP, but although I have 200 fans, I have no seen much progress out of it.
 
xfire is something im already looking into now.. hoping that it brings some results!
 
can someone explain to me exactly how twitter works with getting more guests to view your site?
 
i use facebook, ive integrated it with my forum, i get a lot of facebook registrations, and likes etcc;
 
Unless you've got a variety of forum-geeky friends or some followers, advertising on FB or Twitter doesn't work. The only reason I don't advertise is because I have no friends and 0 followers.
 
I've never known of advertising with Facebook and Twitter; but I am able to see how they can aid in promoting your website/forum. It does make sense that it will at least provide you with backlinks and the indexing of th pages by Google upon crawling will possibly gain some traffic and search results or your website -- be the backlinks nofollow or dofollow.
 
I have about 1800 connections on facebook, and only 30 or maybe a little more have joined my forum. AND about 20 more of my facebook connections keep saying they will and never have gotten around to it. Yep meaning they were one of those who made a promise that they never intended to keep. That is one of my biggest pet peeves.
 
Again guys, trying to get people to join over Facebook for your forums is hard. Unless you have a GOOD niche that people actually care about. Keep in the mind the majority of people on Facebook are average joes, most dont even know what a forum is.

If your adverising a "promotion" forum (which I think most people on here are), its going to be hard via Facebook.

Now if you have a Halo forum, join halo groups. Join Halo fan pages, post on them. Look at all the people who post on the wall and add them. PERSONALLY talk to them and give them a pitch to join your froum. You need to be very pro-active getting people to JOIN your website over Facebook. Many will look, most wont join.
 
tech4talk said:
Now if you have a Halo forum, join halo groups. Join Halo fan pages, post on them. Look at all the people who post on the wall and add them. PERSONALLY talk to them and give them a pitch to join your froum. You need to be very pro-active getting people to JOIN your website over Facebook. Many will look, most wont join.
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This, I agree with. But much much more established brands/niches are easier to pull in from facebook - Call of Duty being one of them. I know a COD forum that pulls in half of their youtube/twitter followers...
 
Scove said:
Yea i have failed to see much response from FB or Twitter! I dont use it as my only source but i thought it would become a more reliable one.. Anyone doing anything specific to gain fans?
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I have a facebook page with over 1000 members, my forum just over two months old has under 100, so that should tell you something, loads of followers on Twitter as well. not all people like to post on forums, so whilst they like the updates and stuff, they don't really want to talk about it, I've also found affiliating doesn't work that well either, and it's very rarely like for like, my affiliate buttons are on the main forum page and on the portal page, most of the sites I've affiliated with have buried my link on a link page somewhere, where people would actually have to stumble over it to find it.
 
I use a RSS Feed to send new topics created directly to twitter and facebook. Granted I don't have any followers, and I doubt I ever will, it's still a great way for users to see new topics as they are created without having to constantly check the forum and search. We'll see if it ever works out once I start getting a community going.
 
Facebook is a no. It doesn't help whatsoever. Twitter on the other hand is actually not terrible. It makes a good "blog" when you don't need a blog.
 
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