Making It Easier to Connect With Me on Twitter and Facebook
Since I want to start playing around with and using social media sites to drive more traffic to my Blog and to help my readers stay connected with me, I decided to make it way easier to connect with me on Twitter and Facebook.
Previously, I don’t really even know how people found me on Twitter. I guess they searched for my name or something. I do have a link on my About Me page but that’s about it. Anyway, I wanted to make the links to my Twitter and Facebook pages really stand out so I put them above the fold and gave them a lot of real estate on the page.
Take a look:
What do you guys think? Are the buttons big enough? I think you have to be pretty much half blind not to see them right? One thing I was wondering when I was putting together the button was whether or not I needed to have the text say “Click Here” or something. Do you think that it’s self explanatory enough to say “Follow Me on Twitter” and if people want to follow me they’ll know to click on the graphic, or should I modify the image and add a “CLICK” element to it?
I wonder how many more followers I’ll get now that I made the buttons much more visible on my front page. As of this moment I have 167 Twitter Followers, so we’ll see how quickly it grows from here.
Do you have a “Follow Me” button on your Blog. If you do, leave a comment with your Blog URL below and if I can find your Twitter button within 30 seconds of landing on your home page I’ll follow you. Maybe others will too.
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I was wondering what celebrities have Facebook and Twitter. And what are their real pages. The main celebrities I am looking for is anyone from Twilight.
I think it is a good size, big enough to be noticed and small enough not to take too much away from the site.
The one on my site is match more blended, I actually show some recent tweets rather than focusing on a button. I guess I’m more interested in people following me because they see interesting content in my tweets. I can’t stand twitter spam.
Different goals puts you in different holes.
Hi Paul,
I followed you on Twitter and befriended you on Facebook as a result of your new buttons. I already use Twitter and Facebook so I didn’t need the buttons to say “click here” or anything (but other people might; I guess you’ll have to see what results you get from your audience).
It’s interesting: I’m sure I could have found you on Facebook or Twitter, but until I was promoted with an “easy”, “yes, Paul’s on Twitter and Facebook,” I didn’t feel compelled to make that connection.
Hopefully that feedback helps.
– Bruce
…one last note: what I think is really wise is that you made a blog post about being on Twitter and Facebook, and you made it more interesting than just saying “I’m on Twitter and Facebook.” The title actual made me want to check out the blog post since I thought it might have some ideas worth reading.
From a marketing perspective, that combo of (A) mentioning that you’re on Twitter and Facebook, and (B) making the post where you mention it actually interesting means you’ll get a decent chance to expose your content and ideas to at least one more person (i.e. me
).
@Bruce: Yes, your feedback helps. I have gotten a whole crapload of more Twitter followers as a result of making those changes and writing the post. So I guess the strategy works.
Now others can apply the same strategy if they want to build followers.
Thanks for the follow.