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Post by admin on Sept 24, 2012 15:33:19 GMT -8
Greetings, As you may know I have a Facebook page for our site. It's been up about a year: www.facebook.com/insectnet?sk=wallI'm wondering if it is doing any good for InsectNet.com in terms of getting more traffic over here: forum signups, advertisers, ad posters, etc. My question to you: How many of you discovered InsectNet for the first time through our Facebook page? Please reply here if you did. I'm also interested in any of your related comments about insect specimen trading on Facebook in general. Thanks, from sunny California  |
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Post by wollastoni on Sept 25, 2012 4:10:49 GMT -8
About insect trading on Facebook, it is not efficient for the moment (a lot of crooks, or amateur sellers) ... not sure it will be in the future.
But Facebook is great to better know other entomologists and to organize appointments, collecting trips and so on.
Facebook and InsectNet are very complementary.
Then I am sure Facebook drives a lot of traffic to your website when you advertise some interesting topic on it. Facebook drives about 30 people per day on my website when I advertise it.
Additional facebook strength : we have created a small group of Delias collectors and each time one has an interesting news (taxonomic issue, need of one book, new species discovered...), he can inform the small community in direct.
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Post by admin on Sept 26, 2012 10:32:36 GMT -8
Then I am sure Facebook drives a lot of traffic to your website when you advertise some interesting topic on it. Facebook drives about 30 people per day on my website when I advertise it. How did you determine this? |
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Post by wollastoni on Sept 26, 2012 12:43:38 GMT -8
Don't you use Google Analytics on your website ?
It enables you to know how many people visits your website everyday, if they are new visitors or not, their nationality and how they reach your website (via google, or via a referral site (like Facebook), which pages they visit and so on.
It gives you millions of useful information to optimize your website traffic.
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Post by admin on Sept 28, 2012 13:02:01 GMT -8
Don't you use Google Analytics on your website ? It enables you to know how many people visits your website everyday, if they are new visitors or not, their nationality and how they reach your website (via google, or via a referral site (like Facebook), which pages they visit and so on. It gives you millions of useful information to optimize your website traffic. I don't use Google for that. My web host will tell me the same things, but I haven't actually checked that for visitors coming in from Facebook. Perhaps I should. Thanks. |
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