I have a love-hate relationship with Facebook right now. I am not a fan of Timeline, but they moved my blog page over and then my personal and now I am being hassled to "promote" my blog page by paying them money, otherwise they hide my content. I decided not to pay up and then I watched my numbers drop. I do not have a budget for advertising, I pay for hosting and that is about it. I have never even paid a designer for art (although a friend has given me some) and I did all my formatting for my Kindle books myself. The less I spend on the blog, the less I am tempted to accept paid posts for things like Cheerios and Tide. I have never accepted a sponsored post for a product I would be embarrassed to endorse because, in the end, my integrity is worth more than a lame pittance of a check.
But they are putting the pressure on me in the form of killing my numbers. Rather than comply, I am asking you to do me a favor and run interference. You can still get my content and it will be free for both of us. Here is how:
- Like my page. Pretty basic first step.
- Hover over the "Like" button until you get a drop down menu and click "Add to newsfeed".
- In that same drop down menu, click "New List" and add my page to your list, you can name yours (mine is just favorites).
- Then click on your "Home" button. There you should look down the left sidebar and look under "Interests" for your new list. You can click on this list at anytime and see all your favorite blogs.
- You can also visit your favorite places and add them to your favorites list by hovering over "Liked" and then clicking both "Add to newsfeed" and the name of your list.
- Seem pretty complicated? HERE is a great blog post with screenshots to make it clear, super big thanks to Whole New Mom for putting it together!
Thanks so much for understanding!
I don't use Facebook as I know they have unethical practices and your message is just the proof of one more... I follow your blog faithfully and will continue to do so. If you were only on Facebook I would not have found your information. Probably some people do the contraty, oh well.
ReplyDeleteFB is such a pain! Thanks so much for your support, I can't tell you how much appreciation I feel.
DeleteI despise, Facebook and therefore do not have an account however, I will promote you as much as I can on, Twitter and Google+. Google+ having been forced upon me because of my blog being on blogger and my gmail account but there you go. Making lemonade!
ReplyDeleteI did not get a FB until February. It has been a steep learning curve and now all the "fees" to promote my page? Geez.
DeleteThanks for posting this. I was literally just complaining about this yesterday!! I hope this fixes the problem and I can see all my favorite bloggers in a feed again. It's very frustrating. I wouldn't "Like" the page if I didn't want to see what you post!! :)
ReplyDeleteEverybody was disappearing off my feed, too, so I figured that many other bloggers were choosing not to pay those fees. The latest nonsense is setting a per month ad budget. You are essentially paying for likes, and every time someone likes your sidebar ad, you get charged until your account is depleted. Yay, I always wanted to pay people for other people to be my friend!
DeleteUpdate. Google, which is the momma bear behind blogger, is pressuring people to use Google Chrome by making blogger incompatible with whatever serve you want to have that is not Google Chrome. In my case, this means they are deliberately making blogger not work with Firefox. They could and it would not be a big deal to do so, but I will be holding out for as long as I can on my Firefox server. The internet is yet another frontier of information freedom being overtaken and controlled by the bigger entities. Sigh.
ReplyDeleteUpdate. Google, which is the momma bear behind blogger, is pressuring people to use Google Chrome by making blogger incompatible with whatever serve you want to have that is not Google Chrome. In my case, this means they are deliberately making blogger not work with Firefox. They could and it would not be a big deal to do so, but I will be holding out for as long as I can on my Firefox server. The internet is yet another frontier of information freedom being overtaken and controlled by the bigger entities. Sigh.
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