Comments on: Followers, Fans or Emails? What do You Want? http://www.searchengineoptimizationjournal.com/2010/03/17/followers-fans/ Search Engine Optimization Journal is an SEO Blog that contains usefule articles, tips, resources and news about SEO. Thu, 02 Feb 2012 18:02:06 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Nick Stamoulis http://www.searchengineoptimizationjournal.com/2010/03/17/followers-fans/comment-page-1/#comment-98702 Nick Stamoulis Fri, 16 Apr 2010 17:19:45 +0000 http://www.searchengineoptimizationjournal.com/?p=10343#comment-98702 Hi Theresa, Thanks for reading and for sharing your experiences with social media, email marketing and search marketing. Other than Google, Yahoo and Bing, I do not know of any other good, powerful search engines...I think the one piece of advice that I can give you is that all aspects of internet marketing (SEO, PPC, Social Media, Email Marketing, etc.) all should work together and build over time towards the same business goals. Anyway, thanks again for commenting and for reading! Nick Hi Theresa,
Thanks for reading and for sharing your experiences with social media, email marketing and search marketing. Other than Google, Yahoo and Bing, I do not know of any other good, powerful search engines…I think the one piece of advice that I can give you is that all aspects of internet marketing (SEO, PPC, Social Media, Email Marketing, etc.) all should work together and build over time towards the same business goals.

Anyway, thanks again for commenting and for reading!
Nick

]]> By: Theresa M. Moore http://www.searchengineoptimizationjournal.com/2010/03/17/followers-fans/comment-page-1/#comment-98699 Theresa M. Moore Fri, 16 Apr 2010 17:15:06 +0000 http://www.searchengineoptimizationjournal.com/?p=10343#comment-98699 I left Facebook because of their privacy issue, and the only emails I got were from people wanting me to follow <b>them</b>. As a B2C platform Facebook sucks. As for Twitter, I do enough to keep my brand visible and I attract new followers each day, but no sales have originated from it. I have done email campaigns, joined social networks, revamped my site SEVERAL times, rechecked my keywords, and done everything else to make my site visible, but I suspect that the one reason that no one wants to buy direct from me is interference of some kind from Google, which is the main hosting element I use aside from my own web provider. I have no idea how many people from Yahoo or MSN may have been locked out. When I have tried to navigate Google myself I have run into timeouts, lag time and freezeups. If you recommend another good search engine I will move to it. I left Facebook because of their privacy issue, and the only emails I got were from people wanting me to follow them. As a B2C platform Facebook sucks. As for Twitter, I do enough to keep my brand visible and I attract new followers each day, but no sales have originated from it. I have done email campaigns, joined social networks, revamped my site SEVERAL times, rechecked my keywords, and done everything else to make my site visible, but I suspect that the one reason that no one wants to buy direct from me is interference of some kind from Google, which is the main hosting element I use aside from my own web provider. I have no idea how many people from Yahoo or MSN may have been locked out. When I have tried to navigate Google myself I have run into timeouts, lag time and freezeups. If you recommend another good search engine I will move to it.

]]> By: Nick Stamoulis http://www.searchengineoptimizationjournal.com/2010/03/17/followers-fans/comment-page-1/#comment-96783 Nick Stamoulis Wed, 17 Mar 2010 21:22:42 +0000 http://www.searchengineoptimizationjournal.com/?p=10343#comment-96783 Hi Jeff, Thanks for reading, yeah email lists are so very important...I look at building an email list as a tangible equity in the business... :) Hi Jeff,
Thanks for reading, yeah email lists are so very important…I look at building an email list as a tangible equity in the business… :)

]]> By: Jeff Ente http://www.searchengineoptimizationjournal.com/2010/03/17/followers-fans/comment-page-1/#comment-96782 Jeff Ente Wed, 17 Mar 2010 21:05:13 +0000 http://www.searchengineoptimizationjournal.com/?p=10343#comment-96782 I don't think it's close - the email list is much more valuable than Twitter followers. If you manage your list correctly you can get a large percentage of them to respond to your email. With Twitter you are lucky if they even see your 140 characters, especially if they follow thousands of other people. I think Facebook fans are somewhere in the middle but still not not nearly as valuable as an email address. I don’t think it’s close – the email list is much more valuable than Twitter followers. If you manage your list correctly you can get a large percentage of them to respond to your email. With Twitter you are lucky if they even see your 140 characters, especially if they follow thousands of other people.

I think Facebook fans are somewhere in the middle but still not not nearly as valuable as an email address.

]]> By: SysComm http://www.searchengineoptimizationjournal.com/2010/03/17/followers-fans/comment-page-1/#comment-96742 SysComm Wed, 17 Mar 2010 10:26:08 +0000 http://www.searchengineoptimizationjournal.com/?p=10343#comment-96742 Well...ALL: followers, emails and emails! Of course, it depends on the objectives of your strategy, the type of business as well as its size. But for larger businesses all three are important! Well…ALL: followers, emails and emails! Of course, it depends on the objectives of your strategy, the type of business as well as its size. But for larger businesses all three are important!

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