Want to grow your business? Then stop wasting your time with these three things!
Facebook groups
Building and/or being a part of a community is a great thing but it’s a matter of how you use it.
Facebook groups are great if you’re:
- seeking advice
- troubleshooting an issue on your website
- looking to collaborate on an upcoming post
But using them to inflate statistics like:
- blog page views
- Pinterest or other social media followers
- Pinterest repins and reshares
is going to do nothing for your business in the long run.
Instagram engagement groups
As someone who was once guilty of this one, I can tell you that engagement groups made me hate Instagram!
When a fellow Instagram mom invited me to one, I was excited and figured it would be similar to using Tailwind for Pinterest – boy, was I wrong!
Every time you’re about to post, you wonder how long it’ll take to reciprocate to all of the other people sharing their links and when you do receive comments on your posts, most people approach it with a “my time is more valuable than yours attitude”.
Get ready fire emojis, “nice shot”, and other irrelevant feedback from people who didn’t bother to read what you have to say!
Engagement groups also disrupt your analytics – you can’t tell if a post is actually performing because a lot of the feedback isn’t authentic.
I love that Instagram has cracked down on engagement groups and has started removing pods and accounts who are active in them – because it’s against Instagram’s policy (see Foster meaningful and genuine interactions).
You’ve been warned!
Asking for backlinks
As someone who gets these emails almost daily, I find it incredibly annoying!
Instead of asking other bloggers for links on their sites, focus on creating quality content that people want to share!
Here’s one of my favourite quotes and I think it really reflects this point.
Hi,
If I don’t have much time I like to pick topics for my next blog posts and do keyword research.
I also search for stock photos to use on new pins.
Adding draft posts to WordPress with just the title or the first paragraph so I know I have to do it.
Taking care of my son and the house gives me little time to dedicate to my blog so all your suggestions are most welcome.
Thanks!
Yes! Love these ideas, especially the idea to organize your “blog” folder! I think I am constantly needing to go in to that folder to put new items away and save what needs to be changed! Great post!