That’s my daily battle. I’m looking for something in my country, and there are these “businesses” that only show on Facebook or Instagram, both of which are entirely blocked at the network and device level in my house. So I’ll never do business with them. If you don’t have an actual web site with relevant information, I just keep looking.
The silver lining of having friends that won’t leave those platforms for nothing in the world is being able to interact with those businesses through them.
Even for companies that have sites, they often get more people contacting them through social media instead of their site. Social media sites tend to have better SEO.
I guess… But if your web presence is only on Facebook and that’s the first result I see then … hard pass
That’s my daily battle. I’m looking for something in my country, and there are these “businesses” that only show on Facebook or Instagram, both of which are entirely blocked at the network and device level in my house. So I’ll never do business with them. If you don’t have an actual web site with relevant information, I just keep looking.
The silver lining of having friends that won’t leave those platforms for nothing in the world is being able to interact with those businesses through them.
Demanding a small business has their own website before you do business with them is peak Lemmy.
This site is way out of touch with what the typical person has the knowledge or time to do.
Same here
But he has a website… He’s just saying Facebook denied him additional exposure unfairly.
Even for companies that have sites, they often get more people contacting them through social media instead of their site. Social media sites tend to have better SEO.
That’s especially the case for younger people as they search Instagram and TikTok more than Google. (https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnkoetsier/2024/03/11/genz-dumping-google-for-tiktok-instagram-as-social-search-wins/ ).