Originally Posted by
ricktas
I have facebook, its the only social media site I use. whereas a lot of the photographers I know on facebook have instagram, snapchat, google+, 500px, twitter and all these other social things as well. They often seem to post to instagram and then copy that post to facebook, snapchat and then everything is duplicated across all their social media. They have big discussions on which is the best for getting noticed more, and talk about the demographic of those who 'like' their posts. For them it is all about getting noticed, getting likes etc and almost competing with each other, not over great photos, but about who gets more likes, etc. They often will put up 3-4 versions of the same photo and advise they are entering a competition and ask their likers to tell them which version to enter.
They play a numbers game. It is all about who has the furthest 'reach' on social media. They have probably realised that if you have 500 likers and you occasionally get someone wanting to buy a photo, then having 500,000 likers means that occasionally become more frequent.
Blogs, I have friends who have won the best food blog in Tasmania (not sure how it is judged??), who from that got invited to go to Europe and visit countries and via the various countries tourism boards, promote those countries. They to link their blog into facebook, instagram etc. They are currently in Bulgaria, blogging about the best burger joints in Sofia. They don't promote themselves on their blog, they have always promoted the places they went. Whether that be a pub, restaurant, cafe, town, city, region etc. So perhaps consider that with your blog. Write and show photos of where you went, link to local businesses, etc. Make it about the locations, reasons for going there etc, not all about yourself.
Whatever you do, it appears the best thing you can do is cross-pollinate around the social media platforms and beg for likers, cause the more likers you get the better when it comes to blogs and social media.
I don't personally use facebook this way. I have just over 100 facebook friends, who except for about 5, I have met in real life. So you need to decide what you want from your blog/facebook page and if it is just to share your photos and stories with friends, or if you want to market it to a wider audience, how you are going to do that? And who is that audience and how do you attract them to your blog?