Are Facebook fanpages really trafficated?

It all depends! The downfall is that it can be taken away at any moment. It depends on what the title and how "hot" it is.

And also I realize most fan pages become ghost towns after a while... even though they have thousands of "fans"... then they just degenerate into spam farms

I think what everyone is trying to achieve is this:

Be number one in search across all platforms that get the most traffic.

About 2 months ago I joined an affiliate program for some new social media site and I immediately did a keyword analysis for "earning cash online" and set up about a dozen pages with all different keyword variations in the title.

I did nothing to them. No promo, no nothing. I just got an email from my "affiliate manager" above me that said I had 3,000 members in Bangladesh and that I was going gangbusters.

So I checked all 12 of the pages and sure enough.....there were an average of 500 fans in each one.

How does this happen?

Well....if you set up fb fanpages correctly and then wait for them to get indexed, people do searches on fb and then join your group/page.

It's that simple. And with 750 million people using fb now....how can you ignore it?

I tried preaching this about 3 months ago in this forum and it was pooh poohed. People aren't convinced that fb is a good "selling mechanism"

It's not about selling mechanisms, it's about having a presence where people are. The sales come later.

Our Facebook page content gets 2 million views a month. It is on track to send us well over one million views to our website this year. This is all from a current fan base of 11K (although it grows at an exponential rate).

FB Pages work.

Good question. Very.

I too think it is over hyped. Mostly by the people selling stuff about FB of course.

I think a lot fo the demand by people to want a page comes from vanity and ego. It is very difficult to drive traffic to a Facebook page and get likes. As hard as it is with a normal webpage and I am actually better than average at both.

Most points have been touched on - your FanPage can be trafficked and useful if you're active on Facebook, interracting as your page in a popular niche. The second thing to do is get an optin form and a great ethical bribe on their to be able to contact them outside of Facebook.

If you know how to drive traffic, they can get a lot. Just like a website, you don't just put up a fan page and expect to get visitors.

It's about 1/2 as worth it as it was a month ago. Google+ is pulling a lot of numbers from Facebook, so I'd wait on investing a lot of resources into Facebook until we see just how popular the new social network is.

As with any other form of Internet Marketing you need to "divert" other sources of traffic to these pages to make them profitable - you can use viral "off topic" fanpages to direct traffic to your monetized fanpages. I generally only add the bells and whistles after they've started to receive traffic - if it converts well, then capitalize on it.

I was never big on Facebook, ignored anything to do with it, because I thought I didn't want to be bothered by old school/college mates etc.

Well, that all changed 5 months, when I launched a "community" type blog not at all meaning to make any money from it, I just wanted to share information. I decided to set up a Facebook Page(to reach my target audience) and the blog exploded, I now have advertisers, have companies offering me free stuff etc.

Of course, since then, I have been busy setting up Facebook Fan Pages for everything I do online. Almost anything can benefit from the millions of people on Facebook, you just have to know how to work your traffic.

A lot of people often talk about fan pages becoming "ghost towns", which is true, but that is up to the owner of the fan page. If you keep it alive, it stays alive. Not to mention, if you choose your keywords wisely, you get all that extra google traffic. Some of my blogs have BOTH the blog and the facebook page on the 1st page for the chosen keyword.

It is like anything else, what you get out of it, depends on how much you put into it. Be creative and set up a network of fan pages - each page has 5 featured likes(links to your other pages), use the tools that are there to help grow your Facebook and online presence. I treat my Facebook Pages as independent sites within a network of a growing web presence. They need TLC and marketing just like your blogs and other sites.

I personally feel it has more to do with the content and community of the page than the bells and whistles.

As much as I know I have a fan page that delivers 100 to 200 visits per day to my website..

I think it doesn't effect much but it also depend on you how you build fans. Let see my personal experience.

I have almost 1500+ fans but they invited through massive invitation, so they didn't effect on number of visitor nor any like.

Facebook is only get traffic but less sale for affiliate marketing.

Well. there is the Fanpage of Rihanna and her likes, these are heavily traficated for sure. But to my own exerpience: No, no and no. A fanpage of a medium to small site or blog - why should you visit the Facebook fanpage and not the site directly?

There is no question that FB can bring in traffic, but you have to update your page. Have to. If you don't update it regularly, it becomes one of those "ghost towns" people talk about above. But you can't just update, it has to be content that people comment on like, and share.

Why? Because FB uses an algorithm to display updates on your fan's front page of FB. The more likes, comments, and shares a post gets, the more likely you are to show up in their top news.

Heck, my personal profile gets me lots of hits when I post an update on my own blog, if the post is interesting and lots of people like or comment on it.

Of course they do. But it depends. What i mean is.... depends on what kind of fanpage/s you have.

I read an article last month stating that it was not a good idea to use your fan page as an e-commerce website. You should use it as a traffic generating method.