So one of the first social media sites you really should be on is Facebook, a lot of people might think, well, Facebook is really more of a social network for people to just, you know, kind of have fun with their friends and chat with their friends and all this other stuff and, you know, look at things that are just, you know, completely irrelevant to business. But if you didn't realize you can actually create a Facebook business page. This is also a very, very important site that Google will look at, and kind of allocate into their rankings. I'm going to be talking about it a little bit more in the upcoming lectures after we go through some of these social media sites. But basically, one of the core factors to local SEO is that Google will actually look at all the different sites where you've listed your business, and they consider Facebook to be one of the top sites for doing that.

And since it is such a popular website, so I've actually gone over to facebook.com slash business, and what you can do is actually click on Create Page. From here, you're basically going to go ahead and do a local business or place and Login, just so we can get an example here, I'm not going to go all the way through the process, but pretty much it's going to be self explanatory, you're going to go through and select what type of business you are putting in your business information, and then do get started. From there. Once you've got it complete, you're going to have a business page, I'm actually going to go to one of mine. I'll go to the one for frozen weight media. And I really am not super active on Facebook, I literally just put up a profile photo, I've been a little bit more active on other places, I probably should be better about it.

But essentially, I put in a profile image. I also use Canva. To do some of these like this background image. You can use Canva to do that, just like I did with Google Plus. And you're going to want to make sure you add in all your information. I actually like I said, I haven't I just set this up.

So really, I haven't done a whole lot with it. But you can add in things like your website URL, your phone number, your address. You want to make sure you have lots of photos kind of going over your business and what you're all about. in the about section, you can fill that out with some information. You know, like these different things here, like a mission when you were founded, I would make sure to completely fill this out. Obviously, this stuff can take time.

As you can see, I haven't even gotten to it, I've been so focused on actually working on my business I just haven't gotten to it. Another thing you can do is click on this create a call to action. I'll actually go ahead and do it now. Because this is kind of a cool thing. You could do call now or shop now, depending on what type of business you're doing, but let's just say call now would probably meet, you know, most people's examples. And then here you put in a phone number, and this will actually show up as another button here to close out of it.

I'm not going to do it right now. But it'll show up as another button right here. So people once they, once they, you know, come upon your page, they could click on that and call you directly it'd be a lot easier than you know sending people to your website first or trying to find your phone number and other areas. You can also set up other tabs here. Maybe you want to feature a video or you know a photo or something else. You could put some of that stuff up here and that be useful as well.

So, thanks for watching this video and next I'm going to show you a couple more sites.