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Maintenance Planned: Know What to Do

November 27, 2012 by Ryan's Rally LLC 8 Comments

A New Look Coming

I am planning on working on this website sometime this week. Maybe even beginning as early as today. It’s bourne of frustration. So often, when I try to make an improvement, the website’s display misbehaves. Most often this is apparent in, and above, the page menus. I’m sure most of you know what I’m talking about and have seen it yourself. I know where the problem exists (within my theme structure), but don’t know how to fix it! So frustrating. 

My solution is to upload and install a new and different theme. What’s that mean to you? Well, things will look different. It is also more powerful, allowing for many more features. One I’m most excited about is an online store!

via firstinseach.com

It’s not my plan to take the site completely offline. I hope that it remains live throughout. The trade-off is it might look crazy for a while, or sporadically from time-to-time. I suppose if it get’s too confusing (for the reader) it’ll be best to shut er’ down for a bit. 

During this process, that I hope will only take a day or two, I’ll keep everyone updated on Ryan’s Facebook Fan Page.

 

Facebook Double-Cross

Which reminds me… and pay attention here, folks! Facebook pulled a stunt several months ago that hurts businesses and websites, like ours. It also affects personal Facebook users— like yourself — and big companies. But, a mega company has the financial resources to not even blink at the change. It use to be that anyone who “liked” a Fan Page (or were on your friend list) would get their personal news feeds updated when content was added. Not anymore. Even though I post an update, it only reaches about sixteen percent of registered fans. These are, ironically, the people who regularly visit anyhow. In truth, I do significantly better (at a 45% reach) which means Ryan’s Fan Page is quite a bit more engaging than the average one out there. If Facebook wants me to reach more fans (but not all!), called “Promoted Posts”, it would cost $7 per post. This means it would cost a minimum of $2,500 a year.

That, my friends, is nothing short of being double-crossed!

Obviously, the best solution is to regularly visit this website, ryansrally.org, and screw depending on Facebook. May I suggest adding a bookmark in your browser and visiting daily? Anyhow, this is why it is so important to me when you share the updates I post to Facebook. Actually, it’s critical. You see, I reach sixteen percent of Ryan’s Facebook fans and when you share it, it then extends to sixteen percent of your friends. Did I explain this well enough? No? If you’re interested in understanding this in more depth, I found an article that seems the most unbiased that explains it well.

So, the lesson here is to not rely on Facebook to alert you, via your news feed, that I posted a status update. The only way to do it correctly is to visit Ryan’s Facebook Fan Page on your own. It might also be a good idea to visit some of your friend’s pages that you haven’t heard from in a while to see if you missed anything.

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Filed Under: News Tagged With: Austin Vantrease, Blog, Jonathan May, Ryan Diviney

Comments

  1. Mike F. says

    November 28, 2012 at 9:40 PM

    Site looks great, Ken!! Good job on the upgrade, looks like everything went smoothly.

    Reply
    • ryansrally.org says

      November 28, 2012 at 9:42 PM

      I just wanted to get it looking roughly the same to start. Now I can add the features!

      Reply
      • Mike F. says

        November 28, 2012 at 9:45 PM

        Well you did a great job! LMK if you have any questions or need help.

  2. Rita Caporicci Hoop via Facebook says

    November 28, 2012 at 11:29 AM

    Don’t worry… we’ll keep sharing and promoting Ryan for FREE!

    Reply
  3. Paula says

    November 28, 2012 at 2:43 AM

    Very interesting, Ken. I’m not liking Facebook’s tactics at all. I feel your frustration, and I’m glad you’re explaining it so we can all understand. I hope your website doesn’t go down as you modify it, but at least I’ll know why if it does. The new changes sound great, I’m looking forward to seeing what you do. You have the gifts of understanding technology, and also being very innovative. That’s why this website/blog is so awesome 🙂

    Hoping your day has been a smooth one, and that the night will bring you good rest. Thinking of your family, and praying for you. Please give Ryan a big hug from me!!
    Love, hugs, prayers continuing…
    Paula

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  4. Anna says

    November 27, 2012 at 10:54 PM

    Today is certainly a post to share. Peopleare not aware of this latest Facebook gotcha!

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  5. Gail Doyle says

    November 27, 2012 at 7:43 PM

    Ken ,Whatever you have to do so more see your posts ,go to it. Don’t completely undersatnd ,like Carla, you two are computer whizzes 🙂 But I’m always on anything to do with Ryan
    Need a session with you 2:)
    love Gail

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  6. Carla Liberty says

    November 27, 2012 at 6:19 PM

    Feeling your frustration. Always, always here, and always try to share your statuses. I didn’t realize that Facebook was doing this, though I figured something was up because I’ve been seeing quite a bit of “Promote” pages on my Facebook feed. Didn’t realize you have to pay to promote. My goodness what’s next? Keep on keepin’ on, Ken. Team Diviney’s got your back 🙂

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