Your Facebook page is not a website. I know it feels like one. You post, people comment, work comes in, and the whole thing costs you nothing but time.
Then one Tuesday the reach drops by eighty percent and nobody can tell you why.
Every follower, every photo, every review sitting on that page exists because a company you have never spoken to allows it to. They can change the rules on a Tuesday. They do, regularly, and they are not obliged to warn you.
Ask around. Everyone knows someone whose page got flagged by an automated system for a reason nobody could explain, and whose appeal went into a queue and never came out.
A domain is different. It is registered to you. Fall out with your host and you move the whole thing somewhere else on a weekend.
They search Google. Then they phone whoever looks like they can be there by morning.
That is the split nobody explains properly. Social is where people browse. Search is where they buy. A Facebook page almost never shows up for someone typing your trade and your town — and that is the exact moment money changes hands.
Not to send them to you. That is the entire business model, and it is why outbound links get throttled while another video gets pushed.
Your website has no such conflict. Its only job is turning a stranger into a phone call. Services, proof, pricing, a way to reach you — all in one place, with nothing else competing for attention.
For a fifty dollar job, a Facebook page is fine.
For a commercial contract, a renovation, anything where somebody is handing you real money, they check. And a business with only a social page reads as smaller and more temporary than the same business with a proper site. Unfair, maybe. Consistently true, definitely. It bites hardest on exactly the high-margin work you actually want.
Social for reach and personality. Website for capturing the people it reaches, plus everyone who never saw a single post.
If you have poured years into one and nothing into the other, you already know which half is missing. Start small. Five pages that load fast and say what you do beats a thirty-page site you abandon in March.
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