Eric Bateman

Sunday, November 30, 2014

Seeing is believing—Facebook Likes


What’s interesting about the bump in Facebook (by just a few people) can have some amazing results. In the three categories I found in Insights on my business Facebook page looked like this
Page likes 47 up 17% from last week.
Post Reach 13 down 13.3% from last week
Engagement 7 up 75% from last week
 The page likes are pretty straight forward (someone saw your page), but the post reach is how effective your page is. My low post reach had me concerned for a minute until I discovered exactly what it meant. On Facebook there is a system called EdgeRank. This algorithm sees the fan views and interaction of your page. So in plain terms, people liked me last week but bounced right off the page before any interaction could take place. So is that bad? Well, if those visitors came back and contributed next week the algorithm would improve (so don’t be a stranger). I also discovered that these numbers are typically very low no matter what you do.

Engagement is when there is a dialog between two people on Facebook such as comments, pictures etc. This is ideal from the algorithms perspective but not always practical a business owner.

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