Hello, my name is Jayne Corso and I am the community manager for American Evaluation Association and the voice behind the AEA Facebook page.
If you manage a company Facebook page, you might have noticed a drop off of “likes” recently. Facebook has begun removing memorialized and voluntarily deactivated accounts from Pages’ like counts. This change ensures that data on Facebook is consistent and up-to-date—but could mean a drop for your analytics. Although some Pages might lose “likes,” they could also gain a more accurate way to track their followers. I have compiled a few tips for tracking your analytics and gaining more visibility for your page.
Rad Resource: Take advantage of Facebook “Insights”
Facebook offers Page Insights after at least 30 people have liked your Page. Use this tool to understand how people are engaging with your Page. With this tool, you can see your Page’s growth, learn which posts have the most engagement, find demographic information about your audience, and identify when your audience is using Facebook. This data is available for free and can easily be customizable for time frame and downloaded to excel.
Rad Resource: Use Google Analytics to track effectiveness
Tracking your analytics through Google allows you to see how many people are coming to your site from social networks, understand the website pages they are most interested in, and gain a better understanding for how your audience is engaging with your web content. To find this information, enter your Google analytics account and go to “Acquisitions”. From here you can look at the performance of your social networks as an overview or look more specifically at referrals, activity, and user flow. All of this data allows you to gage the effectiveness of your social campaigns.
Hot Tips: Increase your Facebook likes
Finally here are a few simple tips for increasing the likes on your Facebook Page—hopefully you can make up for any followers you lost when Facebook made their changes.
- Add the Facebook icon to your website, so visitors know you have a presence on the social network (Place the icon high on the website page, near your navigation)
- Add the Facebook icon to your email communication or blog to reiterate your presence on Facebook to your subscribers
- Cross promote your Facebook page on your other social media sites. You may have followers on Twitter that have not liked your Facebook page or didn’t know you had a Page
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To be completely honest, I did not know that Facebook offered so many different features! I usually scroll up and down my page for a few minutes and log off. Creating a facebook page is a very postitive way to find people, promote your business and so on. Thanks for sharing the information!
Social media is a vicious activity. I have spent time linking my Google+ to my Instagram profile to recruit more viewers. The challenge is getting users to admit they like a page or photo. Most individuals want to remain incognito for whatever reasons. I would greatly appreciate a follow or like I spent the effort uploading that’s the least anyone can do.