I am still trying to work Facebook out. It drives me crazy some days. I use it a lot and it is useful for promoting my blog, but sometimes I can’t work out why some Facebook updates get a lot of attention and other days it does nothing for me.
Over the weekend I shared a blog post title: My house 18 months ago and now…
Then I started to look at the reach numbers and they kept climbing and climbing and this morning I noticed the post had reached over 21,000 people. Huh? How? I’d be lucky to reach 1,500 some days.
There was nothing special about this post update.
It had a boring lead in title: New on my blog today >>
There were no hashtags, no mentions of other people… nothing really tricky. It was a Saturday, I didn’t boost/promote it. I had a few likes, but not a lot. There are only 8 comments, and 1 share (which is my own share to another page).
BUT why did it reach so many people?
The ONLY thing I can think of is that a lot of people clicked through on that post to reach my blog. So I assume Facebook thought the click-through’s were a good volume so they decided to let people see it more? Which is strange because it takes you away from Facebook…?
So what do you think? Does Facebook leave you stumped sometimes?
Which tricks do you use to help boost your posts?
Do you have any Facebook tips for me so I can get this kind of reach more often?
Reminder: Do you forget about your Pages Feed? I do! Last week I re-discovered this link (derrr). You know how you LIKE so many pages but you only get to see the ones Facebook chooses (or the ones you interact with the most)? Well I’m so glad I decided to use this link more often as I had forgotten so many cool pages. I think I might hang out on Pages Feed every day now. I am rediscovering so many clever people and pretty things.
Have a great week everyone! ♥ KC.
