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Don’t Sell Your Brand’s Soul to the Facebook News Feed Algorithm and Vanity Metrics

Pam Moore

Brand leaders around the globe are freaking out as they read the blog posts, watch the videos and see the tweets fly by from the Facebook fear mongers crying that the end of Facebook as we know it has arrived. Facebook 2018 is all About Engagement. It is true that big changes are coming to Facebook. Let’s get real.

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How to Measure Social Media Success for Your Small Business

yMarketingMatters

This is the classic social media metric that is SO important, but get’s a lot of question for not being as easy to attribute to quantifiable business growth and direct indicator of sales increase. This is a good start, and it is an important metric to measure. You can measure a particular channel, like Facebook or Twitter.

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What's your social currency?

Akamai Marketing

640 Million on Facebook. Now hear this: No one ever joined Facebook or Twitter so they could follow a brand or a company. Its easy to say “I want a Facebook page&# or “I’m opening a company Twitter account&# , but is that really where you should start? Million users on YouTube. Here’s the answer.

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#measurePR Recap: Measuring the Millennial Workplace

Waxing UnLyrical

On the types of metrics that they focus on for internal and external communities: A2 engagement metrics are the most important, but including “lurkers” who read and share #measurepr. shonali you can find lurkers through web analytics and community platform metrics, but also simply by asking once in a while!

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Smarter Ways to Measure Authoritative Content

Waxing UnLyrical

Changing interactions, changing metrics. I shared these thoughts on Facebook a couple of weeks ago, so some of this might sound familiar, if you saw it there. So those were part of your core suite of metrics. If you’re still stuck on “comments” as a metric, how valid would that now be?

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910 Blog Comments You Wrote Here

Ari Herzog

Old content is especially helpful when one sees lots of comments, tweets, and other social sharing metrics reflecting the value of whatever is written. 89 is the number of comments about a Facebook wall scam , which from 2008 provides a glimpse into the importance of search engines that led everyone here. Thank you for reading!

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The Social Media Analytics Compass: What and How to Measure

Razor Social

On Facebook you can set up an ad (you don’t have to run it) targeted to your Facebook fans and then change the targeting options to work out the profile of your audience. In an audience you will typically have the following: Lurkers – People that monitor what you share but don’t interact. Platform analytics.