Thursday, 16 March 2017

How can you tackle the decline in organic reach on social media

It is true that with the changes in the algorithm of social media such as Facebook organic reach has declined up to 52%. The reason behind this decline is -

  •     An average of 1500 posts competes for user attention on Facebook. The massive amount of content is shared by publishers on Facebook.
  •     Facebook’ algorithm ensures that most relevant and useful content appears on user’s news feed.

This means that your content marketing strategy on social media is not working the same way as before, you are not reaching as many people as before. The declining organic reach of your content on social media is deteriorating your marketing strategies. All marketers really need to get serious about marketing their business on social media.

Let’s have a look at how can you overcome the fall in the organic reach on social media due to heavy competition and algorithmic changes-

    Produce unique content for each social media platform

Instead of driving people to a blog or landing page to see your content, produce content for them where your audience already are. It makes sense delivering content where they are spending their time and creating content that allows them to remain on the platform where they already are. Follow the distributed content marketing strategy. For example, on Facebook, you can share instant how -to articles or tips, or live video of events, while on Snapchat you can tell them behind the scenes story of the events. You can use Twitter to promote your event and have online discussions.

    Feature someone else’s content

Marketing on social media is not only about posting content created by you, but you can also share the other people’s content. Know your audience, what they do social media platform, what type of content they are mostly engaged with, what are their interests and concerns and accordingly look for content that may be useful for your audience, they can engage with and solve their issues.

Curated content is also cost-efficient and saves a lot of time and moreover, you can provide your audience variety and value by presenting something of their interest. This way you will not build a strong relationship with your target audience but with other publishers by sharing their content and thus driving more  traffic to one another’s social media platforms.

    Understand the algorithms

Social media algorithms ensure that they provide the relevant and useful content to the users. So being a marketer you need to know how these algorithms work, what are their preferences and then post the content accordingly. For instance, Facebook shows content in user’s feed based on - How often the user has interacted with the user posting content? Is there any interaction with the same post type in the past? The number of likes, comments or shares and how recently the post was published? There are approximately 1 lakh factors that influence the Facebook algorithm. So keep your eyes open for any algorithmic changes on different social media platforms and how they rank the content. Also, keenly observe your target audience behavior and interests on social platforms.

    Invest in your content

Consider investing in social media ads, sponsored content. Social media advertising across all networks will help you get higher conversion rates, as you can control the targeting options of your content as where it will be displayed and who will get to see it. You can quickly see the results and modify your strategy according to the interest and behavior of your target audience.
Boost the content by investing in ads that are doing well organically and get the most out of your social media marketing efforts. For more help and guidance contact the best social media marketing agency and get success by harnessing the power of social media platforms.

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