New June Facebook Algorithm Ranking Groups & Live Page Update!
Dear fans and readers,
Facebook has announced a new algorithm update for groups and live pages people are most interested in. It will imporant that you look up how your own group(s) are doing as well to keep your live page alive on a regular base.
Facebook is looking up how long someone is member in a group and for how long they are following your page. I tall adds to the score you will have according to the new algorithm update.
Who of you is using groups and for what purpose?
Do you think groups are a great way to interact with your audience or would you say a live page is sufficient, where you post regularly your latest news and updates to new blog articles on your website?
Stefan, ToLiNoLi
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I've been joining FB groups in my niche and sharing links there to my posts and to my home page. Posting in 9 groups usually attracts 30-100 visitors per day to my site, and since I'm still in the Google sandbox that's currently my main source of traffic. Very few clicks on my affiliate (Amazon) links though. I hope that will change as I get more traffic and build trust. It only takes a few minutes to post to FB groups, so I think it's worth it as a traffic source.
I do think groups are helpful, especially if they are in your niche. I belong to several FB groups for that reason.
I like to use the group pages Stefan. It seems to have less advertising garbage to wade through compared to a standard Facebook page.
I have not tried the live page, not saying I wouldn't in the future.
I have a group page for each of my websites along with a group page for my church. I haven't tracked the numbers yet as I have been focused on adding to my primary website to build trust and gain audience.
I always wonder about Facebook as they are constantly evolving and some changes only confuse those who use it. But for now it is worth investing in sharing and drawing traffic, at least from my viewpoint.
Thanks for sharing
Ray
Facebook has on purpose made it harder for people to find your posts on your timeline and on pages we manage just so they can get our money to "boost" our posts.
I will NOT reward a company that works in that manner.
Mel
Stefan, I know they needed to monetize the site. If they left it the way it was, I'd be happy to pay to build on that, but instead they go backwards and act like they are doing us a favor by having to pay for what we already had before.
It will be interesting to see where Facebook is 5 years from now.
One thing is certain. The online business world is always changing.
Mel
Facebook keeps tinkering with their interface and algorithms. It becomes exhausting and non-productive to try to figure out what they are doing next.
If they keep it up, advertisers and the huge audience will find other places to hang out.
Exactly, I do that already, now I will not close my accounts, but I minimize my time spend there, just for updating when I got news and that's it. There are far out better alternatives.
See my previous post of today, that one has no algorithms and my posts are showed to a big audience, I can see my view count and after one week of use, I am happy I joined.
I joined groups to share my posts in my page. It helps to increase my website visitors. However, just weeks ago I noticed that facebook is not showing my posts to many as compared before. I can tell it to the number of reach. It keeps me messaging to boost my posts which requires you to pay.
Yes that is Facebooks and now also Instagrams new policy, you want to be seen, you pay. I call it money grabbing, but hey that is how they decide to do business. Both platforms are great, but with this new policy it will get less and less interesting for those who just start up or do not have that kind of niche to make money on the spot by buying advertisement from those platforms.
Time will tell what will happen, but it could backfire on them, because if people are leaving to join alternatives, then those who helped them to get that big in the first place will be all gone.
I don't see any profit coming out of it to advertise with them for now, we better invest in a good website and content.
For the big businesses out there, or local businesses it can make sense to invest in advertising, but for all others probably not.
Yes. There is not much profit to investing in their ads. So I do not buy their new policy. Anyway, majority of my website visitors come from organic traffic. I just need to optimize my posts.
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I've only done politics groups and those ones tend to prioritise in a random order. I've used unofficial groups for selling (kind of like thrift shops that online pretty much).
Groups are okay but getting people to actually see a post is a tricky part. However it seems that certain political groups perform better than others. But I generally question Zuckerberg's motives with Facebook and it's ownership of Instagram. I'm not sure he is totally impartial and seems to allow the bigger guys to squeeze the smaller ones. As for politics par se, it seems that particular groups get content to reach far better than others. Personally why they need to keep messing around with the algorithms is beyond me. Why fix something that isn't broken?
Groups work but getting folks in that group too see content is a tricky thing, in my experience.
Edit: I have done a couple of Wargaming ones they're ok but there is a lot of unwelcoming banter that I kind of think puts a few folks off. Especially when people get picky about you using an source such as SpikeyBits (which is seen as a tabloid). But I depend it depends on the group. Personally I'd stay clear of Politics ones. Anyone who dares to venture into that niche needs a hard hat!