The document discusses Edge Rank, the algorithm that Facebook uses to determine what posts users see in their News Feed. It explains that Edge Rank considers three main factors: affinity (the relationship between the user and the creator), weight (type of post and interactions), and time decay (freshness of content). It provides tips for marketers to increase affinity like tagging pages, asking questions to encourage responses, and posting more frequently with a variety of content like videos and photos. The goal is to help ensure users regularly see a page's updates in their News Feed.
4. Highest traffic occurs midweek between 1 to 3 pm.
(Source: Bit.ly blog)
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5. Every 60 seconds on Facebook: 510
comments are posted, 293,000 statuses
are updated, and 136,000 photos are
uploaded.
(Source: The Social Skinny)
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11. Affinity
Affinity is the user’s relationship with the items creator.
>>The more a person comments, likes, or interacts
with your posts, then the more likely your update
will show up in their News Feed.
>>The more a person’s friends comment, like or
interact with your posts, then the more likely your
update will show up in that person’s News
Feed.
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12. So how do you increase
your affinity?
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13. Use Facebook as your page
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14. Tag pages in your posts
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21. So what kind of content
has more weight?
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22. Weight
Weight combines what type of object and what type of
interactions it’s receiving.
>>Videos, photos, and links are generally considered
to have the highest weight.
>>General text updates (with no videos, photos or
links) carry the lowest weight.
http://www.6smarketing.com/facebook-edgerank-algorithm/
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35. Time Decay
The last variable is Time Decay, which considers: as an
object gets older, the lower value the post carries.
>>Facebook is concerned with the relevancy of status
updates in relation to the amount of time that has
passed.
>>Fresh & frequent content are heavy players in whether
your message is being seen.
http://www.6smarketing.com/facebook-edgerank-algorithm/
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36. Posting frequency
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Times per day
Hours of “half-life”
Different times of day
http://blog.involver.com/2011/10/25/facebook-edgerank-and-graphrank-explained/
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37. Best time to post
Highest traffic occurs midweek between 1 to 3 pm.
(Source: Bit.ly blog)
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38. Schedule out posts to make the
best use of time
http://www.convergeconsulting.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/How-Facebooks-ChangesAffect-You-higher-education-marketing.pdf
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