Your brand has most likely spent a considerable amount of time and money, building your Facebook presence. With all the changes that Facebook has made, itβs become more challenging to do well on Facebook, but itβs not impossible to stay in front of this group.
Facebook fans are a loyal group that consistently like, comment, and share their favorite pages content. Donβt give up on this targeted group of people interested in your brand, instead power up your Facebook presence to maximize your social media marketing efforts.
Be Consistent
Posting regularly is imperative for Facebook pages. You need to stay in front of your audience to be put into the newsfeed. Check your Facebook page insights to see what times and days are most popular for your page.
Stay on Brand
You should have a brand strategy and voice in place before publishing on social media. Determine the topics that youβll share and stick to them. Itβs okay to stay timely and mention holidays and special events, but staying on-brand with your text, brand voice, and content are essential.
People should know what to expect when they visit your Facebook page and be surprised by your content but not in a βyikes, look awayβ kind of way.
Be Visually Interesting
Mix up your content with photos, posts with links, and videos. A brand page should have a specific overall design but also provide variety in the types of content that you share.
Facebook allows four different types of posts:
- Text only
- Photo posts (with or without text)
- Video
- Embedded link
Photos used to be the most favored type of post, but video is currently doing well in the newsfeed. Iβve been embedding the link instead of adding a separate photo with a link in the text. When you do this, you can customize the title text, the description of the post, as well as upload a new photo.
Hereβs an example that would not do well if I just dropped the link on Facebook. The image is too small, and the title has strange characters in it.
To make this post visually appealing, Iβve edited the title and added a new image via the Upload Image button on the image that pulled in automatically. I also added a post intro in the text area of the post. The image size that Iβve added is the Blog Header image in Canva, which is 560 pixels by 315 pixels.
Be Relevant
While it might be tempting to post only content about you and your company, you need to stay relevant in the eyes of your friends on Facebook. Create engaging posts about the seasons, sports events, or even holidays. You, of course, need to be aware of your brand message and make sure that your content isnβt too politically charged or religious-based unless that fits what your overall message is.
One smart trick for Facebook Page managers is using Facebook Insights. Engagement is a key indicator in how well your Facebook posts are performing.
Facebook Audience Insights is a free tool created by Facebook to learn more about people connected to your Page and to the full Facebook audience.
Facebook Page Manager App is also a handy tool to have in your kit.
Agorapulse has powerful built-in, one-click reporting features. This report measures your Page's engagement.
You can even keep an eye on your competitors as well.
Agorapulse is also super helpful to brands is that if you create ads within Ads Manager, Agorapulse is one of the few easy ways to monitor comments on those ads. Since those kinds of ads aren't native posts, comments don't show up in the admin's normal notifications and are often missed. Agorapulse studies have shown that leaving negative comments on an ad reduced the effectiveness of the ad, even if the comment wasn't necessarily directed toward the brand.
Custom graphics
Using the proper size images on Facebook is important so you get great visibility in the newsfeed and on mobile devices. Currently, images that are 940 pixels by 788 pixels are centered and preview well on Facebook.
If you have your Instagram photos feed in as square images or use other sizes, they look okay on the Facebook Page but are different sizes in the newsfeed or on mobile. Embedded links pull through images and they look good on the Facebook page but are smaller on mobile devices.
Adding branding to your graphics in the form of your logo, website URL, or phone number is important for helping people find you. Your image will hopefully be shared off your Facebook page and this will help more people find your Facebook page and business on the web. You can even add a call to actionΒ on the photo such as Questions? Call as at 1-800-Best-Tip or email us [email protected] for more information.
Facebook ads
If you are doing a product launch or sharing something important, you might want to consider a Facebook ad or sponsored post to get more views and likes for your post. From Hubspot,β On Facebook, users are there to check in on their social lives, which means that the element of disruption comes into play. Your ads now need to be louder and grab the attention of a user so they stop doing what they had initially set out to do on Facebook, and change their course of action to pay attention to your ad. And for Facebook advertisers, thatβs a big challenge.
Thatβs why itβs even more important to keep those best practices of relevance, calls-to-action, and value proposition in mind,Β in addition toΒ the distraction factor, when creating Facebook ads.β
Experiment with your Facebook Page content
- Mix up your posting times to test your audience
- Stay relevant to the topic of your page so you donβt confuse people
- Add variety to your posts
- Be interesting or forget about posting at all
- Post consistently and space your posts apart so you donβt clog your fans newsfeed
- Use Facebook Insights to see what content works well and do more of that
Keep your Facebook Page Cover fresh
Change your Facebook cover monthly. Using the same image for too long is boring for people who visit your page. Click To TweetThe dimensions for a Facebook cover photo are 851 pixels by 315.
Don't forget to use your Call to Action button!
You can create custom Facebook header images using Canva and they look great when you share them on your page without any pixelation or image distortion.
As of 2019, reportsΒ Statista,Β 96% of Facebook's user base accesses the social network from mobile devices like smartphones and tablets. Make sure to check your cover photo on a mobile device to see how the text and image look together.
Create conversation starters
From social media strategist Rebekah Radice, βInvite feedback by asking open-ended questions that can lead to long and lively discussions. Ask for responses β simply ending your message with a βwhat do you think?β or βdo you agree?β can often get the party started.β
IΒ hope these tips will help power up your Facebook presence! What had been working for you on your Facebook page? Let me know in the comments, Iβd love to learn from you.
These are so awesome tips.I would have never figured out about the timing and other insights without this article π
Thank you so much for reading and commenting. I hope you give Likealyzer a try – it’s free. π
For some reason, Likealyzer does not like me. It does not recognize my FB page and I would love to get on to it!
Great suggestions, Peg, invaluable for a small business like mine. Gauri
For some reason likealyzer does not recognise my FB page!
Thanks for the awesome insights, Peg
Thank You! I am trying desperately to Market my Business online. I am just starting out in Network Marketing, and have basically a zero Marketing budget. Your tips help! Thanks again,
Darren
Love the tool Likealyzer and I didn’t know about it until I read your post. It’s been very helpful so far on what I need to do to improve my page. Thanks so much!
Excellent actionable tips – among other things I’ll changing my Facebook Coverpage immediately and at least once a month thereafter.
Hello! Hey great tips for Facebook. I was curious unlike the personal profile page the Facebook Business page does not have a clearly visible link on the banner image for changing out the banner. How is this done?
Thanks!
Hey Peg,
I enjoyed reading your article. Found this on Pinterest so I re-pinned and decided to get over here as well. It’s not really bad at all. Okay back to the article.
These are very good stuff you have here. Just got in on PostPlanner and I’m actually too excited to start using the tool. Consistency too cost me $0.00 so I should be doing that If I want to as I have a bunch of social media content ideas in mind… Of course I have published them on My blog for everyone to enjoy too.
I’m also good with Facebook ads as well. Run it frequently for my other projects and clients. Thanks for these tips. Will keep in mind.
BTW! What tool is responsible for this Sticky Follow me on Pinterest thing on the sidebar? It just made me follow you… It should make new readers on my blog follow me too haha.
Nice work,
-Babs.