Facebook has 500 MILLION ACTIVE users, 1.4 billion accounts, and a total of 700 billion minutes is spent on Facebook each and every single month. So if you are not promoting your blogs, and your business on Facebook and other social media you are missing the boat. Believe me, it works. stats from this source
When I post one of my blogs from ActiveRain on Facebook I always create a short URL so I can use it to track how many clicks are coming from that posting vs. people finding my post some other place and clicking on it.
It's super easy to create a short URL for tracking.
When you are at the top of your blog post you will see "short URL" you just click and you get the following:
Now you copy and past that new URL (not the one from the address bar) when you want to share your post on Facebook, Twitter, Google+ and then you will know how many of those clicks come from that sharing.
You can see when I recently shared a listing it got 279 clicks on Facebook where I shared it. My most recent market report got 64 clicks when I shared it on Facebook and when at 10:23 p.m. we had an earthquake and I shared my quick post about it on a community page where many folks were asking "did you just feel that" it got 36 clicks. I'm totally thrilled that we have the ability to use the SHORT URL tracking to know that when we are sharing our posts on other social media outlets we know they are working.
Are you using short URL to promote your posts on your facebook business page? If you're not, maybe you should be.
Click on the photo below if you'd like to "LIKE" my facebook page and see what blogs I promote there.
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