- Look, Facebook reach has been continually dying.
Engagement has been continually dying.
Clicks to your site every time you post on Facebook,
has been continually decreasing and dying over time.
But does that mean you should give up?
Of course not.
Hi, everyone, I'm Neil Patel,
and today I'm going to share with you
how you can dominate Facebook
despite its algorithm hating you.
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Now, before we jump into how you can fix this,
most people would be like, "Well, if I want to fix this
"and get more traction out of Facebook,
"I should just leverage Facebook ads, right?"
Well, yeah, you can leverage ads, but that
means you're going to have to pay continually
for every single click driven to your site.
But here's the thing
that most people aren't talking about.
You want to start focusing your attention,
at least your organic attention,
from posting on your page,
to creating a Facebook group.
Now, back in 2018, during the second quarter,
Facebook had an earning call.
And during that earning call,
they reported that 200 million members
are part of meaningful groups.
And the key there is meaningful groups,
groups that are actually active, that are growing,
that have engagement.
Now, that number has continually been growing.
It's been more than doubling from the previous year.
And then it keeps just going and going from that.
And the beautiful part is, as you can see over the years,
there's been a lot of privacy concerns with Facebook,
so Facebook has been shifting their attention
from traditional public news feeds, to private experiences.
And where do you think those private experiences happen?
Mainly through groups.
And that's what Facebook said in May 2019,
during their F8 conference,
in which they're trying to shift more attention
from pages to private experiences.
Now, one thing that you know is, Facebook has a ton
of privacy concerns.
And because they have a lot of privacy concerns
and they're in the news everywhere,
they've been shifting their strategy
from, hey, public news feeds
to private experiences through groups.
And that's what they're even doing through their news feeds.
They've been updating their algorithms
so that way, you just don't see what's happening on pages,
you also see what's happening
through private groups.
So, look, you now know
that you need to be leveraging groups.
So, what should you be doing
if you want to keep getting more traffic through groups?
Well, one, just don't post links to your own site
in these groups.
You want to respond to people in the groups.
You want to engage with them.
You want to help them out.
You want to let members know that you care.
Now, this group doesn't have to be your own group,
you could also leverage other people's group as well.
I, of course, would recommend
that you create your own group, but at the same time,
you should also engage with other groups as well.
The next tip I have for you is,
don't just post new articles or videos in the group.
If you post new articles,
yeah, sure you can get people coming back to your site.
You post videos, sure you're going to get the engagement,
but some of the best engagement that I've seen,
because videos are really hot in 2018,
and even in the early parts of 2019
they were hot on Facebook,
but now that Facebook has so many videos,
they're no longer are giving as much love to videos
as they were before.
So, if you want to do really well in the group,
you want to start creating things that cause comments.
So anything that could be controversial,
anything that's asking a question,
anything that creates a debate,
a poll, all this kind of stuff will create
more engagement, and with the more group members
that you get to engage with you,
the way their algorithm works is,
then when you end up posting, let's say a article,
and linking back to your site,
because a large percentage of your group
is already engaging with your site,
they'll now see the stuff
when you're linking these people to articles
going back to your website.
On the flip side, if you keep posting content
and it just links back to your site,
only a small portion of the people
are actually going to see it,
and the less and less people engage in the future,
the less times when they log into Facebook,
they're going to continually see that in their newsfeed.
That's why it's important, every once in a while,
to keep rotating up what you're posting,
and making sure they're getting high engagement.
More users see your content,
more users will then see your content
when you post a link back to your site.
The other thing that you want to do,
is start engaging through tools.
So, most people on Facebook when they want traffic,
they just want to say, "Hey, let me post,
"let me get people to click back to my site."
Even videos, you may even leverage other tips
when it comes to increasing engagement,
but you're not using tools like MobileMonkey
or ManyChat.
MobileMonkey or ManyChat, whatever one you want,
they both have free plans if I'm not mistaken,
at least ManyChat does,
when you end up posting your content
and you want to get all these people on your groups,
your fan pages to engage with you,
you can leverage Facebook Messenger and build your
own subscriber base, kind of like an email list,
but for Facebook Messenger, and then through there
you can continually message and message people.
Now, to give you an idea, according to TechCrunch,
1.3 billion, that's billion with a b,
use Facebook Messenger.
That's right, 1.3 billion people use Facebook Messenger
and each and every single month.
so anytime you post a new article,
Facebook Messenger's the easiest way,
you just send out a blast.
You can do that through, again, MobileMonkey or ManyChat,
and then all those people will get notified on the links,
come back to your site.
We're seeing the open rates change drastically.
Messenger bots used to have amazing open rates,
years ago, it's slowly starting to go down,
but it's still better than email.
And don't think about it,
"Oh, it's going to keep dying down."
It's extra free traffic that you didn't have anyways.
And if that doesn't convince you
that you need to be using Facebook Messenger,
the second most downloaded app of all time,
is Facebook Messenger, according to App Annie.
Can you guess what the number one app of all time is?
It's Facebook.
So number one and number two are Facebook-related.
Hence, you should be using it.
If you're wondering on MyStats,
roughly 88% open rates, and 56% click-through rates
using Facebook Messenger through MobileMonkey.
That's what I got over the last 30 days.
Last, but not least, be consistent.
When you're being consistent, it's not just about posting
in quantity, it's about posting quality,
stuff people love, stuff people want to engage with,
stuff people want to help you with.
If you follow all those tips,
you can continually get more traffic
from Facebook's algorithm.
Even though you're like, "Hey, Facebook hates me."
Well no, yeah, you may think they hate you
but there's other ways to combat it
and still get that traffic.
If you need help with your social media marketing,
check out my ad agency, Neil Patel Digital,
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