The

Complete
Guide to
Facebook
Analytics
How to analyze the
metrics that matter
Table of Contents
Introduction
Denitions
Engagement
Engaged Users
Engagement Rate
Reach
Impressions
Stories
Consumptions
Consumption vs Engaged Users
Like Sources
Paid vs Organic Likes
Facebook Tactics
The New Facebook Insights
How to Increase Your Reach
How to Increase Your Impressions
Basic Analyses
How to Measure Your Facebook
Audience Beyond Fans
How to Determine Which Posts You Should
Promote With Facebook Ads
How to Measure the Impact of Visual Content
How to Deal With Negative Feedback
Advanced Analyses
How to Optimize for Graph Search
How Graph Search Can Simplify Your Facebook Strategy
Analyze to Take Advantage of News Feed Changes
How Analysis Can Help Identify Opportunities
Perform a Competitive Analysis in Your Industry
Conclusion
Simply Measured Sample Reports
Understand the Performance
of Your Brands Facebook Page(s)
Benchmark Your Brands Facebook
Performance Against Competitors
Measure Your Customer Service Efforts on Facebook
Compare Your Efforts on Facebook
Against Those on Other Social Networks
Additional Resources and Sources
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INTRODUCTION
Chances are, your target audience is somewhere among the nearly 9.6 million
users who log in to their accounts as least once per day. Thats good news
because Facebook is a gold mine for marketers. Consider these Facebook
numbers alone:
More than 1.26 billion registered users
(1.19 billion of whom are active on a monthly basis)
350 million daily uploaded photos
4.75 billion average daily shared items
20 billion minutes of usage per day
But its not enough to know that your target audience is on Facebook the key
is to reach and engage them and were going to show you just how to do that.
In this comprehensive eBook, we walk you through the most crucial Facebook
metrics you need to gauge the performance of your marketing efforts. Then well
outline specic ways you can use these metrics to create actionable Facebook
strategies. Finally, because even the savviest marketers can nd it challenging to
make use of all that Facebook data, we share examples of how to use our tools
to analyze and report on Facebook metrics yourself.
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DEFINITIONS
You cant measure what you dont know, so well begin by dening all the
important Facebook metrics and how theyre calculated. As a social media or
community manager, having a rm grasp on these Facebook metrics will help
you deliver better results with your Facebook strategy.
The Facebook Engagement Megaphone is a tool we use at Simply Measured,
which allows you to track the effectiveness of your post content throughout its
life cycle. It will act as a helpful visual as we dene Facebook metrics.
The engagement megaphone outlines your Facebook activity; from your posts
and posts about your brand to engaged users, to engagement, to reach, and
to impressions. You can use this to nd out how many people are seeing your
content, whether or not people are interacting with your content, and how many
new Page Likes your posts are generating.
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Engagement
Content is king, but engagement rules. After all, if no one engages with your content, whats the point of
creating it? Thats why your number-one priority should be to get people engaged with your brand content
on Facebook.
The good news is that Facebook isnt a network for syndication; its a network built for engagement, and
recent feature additions show that engagement is more important than ever. The ability to reply to others
comments, click on hashtags, and search the web were all designed to keep users on-site and discovering
new content with which to interact.
How engagement is calculated
Three elements signify positive engagement with your posts:
Likes
The number of times people Like your posts, indicating how well your content resonates with people.
Comments
The number of comments people make on your posts. While the number of comments is an important
metric, the tone of comments can provide insight into how people feel about your content, products, or
your overall brand.
Shares
The number of times people share your content, measuring how much your content is amplied
by those who see it.
Engagement
Likes + Comments + Shares
Our calculation for
engagement is different
than Facebook's
calculation.
On Facebook, engagement
includes clicks.
Why are our calculations
different? Clicks are not
available in the public
Facebook API so we exclude
them from total engagement.
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What does engagement mean to you?
Engagement with your posts reects three vital things:
Your brands ability to capture users attention
Your brands ability to create a connection with your content
How many people see your posts
Engagement plays an even larger role in who sees your posts, because it is a major factor in Facebooks
News Feed algorithm. This algorithm determines which News Feeds your posts are displayed in and
ultimately, how many users youre able to reach. When users engage, the actions they take appear in
their timelines, making their connection with your brand visible to their friends. And that contributes to
awareness for your brand.
Engagement tells you a lot about your audience - which types of content theyre interested in and whether
certain segments of your audience interact more or less with content that is specically tailored to them.
Engagement on certain types of posts can provide insight into the interests of a particular audience for
content targeting.
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Engaged Users
When it comes to your audience on Facebook, there are far more important metrics than your number of
Page fans. The engaged users metric is one of them; its a key Facebook metric that measures how many
people are actively engaging with your Page.
How engaged users are calculated
The engaged users metric can be found within Facebook Insights at both the Page and post levels.
Engaged users arent just limited to your fans; anyone who engages with your Page is an engaged user.
What do engaged users mean to you?
Measuring engaged users goes a step beyond your Pages fan count to tell you how many people are
interacting with your Page. Out of the people whom you were able to reach, these are the users who took
action on your Page whether as a Like, share, comment, etc. Monitoring engaged users as a percentage of
fans over time can help you determine whether youre growing an active or a passive audience.
Engaged users as a percentage of total fans indicates how active your audience is and how valuable your
fan growth is from month to month. For example, if the number of total engaged users is up each month as
a percentage of total fans, then the quality of your audience is improving. Even the number of engaged users
reects how much your audience is choosing to interact with your brand.
Engaged Users
The number of people who engaged with your page
(including any click or Story generated)
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Engagement with your posts impacts your ability to reach a larger audience. If you cant continue to engage
users, they wont continue to see your content. Those who engage on your Page are your most valuable
audience segment, since they are the ones consuming and sharing your content across Facebook.
Engagement Rate
Engagement rate is a metric that you can use to measure your effectiveness at engaging your audience. It
can tell you a lot about what content or which post types are the most successful and you can now access
this metric in the updated Insights tool.
You can calculate engagement rate in two different ways based on the available data:
If you use public post data in a Simply Measured Facebook Competitive Analysis, you can compare
your Engagement as a Percentage of Total Fans against other brands on Facebook.
If you work directly with the engagement rate metric within Facebook Insights, you can see your
brands engagement rate, whether for a single Page or multiple Pages.
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The rst option allows you to compare your post or Page performance to other brands on Facebook.
Again, this is using public data, not data from Facebook Insights.
The second option allows you to measure your own brands post performance as accurately as possible
using Facebook Insights data.
Calculating engagement rate for posts using Insights data
Engagement rate is designed to measure the number of unique users who engaged with your content as
a percentage of the number of users that were exposed to it. Facebook Insights data provides in-depth
unique user totals for engagement actions on your posts, as well as the overall reach of your posts.
This allows you to calculate engagement rate based on more than Likes, shares, comments and clicks.
Example:
100 unique users engaged with a given post and 1000 users saw the post
Engaged users = 100
Engagement rate = 10%
The number of
engaged users serves
as a valuable metric
for measuring content
performance and the quality
of your audience.
Engagement Rate
People who liked, commented, shared, or clicked on
your post / people who saw your post (post reach)
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Calculating engagement rate for posts without Insights data
When calculating your engagement rate in contrast to your competitors, remember that you dont have
access to their Facebook Insights data. However, you can still draw meaningful insights by looking at
engagement for both posts and Pages relative to total fans.
The Simply Measured solution is to perform a calculation for engagement rate called Engagement as
a Percent of Total Fans. This is a simplied way to calculate engagement rate to compare competitor
engagement rates to your own. So even if you dont have time to delve into the reasons for engagement
or lack thereof this can provide you with the context you need to make informed marketing decisions.
What does engagement rate mean to you?
Engagement rate on individual posts is a valuable metric for measuring the quality of content that you
post to your Page. Specically, it allows you to compare engagement between two posts. Knowing what
share of your audience actually engages with content can indicate whether or not youre reaching the right
audience as you grow fans over time.
Engagement as a Percentage of Total Fans allows you to compare engagement on your Page with Pages
that have different audience sizes, making it useful for competitive analysis. Comparing your engagement
rate to that of your competitors can provide insights about the quality of your audience and your content
effectiveness compared to others in your industry.
Engagement Rate
Total Engagement (Likes + Comments + Shares) / Total Fans
Sample engagement
for Harley Davidson
% eng/total
total engagement
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Reach
Often the rst Facebook metric that marketers focus on is the number of fans for a Page. When it comes
to measuring the value of your audience though, what matters most is how many people are seeing your
content. Thats where reach comes in.
Overall, reach is the primary metric for determining how many people can possibly see your content. Its a
powerful performance indicator for tactics that enable your brand to connect with users on Facebook.
How reach is calculated
There are three types of reach: organic, paid and viral. Understanding and measuring each of these is
important to gauge how and why your audience changes over time.
Organic Reach
The number of unique people who saw your content in their News Feeds, tickers, or on your Page.
Paid Reach
The number of unique people who saw your paid content.
Viral Reach
The number of unique people who saw your post or Page mentioned in a Story published by a friend.
These stories can include Likes, comments or sharing on your Page, answering a question or responding
to an event.
Reach
The number of unique people who have seen content
associated with your page
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Measuring reach by type can help you pinpoint the factors that contributed to content views. If organic
reach increased, it might be the result of more fans or increased engagement with content. Changes in
viral reach can indicate how shareable your content was, and paid reach can tell you whether changes in
reach were due to ads on the network.
Reach can be viewed for your Page as a whole, or for individual posts. The difference is how many unique
users saw an individual post versus those who saw other pieces of content such as an eBook or report
associated with your Page.
What does reach mean to you?
Reach measures your brands effective audience. Its a more accurate measure of your Facebook audience
than fans, since not all your fans see your posts and many users who do see your posts are not fans of
your Page.
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Impressions
The largest challenge for brands on Facebook is making it into users News Feeds. Impressions are a solid
metric for understanding how many times your posts are seen and how frequently users are exposed to
that content.
How impressions are calculated
Like reach, there are three main types of impressions on Facebook: organic, paid and viral.
Organic Impressions
The number of times your content was displayed in a users News Feed, ticker, or on your Page.
Paid Impressions
The number of times your paid content was displayed.
Viral Impressions
The number of times content associated with your Page was displayed in a Story published by a friend.
Stories can include liking, commenting or sharing on your Page, answering a question or responding to
an event.
Impressions
The number of times content associated with your page
is displayed
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Its easy to confuse reach and impressions since both measure the visibility of content and both measure
organic, paid, and viral content.
The key difference between impressions and reach is that impressions measure the number of times
your content is displayed, while reach measures the number of unique people who saw your content. For
example, if ve people each saw a post twice, the result would be ten impressions (times displayed) and a
reach of ve (unique people who saw it).
What do impressions mean to you?
Impressions measure your ability to expose people to your content on Facebook. This can help you
understand not just how many users youre reaching, but how frequently those users are seeing your posts
or content associated with your Page.
Sample impressions
breakdown by type
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Stories
What is a Facebook Story? If youre active on Facebook, you see them everyday and probably create your
fair share.
Facebook Stories are updates from friends about their engagement with a Page, person, event, etc. and
they appear in your News Feed.
How are Stories created?
Engagement actions that create Stories include: Likes on a Page, engagement on a post, posts on a
Page, joining an event, tagging or mentioning a Page, check-ins at a location and other Page interactions.
By viewing trends around Stories associated with your brand, you can identify how effectively your posts
are driving awareness for your Page.
Segmenting Stories by user wall posts and engagement on your Page can inform you of actions users are
taking that drive awareness of your Page.
Stories
Updates from friends about their engagement with pages,
people, etc. that appear in News feed.
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For example, a high volume of Stories about a specic user post could indicate that an inuential user
posted or that an engaging discussion took place.
What do Stories mean to you?
Stories created about your brand posts build awareness for your Facebook Page. The more people
who engage with content on your Page, the better the chances that one of their friends will see a Story
associated with it. When people engage with posts on your Page, a description of how they engaged
appears as a message in their friends News Feeds. For instance, the message may say, Bob liked X
Companys Page or Susie commented on X Companys Page.
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Consumptions
When people think about Facebook engagement, most think of Likes, comments and shares. Thats because
these are the primary actions we take as users, and its what we see associated with each post. Theyre also
the engagement metrics most often used by marketers to assess performance.
However, Facebook Insights offers a broader measure of engagement that goes beyond Likes, comments
and shares. Its called consumptions. How is it different? It includes clicks.
How consumptions are calculated
The consumptions metric can be found within Facebook Insights at both the Page and post levels.
Within Facebook Insights, the consumption metric is broken down into four segments:
Link clicks
Photo views
Video plays
Other clicks
(which includes clicks whether Likes, comments or shares that generate Stories)
Consumptions
dont include liking a
Page in the Timeline
and they dont create Stories
in the News Feed; they are
limited to clicks on your posts.
Consumptions
Clicks anywhere in your post
(whether the click generates a Story or not).
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Viewing how clicks on your posts are segmented can provide additional information about what types of
content are engaging people on your Page. It can also put the volume of other engagement actions in
context with the number of Stories created. For example, you could look at how many people viewed an
enlarged version of a photo on your post versus how many people liked, commented on, or shared it.
What do consumptions mean to you?
You might be wondering why you should care about clicks that dont create Stories in the News Feed.
The answer is simple: clicks get factored into the News Feed algorithm. That means measuring clicks on
your posts gives you a more complete view of engagement, and a better idea of whether your posts will
continue to appear in users News Feeds.
When cross-referenced with other key Facebook metrics, consumptions can prove extremely valuable
in measuring content performance. For example, by pairing consumptions with impressions, you can
establish a click-through rate for each post or content type. And that allows you to measure the frequency
of engagement with your content.
In addition, you can pair the number of consumers (unique people who clicked) with reach to measure the
percentage of people who actually saw and engaged with your content.
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Consumers vs. Engaged Users
We already reviewed engaged users, so lets go over consumers and how the two differ. Although the
consumers metric is perhaps lesser known, it can actually offer more in-depth insight when it comes to
content performance.
How are consumers dened?
Consumers are people who clicked on your posts (anywhere within a post), while engaged users are
those who clicked on or created a Story anywhere on your Page (this includes liking your Page). Since
consumer engagement is limited to posts and engaged users can click anywhere on the Page, the number
of engaged users on your Page will always be equal to or greater than the number of consumers.
While both metrics are available within Facebook Insights at the Page and post levels, the number of
engaged users and consumers should almost be equal at the post level.
What do these metrics mean to you?
Both metrics can be used to measure audience engagement and content performance. However, because
of the subtle differences in how each metric is calculated, each has a specic use.
Since the engaged users metric includes Stories generated by clicks on your Page and not just within
your content, it is a more complete measure of total engagement on your Page. This makes it great for
evaluating how engaged the audience is on your Page.
Consumers
The number of people who clicked on any of your posts
(whether the click generated a Story or not)
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As mentioned earlier, consumers are limited to engagement with your content, not your entire Page.
This makes consumers the most accurate metric for measuring post engagement. In addition, consumers
can be segmented by the type of engagement action taken, including:
Link clicks
Photo views
This breakdown, found in the Simply Measured Facebook Content Analysis, gives a greater level of
insight into how someone engaged with your content and what type of post it was (link, photo or video).
Again, remember that clicks generating Stories (including Likes, comments and shares) are included in
Other Clicks.
By comparing consumers to post reach, you can calculate the percentage of people who actually saw your
content and chose to engage with it. In other words, you can determine what percentage of your audience
was engaged at an individual post level. That means consumers is a better metric than engaged users for
measuring content performance.
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Like Sources
A growing audience on Facebook is a sign of a healthy community. But you need to do more than
measure the number of new fans to understand how your audience is growing and identify effective
tactics for sustaining growth. You need to determine how users are nding your Page. To do that youll
need to analyze your Like Sources.
How Like Sources are calculated
Like Sources can be found within Facebook Insights, via the Facebook Insights tool and the Facebook
Insights data export.
The number of unique people who like your page is broken down by location. In addition, Like Sources
within the Facebook Insights tool are broken out into ve segments:
On Your Page
Page Suggestions
Ads and Sponsored Stories
Your Posts
Others
Like Sources
The places where people can Like your page
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Within the Facebook Insights data export, Like Sources can be segmented even further. Dozens of
sources exist; however, only the sources your Page was liked from will appear in your data export.
Facebook provides the following description for some of the most common Like Sources in its Insights
developer documentation:
This isnt the complete list. For example, Facebook further segments mobile sources into mobile ads and
mobile page suggestions. This does, however, give you an idea of the granular breakout that is available
within the Facebook data export.
Facebook
Insights Tool
Ads & Sponsored Stories
Your Posts
Page Suggestions
Others
On Your Page
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What do Like Sources mean to you?
Like Sources can help you understand how users are discovering and liking your Page, and provide
context for how your other digital marketing components impact fan growth. For example:
Are external connects (e.g., clicks on social plugins) from your website effectively driving users to your
Facebook Page?
When you make changes to better integrate social plugins, do you see more Likes?
What percentage of new Likes is driven by Facebook Ads and Sponsored Stories?
Is the third-party app from your latest campaign contributing to fan growth?
How many users liked your Page from a mobile device?
These are questions you can answer with data from Like Sources. From there, you can make more
informed decisions about tactics designed to grow your fan Page and better measure the overall impact
of your social strategy.
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Paid vs. Organic Likes
Facebook advertising is a growing trend, with most brands devoting at least a portion of their social media
budget to advertising on the network. According to Business Insider, 74% of survey respondents in August
2013 said their Facebook marketing budgets include spending on paid ads. That number is up from 54%
in June 2012.
For brands that advertise on Facebook, its important to be able to segment social media performance by
paid vs. organic activities. This includes measuring audience growth, also known as paid Likes.
How paid and organic Likes are calculated
Paid and organic Likes are broken out within Facebook Insights Like Sources, which we reviewed earlier.
Like Sources can be viewed within the Insights tool or the Insights data export, where the number of
unique people who liked your Page is broken out by location.
You can nd the following three sources of paid Likes within Like Sources:
Ads
Mobile ads
Sponsored Stories
The sum of the three sources represents the total number of paid Likes for your Page.
Paid Likes
The number of people that liked your page from an Ad or a
Sponsored Story
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Organic Likes are Page Likes that cannot be attributed to Facebook advertising. You can calculate organic
Likes by simply subtracting paid Likes from total Likes.
To analyze organic Likes further, you can segment Like Sources to identify whether Likes occurred on
your Page, or were generated via a social plugin, third-party app, etc.
What do paid and organic Likes mean to you?
When you advertise on Facebook, it becomes more difcult to report on audience growth that is driven
organically. Nevertheless, for social marketers, its important to both understand the impact of paid
advertising and avoid attributing paid Likes to successful community management tactics. Segmenting
paid Likes from total Likes allows you to do just that. By doing this, you can accurately report on
community growth while still being able to identify trends in organic growth.
Sponsored Stories
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April 2014.
In its place, social context will
be automatically added to all
Facebook Ad types.
More information here.
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Organic growth trends can be used to identify successful tactics for building your audience. Segmenting
fan growth also makes it possible to calculate benchmarks and set goals based on your Facebook
advertising budget.
Measuring paid Likes against your advertising spend can provide a benchmark you can use to forecast
future audience growth, depending on your Facebook advertising budget. You can also use this
benchmark to determine how much you should allocate to your Facebook ad budget.
The challenge of measuring paid ads and forecasting performance isnt limited to Likes. Paid advertising
also affects engagement, reach and impressions. Segmenting performance for each of these metrics can
help you measure the impact of Facebook advertising on your Page.
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FACEBOOK TACTICS
Now that weve reviewed how different Facebook metrics are dened, lets
put these metrics to use so you can make more informed decisions, improve
campaign performance and enable success.
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The new Facebook Insights
Were kicking off this section with an overview of the new Facebook Insights since its changed the
Facebook metrics game quite a bit. In June 2013, Facebook updated its entire Insights tab for page
admins. Here are the big differences that you need to understand.
PTAT (as we knew it) is gone
Chief among these changes is that the PTAT (People Talking About This) metric has been broken down
and replaced with the sum of its parts:
Page Likes
People engaged
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Easier navigationbut no contextualization
With the new Insights, you get new views and navigation. That means you can easily toggle between
several specic views. You can check out a high-level overview of your results on one tab, then easily
navigate to other important metrics and KPIs with the click of your mouse. Thats the good news. Though
Facebook Insights delivers an impressive amount of data, it can be daunting to put it into context because
Insights tabs only help organize high-level metrics. This is where social analytics software like Simply
Measured comes into play; it puts all your metrics in one report so you can contextualize your data.
Page and Tab visits
This is our favorite part of the Insights section. Under the Visits tab in your handy new navigation bar, Page
and Tab Visits allow you to see which of your tabs are being viewed. Why is this cool? If youre promoting
a photo-based campaign, or running a promotion in another tab, you can benchmark that against others on
your Page. This allows you to optimize your content much like you would on your website.
Nate Smitha, our Marketing
Conversion Manager, explains
why this is a good thing:
PTAT was an aggregate metric.
It combined important engagement
components, and gave you an abstract
number of how many people were
talking (i.e., creating stories) about
your page. But the PTAT metric didnt
help you understand how these stories
were being created, so it wasnt a metric
that marketers could use to make very
actionable decisions.
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All posts published
The Posts tab offers some great content analysis, complete with previews of visual content, reach and
engagement stats. Of course, Facebook wouldnt leave you high and dry without a way to capitalize on this
insight through your ads budget. If youre managing Facebook Ads, this is a great feature for you. It allows
you to see your highest-performing content from an organic click-through perspective, so that you can
quickly boost visibility of a post in your ad campaign.
People
The People tab gives a great demographic prole of your audience, including a benchmark of All Facebook.
While this isnt new, it gives you an interesting way to understand your fans. As you create personas of your
ideal customer, content consumer, or audience member, tap into this info to build richer proles.
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How to increase your Reach
Many factors impact the reach of your content. Facebooks News Feed algorithm determines which of
your fans see your content, and, further downstream, which fan engagement actions such as Likes and
shares are shared with the friends of your fans.
To improve the reach of your content, you can:
Grow the number of active and engaged fans on your Page
Post content that can quickly and easily be consumed
Limit the amount of negative feedback your Page receives (For more on negative feedback, check out
How to deal with negative feedback on page 47).
How to increase your Impressions
To improve organic impressions, you need to make it into News Feeds more frequently and optimize
your marketing tactics for Facebooks News Feed algorithm. Specically, just as with increasing reach,
you should:
Grow the number of active and engaged fans on your Page
Post content that can quickly and easily be consumed
Limit the negative feedback you receive (For more on negative feedback, check out How to deal with
negative feedback on page 47).
Paid advertising on Facebook can also drive impressions. For marketers, this highlights the importance of
understanding whats driving brand exposure on Facebook.
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BASIC ANALYSES
Now that weve outlined and dened all the important metrics,
were ready to put them all to work for us.
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How to measure your Facebook audience beyond fans
When it comes to measuring your audience on Facebook, there is more to it than just fans. Fans can be
bought lured with offers and promotions to Like your Page. The fact that they liked your Page doesnt
mean that theyre true fans of your brand or that theyre engaged with your content.
Most social marketers know that there is more to understanding their audience than a trended fan count,
but many still dont know what they should be measuring to get the complete picture. Without actionable
insights, its impossible to steer audience growth, tailor content to your audience or maximize engagement.
Audience analysis is about understanding the following:
With whom youre connecting
What type of content resonates with them
How you can more effectively build a community around your brand
Here are ve tactics that will get you focused on the right metrics and give meaning to your Facebook
audience analysis.
1. Measure the audience you actually reach
Those who see content associated with your Page are not limited to your fans.
For that reason, reach which measures the unique number of people who saw content associated with
your Page can give you a better idea of your effective audience.
Reporting on reach over time can help you understand how the sharing of your content impacts your
ability to attract and engage your audience. Without reach, you cant accurately measure your potential to
engage people or convert them into customers.
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You should segment reach by its three main types organic, paid and viral to understand how your
content was shared. Its important to measure each reach type independently because each indicates
different things.
Paid Reach
Reects how many people were exposed to a Facebook Ad and will likely be dedicated
to driving product awareness and sales rather than engaging your community
Organic Reach
Fluctuates based on changes in new fans and engagement with your content but is more likely than paid
reach to generate engagement. Monitor organic reach to ensure its growing over time
Viral Reach
Changes in this metric can indicate how shareable your content was
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2. Analyze your engaged users
Engaged users are the people who took action on your page or with your content. Growing this audience
each month is important. As your number of total fans increase, you want to also grow the number of
users who engage with your content (engaged users). In other words, as your fan count grows, you want
the percentage of engaged users to steadily scale. If you were to grow your audience with users that didnt
engage, the value of that audience growth would be negligible.
When paired with reach, the percentage of engaged users can indicate when engagement is being driven
by successful content strategies, such as the right content format or efforts to increase content visibility
through promotion (e.g., paid reach).
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While its important to continue growing the number of engaged users, its also important to understand
how effective you are at engaging those who see your content. You can do just that by measuring
engaged users as a percentage of reach. The more engaged your audience is, the more likely youre
reaching the right audience with the right content.
Paid advertising can skew this percentage by inating paid reach. To avoid distorting this ratio, you can
measure engaged users and organic reach at the post level for all posts that werent promoted.
3. Create context for fan growth
Although the number of total fans isnt the primary metric for measuring your audience, new fan growth
can still serve as a community health indicator. With the right context it can help you identify tactics to
organically increase your audience size too.
By analyzing Like Sources, you can determine where within Facebook people were or what device they
were using when they liked your Page. You can also segment Like Sources to help you identify whether
fans were acquired via a paid source (such as paid Likes) vs. an organic source (e.g., organic Likes).
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Reporting on organic fan growth reveals the number of fans you were able to earn, irrespective of how
many ads you ran. Organic growth trends can help you identify events, content and tactics that contributed
to fan growth.
Further analyzing organic Like Sources can also help you determine whether your digital properties are
effective at driving users to like your Page. For example, are social plugins on your website effectively
driving users to your Page? Does better integration of social plugins on your site result in more Likes?
4. Identify your fans
To identify who your fans are, establish an audience baseline using Facebook Insights demographic data.
Then put this data to use. For example, knowing where your fans are located can help inform decisions
about what kind of content you share and when you publish it. Say a sizeable percentage of your
Facebook fans are in San Francisco and the San Francisco Giants win the World Series. You could use
that as a newsjacking opportunity to drive fan engagement. Or consider Ford as an example; when it
realized its Facebook Page had a strong following in Germany, it announced on Facebook that it would
introduce the Ford Mustang into European markets.
Newsjacking dened:
Brand journalism that allows you
to take breaking news stories and
inject them with your own ideas to
generate attention for yourself or
your brand.
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If youre a B2C brand, just be sure to conrm that age and gender demographics match your target
audience. Then use sales data to pinpoint the products your social audience is likely to be interested in.
Once youve established a baseline, go beyond fan demographics by building buyer personas that map to
certain products or content topics. Measure engagement with content that ties back to personas as part
of your regular audience analysis.
This type of analysis can give you a deeper understanding of who your audience is and what content will
resonate with them.
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5. Discover when your fans are most active
There are a couple of ways to gure out when your fans are most active. The rst is built into the
Facebook Insights tool.
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Facebooks recently redesigned Insights tool displays:
How many of your fans were online each day of the past week
The average number of your fans who saw any posts by hour
This is an extremely valuable tool, but its important to note that it measures when your fans viewed any
Facebook posts, not just posts specic to your Page.
The upside is that fan activity isnt biased by when you post; the downside is that its limited to your fans
and does not include engaged users.
If you have a well-established Page and a sizeable Facebook fan base, its likely that a large portion of
your audience isnt active with your brand on a weekly or even monthly basis.
Before making major changes to how you time your posts, you should validate your ndings by analyzing
post reach and engagement with your content. This approach is more time consuming, but will help ensure
you know when people are most likely to engage with your content.

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How to determine which posts you should promote with Facebook Ads
Facebook Promoted Posts are a great marketing tool for amplifying the reach of specic content. Before you
start allocating ad dollars though, you need to determine which content is worth promoting.
In this section, we outline ve ways you can analyze the data from your Facebook Page to guide your
Promoted Posts game plan. The more insights you glean ahead of time, the greater the likelihood of
success when you execute.
1. Give new life to old content
Analyze your content over a historical time period (3, 6, or even 9 months ago) to nd posts with high
engagement. These top-performing legacy posts have the potential to be successful when promoted.
Running a Facebook Content Analysis report will give you an idea of which types of posts and what kind
of post content generate the most engagement.
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Here, we see that multimedia posts performed much better than posts with links, generating over twice
the engagement per post.

In addition, we can analyze how people engaged on those posts.
2. Recast lower-performing content
Next analyze your lowest-performing content to identify posts that drove little or no engagement.
Knowing what hasnt worked gives you the opportunity to recast that content and then give it new life
with promotion.
3. Expand the reach of popular content
You can also analyze your content to identify content with high engagement. Then capitalize on those posts
with paid promotion to increase exposure and improve the success of your overall advertising strategy.
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4. Figure out what works for your industry (and your competitors)
Analyzing your competitors Facebook content can also help determine which content types and topics to
promote. Identifying top performers and understanding what content your competitors use to successfully
drive engagement gives you more options when putting together your promoted-content strategy.
5. Figure out what works on other channels
By determining what works well on other social channels, you could uncover posts that deserve a spot in
your promoted plan on Facebook. For example, analyze your top-performing Tweets by engagement, and
use your best Twitter content as a base for a few Facebook Promoted Posts.
Evaluating and measuring your current content performance gives you a pre-launch prep list, and sets your
campaigns up for success before you spend any money. When you do launch, you will be starting off
with a smarter, data-driven plan that will save you time and money.
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Youve probably noticed by now that visual content is one of the most widely used and widely engaged-
with content on the internet. Visual content has become more and more impactful as a way to reach
potential customers, fans and followers. But with so many services for creating and distributing images,
and so many types of visual content, how can you tell which works the best?
Here are some quick ways to analyze your visual content and create a strategy based on past success.
Measure consumptions by post type
With Facebook Insights, you can delve into how many photos are viewed, videos watched and links
clicked. Try different types of content and track how they perform over time. This data can be found in our
Facebook Page Insights Report.
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Measure total engagement against post engagement
Measure engagement type overall compared to per-post engagement on your various content. Perhaps
you see huge engagement on photos but have also posted your photos four times as many photos as any
other media. In such cases, it helps to know how successful your photos are on a per-post basis, breaking
down Likes, comments and shares. You can measure this in our Facebook Fan Page Report.
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Measure engagement on Instagram
Since Facebook acquired Instagram, the two companies have created a very synergistic relationship so
its in your best interests to track how your Instagram photos are performing on Facebook (which you can
do using our Instagram Account Report). Then compare this to the performance of your Timeline photos
within Facebook to form a solid Instagram strategy.
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How to deal with negative feedback
Facebook doesnt have a dislike button, but the negative actions users can take can have serious
implications for your brand. Namely, negative feedback ultimately limits the reach of your brand posts
because of how the Facebook News Feed algorithm works.
Lets break down what constitutes negative feedback on Facebook. Then, with data from the Simply
Measured free Facebook Insights Report, well show how to nd out how much negative feedback you
receive and how to address the related data.
What is negative feedback on Facebook?
There are four main types of negative Facebook feedback, each posing different consequences for your brand:
1. Hide Clicks: When fans click to hide a specic post from appearing in their News Feeds
2. Hide All Clicks: When fans click to hide all posts associated with a single company or
brand from appearing in their News Feeds
3. Report Spam: When fans report one of your posts as spam
4. Page Unlikes: When users choose to unlike your Page
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Segment negative feedback actions
Segmenting negative feedback can help you understand how its affecting your brand. For example, a fan
hiding an individual post is much less severe than if they were to hide all of your posts. When a user hides
all of your posts, you lose the ability to share content with them in the future.
That said, viewing individual feedback metrics like Hide All Clicks can give you an accurate picture of how
many of your fans are opting out of seeing your content. On the other hand, tracking Page unlikes can
show your effectiveness at retaining fans. When trended over time, peaks in negative feedback indicate
when youre receiving too much negative feedback. By cross-referencing this with the type of posts and
content you published around that time, you may be able to identify the root cause (see Analyze negative
feedback by post below).
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Create benchmarks for your brand
Acceptable levels of negative feedback vary by brand. The volume of negative feedback you receive can be
inuenced by how much reach your posts get, the size and quality of your audience, and your industry.
Since these factors are unique to your brand, one of the best ways to determine acceptable feedback levels
is to establish benchmarks based on the average volume of negative feedback you receive, either by day or
by post. Then set goals for decreasing your negative feedback average to help maximize your post reach.
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Analyze negative feedback by post
Go a step further than negative feedback Page totals to analyze actions taken on specic posts. Your per-
post average will help you ag posts with higher-than-average negative feedback.
Once you identify which posts receive the most negative feedback, determine the post attributes most
likely to cause fans to hide your content, ag it as spam or unlike your Page. Going forward, avoid those
post attributes.
Account for reach
The more people who see a given piece of content, the more likely it is that someone will nd fault with it.
In other words, a post with twice as much reach is likely to receive more fan engagement, but also more
negative feedback. You can account for this by measuring negative feedback as a percentage of Reach.
Peaks in your negative feedback rate show when more users respond negatively relative to how many users
saw your content. This is a powerful metric for determining how much negative feedback is too much.
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ADVANCED ANALYSES
Facebooks Graph Search provides an alternative to the major search engines.
Since the service is still (fairly) new, at least from a marketing perspective, it can
be hard for businesses to pinpoint how to best optimize for it. The answer is that
while you optimize to appear in the major search engines using SEO (search
engine optimization), you optimize to appear high in Graph Search results using
GSO (Graph Search Optimization).
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How to optimize for Graph Search
Graph Search ranks content based on specic user-driven metrics, such as engagement on outbound
content, so these are the ones you should focus on. With The Facebook Page Insights Report from
Simply Measured, you can analyze these metrics to optimize your Graph Search rankings.
Here are four key metrics to focus on while ramping up your GSO.
1. Engagement on outbound content
Hand-in-hand with how people engage with your Stories and posts is the engagement on your outbound
content; by that we mean content that youve posted on your Page. Since the goal with Graph Search will be
to have your brand-generated Page, posts and comments show up at the top, its important to focus on this
metric. Facebook bases priority in News Feeds on a number of factors, one of which is the number of Likes
your content has gotten from the searchers network of friends (or even friends of friends, as a secondary
level). Focus on content, stories and comments that are garnering the most Likes and overall engagement.
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2. Page fan demographic prole
Your demographic metrics give you insight into the type of users interacting with your brand, valuable
information that makes it easier to cater to your market. Graph Search favors localized content so if youre
a brand with more than one location, claim brand Pages for each. If your Page caters to a specic location
or type of clientele, optimize your About tab to reect this by making your prole rich with relevant
content and keywords.
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3. Stories on user-generated content
The results served up by Graph Search are based on a users connections to friends. Stories generated by
users are a very important metric in this regard. With that in mind, make your Page and content sharable,
and give users an incentive to promote your brand to their network. Contests and promotions that
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4. Top keywords from comments
Focusing on the keywords appearing in comments can help you in two ways. For one, you can cater
content to the conversations people are having, and drive search relevance by better engaging your
active audience. Secondly, if the conversations arent driving more trafc to your Page, you can launch a
keyword-relevant campaign that steers conversations toward topics that will help your GSO ranking.
How Graph Search can simplify your Facebook strategy
In 2013, Facebook announced that posts and status updates are now part of Graph Search results.
This update to the search platform allows users to search content including photo captions, check-ins
and comments.
While this feature only allows users to search content visible to them including posts from friends and
publicly shared content it also means Facebook marketers can more easily plan campaigns and ad
spend based on relevant conversations.
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What does this mean for marketers?
As a social media manager, you have to dig through an abundance of data to understand how well youre
engaging your intended audience. On Facebook alone, Insights can be overwhelming, Ads Manager is
complex, and identifying conversations and topics that your audience is talking about can be daunting
unless those conversations directly involve your brand.
The good news is that these users are already talking about your brand. While you want to keep them
engaged, happy and purchasing, you still need to reach new users.
There are several ways the new Graph Search functionality can help you do this. While its no replacement
for a solid reporting tool that helps you get more from Facebook Insights, these new Graph Search
features can help simplify your job as a social marketer.
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1. Search for key terms
By searching Posts about The Voice, for example, NBC would be able to see all public posts and
conversations about its show something it wasnt able to do in the past.
This type of information can give brand and social media managers great insight into the way their fans
are talking about their company, offering, etc., even when they arent tagging the actual Page. To continue
with this example, NBCs brand and social media managers could also search on each of the celebrity
coaches from the show to identify who resonates with fans, helping shape decisions for their next season.
This opportunity isnt just for giant national broadcasters. Even a small- or medium-sized business can
identify conversations within its particular industry. For example, if you sell tools, you can search for Posts
about handsaws and nd out which competitors, features and projects people are talking about in relation
to handsaws.
2. Search by location
If you run a brick-and-mortar store, youre bound to be more interested in local trafc than you are in
Facebook fans from across the country. With the new Graph Search functionality, you can search by
location. Lets assume you run Mom and Pops Hardware Store in Seattle, WA.
Posts Written in Seattle, Washington could deliver insight into what people are talking about in general in
your city (around the time of the 2014 Super Bowl, the answer was Seahawks). You could narrow it even
further by looking at Posts written at Mom and Pops Hardware Store to nd out what customers are
saying about their experience in your store.
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3. Search by time
Say you ran a sale at your hardware store last month. Just search on Posts written at Mom and Pops
Hardware Store from last month for posts from that time frame to get a sense of whether or not potential
customers were aware of the sale.
4. Search your own content
Want to make sure you dont miss a response when you participate in Facebook conversations? Now
you can search Posts I commented on or My posts from last year to identify the places you engaged
with fans.
So there you have it once youve used Graph Search to identify the conversations to target, you can
track success, allocate ad spend and use your analytics to form future strategies.
Analyze to take advantage of News Feed changes
In its most recent attempt to make branded content feel more organic, Facebook announced that it has
updated the way Page interactions display.
The update will treat Pages even more like people. If one Page tags a second Page that a user has liked,
that post may appear in the users news feed, even if they dont like the rst Page.
While the intent of this change is to create a more organic and natural newsfeed for Facebook users
(the network ran a survey and found that these stories received high scores), the implications are also
awesome for brand pages looking to expand their reach or grow their engaged audience. This change
brings Facebook closer to Twitters prerogative; validating the fact that users are less resistant to brand
interaction than was once assumed.
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Here are some ways to ensure your page increases its odds of success with this update.
1. Identify Pages that already interact with your Page:
Pinpoint brand Pages that already drive engagement for your brand by mentioning your Page, and
leverage this attention.
2. Tag pages in posts when you may have similar audiences:
This can help grow your audience organically, and gain added exposure for your content among a segment
you wouldnt have reached otherwise.
3. Discover new or related audience segments:
Identify other brands in your space who engage their audience at a high level, and leverage this attention.
Seems simple enough. But whats next? Aside from guessing, how can we identify brand Pages to involve
in our engagement strategy? Here are four types of analysis, using four different Simply Measured reports
to help you plan your Page-targeting strategy.
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How analysis can help identify opportunities
1. Discover the pages mentioning you:
Finding pages that are already mentioning your Page gives you an opportunity to develop content that
builds that relationship, and now, leverage their audience.
Using Simply Measureds Facebooks Fan Page Report, we are able to identify the top posters of any
brand page, whether we have admin access or not. Using Ducatis Facebook Page as an example lets
take a look at their top posters by both engagement and number of posts:
Top Posters by Total Engagement
Ducatisti Integralisti
Zacks Garage
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Right away, its clear that Ducatisti Integralisti is both the most frequent poster on Ducatis page, and that
their posts have received the most engagement of anything posted on Ducatis wall.
To get a closer look at that engagement, we can open this report in Excel, and ip over to the Posters tab.
Of the engagement on Ducatisti Integralisti posts to Ducatis wall, 219 were shares and 786 were Likes.
This suggests that there is both an overlap of Page fans, and interest. This is key to Facebooks News
Feed relevancy algorithm. According to the announcement from Facebook:
We look at many factors to make sure the most relevant stories appear in
News Feed, including which posts are getting the most engagement (such as
Likes, comments, shares and clicks) across all of Facebook. We also consider
which posts are getting the most engagement from people who Like both the
Page that posted and the Page that was tagged.
2. Find large pages catering to similar interests:
If you have a large list of competitors or industry frienemies, theres a good chance that theyve reached a
large group of potential customers that you havent. Find out who they are, and how theyre doing it.
Competitive analysis is one of the most versatile and under-utilized types of analysis. Theres a lot you can
learn from your competition, and in this case, a lot you can leverage.
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With the Facebook Competitive Analysis Report, you can add competitors or successful companies in your
space, and identify trends in engagement. Once youve done that, you can have a good understanding of
how and when to mention them in a Post, and leverage their audience.
In the above example, Special K had the most engaging Tweet, leading the way with a post about Mothers
Day. If Ive determined that Id like to attract the audience that engages with Special Ks Facebook Page,
this presents a great Mothers Day theme for me to use, as opposed to only talking about our products,
which may compete for market share.
3. Learn when to time your mentions
Once you know which Pages youre looking to leverage, its time to focus on tactics. How do you plan on
doing this?
While Facebook offers a plethora of public data on your Page and your competitors Page, you can also
access data thats private to you as a Page admin. The Facebook Page Insights Report can give you some
great data about when to plan your attack, so to speak.
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In the optimization section of the report, you can identify the peak times that your audience is logged into
Facebook. If youve done your homework, this will mirror the data for industry-aligned pages youre looking
to target. Pick your times wisely. Mention other pages at peak times to ensure it displays in their fans
News Feeds.
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4. Test and measure everything
Once youve started your campaign, and are mentioning other brand Pages, its time to measure.
Did it work? Which one worked the best?
Using the Facebook Post Insights report, you can determine which posts led to the highest engagement.
Analyze whether or not tagging the brand pages boosted your engagement per post, or if it stayed
relatively at. This will help you understand the value of engaging with specic pages.
Make sure you take into consideration your overall content goals when it comes to Facebook. Youre
looking to see which post drove the most engagement, but also what type of engagement. If tagging a
specic Page led to a lot of photo views, but no link clicks, which was the goal of the content, it may be
time to reevaluate or try a different angle.
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Perform a competitive analysis in your industry
Social media puts an incredible amount data at your ngertips especially when it comes to analyzing
your industry as a whole. Weve built reports that help you benchmark engagement across channels,
measure share of voice, and analyze your competitors content from all angles. From this, weve created a
guide on how to analyze your competitors using Facebook data, which dives into:
Competitive Benchmarks
We can help you nd out how you stack up against competitors in your industry based on key
metrics like engagement.
Competitive Analysis
We tell you how to nd out why your posts or your competitors posts perform well.
This includes sentiment around campaigns like promoted posts, or specic topics.
Competitive Insights
We help you discover how to use this data to nd out how to modify your Facebook strategy
to outshine the competition.
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CONCLUSION
Now that you know what each of the Facebook metrics means and how to
analyze them, its time to put that knowledge into play. If you dont currently
have a tool to help you dive into all of your Facebook data, wed love you to
try Simply Measureds full suite of powerful social media analytics reports.
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Benchmark your brands Facebook performance against competitors
Analyze the audience, content and engagement trends of any Facebook Page, allowing you to understand
your competitive position, performance and market share compared to your competitors.
Measure your customer service efforts on Facebook
Dive into individual user posts, track response rates and times, and analyze a dedicated customer service
Facebook Page in relation to your main brand Page to understand your customer service effectiveness.
Facebook Customer Service Analysis (Home Depot)
Compare your efforts on Facebook against those on other social networks
Measure your efforts on Twitter in context with Facebook, Instagram, Tumblr, YouTube, Google+ and more.
Compare audience size and growth, as well as post engagement across all major networks.
Complete Social Media Snapshot (RedBull)
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ADDITIONAL RESOURCES AND SOURCES
http://www.theverge.com/2013/9/29/4783702/the-faces-of-facebook-natalie-rojas
http://investor.fb.com/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=802760
http://les.shareholder.com/downloads/AMDA-NJ5DZ/2301311196x0
xS1326801-13-3/1326801/1326801-13-3.pdf
http://socialbarrel.com/facebook-photo-library-now-250-billion-user-photos/53315/
http://techcrunch.com/2013/07/24/facebook-growth-2/
http://www.businessinsider.com.au/marketers-are-spending-more-ad-dollars-on-facebook-2013-9
https://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook-engineering/under-the-hood-building-graph-search-
beta/10151240856103920
http://www.insidefacebook.com/2013/04/22/graph-search-optimization-the-new-seo-and-what-it-
means-for-social-advertisers/
http://contentmarketinginstitute.com/2013/03/creating-content-facebook-graph-search/
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