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    5 Ways to Generate More Engagement (and Reach) on Facebook

    5 Ways to Generate More Engagement (and Reach) on Facebook

    This is important, because nurturing your current audience will lead to more success in attracting new followers. In this post I’ll highlight a few ways to “trick” the Facebook algorithm to help generate more engagement from your fans, and therefore more reach to new audiences.

    1. Try posting links in the first comment

    Now, I haven’t tried this one personally, but I’ve seen other big players in the social media space use this tactic.

    Here’s a little background on why this is a good idea – Facebook likes to keep people on its platform. This means that Facebook’s News Feed algorithm doesn’t particularly like posts which take people to an outside website, so any post with an off-platform link could, theoretically, be penalized, and shown to fewer people within your audience.

    As an alternative approach, you could try creating a longer form caption, then letting your audience know that if they want more information they can find the link in the first comment on the post.

    Again, I don’t have any definitive data on this, but it’s something to consider in your experiments.

    2. Post engaging content in between website links

    My second tip is a little […]

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