Your organic reach on Facebook is now 0%. What’s next?

I am reproducing a write-up from my favorite digital strategist, Eric Shanfelt, because I couldn’t say it better!

“Facebook just reduced the organic reach of your page to 0%. The good news, however, is that there is a way for publishers to still use Facebook to grow their business.

You’ve probably read the news from yesterday of big changes at Facebook. The news feed is going to further prioritize posts from people over posts from pages. It’s also going to prioritize posts that elicit reactions (comments, likes, shares) over informational posts.

What does this mean for you? Mark Zuckerberg himself said, “you’ll see less public content like posts from businesses, brands, and media.”

The writing on the wall has been there for a long time. Just a couple months ago, Facebook experimented with moving content from pages completely out of the new feeds into its own tab. Organic reach of most Facebook pages was already less than 5% and this is going to effectively take it to 0%.

The days of organic reach are over and Facebook is now a pay-to-play platform for publishers. But not all is lost.

I wrote an article in Publishing Executive a little over a year ago that showed publishers how they were using Facebook the wrong way. It’s not a publishing platform, it’s an audience development tool.

Eric Shanfelt
Founding Partner
eMedia Strategist
www.eMediaStrategist.com
970-310-3800“

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