Are you wondering how some people and Pages are Top News and some aren’t? Well if your Page isn’t Top News, it’s no news. Because the Most Recent news feed is crammed with information and if your post isn’t showing up in the Top News, it might be missed!
But how does you get there? Well it’s a super secret algorithm called EdgeRank, pictured here. Ok, maybe it’s not so secret. Clear as mud right?
What this means is there are 3 key elements to helping you get into the Top News:
- Previous Interaction. How much people have interacted with your posts in the past? The more people comment or Like your updates, pictures, links, the better. So get that engagement going.
- Number of Interactions. If your update is getting a lot of comments and likes, it’s more likely to be Top News.
- Age. Old news is no news. Post often!
So that’s it, easy peasy. The take away here is be interesting, get Liked and post often. Watch my video for added fun 🙂
Dynamite stuff, Grandma Mary – thanks. I try to post a couple of times a day on Facebook and I can tell you (and your readers) it works great to get you in the Top News. Also, posting comments and likes on what your friends post is equally important.
All the advice you’ve given here and the three main components of the super secret algorithm are spot on!
Hope your bunions aren’t giving you too much trouble lately.
Melanie
Easy-peasy!! THANKS!!
Easy-peasy! THANKS!
So happy you got it all installed Deb! You took the words right out of my mouth LOL
Grandma, I recently added a like box to http://blog.rearting.net, but since I use Posterous, it was a PITA. I had to use Iframes. But—that was not FB’s fault. Thanks for the tutorial. Always a pleasure to see your sunny countenance! 🙂
P.S.: I am a big fan of winging it, too!
Glad you got your like box in! It’s handy and so glad you like winging it too!
i didn’t catch that grandma.. the instructions were simple but it doesn’t work on wordpress..
Hi Jedah –
If you are using a WordPress.com site, these instructions won’t work. If you are using WordPress.org installed on your own hosted site then they should work by adding a Text box in the sidebar. That is one of the frustrating things about WordPress.com, it doesn’t have the flexibility that hosting your own site does. Hope that helps!
GrandMaMary,
What would we do without you? I’ve got to catch up…been out beatin the bushes last few days. Hey, is that bush abuse? Have a good weekend.
Thanks, san