Run a Google search for “Facebook Organic Reach” and you’ll get some of the following results during the first three pages:

Here, I read your tips carefully, it not being overly promotional, but, have been helpful for my engagement. I try to share content from other people or write FB posts related to what I write about.
Thank you for your helpful post. I think it will help people and they learn something new.

My page https://www.facebook.com/clippingcare/

thats good. lets kill facebook unitedly :D

But money in itself is not enough for success. Most of the people forget that there are two main things we should keep in mind when posting on Facebook or boosting a post: relevance and appearance.

Relevance: provide valuable content to a well targeted audience at the right time

Appearance: craft a great post with catchy image and title and don’t forget the post type your target audience prefers

You have to nail both to actually deliver results.

I created a super actionable guide on this this topic that approaches this topic a bit differently.

May I link it?
http://blog.momentum.ai/how-to-increase-social-traffic-to-your-blog

Exactly!! It’s now only beneficial to those that have thousands upon thousands of followers.

I’m spending way too much time experimenting. Sigh…

Who’s fooling who? ‘FB’ cares about users my foot!

Exactly!

Thanks

Yeah, I stopped uploading awhile back. While I thank you for your opinion on the quality of my art, it’s not relevant; I got views, then one day they just stopped. The quality did not suddenly change.

That say, had it only been me it was happening to, I would have thought it strange, but would have figured it was an anomoly. But several performer and artist friends reported it happening at the same time.

Also, Facebook changing the algorith, is, in fact something to blame Facebook for. It is, in fact, exactly what I’m talking about.

I took a look at your Facebook page. The reason you’re not getting any views is because your art work isn’t very good, and the way you present it is even worse. You upload images without explanation, without any insight to your ideas or your thought process. A few have some text to go along with them, but it’s mostly just images dropped. No one has any reason to keep following you, and so your numbers have dwindled. Stop blaming Facebook. Also, they probably changed the algorithm for how many of your friends see photos that you are tagged in for a good reason… Because no one really wants to see that in their feed.

Yes, because there is absolutely nothing of interest to the average Facebook user. People who want your service will visit your website, pay you for whatever they need doing, and then go about their lives. Your service is not the kind that inspires people to like a page and start posting on it.

I took a look at the Facebook page for your site, and I see no “great photos and videos”. I see a lot of random, incoherent posts, many of which have nothing to do with your business. There is nothing to “engage” with because it’s obvious, trite marketing spiel. If people want to discuss the latest Star Wars film, they’re not going to do it on the Facebook page of a t-shirt company. You have wildly misunderstood what your customers want, and instead of taking responsibility for that are blaming Facebook for the failure of your page.

Please feel free! Let me know if you have any questions.

Dave, this is a brilliant analogy and analysis. I’m about to launch a new site called Local Marketing Institute (digital marketing tips and training for local businesses) and I’d love to use this analogy in an upcoming post. Do you mind if we do that?

Just because someone likes my page doesn’t mean that they’ll see everything I post. And just because someone subscribes to my email list doesn’t mean that they’ll read every email I send. Are Gmail and Apple Mail evil because they don’t make everyone read my email? Neither should we vilify Facebook … another messaging system.

It all comes back to delivering something your audience values through social or email, building a relationship with your audience over time, and THEN leveraging that relationship into your business goal (branding, leads, sales, in-store visits … whatever).

Email is not dead … organic social is not dead. Keep building your audiences … keep delivering value, and then ask for the sale. Email and social still work for those willing to put in the time and effort.

The drop has been sudden and dramatic – and it’s continuing to decline even though I’m posting the same good content that I have for several years. All this with the kind of strong content that I assume Facebook wants to have displayed.

As a patient outreach site that is supplying information for free – I don’t have the cash to pay Facebook to promote my pages.

Danya, I *enjoy* the content of the things I follow, because the content is good. And YET the vast majority of it dosen’t appear in my news feed unless it’s the sponsored, half-okay garbage. I have to regularly search out the un-sponsored authors and pages I’m already following in order to read what I want. That’s facebook filtering out GOOD content.
And it does it to my page, too. I have friends who call me up to ask me why they aren’t seeing my stuff, and I always have to tell them, “you just have to check in now and then, or add me to your notifications. Facebook is a bitch.”

My wife and I recently opened up a small business in a small town. Our Facebook account and page has only been active a little over 2 month. I DO NOT pay a marketing company and we’re just shy of 700 fans so far. That being said I noticed the lack of engagement on my first two post and started to look at why… Think of it like you’re going fishing. The ultimate goal is to catch a fish (the sale) if all you do is continually drop a hook in the water, there isn’t much chance of you catching a fish. But, if you chum the water a little here and there you create a frenzy and attract even more fish… not drop in the hook! Chum a little more… drop the hook! We have had post reach over 3500 organic. Mind you we have less than 700 followers and it’s not uncommon for our post to reach 1200-1500 on average (organic) Now if when I drop in the hook, it doest perform as well as I would like, I will from time to time boost the post. But it’s pennys on the dollar compared to traditional advertising and I KNOW these people areally my market. My advise – engage, educate, entertain, sell and then repeat. Think of it more like fishing than e-blasting and open rates.

I understand that they needed to justify (put a spin on) their reasons for looking to create new streams of revenue, but times are tough and creating adds on FB for my pages to ensure I reach at least 10% of my pages audience would cost thousands DAILY…

I personally have suffered dramatically, it’s now costing dearly try reach my audience I had worked so hard to create.

As you would be well aware, there are different ways to share information onto your timelines from your site….. copying and pasting a link or sharing directly from your site is ideal, but it’s pretty much a waste of time unless your prepared to spend the dollars or try take shortcuts. I agree that limiting peoples feeds from tonnes of seedy advertisements needed to happen, it’s just unfortunate that things are now so costly!!!!

Good on FB though, business is business and there is always a method to their madness in the long run…..advising people in June 2013 that there would be a slow decline in organic post reach kinda scared me, but now i’m really struggling for a cost effective solution….

Take FB away though and what would happen?? :-) So i guess i can’t complain.

I don’t think it’s dead…you have to expand in the social world. Above is my Facebook page go take a look.

Here is main http://phototrims.com/phototrims

Well put