Analytics. It mystifies and confuses even the best of us. But it’s a necessary part of running a successful social media campaign. After all, you can’t know where you’re going, if you don’t know where you’ve been! That’s why today, here is my top 6 list of key performance indicators, that you need to keep an eye on in your next social campaign.
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#1: Your Klout Score
Google and Facebook are both becoming more interested in influence and interaction – both measurements that you can find on Klout. Use this tool to keep yourself pushing to be a highly interactive social person, and your results will improve. Focus on building relationships with smaller communities to begin with.
#2: Bounce Rate
Find out how long people stay on all of your websites. Use tools to track where and why they arrive, and how long they linger, or why they move on. These can be applied to your website, your blog and all of your other social media profiles. These metrics will help you pinpoint where your content needs work.
#3: Tracking Your Links
Linkbuilding is one of the most efficient ways of ranking well, but how do you know that your links are working? By tracking all of them of course! Always use a link shortener like Bit.ly, and track them. That way, you’ll see which links work, and why they work.
#4: Measure Your Adjustment Progress
You should be reading and adjusting your content every month – and this should also be tracked. Measuring your adjustment progress and changes, will keep you improving. If you’re not improving, then you’re not trying hard enough! Never rest on your laurels!
#5: Reputation Tracking
Use sites like Socialmention, to keep your eye on your online reputation. These sites will help alert you if anything negative has been published about your company on the internet. Then you can swoop in and do SEO damage control. It covers all social media sites and you can get email updates delivered to your inbox each day.
#6: Fan Engagement
On every social profile that you run, there will be a certain amount of fan engagement. You should constantly try to improve these percentages, because they matter most to your business. Fans that are engaged become return clients, and return clients mean more sales! Watch your fans, and make them talk to you!
These 6 key performance indicators will let you know that you’re on the right track in your social media campaign. If each metric is improving, then you can bet that your bottom line is improving too! That’s how social success works. The more popular you are online, the more business you’ll get in the real world!
Keep working on all of your analytics data, and don’t forget to split test everything. These performance indicators will do wonders for your communities.
Which analytics metric do you think is the most important? I’d like to hear what you have to say, below!
