While many of you are wondering about the right time to post to their social networks to maximize the reach, many studies have been made on this topic in recent years.
Although the best is first and foremost to do your own experiment here is a small infographic that includes several studies and that an save you a lot of time. Write down on your post-it, here times that globally are best to share content to Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Google + and Pinterest:
Best time to post to:
Facebook : Between 1pm and 4pm with a peak time on Wednesday at 3pm
Twitter : Between 1pm and 3pm and more particularly on Monday and Thursday
Linkedin : Between 7am and 9am and between 5pm and 6pm, more particularly on Tuesday and Thursday
Pinterest : Between 2pm and 4pm and between 8pm and 1am. Peak time on Satursday
Google + : Between 9am and 11am.
You should also know the worst time to post to:
Facebook : At night after 8pm and during weekend
Twitter : After 8pm and on Friday after 3pm
Linkedin : Between 10pm and 6am and you should avoid posting on Monday and Friday
Recently we have noticed that a significant number of bloggers don’t have Facebook pages promoting theirs blogs. After racking our brains about what could possibly be the reason for this disastrous lapse we have decided to convince you to create one.
Why is a Facebook page essential for your blog?
1. A significant source of traffic for your blog.
It keeps your readers informed about your new articles and helps to access them easily. After having created the Facebook page for my blog a few months after its lauch, the traffic has more than doubled and Facebook became the second important source of traffic after search engines. The more you increase your presence on social platforms, the more you expand your audience. Your Facebook page will allow you to communicate with your followers in a different way.
2. Communicate with your followers in a different way.
Compared to other social networks like for exemple Twitter you can share more information and, more importantly, interact with your readers. You can easily evaluate which are the information interesting to them and incorproate these into your blog posts. The opportunity to interact with your readers in a simpler way than by “comments” will help to increase their engagement in your blog.
3. Make yourself visible to brands!
Before inviting you to an event, sending you products, or proposing a sponsored article to you, you can be sure that the agencies will examine your impact on the social networks Twitter and Facebook, since they don’t possess the real statistics about your blog. Your Facebook page hence adds to your chance to participate in the campaign for a product you like.
4. It’s too simple for missing out on this opportunity.
It takes only a few minutes to create your Facebook page – then it is ready to grow!
How to create my Facebook page?
- Start from your profile and go to a random Facebook page. Click on the button “Create Page” in the top right corner.
- Choose a category, accept the “Facebook Pages Terms” and click on “Get Started.”
- Upload a profile picture.
- Fill out the “About” to inform about your blog, don’t forget the link.
- Choose an address for your Facebook page.
There you go! Don’t forget to fill the page a little bit before inviting your readers to “like” it.
Checking your Google Analytics or Stat Counter accounts you must have noticed the enormous potential of Pinterest for increasing your traffic. It would be a pity not taking full advantage of it, especially if images represent the core of your blog (this applies to blogs about food, fashion, beauty, marriage, decoration, etc.).
Many bloggers have stated that Pinterest generates more than 40% of their traffic – a dream, isn’t it?
We present you 3 plugins that will boost your conquest of this social network:
The Pinterest badge connects your Pinterest account with your blog and allows you to share your recently pinned pictures as well as the ones of other Pinterest-users! At the same time your readers can use a button to follow you on Pinterest with a single click.
The value added? If you are active on Pinterest and have already taken our recent advice, your goal is to gain followers! Pictures illustrating the content of your blog and hence appealing to the interests of your readers are much more attractive than a simple button “Follow me on Pinterest”.
You can personalize the plug-in by choosing your own title, the number of images, their sizes, the size of the widget, the text color, etc.
Until now you have had the option to add a button “Pin It” automatically at the end of your posts. This is handy, if your reader has not installed the button in his personal navigation bar. Efficient? Yes, but still. After finishing the article the reader won’t actually bother with a tiny button at the far end of the page, and even though he adored the image at the beginning of your post it will not be on the top of his mind anymore.
With this plugin you can add the button “Pin It” directly to each photograph. Don’t worry, it’s not a big button that ruins your layout – it is only visible if you slide the cursor across (settings: untag the box “Disable the fade in/out on the button?”). Try it with our images!
The best for last: you can create your own button “Pin It” fitting perfectly with your design!
On the left the original button, on the right the button customized by Wedding Chicks
3) WP Pinner
It’s only a beta version so far and not yet available to the public, but the developer Wilco de Kreij gave us the pleasure of testing it in advance. To be honest, we at Made in Blog just could not wait any longer after it had been announced in April. The perspective of being able to pin automatically all the images from our WordPress blog, schedule the pins, and directly follow the stats (repins, likes, clicks, etc.) on our WordPress account seemed too tempting! Check out their video to learn more!
We have to say that at the moment the WP pinner plugin works only about 10% of the times, however its future is very very promissing and it will facilitate our lives as bloggers by far! And it’s for free!
Made in Blog has created for you a little note to give you some essential advice on how to increase your blog’s visibility, obtain more visits and increase your readers’ loyalty.
Welcome to Made in Blog’s own little space in the blogosphere! With all these awesome articles that you write, we thought it was our turn to share our findings, give you advice and suggest to you the best tools for your blog!
