5 Steps to Optimizing Your Social Media Marketing Campaigns

You’ve probably already been doing these steps with search engine optimization (SEO):  checking your analytics, being sure your content sharability is easy to access, and knowing what your audience appreciates.  Social media optimization (SMO) has one focus:  increasing visibility of your business or products using social media. By using best industry practices and past performances, it will make your content the best it can be.

Jaysen DeMers, a contributor from Forbes,  provides 5 optimization techniques that will have your social media marketing’s closet bursting at the seams.

1. Headlines:  An attention-grabbing headline is key to engaging your social media audience.  DeMers suggests using numbers within the headline, a clear, tangible benefit and a timely hook to gain the most interest in your blog posts or twitter posts.
2. Strong Call To Action Social Media Posts:  If you want people to click onto your website, be sure to include ‘click below to download now’ or ‘click to read more’ or even a simple, ‘to learn more, click here’. Make it easy on your readers and have the URL embedded.
3. Make The Most Of Your Social Media Profile

• Keep your URL in an obvious space
• Complete every field on your profile for greater presence on social media sites
• Use consistent images, format and voice throughout your profile
• Link to a network-specific landing page.

4. Images, Images, Images:  According to the recently released Social Media Content Optimization Study, a survey done by Adobe and social CRM resource Software Advice, 82% of marketers said images were important or very important to their social media marketing.

5. Hashtags:  Hashtags allow users who may not be familiar with your business to find you. Using relevant words in your hashtags, a new reader may discover your business. Hashtags are the best way we have of making your posts and tweets as ‘findable’ as possible.

Test out a variety of these strategies with your audience and see what works best for your brand and within your demographic. Not all of them may work with your already established audience, but they could draw in new users. So get started or continue optimizing your social media marketing campaign using these steps as a guide.