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Tracking social media engagement

Tracking social media engagement

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Tracking social media engagement

- Engagement is one of the coolest things about social media. But if you're like many content marketers, you might wonder whether it's happening for your content marketing. Fortunately, social networks offer a lot of data to shed light. So I'm going to touch on some of the most useful metrics to understand your engagement on social networks. Let's start with social media referrals. Referrals tell you how social media channels lead people to your business website. So this metric helps you understand how effective promoting your content on social media is. You can use Google Analytics to track referrals from social media. In Google Analytics, you can go to select acquisition and social. This will show you a table that reveals how many new users came to your website from each social media platform, such as Facebook or Twitter. For example, if you see that you're getting little traffic from Twitter, you can take steps…

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