Engagement on social media, is your social currency and it measures your likes and shares on Social Media Channels. You know you have it when the items you post get re-tweeted, favorited, shared, pinned, followed, and/or commented on any of the social media channels. A few such channels are Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Pintrest, Google+, Instagram, and many others. What factors into engagement is really a lot more complicated than this simple definition. To get a sense of how various types of content and actions impact engagement, take a look at what top blogger, and 2015 social media influencer, Jeff Bullas does. His article Entitled 13 Quick Tricks to Drive Traffic to your Blog in Minutes is a must read for anyone interested in boosting their online business via social media. In this article, Jeff elaborates on the tried and true methods he used to build his business. And, he devotes a whole section of this article to engagement on social media.
Social Currency
Likes shares favorites re-tweets mentions clicks replies — Any action which gets your audience to interact with your content is what i like to call social currency.
