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20 Social Media Ratings You Should Be Monitoring

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So you have a great idea for a Television show. You know that the content is going to be exciting, enticing and fascinating and make the viewers tune in night after night. 20 Social Media Ratings You Should Be Monitoring

Your TV ratings will make you a legend.

The challenge for TV is you have to prove that the content is great by creating a pilot that can cost hundreds of thousands of dollars to demonstrate to the TV network that the concept is a potential rating bonanza and worth running.

You either fund it yourself or you need to find an investor to stump up the money to do the pilot. It is very hard to test without investing major dollars. (Avatar had a  $500 million dollar budget, $300 million for the content and $200 million for marketing and promotion).

Social Media Marketing is also about  great content just like TV, if what you write and publish is not worth reading or viewing then your viewers and subscribers  whether that be blog or your YouTube channel  will not show up. If you can show that what you write and produce is rating material and will grab the readers and viewers attention then the audience will turn up in droves.

TV shows are successful based upon three things

1. Great content (whether that be comedy, thriller, documentary or drama that entertains)

2. Successful promotion of that content via TV, Radio or any other media that gets people turning on the Tube in large numbers preferably in the multi-millions.

3. Most importantly does the show pull major advertising sponsors and revenue that makes profit for the TV network

TV shows live  or die on their ratings and your social media marketing also lives or dies on its ratings.

So what are your social media marketing ratings that you should be monitoring and measuring for your major social media channels.

Here are 20 ratings worth monitoring on your social media channels

Blog

There are a few types of ratings you should be measuring here

  • Unique visitors per  month to your blog
  • Total posts read
  • Subscribers to your RSS feed
  • Total email subscribers
  • Independent credibilty ratings by external authorities such as Klout, Adage, Compete.com or Hubspot (with it’s website and blog gradings)
  • Number of comments
  • Who is commenting (small players or major players)
  • Links
  • Time on site

Facebook

  • Number of fans
  • Types of Fans (ordinary or high value)
  • Comments

Twitter

  • Number of followers
  • How many lists you are on
  • How many ReTweets you are generating
  • The number of Direct Messages
  • Klout rating

YouTube

  • Number of views
  • Number of subscribers
  • Quantity of comments

Is your content on social media so compelling that your subscribers and viewers turn up night after night. Are they so excited by your content that they tweet it and post it on Facebook. Do they copy it and link back to your blog.

So how are your ratings for your social media and can you do better?


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  • http://jamesmhunt.wordpress.com Jim Hunt

    Jeff,

    Thanks for sharing. Your list is a great top 20 to take a good look at impact and reach. A key is to remember to monitoring results over time not just the day after posting. I have found referring back to previous posts as supporting material for newer ones helps too.

    Thanks for all the great info you share.

    Jim
    @JimHunt

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  • http://tracetv.tv Tracy Ready

    Jeff, love the blog ~ great info – I am learning a lot from you, so thanks – Trace

  • http://www.currin.co.za Brian Currin

    You asked: Are they so excited by your content that they tweet it and post it on Facebook.

    OK, just shared on Facebook.

    Love your work, Jeff … quote from you often as part of my Web Marketer training workshops

    http://webmarketer.co.za

    Brian

  • http://www.InceptSave.com Becky Weiand

    Thanks for sharing this info! I look at a lot of these ratings daily and weekly, it is nice to know I am looking at the right things :D !

  • http://bit.ly/9PFJ1N Saul Fleischman

    Jeff,

    I love this, well written, and specific. This goes to our group tweet-feed: http://listomatic.syndeolabs.com/lists/10729900

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  • http://www.mabel.ca Tricia

    Great article! How do you identify “high value” facebook fans? thank you!

  • http://kristelcuenta.com kristel cuenta

    Hello, I love this post. I’ve been looking for something like this before. Found this on twitter. My blog’s new and this one helps a lot. But, question? Where do I find how many subscribers I have if I’m using WordPress as my platform. Thank You :)

    • http://jeffbullas.com jeffbullas

      Hi Kristel To get subscribers you can apply for a free Feedburner account to get people to subscribe either via RSS or email, and then load it into your WordPress blog. Then you can measure who is subscribing :)

      • http://kristelcuenta.com kristel

        Thank you Jeff :) I have a feedburner now.

  • http://www.sandiego-romantics.com Melissa Howe

    It’s great to have a list of things to do to keep on the right track in maintaining a good social media program. Keeping up on what’s new in social media is easy thanks to posts like yours!

  • zelot66

    Jeff,

    It’s a nice post. I do agree with you those you mentioned are critical areas where we need to monitor. Another thing which is equally important is where are those visitors coming from. Large chunk of visitors should organically come from search engine so we don’t have to spend much time twitting our posts. Just sharing.

  • http://www.sysomos.com Mark Evans

    Jeff,

    Great list. It’s important that people know the metrics to measure their social media success.

    That said, the metrics are different from every individual or company based on their objectives and how they define success. For some, you can use hard metrics such as RSS subscribers, RTs, etc., while other metrics are “soft” such as improved customer service or a stronger brand.

    cheers, Mark

  • http://www.linkedin.com/in/jfavreau jamiefavreau

    You can also use twitalyzer as well. I use that for clout analysis.
    @JFavreau

  • bidaelgran

    Thanx for your sharing. Hopefuly, I can’t built my twitter from your advice

    @bidaelgran

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  • http://www.eldoradoseo.com Chris Arnell

    Great Post! Great Top 20!

  • Adrienne

    In the midst of launching a new website and your articles /blog are great tools in
    helping shape and hone our social media plans. Thanks to Twitter for connecting Ireland and Australia.

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  • http://www.actionly.com/ Sam

    What about Facebook post quality?

    Thanks!

  • http://www.herdmanjones.co.uk Nigel Jones

    Super thank you!

  • http://PRatSunrise Worob

    Very good info, Jeff.

    @Worob
    PR at Sunrise – worob.com

  • http://twitter.com/aschottmuller Angie Schottmuller

    I would add “# of shares”. To me, sharing content is the highest rating for measuring good content. There’s somewhat of a progressive system from rating to commenting to sharing. The level of interaction is proportionate to their interest in the content.

    • http://www.keisanpablo.com Kei San Pablo

      First off, thanks for a great post Jeff!

      Agree with Angie, # shares… if I may add, # retweet, # post likes =)

  • http://www.susannepenfoldsocialmediaconsultant.co.uk Susanne penfold

    Thanks for a great post yet again Jeff.
    I must Make some time today and sort out my rss on feedburner.

  • http://passaggiowines.com Cynthia Cosco

    Thanks…learning lots…

  • http://whymycountrysucks.com/category/asia/china/ Why China Sucks

    for youtube…isn’t number of viewers and quantity of comments measuring the samething? I think it’s better to calculate how many views per month it or something. Looking at the rate of exposure tells you more about the media, tells you if it has viral potential.

  • http://www.inmoblog.com César Villasante

    and mentions on Twitter?

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  • Anonymous

    Still the basic.

  • http://creative.publicate.it/ Helen Lewis

    Great breakdowns, I agree with Angie that # of shares is also important.

  • http://mulemanagement.com/blog Jude Ugwuegbulam

    I would add ‘talking about this’ into the mix. It’s possible to have thousands of likes and no activity/engagement a Facebook page. Pointless

  • Lucy Tyerman

    As social media is constantly evolving, this list will alter but it looks like a great starting point. Kathryn’s suggestion of monitoring imagery is something which I think will become more prominent in the near future as more and more businesses are joining every social network possible to keep up with the latest trends.

    Lucy
    http://www.sentimentmetrics.com

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