An Updated List of Facebook’s Algorithm Changes

To have a successful business in the Facebook world, it is important to follow all of the updates and changes that Facebook makes regarding its algorithms. This article with all of the Facebook algorithm updates and changes comes from Entrepreneur.

If you do Facebook marketing, one thing that you might want to understand is the Facebook algorithm.

The Facebook algorithm helps make sense of the huge number of posts that people and businesses share every day and choose the posts to show in our News Feed based on a huge number of factors.

We want to help you understand how your Facebook posts get viewed on Facebook. So we’re collecting all the relevant Facebook algorithm factors, updates, and changes and placing them here in this post for easy reference.

Facebook algorithm values

Understanding the Facebook algorithm starts with knowing the core values that Facebook uses to guide their thinking and work. These values can give you a hint of what content will do well or not so well on Facebook.

Here’s a brief summary of Facebook’s News Feed values:

Friends and family come first: The main objective of the News Feed is to connect people with their friends and family. So posts from friends and family are prioritized. After those posts, Facebook found that people want their feed to inform and entertain them.
A platform for all ideas: Facebook welcomes all ideas while making sure that everyone feels and is safe. They aim to deliver stories that each individual wants to see the most, based on their actions and feedback.
Authentic communications: Facebook prioritizes genuine stories over misleading, sensational, and spammy ones.
You control your experience: Individuals know themselves best. So Facebook creates features (such as “unfollow” and “see first”) to let people customize their Facebook experience.
Constant iteration: Facebook strives constantly collect feedback and improve the platform.

The overview of the Facebook algorithm

So how does Facebook decide what to show in a News Feed?

To make it easy for you to understand the Facebook algorithm, we went through all the (known) changes that Facebook has implemented to its algorithm and came up with a list of factors that we think may determine whether your post shows up or not.

Do this: The Facebook algorithm loves…

Posts with lots of likes, comments, and shares
Posts that receive a high volume of Likes, comments, or shares in a short time
Posts that are Linked, commented on, or shared by one’s friends
Link posts
Post types that one interacts with often
Post types that users seem to prefer more than others (e.g., photo, video, or status update)
Videos uploaded to Facebook that receive a large number of views or extended viewing duration
Posts that are timely or reference a trending topic
Posts from Pages that one interacts with often
Posts from Pages with complete profile information
Posts from Pages where the fan base overlaps with the fan base of other known high-quality pages

Watch out for: The Facebook algorithm is not too keen on…

Clickbait
Like-baiting
Posts that include spammy links
Frequently circulated content and repeated posts
Text-only status updates from Pages
Posts that are frequently hidden or reported (a sign of low quality)
Posts that ask for likes, comments, or shares
Posts with unusual engagement patterns (a like-baiting signal)
Overly promotional content from Pages – pushing people to buy an app or service, pushing people to enter a contest or sweepstakes, posts that reuse the same text from ads

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