Facebook Engagement by Post Type

For all Facebook Page administrators out there, here’s an interesting and useful graph showing Facebook Engagement by Post Type:

Says the author;

One of the main priorities of Facebook Page owners is to drive traffic back to their business website/blog. I know this is obvious– but I mention it because there’s an interesting problem that Pages face regarding link-type posts on Facebook.

Simply put, link posts don’t perform nearly as well as other types of posts on Facebook. In fact, some research has shown that photo-type posts garner as much as 20x more engagement. The graph (above) from TrackSocial gives a good visual for the disparity in engagement between different post types on Facebook.

via How to Ensure You’re Getting the Most out of Your Link Posts on Facebook [PostRocket]

Related link: Optimizing Facebook Engagement – Part 1: Text, Links, Photos or Videos? [Track Social]