Anatomy of a Perfect Facebook Post: Exactly What to Post to Get Better Results by @kevanlee

You post to your Facebook page, hoping youve hit upon something that works.

How great would it beknowthat the post you just published had the bestchance of maximizing clicks, likes, and comments.

Facebook posts especiallygiven the dramatic dip in reachcan feel like a mystery. How do you create the perfect Facebook post? Does the perfect Facebook post even exist?

I went looking for answers and came across a heap of best practices and examples of what goes into a perfect Facebook post. Check out the results below, test out the tips and strategies on your own posts, and watchyour Facebook stats climb.

Right off the top, heres what I found as the five ingredients that go into a perfect Facebook post. Ill dive into more detail on each of these further down in the article.

A perfect Facebook post:

Several Facebook pages have found great success with this particular style of post. Take this one from The Muse, for example (a Facebook page that routinely engages 50 percent of its fans per post). It nails the elements of post type, length, and imagery.

Of course, as with all of the best practices mentioned below, you can take them as a jumping off point to your own experiments and tests. Ill be testing them, too, on the Buffer page and looking forward to sharing with you the results later on.

Lets get into a bit more detail about each perfect ingredient.

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Anatomy of a Perfect Facebook Post: Exactly What to Post to Get Better Results by @kevanlee