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Some social media platforms have stopped suppressing posts that contain links. This could revive the open web… #socialmediamarketing #digitalmarketing #blogging #viralmarketing
Your X recently made a change where you don't get less reach if you share a link.
I only have 14 followers on X.
Yesterday I shared this article from my website.
2 thousand views.
This post converted into 145 visits from X to the article.
2 thousand views, 145 people clicked and visited the article.
If this doesn't sound like much, it actually resulted in people sharing the article.
This service tracks Reddit mentions for free.
I got this alert saying my name was mentioned on Reddit.
Going to the Reddit post, you see somebody shared my article here, but unfortunately they shared it with the wrong URL.
They added this bracket at the end.
So then I set up this redirect for when people go to the wrong URL they get taken to the right article.
For the longest time, Twitter X suppressed reach on posts that shared links.
All the social networks copied them.
Now that Twitter X has removed this, it's possible other social networks will not suppress reach for posts that contain links in the future.
A shared article URL with an accidental extra bracket led the creator to add a redirect so referral traffic reached the correct page.
Monitor meaningful malformed inbound URLs from social and community shares, then add safe redirects when they preserve real referral traffic.
This source is connected to Technical SEO / malformed backlinks.
Your X recently made a change where you don't get less reach if you share a link. I only have 14 followers on X. Yesterday I shared this article from my website. The post got 4.2 thousand views. This post converted into 145 visits from X to the article. This means from this 4.2 thousand views, 145 people clicked and visited the article...