Just because they clicked it doesn’t mean they liked it. There are many ways to find out if your content is valuable, applicable, or relevant to your potential customers. Contently.com argues that measuring effectiveness and quality of content through page views is a “superficial” metric of human behavior.
In fact, most clicks in the Internet come from ‘bots’, or those automated processes that roam around the Internet as if they have any real function to users. It’s the same notion with Facebook likes and shares. The figures don’t mean much anymore, especially when anyone can create multiple spam accounts and fake fans and followers. In fact, a research from Disruptive Communication found that more people actually find Facebook posts and shares to be too “salesy”.
How many people actually even read the articles they share on Facebook? And what is even the value of a “like”? Nil. Zilch. So, how do you actually measure the effectivity of your brands? First of all, there should be an effective assessment to measure user behavior in relation to your content.
Contently.com counters that measuring page views is not enough to determine how effective one’s marketing strategy is. A more practical and feasible metrics should answer variables like: How many minutes do users spend on your website? How many readers actually finish reading your article? How many of them actually come back? These are the kind of questions that need the numbers. Setting up superficial numbers, such as the quantity of visitors and page views and follows must end in favor of a metric for measuring quality of content as a way to attract potential customers.