{"id":5037,"date":"2017-07-11T17:43:41","date_gmt":"2017-07-11T21:43:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.highedwebtech.com\/?p=5037"},"modified":"2017-08-01T10:00:10","modified_gmt":"2017-08-01T14:00:10","slug":"public-snap-links","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.highedwebtech.com\/2017\/07\/11\/public-snap-links\/","title":{"rendered":"Does adding links to your public snaps increase engagement?"},"content":{"rendered":"

TL\/Dr; Yes.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>I’ve written about how I’ve somehow managed to get followed by thousands of people I don’t know on Snapchat here<\/a>. It’s true – my public snaps are viewed between 6 and 8 thousand times each. I’m not exactly sure why this is happening, but it gives me the opportunity to do some experiments with the platform that having a very small following wouldn’t allow.<\/p>\n

One of the main things that’s been missing from public snaps is the ability to easily share a link or other call to action. Yes, you can type out a URL as text on a snap, but no user is going to do that. They want to click, or in Snap’s case, swipe up.<\/p>\n

Snapchat recently added the ability to add a URL to a particular snap. This is huge for brands, who, to this point, \u00a0haven’t had a good way to drive users to any sort of landing page or other shopping\/action page using Snapchat. This is a challenge Instagram continues to wrestle with.<\/p>\n

Adding a URL for a snap is easy, though the caveat is you can’t have it open, at least that I could find, in a browser other than Snapchat’s built-in OS browser. You can’t, say, open your app or launch a new browser. The user does not have the opportunity to leave the Snapchat app.<\/p>\n

My experience putting a URL in a snap<\/h2>\n

I wrote a post last week about being locked out of Facebook for a time<\/a>. For the snap itself, \u00a0I took a photo of my Facebook page with a link to the blog post itself. It was posted it and I opened up Google Analytics’ live view and waited to see what happened.<\/p>\n

In the spirit of honesty, the blog post didn’t exactly light the world on fire before I put it on Snapchat. It had a dozen views the first day (I should work on promoting posts better, lol.)<\/p>\n

For the 24 hours my snap was live on my public story, I received a good deal of traffic. Here’s a graph from Google Analytics. Guess what day the snap was live.<\/p>\n

\"Google<\/a><\/p>\n

I will say that going from 12 pageviews to 310 is a pretty solid increase in engagement. When you consider the audience is mostly random strangers who do not share my interest in higher education marketing and technology, I think that’s pretty good. The bounce rate for the page tells a different story. It was 89% on Thursday, July 7, the day I posted the snap. Brands will hopefully get a bounce rate that’s much better since their fans are most likely not random strangers but people with a connection to the brand. 350 of the visitors were new to my site, and 4 had been there before. Thank you, returning users.<\/p>\n

The traffic was constant during the first few hours of the snap going up. At times, there were 10 active users on the page. There were 19 at its maximum while I was monitoring it. Here an additional graph from WP.com stats:<\/p>\n

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Please don’t laugh at the small traffic this blog gets. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

Going Forward<\/h2>\n

This is a good move by Snap to allow URLs.\u00a0 Brands and users should point out to users the need to swipe up to view additional content until users become accustomed to that action.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

TL\/Dr; Yes. I’ve written about how I’ve somehow managed to get followed by thousands of people I don’t know on Snapchat here. It’s true – my public snaps are viewed between 6 and 8 thousand times each. 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