Understanding Social Media Algorithms for Creators
47mGeneral2022-12-23
Authors

Sam Dey
Consultant and Instructor Specializing in Digital Marketing
Course details
If you’re a content creator, understanding what your target audience is interested in and looking for when they search is the key ingredient to creating content that will attract and engage them. Creators who understand how the social media algorithms work can use that knowledge to make their content more discoverable, sticky, and engaging across a variety of platforms.
In this course, YouTube creator Sam Dey explains how social media algorithms function, why and how they differ across platforms, and how to leverage them to make your content more discoverable and expand your online influence with engagements that stick. He explores the inner workings of algorithms on a few of the world’s most widely used social media platforms: LinkedIn, Google, YouTube, Pinterest, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, and Twitter. By the end of this course, you’ll be equipped with the knowledge you need to get your content in front of your target audience across a range of social media platforms.
In this course, YouTube creator Sam Dey explains how social media algorithms function, why and how they differ across platforms, and how to leverage them to make your content more discoverable and expand your online influence with engagements that stick. He explores the inner workings of algorithms on a few of the world’s most widely used social media platforms: LinkedIn, Google, YouTube, Pinterest, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, and Twitter. By the end of this course, you’ll be equipped with the knowledge you need to get your content in front of your target audience across a range of social media platforms.
Skills covered
Google SearchPinterestYouTubeTwitterInstagramCreator ContentFacebookLinkedInMetaSocial Media MarketingGoogleMarketing
Concepts
0. Introduction
- 01 - Beating the social media algorithm
1. Understanding Algorithms
- 02 - Why algorithms exist and how algorithms work
- 03 - Algorithms and platforms
2. Beating the Algorithm
- 04 - Vanity metrics vs. the algorithm
- 05 - Sticky content
- 06 - Getting found on social media
- 07 - Social media engagement
- 08 - Creating viral content
3. Algorithm Analysis
- 09 - The LinkedIn algorithm
- 10 - The Google algorithm
- 11 - The YouTube algorithm
- 12 - The Pinterest algorithm
- 13 - The Facebook algorithm
- 14 - The Instagram algorithm
- 15 - The TikTok algorithm
- 16 - The Twitter algorithm
Conclusion
- 17 - Next steps