How to Schedule Facebook Posts Effectively for Better Engagement

The feature of scheduling posts in Facebook is quite effective feature. If you have a quite busy schedule and you are not able to publish posts on your Facebook pages at the time when maximum engagement happens, you can schedule posts to publish at that time.

Many fb pages are using this feature effectively to drive very high engagement and social flow from their Facebook posts but there are still lot of people who are not making use of this feature, many of them even don’t know if the feature is available on Facebook or not.

Anyways, if you didn’t know the feature or not used it effectively yet, this article will guide you on your way to schedule posts on your Facebook Pages for better engagement and drive maximum of Facebook users to your update.

Guide To Schedule Facebook Posts

The feature was introduced by Facebook on May 2012. Although the feature is not yet available for Facebook profiles but you can make use of this feature from your Facebook page. Steps to schedule Facebook Posts:

Step 1: Create a normal Facebook post by selecting its type. You can schedule any type of posts such as Text, Photos, YouTube Videos, Links, etc. For better result, make use of appealing description, links, photos and hashtags.

Step 2: Click the clock icon in the lower-left corner of sharing tool.

Step 3: Now, you can specify year, month, date and time. When you do this, "Post" button will change to "Schedule" button. After all done, click on this schedule post to schedule your Facebook post to publish automatically at specified time.

You can even add location using the pin icon provided at Facebook posts.

Finding and Editing Earlier Scheduled Posts

Many times we need to view or make changes to our scheduled posts to go live at some other time. So for this via your Admin panel, go to your activity log. It will show all of your scheduled posts at the top.

From the drop-down button at top-right corner, select Change Time to change time and Publish Now to make the scheduled post publish instantly. You can even delete your post from the option provided in drop-down list.