02/06/2026
Does anyone actually know what the algorithm wants? Please, tell me what it is! 🤷🏼♀️😂
In an effort to grow my business online, I have decided I need to be more consistent with my social media. Everything says "consistency is key" so I've committed to post every week.
A few months in and here are the results so far:
• Followers are trickling in... And back out...
• Average post reach is down 30% compared to my previous sporadic posting schedule. I thought they said there'd be "growth" from consistent posting 🤔
• Trial reels apparently seem to only get shown to the US or India. I'm doing all the "location-tagging", the keywords, the specific posting times to optimise for local timezones - still barely an Australian gets shown 😐 Or worse, no one gets shown. Literally zero views. I've clearly broken some unknown rule for the algorithm to deem my trial a failure before it's actually trialled it 😂
• Good news is that website views are up! Unfortunately that hasn't actually made any difference to my sales (so far - I'm still hopeful! 🤞🏼).
So in review, I clearly still have no idea what I'm doing here 🙃😂
I started Dacy Laine because I'm passionate about beautiful clothing that women feel amazing in, not because I'm passionate about social media. I've worked in fashion retail for a long time, I can tell fibre from touch, I used to be able to guestimate a customers jean size with high accuracy, was trusted to realise that a bride had looked down whilst I was cutting her wedding dress BEFORE I cut it too short - I thought I knew what I was doing... But Meta has me stumped!
So please tell me, what am I doing wrong? Right? Missing altogether?
Or if you're just as clueless as I am, please like, save, share - just hit all the buttons. Apparently the algorithm likes that 🤷🏼♀️