Dynamic Content Ratio Adjustment for Social Media Engagement

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Solution Overview

Problem

Social media entities face challenges in maintaining a balance between publishing business-related and user-preferred content to optimize follower engagement and search engine rankings, as imperfect balances can lead to loss of audience and reduced rankings.

Innovation Solution

A system and method that dynamically adjusts the ratio and timing of content publication based on monitored metrics, defining two content classes (business-related and user-preferred) and adjusting the content class ratio and timing schedule to optimize social media goals without negatively impacting followers or search engine rankings.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Measurement precision

If entities publish more business-related content, then search engine ranking improves, but follower engagement deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvesearch engine rankingVSAvoidfollower engagement
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The system dynamically adjusts the content publication strategy by implementing real-time monitoring of engagement metrics and automatically modifying the mix of business-related and non-business-related content. This dynamic adaptation allows the system to optimize search engine ranking while maintaining follower engagement by responding to changing audience preferences and behavior patterns.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

Solution Approach 2:

The system employs continuous feedback loops where engagement metrics are monitored and fed back into the content publication algorithm. This feedback mechanism enables the system to learn from audience responses and adjust future content publication decisions, ensuring that business-related content is balanced with engaging non-business content to maintain both search ranking and follower engagement.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

2Productivity

If entities publish more non-business content, then follower engagement improves, but search engine ranking deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvefollower engagementVSAvoidsearch engine ranking
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSMeasurement precision

Solution Approach 1:

The system dynamically balances content types by adjusting the proportion of non-business-related content based on real-time engagement metrics and search ranking performance. This dynamic adjustment ensures that while engaging content is published to maintain follower interest, sufficient business-related content is also published to preserve search engine ranking.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

Solution Approach 2:

The system changes key parameters such as content publication frequency, timing, and type composition based on monitored metrics. By adjusting these parameters dynamically, the system optimizes the balance between follower engagement and search engine ranking, ensuring neither metric deteriorates significantly.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

3Productivity

If automated programs publish content periodically, then content publication efficiency improves, but content quality and timing optimization deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecontent publication efficiencyVSAvoidcontent quality
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSManufacturing precision

Solution Approach 1:

The automated system incorporates continuous feedback from engagement metrics to refine content selection and timing decisions. This feedback loop enables the automated program to learn from past performance and improve content quality over time while maintaining high publication efficiency through automation.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

Solution Approach 2:

The system employs self-service mechanisms where the automated program independently monitors metrics, evaluates content performance, and adjusts future publication strategies without manual intervention. This self-service capability maintains publication efficiency while progressively improving content quality through automated learning and adaptation.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Data Source

PatentUS10002166B2Optimize follower and search relevancy ratio
Publication Date: 2018.06.19 INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINE CORPORATION
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AI summary

System, method, and computer program product to perform an operation, the operation including: defining a timing schedule for publishing a set of items of content in a first content class and a second content class for publication based on a content class ratio and corresponding scores of the set of items of content, publishing, by operation of one or more computer processors and according to a first method, the set of items of content on a social media platform based on the timing schedule, monitoring a plurality of metrics for the set of items of content, and modifying the content class ratio upon determining that the content class ratio impacts the plurality of metrics.