Glossary
Saves
What does saves mean?
- Reading the question
- Writing it in plain words
The part worth reading
What it does not tell you.
Saves are the strongest signal a post was worth something to the person who saw it, because saving takes deliberate effort and returns nothing to the person doing it. A post with modest reach and heavy saves is usually more valuable than a wide post nobody kept: the first found the right people, the second found a lot of people. The most useful comparison is saves against reach rather than saves on their own, since a post shown to five times as many people will collect more saves without being five times better.
Worked example
On the example account used across this site, "The one outfit I keep repeating" reached 31,400 accounts and 288 saved it, about 1 in 100. "How I organise a tiny kitchen" reached 11,905 and 848 saved it, about 7 in 100.
The usual mistake
Chasing saves with posts that say 'save this for later'. A save asked for is worth less than a save earned by a useful post.
Now the harder question. What do yours say?
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