This is a game changer. Until the release of this feature by facebook, the only way to schedule a post on Pages was through a third-party app but now Facebook has baked that feature into its system, you can post content for 6 months in advance.
After testing I think that like all other Facebook native tools, this scheduler will get normal Edge Rank unlike other methods of scheduling posts to Facebook such as Hootsuite & Buffer.
How to schedule your facebook posts?
By clicking on the little “clock” icon in the lower left corner of the status update box, you will open a “set time” feature. Once you schedule something into the future, the “Post” button becomes a “Schedule” button. You can schedule image shares and more.
Click here to read more on Facebook’s help page
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Article by Faissal Alhaithami
Entrepreneur, Social Media Specialist @Kataraqatar, gladly the founder of Fansbridge. Trainer and Keynote Speaker and the Author of Facebook marketing for smart people.
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Entrepreneur, Speaker, Social Media Specialist for @kataraqatar, Blogger Author of Facebook marketing for smart people.
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Twitter: adriennesmith40
June 4, 2012 at 11:10 pm
I just visited a friends blog today and she had shared this with us Faissal.
I think this is really cool but I sure wish they’d implement it for our profiles too. What, we can’t schedule a few things in advance! I’ll always be around to respond so that’s not a problem.
But I do think this is a cool new feature. Yey!
Thanks for sharing.
~Adrienne
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Twitter: aidacarbone
June 5, 2012 at 5:54 am
Finally! This is really going to be really useful. Good thing the Facebook team thought about this! Thanks for sharing !:)
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Upon reading this I went right into Facebook and tried it. While it will allow me to backdate my post, it won’t allow me to choose August or any month after July. I did nothing else except click the clock icon like you said. Or is this feature only available for facebook fan pages?
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Sometimes you’ll get various errors When you use 3rd party application .This is a good move by facebook.
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Twitter: Elena__Anne
June 11, 2012 at 6:47 pm
Thanks for writing about this! I have checked out all the different scheduling sights, seemsic, hootsuite, TweetDeck. While they each have different positives and negatives I have not found one that runs smoothly. I think it is time to use something straight out of Facebook. I will look into this right away.
Twitter: infinatecashflo
June 15, 2012 at 8:52 am
WOW, about time Facebook had this option as a default. I used to use Hootsuite which does a pretty good job of scheduling posts, but Facebook natively supporting scheduled posts is a great new improvement which is long over due.
Thanks for the heads up
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April 9, 2013 at 9:41 am
Me too, Abdul Waheed. I also use hootsuite because it work well with social media scheduling. such as automatically syndicated RSS data
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Your topics about Facebook, specially this one, is more easier to understand than FAQs in the main social medias options. And the best thing is your snapshot!
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Wow, this is a very cool feature that I did not even know about till now. This will come in very handy for sure. Even though there were apps avalilable for this before, I was always skeptical of using any apps.
-Jean
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July 14, 2012 at 11:45 am
This is great! I was just about to recommend Hootsuite to some business associates for this very purpose. Nevermind–looks like this Facebook improvement takes care of it! Thanks very much for sharing.
Twitter: sumon
July 15, 2012 at 7:30 am
Thanks for letting us know about this feature. It is helpful to know because we can often make mistakes when we post. I shall pass the news onto others.
Can someone explain to me how you “. . . separate between spammers and non spammers easily”
Twitter: sumon
August 9, 2012 at 7:01 am
Definitely agree with what you stated. Your explanation was certainly the easiest to understand. I tell you, usually get irked when folks discuss issues that they plainly do not know about. You managed to hit the nail right on the head and explained out everything without complication. Maybe, people can take a signal. Will likely be back to get more