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CitizenSmif

CitizenSmif

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Doing this as a little side project. Simple idea create a few FB pages that teenagers/college students would 'Like' (Embarrassing Club Photos etc), build up to 50k likes, start dropping offers here and there or taking people offsite and keep building.

Once there is a few thousand likes I presume it gets a lot easier to build but is there any good methods to get started? This is what I'm doing

  • Create the page
  • Buy a couple thousand fake likes (nobody wants to like a page with no likes)
  • 'Like' a ton of pages I think people would Like my page from
  • Comment my page in the comment sections on new posts of said pages

It hasn't been taking off as quickly as I'd hoped and currently it's more time consuming than I consider it's worth.

I see pages that have started 48 hours ago with 20k+ likes (and a lot of user engagement, so it can't all be fake likes). One page I saw was made in 2011, had two posts and has 75k likes.

What am I missing here?

Side questions -
Very few of the pages I liked from my page seem to be actually coming up in the newsfeed (I have changed to 'Most Recent' instead of 'Top stories' - is there a way to get every pages update to show?

Any decent auto-commenting software out there? Scheduling posts is easy enough but the commenting on other pages is what takes the most time.
 


To build on your commenting strategy I just have a VA who comments on popular FB pages in my niche (or at least demographics) with a photo (no text) saying to please like my page. This works well because the VA doesn't have to type anything, just attaches a photo. It shockingly gets a lot of likes. You also want to use your FB profile (can be fake) to join FB groups in your niche to share the page in.

Yes there is a lot of FB marketing software to comment but not wise to share publicly

Good luck
 
Buying a lot of fake likes will mess up your organic reach. Your reach is 1 or 2% organic. Adding "fake likes" to your number is essentially messing up your reach.

Another important part is your demographics. You say you're going to drum up "teenage likes" by posting embarrassing photos etc., how well do you think will these people convert?

I am just gonna quote what I said here

BlogHue said:
Your organic page reach for your FB pages is roughly 1-2% of your fanbase.

If you're making image based posts, your organic reach gets transitioned to FB userbase and the content is recycled between the demographics within the Facebook ecosystem.. Meaning, your fans are sharing your images and their friends are viewing these images and further sharing them - but they do it within FB. So while your "reach" is immense in this case, it never really "leaks" traffic to your site.

Steer clear off of the image posts for a bit and instead spend time creating more compelling content everyday and share that. If you run out of ideas, don't be afraid to create master posts (one post listing a lot of your other posts in them - "5 Articles about science that will blow your mind") and then sharing them.

You can also do image based shares (like you're doing now), but wherein your images are pushing your users to click a link in the description. Let your headline become a part of your image and urge them to read the article.
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BlogHue said:
Remember, unlike any other "clung" resources (Email List, Phone Lists, Survey Leads etc.) - Facebook fans (Thanks to the new limitation in reach) are all about Quality and not the Quantity.

Sure, you can target regions such as South Asia and some parts of Europe and get thousands of likes for a few dollars, but these likes will only devalue your listing total. Facebook will not take into account your regions, it will only consider your total number of likes and show it to 1 or 2 percent of these people.

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Coming to virality -

Let's say I have a list of 100 people in my Gmail and I am one of those faggots who love sending out random stories about dead children and fairies, and love and happiness and feel good anecdotes. Now, these forwards, if truly viral, will never limit themselves to my 100 friends. They will be sent across over to 1000s of people. Suddenly, everyone and their mother has read the story on when Bloghue got dumped by his girlfriend and was about to jump off a cliff, when suddenly a fairy hobbster arrived and lifted him mid-air, thereby saving him.

Remember, virality is not limited to a clung resource. They transcend across resources and sometimes even platforms. It is not uncommon to spot a trend with its roots in twitter, spring up on facebook and then on linkedin and instagram etc.

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So if 500+ people shared your articles, they were all not necessarily fans of your page. The question here is, if I came to your site through an article and I have no clue about your page, what are you doing to convert me? I did click your link. I read your article too. I probably left a comment too. And maybe even clicked that big-blue "share" button. I am your target audience. What did you do to convert me?
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BlogHue said:
Buying a lot of fake likes will mess up your organic reach. Your reach is 1 or 2% organic. Adding "fake likes" to your number is essentially messing up your reach.
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I played around with this and just buying fake engagement (photo likes, shares, comments) along with fake likes is an easy way to jumpstart a page and did not affect the reach at all compared to pages where I used ads or other methods.

edit: Not condoning for every page, but if we're talking about negative results from it - I don't see any
 
Thanks for the info. They're actually starting to take off - it was just finding the right pages to comment on and optimizing the text pasted. Definitely going to use an image instead though, much easier to see in comment sections (I'd been pasting the link thus far which would post a thumbnail of the page).

Julian - are you buying fake likes for photos and comments on your page or for when you post on others pages?

BlogHue said:
Another important part is your demographics. You say you're going to drum up "teenage likes" by posting embarrassing photos etc., how well do you think will these people convert?
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I thought about this. Since I'm completely new to making fan pages in this way I thought I'd go with this to begin with, easy content to find and easy (I expected) to gain likes. I have a couple niches in mind after I get to grips with this. Biggest hurdle at the moment is trying to get the majority of the likes from the right countries.
 
CitizenSmif said:
Thanks for the info. They're actually starting to take off - it was just finding the right pages to comment on and optimizing the text pasted. Definitely going to use an image instead though, much easier to see in comment sections (I'd been pasting the link thus far which would post a thumbnail of the page).

Julian - are you buying fake likes for photos and comments on your page or for when you post on others pages?
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Fake likes/comments/shares for my own page's photos
 
CitizenSmif said:
Thanks. Is there a tool available that will auto-comment on new statuses for predefined pages?
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Wouldn't be cool to share the tools publicly I think like I said above just because this place is monitored, especially now (with Grunin), so I just pm'd

I would say whoever tagged that I'm clueless is clueless. Keep just following regular jargon and see what I care. What Abhi said was spot on except for that one statement - which he wasn't even wrong on I just elaborated how to get around it.

edit: yes i am super petty and i am going to lose sleep over that tag
 
Thanks for the PM.

I just stumbled across a page... 133,000 likes and the page has been around for less than three days. This has to be all networked likes from parent pages right?
 
Hey guys,
How can you get a lot of likes in your facebook fanpage? I am afraid that more than 50% of them are fake likes.
 
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