Views, likes, followers...Black Hat?

Buying likes / views / follows is definitely black hat, but I don't really know why people do it. There's not much effects in my opinion, it just boosts your number and all of the users will not contribute at all.

You cannot buy a fanpage. They are the property of FB. If someone tries to sell you a page they are breaking the law and FB TOS.

Buying fans is often a waste of time. The people who pitch the service always tell you they are "real people" when technically they will most likely be "real accounts" often setup by people purely for use with social swap site so that they can get lots of points from sharing on their clone account to in return buy likes and shares for their real accounts.

You are much better off paying for FB ads to get likes for your own page. this way you can be sure they are real likes and will actually be active.

If you want i can help you with a fb campaign. Currently my best cost per like runs at around 1c per like. You do need to have something which people are passionate about to get these kind of like however.

I wouldn't say never ever do it. There used to be a rule on FB that you could only use a name eg facebook/mychosenname.com once you had 50 like for your page. Not sure if this is still a standing rule but if it ere the case then i would consider it for that if maybe.

Question is i suppose how much do the likes cost when you buy them from non FB sources versus the cost from facebook.

Buying trash likes will give nothing towards page activity whereas real lieks will continue to like you page posts and help spread the word getting you more likes. There comes a point when your page will not need any paid likes to continue growing.

Currently one of my pages gets between 5-15 new likes pr day naturally with only 1 "unlike" on average. This is purely from making 1-2 posts per day.

I decided a few days ago to stick a bit more into the budget to boost numbers a bit more and expect to get between 500-700 more likes over the next week for $7.

Would you rather pay $10 to get (not in all cases) 1,000 rubbish and unresponsive likes or pay $10 to get 200-1000 real and active likes?

very true thank you for clearing it up. Nice page btw

Thanks One thing you do need to know regarding pages though is it is not really that important what your page looks like it just needs to be colorful and active. 90% of the activity you will get will be from the newsfeed. Very few will ever see the page itself in real terms.