Awesome FB marketing, or just faking it?

Can you post the link to this FB page?

so you finally solved the mystery. it's very clear to me from the day one when I started using facebook. It's full of fake people and BS. but one thing I like about facebook is it's ppc and post promote.

When buying likes from a 3rd party vendor, chances of the profiles being fake or inactive: 99%
Chance of Facebook eliminating them within days: 99%

So I stopped doing that and switched to FB ads targeting those very countries (and more) that you named because a crowd still attracts a crowd. And in this case, it's still a real crowd...unless you're implying that Facebook manipulates the likes in-house and stuffs our pages with worthless, inactive likes. If that's the case and they're cooking the books to make people so happy about successful ad campaigns that they keep putting money in the machine, then that's a class action lawsuit waiting to happen....

"Facebook Fudges Likes to Gain Money After Going Public Made Them Go Mad." News at 11...

Yeah, I'm sure those are fake profiles. Fortunately, people usually can't get away with that sort of thing for very long on Facebook.

Palusko, what you have stumbled upon is an example of click farm activity. I apologise if the link doesn't work. I'm conscious that some media is not accessible outside of the country of origin but hopefully it works.

Basically, an investigative journalist not more than 5 or so weeks ago, uncovered several examples of major companies whose facebook activity had been created by click farms. People usually working in India, Bangladesh, Phillipines etc, who spend their days, loggin in and out of fake profiles clicking on a page, or link etc to give the impression of something being popular.

Some interesting examples, were a film's fan page, that had more likes than most Hollywood blockbusters, yet had only been released in South Korea (or something very similar to that), also a major brand who had outsourced to a small company who in turn had hired a click farm.

In the UK, at the very least, this is contrary to advertising standards, as it is false and misleading, which could carry a fine, or in some legal minds could constitute fraud. Facebook's take on it was that if they detected such activity they would delete the 'likes'. Further that it could result in the account receiving the likes, being suspended or deleted.

To the best of my knowledge, this most definitely is not Facebook itself, but it is click farms. I come across them all the time. Offers of 10,000 twitter followers, or 20,000 likes for $5. It's certainly not being achieved through conventional or legitimate means at that price.

As for cost per clicks. with FB advertising you cap your spend per day anyway. I certainly don't know of orchestrated clicking on ads, which are programmed to appear in line with the parameters set, keywords etc, in order to meet the budget quota someone has set. There just doesn't seem much point to do anything like that. It doesn't achieve anything.


As for generating interest in a page through ads. I've seen examples of someone paying $40 to get about 300-600 likes which is about the norm, and then from there, generating another 20,000 likes for the cost of a novelty toaster (ran a competition where entrants had to like the page/share the post). It certainly is possible to get massive leverage if you know what you're doing, but then, isn't that always the case?


I hope this helps.

How low-paid workers at 'click farms' create appearance of online popularity | Technology | The Guardian


"If it seems too good to be true, then it probably is"

Exactly, it's all fake. BUT that is not to say you cannot do very well IF you do it right. (Target the right countries and DO NOT buy likes assuming you're going to profit from them).

That's another thing making Facebook difficult. There are countless of fake accounts. They don't profit from this but it gives them more exposure. They are seen more on search results and on the news feed. They reach many people and for them, if the page has many likes and shares, they must be something so they check the page out. People are more comfortable with pages that have lots of activities.