penny likes?

Hi Ty,

Hmmm.....buying Likes - even for a penny - might seem like a solid idea, but you want to think end game. If people are working for a penny, to get a Like, can they afford the product or service you have to offer? Probably not.

I'd go with the organic approach of Liking pages of industry leads, commenting on their status updates, blogging, making friends.....because even though the Likes can give you social proof, these penny Likes will be dead wood, and will do nothing to grow your actual business in the long run.

All the best!

There is a Facebook Forum here: Social Media Marketing Forum

I dont understand fb, I advertised fan page to kill 2 birds with 1 stone and hopefully gain a like and a visit to my site at same time......I set cpc to 0.11 but when you get a click they charge you over 1 dollar. Its not worth it to me, I would rather gain them other ways.

I believe there was a guy who was selling his serices for Likes, etc... try checking the WSO section.

Also, penny likes are ok... but what exactly is your goal with it? Is it just to build up Likes? Or do you have a specific monetization method?

My advice is to never start a campaign for the sole purpose of just getting likes... for me, I go for clicks and conversions... it's the thing that pays the bills : )

Create facebook campaigns

use the facebook ads interface its a lot of easier

Some things I have found while marketing on Facebook:

1- To get penny likes - $.01-.03 you need to target the less competitive regions. So basically not the US but other english speaking countries as well as other random countries and specify English.

*Something to note with this method: the engagement is generally not that great
and the quality of those likes is minimal. However, it gives you some credibility
as you can get thousands of likes for very cheap.

2- Another thing to consider- Facebook will give you a 'Suggested Bid'. If you are new to Facebook ads then they will suggest a bid price about 10x higher than if you have advertised a lot with them. Price discrimination. If you still bid for a lower price, your ads will still be shown, but they won't be shown until after the higher bids are shown first. But there is plenty of traffic on FB that your ads will be shown.

Anyway, 2 things to keep in mind as you're starting out getting cheap likes.

As automation hero wrote, you can gain cheap likes only from regions that aren't tier1 or even tier2 countries. For example in MMO niche, while building your list you have to take care of your community origin because Tier1 countries convert best.

Ty, what is the niche of your page? If we know some specifics maybe we could help you create well targeted ad to optimize price for like.

There are many different tactics...

just my $0.02

use promoted posts and target your audience really well.... it will keep your costs down. Just finished a small campaign that got $0.02 clicks (not likes...actual clicks) to my money site because I targeted a very small demographic in the promoted post.

...and my targeted countries were US and Canada... "tier 2" countries suck as far as traffic and site interaction... waste of money.

still I see Facebook ads are more useful and it can help you gain social presence as well as targeted audience,
what else can be cheaper than a single post promote option.

So you can get penny likes, how come I set my campaign CPC but when someone clicks facebook says I'm charged per like?