Don't waste your money on Facebook likes!!

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5 Ways How to Get a Huge Amount of Traffic from Facebook

Facebook is an online social networking service headquartered in Menlo Park, California. Its name comes from a colloquialism for the directory given to students at some American universities. (wikipedia.org)

Facebook is the most common social media platform as of today. Although there are other social media sites like Tumblr, Instagram and Twitter, Facebook still comes on top of the line. Facebook is easy to use and it is also easy to create connections. Facebook has the ability to share posts which is a good platform for online markets.

Here are 5 ways on how to get a huge amount of traffic from Facebook.

1. Regularly publish engaging content

You have to be consistent by publishing content every now and then. Post as many as you can that is related to your contents. Make sure that everything you post is relevant and is making sense. Make sure that people could relate to your post so that they may be able to engage themselves into reading every content you post and share them to their friends and family on Facebook.

2. Create Facebook Ads to increase website traffic

Facebook is an easy platform for online marketing. Just post a picture with the link of your product, then people would be redirected to your website. People could also share the photo of your product together with it's description and share it with their friends who are as well interested to purchase whatever it is they saw on your page. Make it creative and fun so people would be encouraged to buy one, just by seeing your products photo.

3. Add more friends and Socialize

As what facebook is all about. it's a platform to socialize mainly. So add friends, create a group and socialize. In that way, you would get a chance to know people who are in the same boat as you are and are interested to the things you are interested too. Share ideas and ask for tips how to improve your online marketing strategies. Optimize facebook by not only engaging into the business but also into socializing to other people. When you already have a group of people that shares the same interest as you, it's time to drop the bomb and introduce them to your products.

4. Target your ads

You have to know the target of your advertisements. Know your product. Who will benefit more on your online market. Know who it is who would love to use your products, it could either be the male group, the female group, the older ones, or the younger ones. This is for you to know the theme to use and the strategies to apply when it comes to advertising your product.

5. Accept negative and positive feedback

It is easy to comment on Facebook, and sometime, it's easy to post either a positive feedback or a negative feedback on your wall. Therefore you have to accept them both and learn from every mistake you create. That way, you are listening to your customers advice as well as you are taking chances of improving your marketing strategies more.

Hope this helps!

Yep, I just posted the same thing in another post. F.B. wants you to pay for exposure.

Totally agree. I stopped acquiring likes a year ago for two reasons:

1) Organic reach will naturally decline as billions of likes generated every day.
2) Facebook will cap the reach in order to boost the ad revenue no matter whatever engagement you're trying.

This isn't news. The percentage of people that your posts are shown to by default is determined by how often your followers engage with you. If your posts are being shown to that few people, you need to work on increasing the quality/utility of your posts.

Yes, Facebook is after your money, but you can increase your organic exposure by focusing on EdgeRank.

Thank you for this information.

Agree 100%. Facebook is really unreasonable when it comes to this, they punish the people who buy likes, but they forget about their customers that spent thousands on getting real likes. So annoying..........

My freinds told me as your pages still not verfied its reach still on up and down.
so is that real ?

Well how serious is your page ? What about "Talking about" option. ?

Honestly i don't belived facebook will restrict it per 200 users by that easy

I have 7k likes on one of my pages, and 200-1k+ see my post depending on how many people like/comment/share/click on the post.

For me, facebook likes is just a first step for your business. Facebook will not do the job for you, keep in mind that the only use of those ads you invested in is to get prospect clients; still, all will depend on your marketing strategies. Even if you invested on them and think that you have the right to complain, it doesn't mean that you can rely to them. But what you can do is to focus more on your strategies, focus on what you have and how you will profit on it.

BTW, have you checked on other pages? I mean those who you think is more above than your business? Do you think their page is most likely to get viral than your page?

I think that you failed in monetizing with FB ads. Many people succeed with FB ads and make money with it.

Like what one of the previous posters said, FB likes are a means to an end. I assume you have a proper funnel to capitalize on the people who like you page (squeeze page, etc.)

If you want to increase engagement, try using the boost feature. Just $5 will do wonders. I increase the exposure and engagement on one of my posts by 10 times just by doing that. Sure, you do have to pay but like I said, if it achieves your goal at the end of the day whether it's sales or opt ins then I'd say it's worth it.

It really depends, I know some with just 1000 facebook fans that stay engaged and very supportive of their business. The views have gone down but does not mean you cannot monetize them.

It may work better with certain types of businesses. Smaller niche, fashion industry is very competitive and people tend to go with bigger brands.

Sounds like you don't have the necessary requirements to get the most out of facebooks timeline algorithm.

This may help: INFOGRAPHIC: Understanding Facebook’s Post-Sorting Algorithm - AllFacebook

Cheers,
Mark

agree with you 100% so much money spend and nothing gained

I wouldn't ignore getting likes but I wouldn't make it the focus of an online business either. I have 70k fans in one niche that consistently generates decent traffic to my site daily, but it's one traffic source of many. They all add up.

I typically use clicks to website with Facebook ads and still get quite a few new fans per day as a by-product of the ads... So I post frequently to my page because it is traffic and revenue.

I totaly agree with you man !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Can't really be sure. Not part of Facebook. But I can trust you on the word. Maybe its not Facebook's fault? Maybe they didn't wanted that way. And maybe it will be changed in the future.

I think you are right. FB want to make money so they will never promote for you without paying.

I'm not going to give away my niches, but they range across a wide variety of markets and none of them are for blogs/news sites. I sell a ton of physical products, clothing items included, via Facebook.

So, the "reach" number at the bottom of each post is not real, right? Only when we pay for FB and then we can get more exposure? If so, I am really disappointed and think that Google is a much much better traffic source than Facebook.

Thanks for your kind information fashiononline

That's why it's best to stop relying so much on these 3rd Party Platforms. Once they got you by the balls they can squeeze them as hard as they want to.

I have never in my life paid for an ad campaign, and still managed to get to almost 1,000 likes on one of my Facebook pages.
I can't say I have the secret to success, far from it, all I did was post updates regularly, try to engage my fans, use pretty pictures in each post
I'm not saying this will definitely work, but maybe it can at least help someone.

Facebook is charging only for increasing likes.

Sure...I sell clothing items that have the potential to go viral with my target markets. For example, if I were to create a Walking Dead page, I would sell clothing items like shirts, sweats, headbands and any other related clothing items that I could create or find affiliate programs for. I've had really good luck lately posting memes that go viral and then creating shirts out of those memes. To be clear, I don't have a Walking Dead page that I'm promoting items on...My niches are far removed from TV shows and this is just an example.

As far as selling clothing items that aren't niche-related, you've got to figure out a way to get them to go viral. People on Facebook love to like and share items they think are cool or that they feel are great deals. If you're selling items your fans (or people you run ads to) absolutely love, you should be able to post pictures of the items you're selling with a link back to your site and run post engagement or CPC ads and sell plenty of them.

Without knowing what you're selling, it's going to be tough to give you any advice. If you're selling run of the mill clothing items or your prices are above what people think they should be paying, you're going to have a tough time. People on Facebook will pull their wallets out, but only if you present them with a deal they can't pass up or an item that's so cool they have to buy it.

I wish I could remember the URL for a video I watched some time back about FB likes, but essentially it came down to this:

No matter where you buy your FB likes from (directly from FB or a outside source) or the countries you choose in your ads you still get a high number of people who simply "like everything". Even from countries like the US, Canada and the UK.

So if you are going to increase your FB likes, the best option is via FB... but watch your numbers and see how may people are really interacting with your posts

Thanks for the info!

A read this story the other day, about a guy who use to work in a gas station and later made a million bucks from selling his products thorough Facebook.

So it's safe to say that if utilized properly Facebook can still prove to be worth it.

I think the problem occurs from Facebook Likes Service provider. I have a small business and I buy likes, followers, reviews from different website. But not satisfied. Then my friend send me this website name Social Web Promoter and I really got as I want.

If you are not ready to "pay to play" Facebook, then don't join the game... this is the reality, and we can't change it unfortunately.

yes you are right

Wow, thanks for your information.

Save my money and time.

Fb is a world wide so Reach ur Add for World.....



Cheers

livi

This should teach you a very important lesson. You should never depend on Facebook alone but try to build a personally-owned list of people. When you run Facebook ad campaigns, not only get people to like your posts and stuff, but also try to get them onto your mailing list as soon as possible so that you are not left to the whims and fancies of these social media sites with their never ending stream of rule-changes.

Do not stop advertising on Facebook or getting likes, but do not depend entirely on it. Try to get these people on to your list by whatever means of enticing them that you can think of. You should be able to come up with good, attractive incentives if you know your niche and target audience nicely.

Hope this advice helps.

Great advise.
I still use facebook but instead of creating pages, I just put a "share" button on my posts and the result is always viral.....

One of the many reasons people are leaving to new social networks like ello and tsu. However, Facebook will have a difficult time competing with tsu who is already rewarding their users with 90% ad revenue royalties wrapped around the views their content generates. If you are not on there yet and are looking for information visit Tsu Guide.

I think there is actually a case to keep a page likes down to a minimum and build a mass audience through a group... that way you don't have to keep boosting posts and most people get notification from a group.

My thoughts are; if you post quality content and focus on getting likes instead, then your post/page will have a better chance for ranking in the search engines. Social Media SEO.

Just to follow up on my OP.
I ran an ad ("Boosted Post") that is targeted just to my followers. It had over 11% CTR, which should be a very good sign. Still, Facebook charge me CPM $5,79.
That means, if I want this one post to be seen by all my followers (followers I paid a lot to acquire, and who have, by Liking the page, opted in to see my posts), it would cost me $289,5. PER POST!!!
Thanks a lot, Facebook!

Buying likes on facebook is not really a good deal as after buying you will not get the engagement on facebook. And, even buying real and good engagement on facebook may decrease the fans after buying a page.

so is the "boosting" your post just paying FB to publish the post to more people who already like your page?

I did a FB ad to promote a warehouse sale event yesterday but got zero response so far.

I'll probably get more activity for my sale, from my craigslist posts that are free.


I see why most people still try and stick to personal pages to reach 100% of friends, until they get too big.

Yep, I just posted the same thing in another post. F.B. wants you to pay for exposure.

There are some pretty arguments here, and I think both sides are right to some extent. As for my experience, I have seen that while Facebook shows my post to less people, I can still get some decent traffic if those people are willing to share my post.

Its not something big, but I guess if you can make something that gets shared alot then it might be worth it.

From what I do understand, one would have to spend as many hours posting on fb to advertise (a specific method, which I leaned on a blogging platform which name I will not mention) in order to gradually get enough volume that may turnover enough sales. I know of at least one guy who mastered it, and he took what he learned and created a program from it. It's still simply way too much time than I'd like to spend on fb.

I do agree that some sales using fb are better than no sales!

FB ads have been a money pit for us no matter how much we optimize it. Our Facebook sales, and organic visitors seem to have actually decreased since and after we began advertising.

Facebook likes and ads better for fashion category, because on facebook millions of peoples likes fashion brand and all the latest fashion. Real Likes are netter for your business and your own popularity.

Yes, if you pay for all those followers and likes then you will still have to pay to advertise your posts to them. Might as well just pay once to get them to follow you in the first place