My method to getting free QUALITY likes on FB

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I am new on Warrior forum so I am not sure if someone has mentioned this method already, if so I am sorry for repeating it.

I have a fitness website for athletes, it is targeted more towards basketball though. On FB I made a fan page for my site. I started off with asking my friends to like the page but maybe only a handful actually did.

After that failed, I ran FB ads with a $5 daily budget limit. This worked very well for me. Unfortunately the likes I got did not participate by liking or commenting on the posts I made. I thought this was because I has such a low number of likes.

Then I went to Fiverr and bought a couple of gigs to increase the likes on my page and make it seem more popular but again those likes aren't real people who like or comment on my page which does not help me or my page.

I am only 18 and I have had a lot of trouble finding a job so I started brainstorming on ways I could get more likes without the need of spending money.

Since my page is about basketball, what I did is I made two new facebook profiles with basketball related pictures and information. Then I went to popular Basketball related fan pages, I liked and replied to peoples comments.

The trick was that I only liked and replied to people who knew what they were talking about. People who seem to have a passion or a strong interest on the topic or leave comments with value.

After I scoped out these people I added them as friends. Since I previously liked their comments and replied to them, they were more likely to add me as friends, which they did.

Once they added me as friends, I would post statuses, pictures, and videos that I knew they'd like and comment on.

After about 2 weeks of doing this. I got over 150 friends on both profiles. Neither of the profiles shared the same friends. Each profile had its own set of 150+ friends

(Note that these friends were constantly liking and commenting on my statuses)

Now what I finally did was I went to my Fan Page and added the two new profiles I made as admins to the fan page. After this I sent every single one of my friends to like the page and probably around 75% of the invites I sent converted to QUALITY likes to my fan page.

I gained over 200 likes to my page, yeah 200 likes is not a lot but these 200+ likes are QUALITY likes of real people who constantly participate on mostly everything I post.

Now it seems that the two profiles I made have a life of their own and now I do not need to send people friend requests because other people add me instead.

Now of course if you try this method you'll have to tweak it towards your own audience but from my experience it works really well so I hope this was helpful and you see the results that I continue to see each day
#social media #free #likes #method #quality
  • Its a Clever Idea.And yes,200 is not a lot,but a step towards 200,000.Well done.Keep going.
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    • This is the strategy that I'm looking for; the likes are "organic" and not paid.
    • When it comes to Facebook fans, it may be more effective for your business if you acquire high quality fans rather than a high quantity of fans.
      Quality Facebook fans are fans who will connect your brand to other buyers and drive more relevant traffic to your Page's timeline. Building your page for not only your existing fans, but for your fans' connections will ensure an ongoing cycle of quality fan attraction.
      1. Post consistently but in moderation. Post between 3 and 5 times per week. Unless you are a news outlet, posting multiple times per day may annoy your fans.
      2. Post at the right times of day. In order to get the most exposure to your company's specific audience, post at the optimal times of day and days of the week
      3. Create engaging posts. Develop stories that your fans will look forward to reading in their timelines and that they will have the highest probability of liking, sharing and commenting on.
      4. Make stories timely. Relate your stories to current events and information. It's okay to occasionally sprinkle in some evergreen content, but Facebook users generally gravitate toward new information.
      5. Make stories visual. Attach photos or videos to your posts in order to visually engage Facebook users. With a visual element, people will be more likely to share your stories with their friends, or to Like your brand or business Page. Take advantage of the expanded visual real estate that's offered within the Facebook Timeline design.
      Develop strong ties with the fans who are the most likely be buyers of your company's product or service and who also have the greatest likelihood of sharing your stories with their friends.
  • I would rather 200 real FB likes that found you as compared to even 1000 FB likes that you pay for. At least you know that these 200 people are really interested in your posts and not there just because you paid for them to be there.

    FB has this feature that you can very easily unsubscribe (at least I think they still do since they are always changing) to anybody or any pages posts. They will still be your follower or friend, they just won't get any of your status updates. I don't really do much for FB likes, I personally prefer G+ but that is just me. FB just seems to be harder for me, but I am just a blogger who is not really selling anything.

    Sounds like you have a plan that is working great for you, keep it up
  • This is a great strategy. I always prefer quality over quantity so for me these 200 fb likes are more important than those 2000 fb likes which I can get by paying.

    Now I guess you don't have to do this thing anymore as any status or picture you post all your friends and their friends can see it, it will be easy to get a multiplier effect now.

    Keep up the good work.
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      In my case, I would also prefer 200 fb likes than having a paid 2000 fb likes.
      With 200 (real) fb likes, I would possibly get the benefits that I expect.
  • That is a very interesting method, never thought of doing that.

    Congrats on your success and thanks for sharing
  • Thanks great info,I will try it
  • What's the internet way to clap? Well I'm doing that right now 'cause that's clever and resourceful - Kudos BB
  • Goooddd one.. I will try it out soon
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    • 200 likes from real people are way better than any number of just paid likes. I am fortunate to have pages with more than 1,000 likes because of my business. Now I am using those likes towards my internet marketing experience since my business has allowed me to achieve "authority" status among my customers.
  • Yes, I agree the quality of your FB likes are far better than random paid likes. sounds like you're headed in the right direction. Thanks for sharing!
  • Nice, I'm going to try this too. Thanks for sharing.
  • Very good method.
    I have said this to so many people over the years - Quality is always king over quantity so those 200 likes are worth a vast amount more than thousands of bought likes!

    Well done, you are going down the right path to success :-)
  • nice tip you are doing great,
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    • I'm glad all of you liked my idea, I'm more glad that I was the first to think of this but I hope you guys can make this method work for you and get the same if not better results than I did
  • I don't mean to put down your method as it is probably a very good way to ensure you have good quality organic likes, but it does seem like a highly inefficient use of time.

    What I mean is, it is quite a menial task which as a Facebook fan page owner, I would prefer not to do. I think there are far more effective ways of getting traffic, especially to jump that first hurdle of 100, 1,000 and 10,000 likes on you're Facebook fan page.

    For example, why not use Facebook advertising, my latest results are:

    Reach: 393,836
    Actions: 24,993
    Clicks: 9,387

    and from this I got 5,743 likes from people who engaged with my advertisement, thus meaning they are probably high quality users and all of which are in either the UK, USA or Canada.

    How much did this cost me?

    Less than $40.00 in advertising spend at a CPM of $0.05...Facebook doesn't have to be expensive and it's far easier than what you mentioned.
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    • this is a great share. I wish i could learn more from you as I want to begin using facebook ads to get more likes for my fanpage
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    • Although I definitely agree that Facebook ads are helpful, they aren't everything.

      The idea here was to spend less money and gain quality (free) likes.

      Yes, you can say it's not a good way to spend time, but then again the idea could also be a great way to build networks and relationships that are deeper and more helpful in the longrun.

      I have pages with 3,000, 5,000, 15,000 and even over 175,000 fans on them and they are all very interactive and I receive hundreds of comments whenever I post anything, but I'll tell ya this, there are a lot of very interactive people that I've found that have since then turned into a great benefit for me, they interact with things, participate in discussions, and give way more value than 95% of the other fans.

      It's not to say that others don't have valuable information, but a quality like is a huge thing.. those people can go onto being page moderators, page admins, content creators, and even eventual partners
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    • I have to agree 100% with the post below... when you can pick ups hundreds of genuine likes (who become engaged) every day with FB advertising for a few bucks it's really not a very efficient use of your time to manually get likes.




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    • If you read the original post fully then you must have read that the guy was an unemployed 18 years old (therefore had more time to use towards building his page than money).

      Its ok to use your more effective method if you have a budget, but with limited or no budget, the lad deserves kudos.
  • Wow! It's really cool. Thanks for the share.
  • You are really smart, thanks
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  • Very clever way to lay organic roots in the FB social network.
  • This is valuable technique being used by SMM... Its slow but effective.... But Social Media Marketers are really busy people they don\t have much time to spnd just for this.. sad but true but yes there are some marketers who really think like you and offer real likes/tweaks/G+s etc.. to your pages....

    the think is you find out what you really need.....
  • i will try it,thanks
  • I have had a LOT of success with some new methods using promoted posts after bringing in new likes using the Facebook Power Editor in conjunction with "Custom Audiences".


    Check it out.

    Facebook Power Editor

    Have a great Day...
  • sounds great! What's your method for converting those likes into paying customers?
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    • I am still young and learning on ways to convert my audience into profit.

      What I have done so far is that when I update my website with new articles or videos I post a link to my site on the fan page telling everyone to check out what I just posted.

      Since my fan page is very active, a lot of people will click on the link and be redirected to my site. My content is original and I try to use specific language and words to catch the readers attention. I've gotten a couple sales this way, I am still working a better article writing method to convert into more sales.

      Also I have my aweber opt in form on my site. So if I do not get any sales, I will get a couple of more people on my list.

      Since I have social media buttons on my site (FB, twitter, Pinterest etc.) a lot of people will use them and that also helps.
  • 200 is awesome, and 200 more than you had before so good work. Not to mention your still extremely young. Just stay focused, keep learning and don't give up. You will be at the top before you know it.

    Good work, and good luck!
  • Thanks man. Sorted about the details on it

    cheers!
  • Nice. Very resourceful and proactive. Think of new places you can take the method
  • Thanks for sharing with us
  • It's a great idea. Another thing you should try is to make a list of all the groups related to your niche and post your page there or try the same things you did here.
  • I think I understand this method, its pretty clever.

    But I am not sure why you have to make a new profile and 2 of them?

    Edit: I just tried to rely to a FB comment but can't see how to.

    Does anyone know how to reply to a FB comment?
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    • Well if you'd like to use your actual FB profile then you can do that too but personally I did not want so instead I just made a new profile.

      When I saw how easy it was to get a bunch of friends on a new profile, who by the way were pretty active, I made another profile. Both profiles are getting more friends each day on their own. I do not add anyone other people instead add my profiles.

      After each profile gets at least 50 new friends, I invite all of them to like my page and the conversion of the people who actually like my page is pretty high

      It worked so well that I am currently working on a third profile
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  • Great post and very informative and inspiring. Simple method that takes a little time and a little work but seems to be very effective. The results are quality likes gotten the old fashioned way. Now you can focus on monetizing your community and finding a way to automate or outsource the process so that you can then scale it up.

    The likes are quality because you simply built up a relationship with your FB friends and did so one by one. It's just another form of list building which is really relationship building rather than direct sales pitches. Great work and glad to see that you stuck with it and did not give up when your results started out slow and less than stellar. You were also creative and imaginative in brainstorming and troubleshooting out some solutions to your marketing challenges.

    Excellent work.
  • Nice method Bryan
    Thank you for sharing with us
  • The best way to get a lot of face book likes would all depend upon your website.

    I currently average about 50 new likes per day. It helped when I added the Facebook Like widget to my website, and I post 3 to 6 times a day a link to my website along with a picture.

    If you are consistent, people will like, and share your links. This will further increase the amount of likes you will get.

    It takes time to grow into 10,000 likes.

    But, hard work and dedication is the seed for success.
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    • Just got my first like to my page with this method
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  • I just PM people non-stop with the message, "PLEASE LIKE ME, OH PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF GOD LIKE MY PAGE. JUST DO IT OR I DON'T KNOW WHAT UNFORTUNATE CIRCUMSTANCES MIGHT BEFALL ME," in all caps like that day after day until they're forced to click "Like."

    Kind of like I do in real life. Just follow people around with a picket sign and the words "Be my friend," on it in hastily scrawled magic marker.

    Just kidding; nice method! Real, solid likes are the best way to go to build a foundation.
  • great method. Thanks for sharing
  • Indeed this is the best way
  • Great job! This may take some time but it sure gets you real people.
  • Hey everyone I'd just like to add to my results with my method. On the past two weeks or so I made a third profile. This profile is doing twice as good as the other two that I made.

    This profile has taken a complete life of it's own. Everyday it gets about 30+ friend requests. Which is about 210 new friends a week along with the other friends I made with the other two profiles.

    The beauty of it is I am still getting a high conversion of these friends to like my page and become active
  • Try to join relevant groups and keep posting there as-well. This will also help you.
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    • Wow, congratulations on your success. It's really inspiring to hear or read stories like these among members of the online marketing world.

      And hey, 200 may not be a huge number, but you've got to start somewhere, right? Now you've seen that your methods are taking off and they are taking a life of its own. Thank you for sharing this with us. I hope that you will never get tired of doing this and we're all excited for your upcoming success stories.
    • Update:

      I've stayed with the same three profiles and my reach continues to increase. I've gotten active and loyal likes.
    • I've done exactly the same with no results. May be it doesn't work for all niches though.
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    nice method.

    My method is to hire an SEO on freelancer and have him seo your fanpage. just keep the fanpage crisp and awesome and then the traffic rolls in.
  • Genius! Thanks for sharing.
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    • I just got a warning for doing friend adds from FB, so be careful with this.
  • Just be careful, adding friends who do not know you personally can generally be geared towards breaking FB policy
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    • I thought the whole point of FB was to make new friends.
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  • good thinking there for a very young person. congrats. but 200+ likes wont really get you anywhere if you want to earn some good money. $$$
  • That is a strategy that I also use and it works very well. If you focus on the quality, it will be fruitful in the long run.
  • Nice, I like it.
    To get something that many did we have to start small first.

    Keep Spirit.
  • Very well played. I think the most important thing to note is the amount of effort you put into personalizing your approach. This is what turns a lot of "get rich quick" folks off, which is precisely why it works- it's never crowded along the extra mile. Cheers and thanks for sharing.
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  • Hi,
    It's clever idea...I will also try it...
    Thanks for sharing this idea......
  • its very gud method to target the most targeted audience. dear u done great. you know I am also working in the same pattern. just visit the groups and pages related to my page and then interact there with the people.
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    • I'm glad all of you liked my method.

      I've also joined a few groups in my niche. Works great as well
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    • Yes FB can cracked down on adding random people which why I would advise for you to join relevant groups and get noticed by everyone there.

      One thing I've tried, for example, was to post a picture in a group that will get everyone's attention and say "Everyone add me, I want friends who know about this" or something like that. This way you dont have to get in trouble for adding people because everyone adds you instead.

      And yes it should be celebrity and fashion fans.
  • Such an interesting method. Cool.
  • very informative discussion since i always used to think how to get relevant and huge taffic from facebook.
  • very informative discussion since i always used to think how to get relevant and huge taffic from facebook.
  • thank you for sharing, that's definitely a good idea. you've got promotions even not spending anything. I'll try this.
  • Great info, I will give this a shot and report back.
  • Great Share..I think it will help most people..
  • First post I read on this forum and it was all I needed to register. Good idea man, good luck with your future endeavors.
  • Super cool strategy man! Thumbs up.
  • Nice job you're close enough to succeed in earning money just keep on going.
  • Good Strategy.
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  • Thanks for sharing strategy to get more Facebook likes and followers. Really superb idea.
  • Nice to read and really great strategy..
  • Good informative post.
  • Hey Bryan,

    I created a fan page about dating site for 50+, but I have no idea how to find these pages and group where 50+ singles are talking about. I found out that there are not so many resources about my topic, can you give me some advice?
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    • even veterans in the community can learn from this...TRUTH
    • Hey, can you search for people over 50 who are single? Can you create a profile of a person over 50 who is single and join singles groups on FB for that age group and then invite those people to the page?
    • Yeah that one seems a little tough. I don't really think much 50+ people are looking through FB for dating.

      Try targeting a bigger audience and keep track of who likes the page. Keep track of the age and sex. Once you get more followers you can analyze this information and target the age and sex group with the majority likes on your page
  • Thank you so much for sharing your experience. I was really looking for some good ideas to promote my business. This will be of great use to me.
  • This sounds great! However, I am wondering why not just go and make comments and such with your fan page. Why take the extra steps of creating the other pages? Was it so that it did not look like you were a company? Or was it so you could invite the people to the page because they were now friends? Did you make these two new profiles under the same account as your fan page? Thanks!!
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    • I actually did both, I commented on other FB pages and tried to became an active user but there are a lot of other pages leaving spamming comments asking to like their page so I realized a lot of people are hesitant to like a page through this method.

      Which is why I made other accounts that were related to my niche, I filled it with a bunch of pictures and albums related to my niche and FB page. I had more success this way
  • Nice job. I learned something for the day.
  • Thanks to everyone for a lot of great information about using facebook.

    I am currently in the information gathering mode, trying to learn how to use facebook for my marketing purposes. I guese I'm a newbie at facebook and it's potential.

    Thanks again,
    Norm
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    Nice Bro you got the secret which many older takes long to understand. Likes are not enough.
  • hey - I am just curious - did you fan page increase organically or in the end you used some advertising? and How big it is now?
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    • I'm at 15K right now, everyone is pretty active as well. All of the likes are organic.

      I have ran some ads before but only to split test and optimize the best ad. I'm going to start running more ads soon actually.
  • What a great way of getting more likes and attention kido.. You have your ways , let me try it on my page if it works for me too.. I hope it does
  • helloo
    this is a good idea for getting more fans.. keep going bro
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    • Thanks man, I'm always experimenting with new methods and techniques
  • Try purchasing more fb likes and build your page via Fb ads
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    • Buying likes isn't always the best idea, unless you also buy comments and status likes as well to make it look like your page is active.

      This way when you runs ads and people see your page it'll be more likely that they'll like your page.
  • Genius .... how about gaining massive traffic from FB, it's still a mistery for me. is FB fanpage or likes on FB effect to traffic? I mean can we get traffic from that. (if so.. I want to promote some product)
    Please ... warrior can PM me !
    wish all the best
    Andra
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    • Yes, definitely.

      When you gain a pretty solid and active audience on your FB page, you can start posting links to your website or product you want to promote and you'll get great traffic
  • Very nice Guideline, i will give it a try. But what also is good for make more user visiting your profile page is post good pictures. Good Pictures will been shared and people comes to you.
    I have programmed for me an Facebook Image Poster Bot how posts all 2 Hours a Picture what i uploaded before automatically. 500 Visits per Picture and 50-120 Likes/Followers a Day is possible with that method but it take time. No 1 Day Traffic Method.
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  • Likes are great, but I would like to encourage you to also join some fitness groups on FB and then post some short videos of you training at the gym or ion the court with some great tips and techniques in the videos, then post those videos to a few groups and have a call to action in the comments section for any of your viewers to come and check out your fan page.

    Also I can give you some great tips on how to set up a daily blog that can get you seeing a lot of traffic.
    Cheers
  • Thanks mate.. A great idea, i'm gonna give it a try...
  • Very Nice...Is there anyway of clapping on internet.
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  • awesome!!! 200 is definitely great especially when you know that they are relevent!!!
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    • Glad to see you all like my method, hope you take advantage of it
  • Thanks for the tips and guide, I need to focus on this area myself. This is very helpful.
  • thank you bro for your methode !! it"s really helpfull !!
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  • What I like about your idea is how you had fun putting the plan into action. You actually took time to do market research and track down your potential customers (as in potential fans of your page) and find them where they hang out on other sports related pages. Then you interacted in a fun and friendly way. This is very much what social marketing is about, being friendly and having fun and socializing, not just marketing or selling at your potential fans/customers. This idea could work for anyone.
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  • That was really a nice plan to increase like on FB. I also did something like yours but not exactly as what you did. I am share to my friends the link of my site or the fan page to like.
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  • good but you use paying method
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    • if you join groups and post on page and tag technique you will get a real fans on your page and free
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  • I can see that you've had quite a lot of experience in social media marketing already. It's impressing to know that you are able to stand waiting and gained the patience to wait until you get 200 real likes on your page.

    Thank you for sharing this and you keep up the good work! More likes on your page coming.

    Good luck!
    Nate
  • Hi,

    what should I do with a new facebook page to get likes?
    This is the point here, a faceboook page with 0 or 20 likes , people are not interested to visit it again or to like it or make an email sign up (opt in).

    So my facebook page must have at the beginning 500,1000,2000 likes, but how I do that fro free?

    Fiverr gigs are not recommend, so what other method is there to make a new beginning facebook site with 1000 or more likes, so that with every day I make a post on my facebook page to get daily visitors,likes abnd opt in's?

    ?? Which best free method are there?

    best wishes
    marco005
  • If you have a list that's an easy way to get likes quick. I usually direct traffic from Youtube and Instagram to build my likes up. Just make sure you are posting quality content on your fan page.
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    My method to getting free QUALITY likes on FB

    I am new on Warrior forum so I am not sure if someone has mentioned this method already, if so I am sorry for repeating it. I have a fitness website for athletes, it is targeted more towards basketball though. On FB I made a fan page for my site. I started off with asking my friends to like the page but maybe only a handful actually did.