There’s nothing worse than starting a new Facebook Page and having to beg your friends and family to “like my page” to get you off the mark. Nobody likes that guy and nobody wants to be that guy.
While it seems like a small thing, the truth is that if part of your Facebook strategy is to get page likes, then you need to start somewhere and if you have a page that already has a few thousand likes, more people are likely to also like you. After all, who wants to be the first person at a party?
With this in mind its no wonder there’s so many people purporting to have the answer to delivering cheap Facebook page likes, whether its buying them from bots on Fiverr or using some other shady technique.
Actually its really easy to get very cheap page likes, under $0.01 per like, in a safe way and from real users using Facebook Ads.
Whats the catch?
Well the only way to guarantee you’re going to get those rock bottom costs per like is to get target Facebook users in countries where your advertising dollars go much much further than they would in the US, UK or Western Europe. That does mean that the first people to like your page are going to be highly unlikely to be useful to you as an audience for promoting your products and services later. So if you’re going to use this tactic use it sparingly and only do it to get your fan page off the ground.
Video tutorial
Here’s how its done
Step 1: Setup a new likes campaign and in Power Editor under audiences (ad set level) click the “Add bulk locations” link:
Step 2: Then paste the list of countries below into the window that opens:
Afghanistan
Albania
Algeria
Angola
Argentina
Armenia
Azerbaijan
Bangladesh
Belarus
Belize
Benin
Bhutan
Bolivia
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Botswana
Brazil
Bulgaria
Burkina Faso
Burundi
Cambodia
Cameroon
Cape Verde
Central African Republic
Chad
China
Colombia
Comoros
Costa Rica
Côte d’Ivoire
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Djibouti
Dominican Republic
Ecuador
Egypt
El Salvador
Eritrea
Ethiopia
Federated States of Micronesia
Fiji
Gabon
Georgia (country)
Ghana
Grenada
Guatemala
Guinea
Guinea-Bissau
Guyana
Haiti
Honduras
India
Indonesia
Iraq
Jamaica
Jordan
Kazakhstan
Kenya
Kiribati
Kyrgyzstan
Laos
Lebanon
Lesotho
Liberia
Libya
Madagascar
Malawi
Malaysia
Maldives
Mali
Marshall Islands
Mauritania
Mauritius
Mexico
Moldova
Mongolia
Montenegro
Morocco
Mozambique
Myanmar
Namibia
Nepal
Nicaragua
Niger
Nigeria
North Korea
Pakistan
Palau
Papua New Guinea
Paraguay
Peru
Philippines
Republic of Macedonia
Republic of the Congo
Romania
Rwanda
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Samoa
Sao Tome and Principe
Senegal
Serbia
Sierra Leone
Solomon Islands
Somalia
South Africa
South Sudan
South Sudan
Sri Lanka
St. Lucia
Suriname
Swaziland
Tajikistan
Tanzania
Thailand
The Gambia
Togo
Tonga
Tunisia
Turkey
Turkmenistan
Tuvalu
Uganda
Ukraine
Uzbekistan
Vanuatu
Vietnam
Yemen
Zambia
Zimbabwe
Thats it. You don’t need any other targeting options, although it might still be even cheaper if you target people by broad interest categories.
Step 3: You’ll need to setup an ad to encourage people to like you. In my experience it seems to make virtually no difference what you say in the ad but a nice looking photo and a clear message along the lines of “Like us for X free information” is probably a good place to start. DOn’t agonise over it, you will get likes whatever you say in the ad.
The Results?
As you can see in the video, in the demo I put together in all of 2 minutes we got 330+ likes for $2 or $0.006 per like. I’m sure you could hammer that cost down further but really you should only be using this to add a few hundred or maybe a thousand likes to your page initially. Don’t go crazy and spend your whole ad budget buying a million likes and hoping to see some value from it!