{"id":5822,"date":"2023-02-21T17:12:21","date_gmt":"2023-02-22T01:12:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/boostlikes.com\/blog\/?p=5822"},"modified":"2023-02-21T17:13:02","modified_gmt":"2023-02-22T01:13:02","slug":"facebook-like-companies-dont-really-use-clickfarms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/boostlikes.com\/blog\/2014\/10\/facebook-like-companies-dont-really-use-clickfarms","title":{"rendered":"Facebook Like Companies Don\u2019t Really Use Clickfarms"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p><img class=\"alignleft size-full remove-lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/boostlikes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Facebook-Like-Companies-Dont-Really-Use-Clickfarms.jpg\" alt=\"Facebook-Like-Companies-Dont-Really-Use-Clickfarms\" width=\"629\" height=\"329\" srcset=\"https:\/\/boostlikes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Facebook-Like-Companies-Dont-Really-Use-Clickfarms.jpg 629w, https:\/\/boostlikes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Facebook-Like-Companies-Dont-Really-Use-Clickfarms-300x156.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 629px) 100vw, 629px\"><\/p>\n<p>When you visit a third party ste in an attempt to boost your social network metrics, you have a few options to you.&nbsp; You can hire a social media manager, who will work on your behalf &ndash; so long as they don&rsquo;t have a rogue employee break down and spout off a tirade, of course &ndash; to put every bit of SMM advice to use.&nbsp; You can hire a company to come in and put their own advertising methods in place, to pull in likes from sources you otherwise can&rsquo;t reach.&nbsp; You might even contact a clickfarm and pull in thousands of likes in a matter of hours.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=oVfHeWTKjag\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Many people seem to feel that our company is one of the latter<\/a>.&nbsp; Our name comes up in that video as a site using clickfarms, which is simply not true.&nbsp; Of course, without evidence, why would you believe us?&nbsp; Let&rsquo;s go ahead and make a logical argument.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and before we begin, a note about the video.&nbsp; Facebook&rsquo;s ads naturally seem to attract traffic from clickfarms, whose workers want their profiles to look more legitimate, and thus hide their paid likes amongst other unrelated likes.&nbsp; <strong><em>So even if we were using clickfarms, it&rsquo;s no worse than running normal Facebook ads!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<h3>What is a Facebook Like Company<\/h3>\n<p>Okay, first we need to take things back to the basics.&nbsp; What is a Facebook Like company?&nbsp; What is the point and purpose of a company like ours?<\/p>\n<p>People want to reach their audience, and they know their audience is on Facebook.&nbsp; They need their audience to like &ndash; or follow, the functionality is the same &ndash; their business page.&nbsp; They can advertise through any number of channels, from PPC and organic search to their website, newsletter and personal grapevine.&nbsp; Even so, consider six degrees of separation.&nbsp; No one personal network is large enough to reach everyone potentially part of your audience.<\/p>\n<p><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5827\" src=\"http:\/\/boostlikes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/What-is-a-Facebook-Like-Company.jpg\" alt=\"What-is-a-Facebook-Like-Company\" width=\"629\" height=\"329\" srcset=\"https:\/\/boostlikes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/What-is-a-Facebook-Like-Company.jpg 629w, https:\/\/boostlikes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/What-is-a-Facebook-Like-Company-300x156.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 629px) 100vw, 629px\"><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>What companies like ours do is connect your advertising with a network of websites<\/em><\/strong>, blogs and pages that will display your message.&nbsp; These are places you wouldn&rsquo;t normally reach, either because you don&rsquo;t think of them, don&rsquo;t know about them or aren&rsquo;t part of the network necessary to get into them.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, we&rsquo;re a business.&nbsp; We&rsquo;re in it for the profit as much as we are out of the desire to see our resources lift up struggling businesses.&nbsp; That means two things; we need to charge money, and we need to provide a valuable service.&nbsp; Charging a fee is fine; everyone does it for something, if they want their business to succeed.<\/p>\n<p>The valuable service part is important.&nbsp; If the Facebook likes provided by a company like ours aren&rsquo;t valuable, then no one would contract our service.&nbsp; With no customers, a business can&rsquo;t continue.&nbsp; It&rsquo;s simple logic to assume that, if our business is successful, we must be doing something right.<\/p>\n<h3>What is a Clickfarm<\/h3>\n<p>Okay, so why is using a clickfarm a bad thing?&nbsp; Just take a look at the types of users who follow your accounts from a clickfarm.&nbsp; They&rsquo;re essentially dummies.&nbsp; They&rsquo;re shallow mannequins that exist only to deliver their one bit of value &ndash; their like &ndash; to targets.&nbsp; You can see signs of these accounts fairly easily.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>They &ldquo;like&rdquo; thousands of pages<\/em><\/strong>, including benign or general pages, and pages that have nothing to do with them or anything they&rsquo;ve ever done.<br>\nThey don&rsquo;t do a lot with their account.&nbsp; Other than liking pages, they rarely or never post status updates.&nbsp; They only have a single picture as their profile picture, and may not have a cover photo or any available information.<br>\nThey&rsquo;re typically based in developing nations, in the middle east especially.&nbsp; Locations where $1 USD goes a long way.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/boostlikes.com\/blog\/2014\/08\/facebook-clickfarms-avoid\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Clickfarm traffic isn&rsquo;t beneficial to your business<\/a>.&nbsp; The number of likes on your page goes up, but that just means it&rsquo;s harder to reach the people who actually care about your business.&nbsp; If you&rsquo;re going to reach 5% of your users, you want as many of those 5% to be active fans as possible.<\/p>\n<p>If clickfarm traffic is worthless, and Facebook like companies need to provide a valuable service, the two are incompatible.&nbsp; There&rsquo;s no way we could use a clickfarm to<\/p>\n<h3>What We Use Instead<\/h3>\n<p><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5829\" src=\"http:\/\/boostlikes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/What-We-Use-Instead.jpg\" alt=\"What-We-Use-Instead\" width=\"629\" height=\"329\" srcset=\"https:\/\/boostlikes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/What-We-Use-Instead.jpg 629w, https:\/\/boostlikes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/What-We-Use-Instead-300x156.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 629px) 100vw, 629px\"><\/p>\n<p>Facebook has a very potent ad network, and it&rsquo;s poised to grow even bigger with Atlas, which is far more threatening to us than some negative press about clickfarms.&nbsp; Up until now, the biggest <a href=\"http:\/\/adage.com\/article\/digital\/facebook-admits-organic-reach-brand-posts-dipping\/245530\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">limitation with Facebook&rsquo;s ad network<\/a> is that it only displays on Facebook.&nbsp; If you want to reach users who aren&rsquo;t easily available on Facebook, you need to look to other sites.<\/p>\n<p>That&rsquo;s where we and companies like ours come in.&nbsp; We have resources connecting us to large networks of sites that we can display your advertising on.&nbsp; These sites run the gamut of topics, with everything under the sun covered in some way or another.&nbsp; This is beneficial to you, because it means when we display your ads on a site, they&rsquo;re placed in context.&nbsp; You&rsquo;re not going to find your software business advertised on a hair care site.<\/p>\n<p>The other benefit is that the people using these sites aren&rsquo;t necessarily the same people you&rsquo;re reaching with your Facebook targeting.&nbsp; You may have an entire audience of potential customers out there who keep their Facebook profiles minimal.&nbsp; These people don&rsquo;t want Facebook tracking their every move, so they&rsquo;re more likely to be unavailable for targeting directly.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, these people are just a small subset of the audience you reach.&nbsp; And, sure, there&rsquo;s going to be some overlap.&nbsp; You can&rsquo;t advertise to a group of people both on and off Facebook and expect to never see the same person in two places.<\/p>\n<p>Back to the logic; <strong><em>it&rsquo;s just not cost effective for a business like ours to use worthless traffic and burn our bridges.<\/em><\/strong>&nbsp; We&rsquo;re not out to scam you.&nbsp; We would much prefer loyal, satisfied customers coming back for business, over one-time customers leaving bad reviews across the Internet.<\/p>\n<p>With smart targeting and a few resources, you could achieve the same results we do.&nbsp; Why not let us put our expertise to use and take the matter off your hands?&nbsp; It saves you time and your traffic will go up.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you visit a third party ste in an attempt to boost your social network metrics, you have a few options to you.&nbsp; You can hire a social media manager, who will work on your behalf &ndash; so long as they don&rsquo;t have a rogue employee break down and spout off a tirade, of course [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":5825,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v17.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Facebook Like Companies Don\u2019t Really Use Clickfarms - Boostlikes.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/boostlikes.com\/blog\/2014\/10\/facebook-like-companies-dont-really-use-clickfarms\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Facebook Like Companies Don\u2019t Really Use Clickfarms - Boostlikes.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"When you visit a third party ste in an attempt to boost your social network metrics, you have a few options to you.&nbsp; 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