[AMA] Facebook Pages and Groups

Icey Dan

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Hey guys. I have some free time this evening so I thought I would answer any Facebook page or group related questions you may have.

I have 4 pages totaling 1.6M likes combined as well as 4 groups totalling 85K members. Having been growing and using Facebook pages & groups successfuly for a few years now I've had lots of ups and downs, so hopefully I can provide some valuable advice.

Feel free to ask anything below and I will do my best to help you :)
 
Thanks for you Ama !

How to you naturally grow Facebook groups without an already existing community ?
 
any solution for ad breaks restricted monetization?
 
How to advertise in FB groups without getting banned.
 
How do you grow your Facebook pages? I have a relationship/quotes (90% female) page with 120k, growing like 400-600 a day, which is low for me, how to grow even more?
 
Any tips for marketing quiz website with FB groups?

Absolutely. I would recommend buying a few aged Facebook accounts or creating a few new ones if you don't have the budget and set them up as fake personas. Post and share content every few days to look real. Start joining as many groups related to your quiz site as you can.

Once you get approved into lots of groups on all of your accounts, start sharing links to your quiz site each day or two mixed in with some other memes or filler content. The key here is to make it seem like the quiz is fun and that you are sharing something valuable with the groups and not just spamming your links. Be creative and think outside the box. But yeah, in general the multiple accounts posting to multiple groups each day thing works really well if you stay consistent. Bonus points if you join the same groups on all your accounts and cross like and comment on the posts you've made on the other accounts to generate more social proof and bump your posts to the top of the group.

Thanks for you Ama !

How to you naturally grow Facebook groups without an already existing community ?

One decent way to get your first hundred or so group members is to do the following:

- Identify the topic or niche you want your group to be based around.

- Find the biggest pages in that niche that are getting the biggest engagement & have the most likes. Write them down.

- Keep an eye out for when they post. Each time they do, comment your quiz link and something like "Love it! Check out this quiz! " or something like that to entice them to click through.

Some of the bigger pages get tons of reach so piggybacking on this works really well. You may want to use a fake or aged account to do this to avoid getting your main Facebook account banned. Bonus points if you have a VPN and can make multiple fake accounts to do this at a larger scale or if you have the budget to buy some accounts.

How to advertise in FB groups without getting banned.

If you approach it like you're advertising, you're going to get banned most of the time unfortunately when it comes to FB Groups. The key is to think outside the box a little bit and make it seem like you are providing value to the group and not just trying to sell. Instead of promoting directly in the group maybe set up a simple little blog and make a post about how awesome whatever it is you're selling is and why it is worth buying or maybe write a positive review on the product.

Then share that to the group saying something like "Hey guys, found this great helpful article which has really helped me a lot. Highly suggest checking it out!". Doing this will usually satisfy the group mods and is a really good strategy in general. Do this in multiple groups on multiple accounts for best results. Good luck!
 
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How do you grow your Facebook pages? I have a relationship/quotes (90% female) page with 120k, growing like 400-600 a day, which is low for me, how to grow even more?

Cross promotion is really powerful. Find some other similar pages around the same amount of likes and get in touch with them. Try and work out some deals where you share each-other's posts every day or whenever you agree upon. Overlapping audiences like this will really boost your organic reach and your page likes should continue to surge.

any solution for ad breaks restricted monetization?

I have no solution for this unfortunately sorry mate :(
 
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Any idea how to monetize 100k facebook page with 80% of audience over 65years old (USA/CA) ? Niche is about Houses/Outdoor Lifestyle.
I've tried a webpage with google adsense but i am not happy with my earnings.
 
Any idea how to monetize 100k facebook page with 80% of audience over 65years old (USA/CA) ? Niche is about Houses/Outdoor Lifestyle.
I've tried a webpage with google adsense but i am not happy with my earnings.

If you're in the houses/outdoor lifestyle niche I would suggest setting up a blog and doing reviews on Amazon products in your niche. Share these posts out on your page to drive traffic Collect emails when they land on your blog with an opt-in form. Embed affiliate links in the posts. Once you accumulate a decent email list start sending the review posts to their email whenever you make a new one. Good luck!
 
Absolutely. I would recommend buying a few aged Facebook accounts or creating a few new ones if you don't have the budget and set them up as fake personas. Post and share content every few days to look real. Start joining as many groups related to your quiz site as you can.

Once you get approved into lots of groups on all of your accounts, start sharing links to your quiz site each day or two mixed in with some other memes or filler content. The key here is to make it seem like the quiz is fun and that you are sharing something valuable with the groups and not just spamming your links. Be creative and think outside the box. But yeah, in general the multiple accounts posting to multiple groups each day thing works really well if you stay consistent. Bonus points if you join the same groups on all your accounts and cross like and comment on the posts you've made on the other accounts to generate more social proof and bump your posts to the top of the group.



One decent way to get your first hundred or so group members is to do the following:

- Identify the topic or niche you want your group to be based around.

- Find the biggest pages in that niche that are getting the biggest engagement & have the most likes. Write them down.

- Keep an eye out for when they post. Each time they do, comment your quiz link and something like "Love it! Check out this quiz! " or something like that to entice them to click through.

Some of the bigger pages get tons of reach so piggybacking on this works really well. You may want to use a fake or aged account to do this to avoid getting your main Facebook account banned. Bonus points if you have a VPN and can make multiple fake accounts to do this at a larger scale or if you have the budget to buy some accounts.



If you approach it like you're advertising, you're going to get banned most of the time unfortunately when it comes to FB Groups. The key is to think outside the box a little bit and make it seem like you are providing value to the group and not just trying to sell. Instead of promoting directly in the group maybe set up a simple little blog and make a post about how awesome whatever it is you're selling is and why it is worth buying or maybe write a positive review on the product.

Then share that to the group saying something like "Hey guys, found this great helpful article which has really helped me a lot. Highly suggest checking it out!". Doing this will usually satisfy the group mods and is a really good strategy in general. Do this in multiple groups on multiple accounts for best results. Good luck!

Smart!!!

Holy shit, I'm going to try that.
 
First off, thanks for doing AMA. I've heard that impressions, reach, and clickthrough rate of links via Facebook pages are really crap, what's your say on this?
 
First off, thanks for doing AMA. I've heard that impressions, reach, and clickthrough rate of links via Facebook pages are really crap, what's your say on this?

No problem. Yes it is true that including links slows your reach down dramatically. One solution to this that I find works well is to post some content that normally gets lots of reach and engagement (maybe a meme or a quote) without including your link right away. Wait for it to get some traction and engagement first, and then comment after an hour or so with your link in the comment. Anyone who has commented already will receive a notification saying you have also commented on the post and it will draw attention to your link.

The link won't be as visible as it would be if you just put it in the main post, but I find you actually get more link clicks doing it this way because it doesn't affect your reach as much - thus more people see the post in general. Hope that helps.
 
how to grow premium page from scratch? any help would be appreciated.
 
No problem. Yes it is true that including links slows your reach down dramatically. One solution to this that I find works well is to post some content that normally gets lots of reach and engagement (maybe a meme or a quote) without including your link right away. Wait for it to get some traction and engagement first, and then comment after an hour or so with your link in the comment. Anyone who has commented already will receive a notification saying you have also commented on the post and it will draw attention to your link.

The link won't be as visible as it would be if you just put it in the main post, but I find you actually get more link clicks doing it this way because it doesn't affect your reach as much - thus more people see the post in general. Hope that helps.

That's a nice one, thanks
 
how to grow premium page from scratch? any help would be appreciated.

Honestly it's so hard starting a page from scratch - your best option would to spend a little bit of money upfront if you can to run a page likes campaign and get your first few hundred likes under your belt. Once you have first fist few hundred getting more will become easier as your organic reach will grow and people will start sharing your content.

As I mentioned a few times in the thread already sharing content from your page into groups is an excellent way to grow your post reach and exposure.
 
As a FB Group admin what are some monetization methods you've used on Facebook groups beyond the obvious of just sending them to a blog post every week?
 
I have some Facebook pages and I don't know how to use them effectively I mean any tips or trick to get good result not the traditional way
 
Thnks for the AMA. Im planing to promote affiliate products / apps in niche related fb groups. (Cryptocurrency)
I have found some groups with mor than 3m members.
Currenty Im researching for a uniqe content stratrgy.
Any tips about affiliate marketing using fb groups
 
Are you using chatbots for your group?

If so how are they faring for you?
 
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