Peter Shaw
BANNED
- Sep 1, 2009
- 890
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Hello everyone, I just thought I'd have a quick word, which may be "of value" or interest to some people.
A few months ago, creating a viral page was pretty simple - invite thousands of people, get them to suggest their friends and BAM, the ball was rolling, and you would hit the viral stage.
Facebook restricted the maximum amount of invites which could be sent, this effected the viral element of pages, but was still possible.
Then many facebook like sites popped up everywhere - these seemed like the next step and proved to be very able to grow quickly.
Now with the latest facebook changes of restricting invites to admin only, making a page viral has become more and more of an issue. It is still possible, but just takes luck, the right skill, or for you to be know what your doing.
I saw a page today, which had 600 or so fans. It was to do with the world "ending", and was humorous. I refreshed the page 30 seconds later, and it has 3,500 LIKES - thats around 2,900 likes within 30 seconds. I refreshed again and it had grew 300 more in the space of 5 seconds.
I was completely amazed, simply because I was watching it grow, rather than "looking at a page that was a day old with 100,000 fans". I returned 20 minutes later to see it had hit 20,000 likes. Another 3 hours passed and it was on 65,000 likes. It currently stands at over 135,000! These are real people, as the status updates has received thousands of comments and hundreds of likes.
I just thought I'd remind people that it is possible to make a page go insanely viral. And, if a page doesn't work the first time, create another - its free and doesn't take long. Keep trying again and again. Arrange the title of the page differently or make a completely different title.
What I'm saying is that it doesn't take thousands of $$$ of advertising to make a page grow - You just need to make something unique, appealing and different.
Of course, you can't always do this - for example if you're running a company then your page may not run as viral. But if you are looking for a viral page; go for a funny one, that is aimed at a wide audience.
Just a quick heads up!
A few months ago, creating a viral page was pretty simple - invite thousands of people, get them to suggest their friends and BAM, the ball was rolling, and you would hit the viral stage.
Facebook restricted the maximum amount of invites which could be sent, this effected the viral element of pages, but was still possible.
Then many facebook like sites popped up everywhere - these seemed like the next step and proved to be very able to grow quickly.
Now with the latest facebook changes of restricting invites to admin only, making a page viral has become more and more of an issue. It is still possible, but just takes luck, the right skill, or for you to be know what your doing.
I saw a page today, which had 600 or so fans. It was to do with the world "ending", and was humorous. I refreshed the page 30 seconds later, and it has 3,500 LIKES - thats around 2,900 likes within 30 seconds. I refreshed again and it had grew 300 more in the space of 5 seconds.
I was completely amazed, simply because I was watching it grow, rather than "looking at a page that was a day old with 100,000 fans". I returned 20 minutes later to see it had hit 20,000 likes. Another 3 hours passed and it was on 65,000 likes. It currently stands at over 135,000! These are real people, as the status updates has received thousands of comments and hundreds of likes.
I just thought I'd remind people that it is possible to make a page go insanely viral. And, if a page doesn't work the first time, create another - its free and doesn't take long. Keep trying again and again. Arrange the title of the page differently or make a completely different title.
What I'm saying is that it doesn't take thousands of $$$ of advertising to make a page grow - You just need to make something unique, appealing and different.
Of course, you can't always do this - for example if you're running a company then your page may not run as viral. But if you are looking for a viral page; go for a funny one, that is aimed at a wide audience.
Just a quick heads up!
