Damn, sick stats. I have a few questions for you.
1. Whats your biggest page you have had that has been banned? Is facebook banning pages a normal thing?
2. For growing pages like that im guessing now you can just grow them from promoting them on your current pages, but whats the best way if just starting out with 0 likes?
3. Do your website links get banned ever? Do you cloak your links?
1. Biggest page was 1.4M which we had grown in under 10 weeks. It was heavily involved around music and with the recent push for music licensing on the platform it was inevitable the page would get deleted.
2. Yes, now I can use my own pages to grow new ones. I recommend viral groups, share for share with pages of similar sizes or paid shares/paid influencers. Veer away from running ads to grow a page, you'll waste a ton of money before seeing good results. And last but not least, the content has to be great and suited to the fan base you are trying to grow.
3. I don't post links or have a website for articles. My pages are monetised for views. I do sometimes post links on behalf of third parties such as Viral Thread etc so I couldn't give you anymore insight on that I'm afraid.
Hey i am a newbie would like to know that how do you find viral content i know it might sound little stupid but i am just curious to learn. How do you reach that number in a particular niche and how do you use fb ads interest and budgeting ?
Do you suggest using split testing with different fb ad accounts for the same page?
Finding viral content is usually through a list of content sources that i have watched over the last few months/years etc. The first thing is knowing who your fan base is and what content they are going to like most. It doesn't help winging it and uploading anything and everything hoping something will go viral - you will have to maximise your efforts from all angles. Try finding friends who share a lot of content to their own timelines then go to their profiles and scroll through the different pages. You should also check out Page Suggestions of similar pages such as your own - this is a great place to start. Find the content which is doing the best on those pages then decide if it's right for your page and if so - try it out.
I never run ads, my pages are viral on their own. But if I was going to run ads then I would target them to interests, it makes sense. That way you are really fine tunings and narrowing down that particular piece of content to people who are more than likely going to respond with it most.
The obvious question, how long did it take you to get to 15 million likes from point zero? In your opinion and experience, what is the biggest obstacle for a page to go viral (Good Content Assumed)?
I started in Nov 2015. Biggest obstacle I found was staying consistent. There were many times i came close to giving up but after a few months it all started to pay off bit by bit. A viral page takes time to grow, maintain and get viral. People want results after 1 week but that isn't the case, you have to treat it as a project - focus on other things while building it up at the beginning because if it is all you are putting your time into, the numbers the page will be pulling at the beginning will frustrate you. Only begin to put a lot more time into it when it's big enough and generating some good results.
