Video Shows How Useless Facebook Likes Are

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We pretty much knew this already, but what a fucking joke.

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVfHeWTKjag]Facebook Fraud - YouTube[/ame]
 


I think this is great... cheap likes and looks good for your brand if your page has thousands of likes. I'm sure some companies use fb pages for direct response but I get real webpages done to make sales. FB page is just social proof.
 
Da Capo said:
We pretty much knew this already, but what a fucking joke.

Facebook Fraud - YouTube
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Facebook Ads do work, and likes can be of value. The key is to target your ads to just specific countries (such as the US), and skip Egypt and the other worthless countries he listed, which it looks like this guy did not do.

I know in his second experiment he excluded various countries, but I think it's because he needs to target more specifically (such as by age, interests, etc.).
 
The idea that the clickfarms were masking their paid clicks still doesn't explain why he got these extra likes only after he paid FB.
 
Ugh, reading the comments to this on Reddit makes me feel like I'm actually on Facebook. Tons of whining and people that have no idea what they are talking about.

Just test until you find something that works. If nothing works, move on.
 
LOL Facebook.

If you're not using Proxybook you're a peasant.

They offer reliable social network and competitive support with an edge.
 
onlinehustla said:
The idea that the clickfarms were masking their paid clicks still doesn't explain why he got these extra likes only after he paid FB.
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How else were the clickfarm workers going to find and like his nearly non-existent page if he didn't advertise in the first place?
 
Unfortunately, FB = Google = Yahoo/MSN...some real clicks and some fraud clicks. If you complain about the fraud you may get some of your money back, but most likely it will only be a fraction of the fraud you paid for.

Monopolies are going to monopolize.
 
FB likes are far from "useless," even if fake.


I mean, yeah, if you have fake likes, and pay facebook to send messages to them... that's useless and stupid.

I didn't watch the whole video, but I don't like how "legitimate" seems to be defined as whether or not you pay facebook for likes. Sounds like google's view on the entire internet.
 
User9364 said:
FB likes are far from "useless," even if fake.


I mean, yeah, if you have fake likes, and pay facebook to send messages to them... that's useless and stupid.

I didn't watch the whole video, but I don't like how "legitimate" seems to be defined as whether or not you pay facebook for likes. Sounds like google's view on the entire internet.
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my impression of the vid was that:

1) buying likes is only useful for marketing if you're NOT marketing internal-FB, thus using FB solely for "social proof" from your own non-FB site (as someone above pointed out).

2) for FB marketing, it doesn't matter if you buy those likes from FB or a farm, the distinction in terms of effectiveness is whether they are bought v not bought.

in short, for FB marketing, buying likes of any kind does very little for FB traffic/shares. that's my impression of their message, i don't agree or disagree, never run a FB campaign.
 
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