Facebook

[anonymous-user]

Is it possible that someone had bought likes and told the company they have bought from to like my page?

I'm getting an unprecedented number of likes from Egypt in the last two days.

[Hoofy]

Oh, yes, they will be fake likes if they're from Egypt and you haven't been targeting Egypt in paid-for ads. Suspect someone else bought the likes and put your name in by mistake.

[anonymous-user]

Really?

Any way of stopping people from Egypt joining and why would someone do that?

[Hoofy]

No idea how to stop it, sorry. Is there someway to suspend your page so nobody can see it or like it? Just for a week.

Why do they do it? Because they (page owners) think the more likes the better. Reality is that you need quality likes as these people will not interact with your page and will not make good customers in any form. If 50% of your likes are from fake accounts, when you post something, Facebook sends the message to a mere 20% (or some other low figure), so annoyingly, 10% will go to your genuine and 10% will be shown to the fakes. I say fake, they're genuine accounts in Egypt etc but unless your market is, for instance, Egyptian clothing, you won't benefit.

[anonymous-user]

I am well aware of the reasons why not to buy likes. I haven't ever bought likes for those reasons and now find myself being bombarded with Egyptians!

I've deleted a bunch of them but eventually facebook stops you deleting more. Seems to have curbed the enthusiasm from them.

The page cannot be offline because it would damage the company reputation.

[Dejay1788]

Facebook will remove them eventually anyway.

[anonymous-user]

I've just blocked countries like India, Egypt and Pakistan from even viewing the page. I think it will stop the issue :-)

[uber]

Its the latest way to annoy business owners organic reach.

[anonymous-user]

I have a suspicion as to who it was.

[Hoofy]

bulldong said:

I have a suspicion as to who it was.

Maliciously bought?

PS How do you block people from viewing your page? That's the better solution. Didn't realise you could do it.

[anonymous-user]

Hoofy said:

bulldong said:

I have a suspicion as to who it was.

Maliciously bought?

PS How do you block people from viewing your page? That's the better solution. Didn't realise you could do it.

Yes I think so. There is no other reason for 300 likes in a day from Egypt.

To block people from countries you can just go in the settings tab and click page visibility. You can either say only these countries can see this page, or you can list countries which you don't want to be able to see it.

I listed:
Malaysia, Egypt, India, Pakistan and can add more.

[Hoofy]

Thanks for that. I can't block Malaysia - some of my family have followed my page and they come from Malaysia.



Hm. Are they really my family... or Facebook scammers?

Edited by Hoofy on Saturday 4th April 22:58

[anonymous-user]

Hoofy said:

Thanks for that. I can't block Malaysia - some of my family have followed my page and they come from Malaysia.



Hm. Are they really my family... or Facebook scammers?

Edited by Hoofy on Saturday 4th April 22:58

I added Malaysia because as soon as I blocked Egypt, I got 20+ likes from Malaysia

[Hoofy]

Ah. Basically, anywhere where there are people desperate for 1p per like.

[anonymous-user]

Hoofy said:

Ah. Basically, anywhere where there are people desperate for 1p per like.

You got it!