Hi everybody,
I m just running a special offer for the 1st week of august on our FB page (Boosted Post) and paid 13€ for a week. At the beginning I targeted only the Uk since they are our customers base but decided to do a test and widen the audience and introduce spain, portugal, france, germany, italy, belgium and a few more... A some stage I realised something was odd. I got a wave of clicks from Portugal and overnight it looked like the whole country of Portugal was clicking on our Special Offer.... Weird....
So I started googling a bit and found this article: http://bit.ly/1lCD6M9
Conclusion: by adding Portugal in my audience, I stumbled accross a Click Farm! So I delete it from my target straight away!
Here's more about Click Farms:
https://youtu.be/oVfHeWTKjag
Have you come accross this situation on FB Boosted Post?
Plse do tell
TIA
Isy
Facebook and click Farms
Facebook and click Farms
Last edited by Isy on Sun Jul 17, 2016 1:20 pm, edited 9 times in total.
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Interesting...and something I had no idea about.
I too boosted a post and paid around the same price as you Isy. I targeted UK, Holland and Germany. I got an awful lot of males of Arabic descent. I thought that very odd and ended up taking it up with Facebook. They checked (or so they said) and told me there was nothing untoward.
Mind you it was a post about my neighbours donkey!!
I wasn't that pleased with the result so I won't do it again, though would be interested in your experience.....next time I may boost the page rather than a post.
Mousie
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I too boosted a post and paid around the same price as you Isy. I targeted UK, Holland and Germany. I got an awful lot of males of Arabic descent. I thought that very odd and ended up taking it up with Facebook. They checked (or so they said) and told me there was nothing untoward.
Mind you it was a post about my neighbours donkey!!
I wasn't that pleased with the result so I won't do it again, though would be interested in your experience.....next time I may boost the page rather than a post.
Mousie
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Mouse,
I am surprised at the results you got since you targeted Uk, Holland and Germany and not countries like Bangladesh, Indonesia ...where click farms grow like mushrooms!
and I can understand that unlike the donkeys next door, you were not happy with the results. In your shoes, I would not either.
I added in my original post the first video I came accross. That gave me food for thought.
As for me, 13 euros got me
- 5439 reached/141organic
Countries:
28% Uk
25% Portugal
5% Italy
4% Spain
4% France
- too many fake"Likes": 50
1 unsollicited rating (5 stars from somebody who never stayed with us), and I can't get rid off it (The button feature"I don't like this review" in FB works only if you want to delete a rating with a review) It bugs me because next to a review we got a couple of weeks ago from a previous guest, the 5 stars rating from this total stranger looks so fake and odd.
A tiny bit of activity on my website but no booking or enquiry.
So, for that reason,I am not planning to pay FB anymore.
and I m still stuck with the only availability left: 1st week of august (which is odd, since it s the first to go usually).
Isy
I am surprised at the results you got since you targeted Uk, Holland and Germany and not countries like Bangladesh, Indonesia ...where click farms grow like mushrooms!
and I can understand that unlike the donkeys next door, you were not happy with the results. In your shoes, I would not either.
I added in my original post the first video I came accross. That gave me food for thought.
As for me, 13 euros got me
- 5439 reached/141organic
Countries:
28% Uk
25% Portugal
5% Italy
4% Spain
4% France
- too many fake"Likes": 50
1 unsollicited rating (5 stars from somebody who never stayed with us), and I can't get rid off it (The button feature"I don't like this review" in FB works only if you want to delete a rating with a review) It bugs me because next to a review we got a couple of weeks ago from a previous guest, the 5 stars rating from this total stranger looks so fake and odd.
A tiny bit of activity on my website but no booking or enquiry.
So, for that reason,I am not planning to pay FB anymore.
and I m still stuck with the only availability left: 1st week of august (which is odd, since it s the first to go usually).
Isy
What doesn't kill you makes you stronger !
I had a simmilar result after I paid to "boost." Mine was limited to USA and certain, very specific interests...the profiles of the people who "liked" just did not fit. There's a certain "type" that seems interested in my place, organically...and these profiles just seemed extremely unusual candidates to "like" a hr in Italy. There pages and interests had zero to do with Italy, travel, etc.