How to Get Likes and Followers on Facebook

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Get Facebook Followers

Can you like my page on Facebook? Can you please follow me on Facebook?

We get these forms of messages all the time on Facebook. To be honest, they doesn’t work — you won’t get the likes as you are always wishing with this strategy.

But yes, they do get a little traction and that’s pretty much it.

So how does super successful people are getting thousands of people following their page?

It takes time, schedule, passion … and of course, science.

Today’s article is all about getting more likes and followers on Facebook.

1. Have a goal — super specific goal

Fan building success depends on your goal. Yes, that one single goal will determine the success of your social media marketing.

Your goal in social media is not about getting more revenue, sales or income (yet). It is all about building an engaging community that will reaction to your actions.

In this case, it could be sharing your posts, providing solutions and even support.

Want to make social media marketing work for you? Focus in building a community in your Facebook group or page. Engage with them and solve their problems (for free).

And then, you’ll get a winner. Period.

2. Good images helps to increase Facebook likes

An image represents a thousand words.

The next time you are posting an update on Facebook with the goal of having more engagement, share a powerful image.

The biggest problem and mistake done by many is that they share images which doesn’t tick the readers.

3. Facebook fans love awesome content

We love great content and there is absolutely no denial in this.

Awesome content helps you generate more engagement and with Facebook’s algorithm, you will get more visibility.

The more engagement an update gets on Facebook, the more visible it would be for your fans. This means that the number of organic reach will increase dramatically.

Let’s be honest here, publishing awesome content is really tough to pull though. Thankfully, we have a few who do it extremely well.

4. Tell story with your updates

The best storyteller in the market? CopyBlogger.

Every article that they published start with an awesome story. The opening story plays a huge role in getting readers to continue reading the below paragraph and making the whole post extremely relevant to them.

The same goes when you are trying to get more likes and followers on Facebook. Opening words must be captivating enough to encourage the readers to continue reading.

And the end, there’s the glorious call to action which determines your click through rates.

Here’s the take away: Focus in handcrafting the perfect Facebook update by telling a brand story.

5. Stick to a posting schedule

There’s absolutely no denial that Facebook users love to see constant updates from pages they truly follow.

As a Facebook admin, you need to ensure that you are feeding them with what they need. And in return, you’ll get more engaged followers.

You don’t need to publishing one post every hour or ever X minute but you need to make sure you are posting on the right time, every single time. Do you know where your followers are from?

At the moment, there is not much of a work-around for you to figure that out. But hey, that’s not the end of the world.

Using Facebook ads, you can easily determine your potential fans’ location.

Here are information you need to get this Facebook strategy work:

  • Having an idea of the location of your Facebook fans
  • Knowing their age and gender (optional)

Now using Facebook ads (create a dummy one is fine) and add the information such as location, age and gender. Click on Location and you can even choose more insights such as cities and countries.

With the information gained from above, the next step is to understand how Facebook is used by the selected demographic. For example, adults usually use Facebook during meals while younger generation usually use them all the time.

Plot the time and dates using tools like Hootsuite (it offers free account for everyone) and if you would require more firepower, tools like Sprout Social is a better choice for business users

6. Engage with followers and get them to promote YOU

The fastest way to get more likes and followers on Facebook is by engaging with your followers.

Each time you receive a notification that they have left a comment or give a like, take a moment to thank them in the public.

Every one appreciate such and I am sure you do too. Social media business is all about relationship building. The stronger relationship bond you have created, the higher the chance are for them to promote you for free.

And in this case, it could simply be as small as sharing your Facebook posts with others to referring business deals to you!

Did you know that Facebook posts that have more engagement (likes, shares and comments) get more visibility?

7. Are you using hashtags in your Facebook updates?

I certainly hope you do as they play a powerful role in terms of Facebook post ranking.

Let’s face it, hashtags work super well on Instagram and Twitter but I know many marketers (even businesses) are skeptical using hashtags on Facebook.

Here are some stats taken from a case study done by Post Planner:

  • Posts with 1 or 2 hashtags averaged 593 interactions
  • Posts with 3 to 5 hashtags averaged 416 interactions
  • Posts with 6 to 10 hashtags averaged 307 interactions
  • Posts with more than 10 hashtags averaged 188 interactions

Powerful takeaway: Using hashtags on Facebook will increase your post engagement. In return, you will have a higher chance to get likes and followers on your Facebook page.

8. Branded hashtags help you get more Facebook likes

If you are struggling to gain attention (especially for new businesses), using hashtags can grow your visibility.

With the case study done above, posts with 1 or 2 hashtags get the most interactions and take the moment to add hashtags that represent your business.

9. Engage in Follow Friday / Fan Page Friday to get free Facebook likes and followers

Thank God Is Friday or TGIF – The day we make connections like never before.

Brands are using this event to grow their visibility by miles away and you can too. On every Friday, search this terms on Facebook search bar:

  • #FanPageFriday
  • #FollowFriday
  • ‪#‎FacebookFanFriday‬

What you need to do is to:

  • Write a reply (between 50 to 100 words) about yourself and your page
  • Follow those who participate
  • Leave them a nice introduction message that you had followed them and ask politely to have a follow back
  • Engage back with those who follow you on your Facebook page

On a normal Friday (approximately 2 hours of engaging with several Facebook Fan Page Fridays), I could easily get around 80 to 150 followers.

And yes, without spending a dollar for Facebook advertising.

If you are wondering, here’s the typical type of template I always use:

Hi there!

[Name] here from [Website Name – No URL]. [Tell them something about you]. I certainly hope you like [what you do in your Facebook page] as I will share them a lot!

Let’s get connected here [Facebook Page URL].

*PS If I fail to return a follow, please give me a nudge and I’ll do that as soon as possible!

One important note for this is that you can have multiple URL in the post but ensure that the URL for your Facebook Page is the first (for preview reason).

10. Skyrocket your Facebook followers with contests

We all love freebies … and contest, right?

The temptation of winning something without spending a dime is just too much of a lust.

And hell yes if you are thinking to take this opportunity to get more likes and followers on Facebook.

There are several things you need to know before even considering organizing a contest on Facebook:

  • It costs money (duh)
  • Getting Facebook likes doesn’t really generate quality fans (probably 10 – 20% are good though)
  • Click baiting for likes is highly not advisable

With that being said, here are two tools you can use to organize a Facebook contest for FREE!

  • Contest Capture
  • WooBox

Organizing a Facebook contest is always a good idea but through my experience, unless you have over 10,000 die hard fans, you need some Facebook advertising to get the words out.

How much Facebook fans can you expect to get from a contest?

Probably a few hundred or thousands depending on your niche and reach. Utilize the power of Facebook advertising if you want to have an explosion of new fans to the page.

Are you ready to get likes and followers on Facebook?

I certainly hope you do so! With the above 10 tips, rest assured that you will grow your Facebook fan base by a mile.

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14 Responses

  1. Thanks for your complete guideline. As well new Blogger, i want to get likes for my Blog Facebook page. And i learn the methods how to do that easily . I will share with you how i can feedback after using these ways.

  2. Carmelo Neal says:

    Informative post indeed :)

    Loved all the apt ways that we can follow to get likes, shares, and followers on Facebook! Yes, I do a little of these, while the rest I know I can do, but time is always an issue, so I don’t! Like the engaging part, as there are many ways one can engage the followers, which would bring in more, but I run away from the notifications that follow later…lol…as a tis with other 100’s of notifications waiting, each time I sign in onto Facebook, I have my hands full.

    Oh yes…images can speak a 1000 words, and one good image shared can generate to a lot of likes and shares, been there, done that! Even Hashtags are awesome, though they still have to pick up pace, as compared to Twitter.

    Thanks for sharing this with us

  3. Facebook is one of the important source to get huge traffic and get a good conversion rate. But unfortunately I fail to generate traffic for my blog from Facebook. Find here some new and unique Idea and hope these will help me to engage more followers in Facebook and drive them to my blog.

    Thanks for the awesome guidelines.

  4. This is an awesome post and Facebook is one of the main sources of traffic. Even I am trying to build my facebook profile and hope that I will increase the engagements with these tactics..

    Thanks for sharing..

  5. Lesley Rivas says:

    I got a quick question for you do you share your content on different facebook groups? Do you try to get them on your website or just list your content over there?
    Also do you recommend any tool that can show me on what facebook pages I can engage with the audience? It needs to be able to filter the pages based on the niche that I want to provide value and promote content.

    Thank you.

  6. Omer Wolfe says:

    Very lovely tips and a few of them can do miracles if they are followed properly. Specific hashtags bring flood of visitors at FB page if one uses them at proper timing.

    The management of FB page no doubt does not require much time but at the start one has to be so creative to make an impact of it by putting an attractive timeline and selecting the best punch line for it.

    Thanks a lot for sharing these amazing tips to get boost at FB.

  7. Ethel Simon says:

    I definitely agree with everything you’ve shared here even if I haven’t done a very good job of it myself.

    Thanks for the mention of my course by the way, really appreciate that. I read some time back that Facebook ranked the comments on the posts more than the likes, no telling if that’s the case or not. I stopped trying to get likes some time back due to the way I didn’t like how Facebook misrepresented things.

    I know for me what I like over the other and what draws the most attention to me. I try to keep that in mind while posting myself. I just love images and entertaining videos but text just seems to be way too boring to even slow down to see what’s being posted. It is for me at least.

    Great shares my friend and I know great advice for those who definitely could use some of these great tips.

  8. You have been on a roll giving out all this social media advice! I have a schedule and a theme for each day but I need to be consistent. As far as engaging goes, I’ve been quiet with all that’s going on at home but even before then there was only a handful engaging. I’m not sure what it is…I don’t mind sharing personal stuff to explain why I’ve been absent but I wonder if that’s too much info…What are your thoughts?

    Everything else you suggsted here I’m doing. Hopefully once I get back to my regular schedule and engage like I was it’ll all fall into place. :).

    Great post as usual Reg! I hope you’re having a great weekend!

  9. This was indeed an extremely helpful post. No one can deny the power of social media in today’s world. I don’t know about other people. But, for me this post is very helpful. I always find a way to get more likes and more followers on my page. But, I’ve never succeed.
    I’ll surely implement these tips in my social media campaign.

    Thanks for sharing these tips.

  10. Such a wonderful post!

    In my case, images and reciprocal interaction give me a boost up in facebook engagement.
    Alongside, hashtag also increases the post reaches.

    Thanks a lot for sharing the tips.

  11. I have been casually analyzing what kinds of posts resonant with my FB followers. Ironically for a food blogger, sharing other people’s food posts don’t seem to get as many views (with or without tagging the author) as funny food memes or photo posts.

    Unless its a Starbucks copycat recipe, those seem to be quite popular.

    I guess my take away should be 75-90% memes and then slip in the recipes.

  12. Charles Pena says:

    Great Post! Building a good Facebook fan base is really tough. It would take years to build one. Since sharing other’s work doesn’t work, stick to what works.

    For me, the best bet would most probably be doing a specific thing per day. You could start off by doing meme’s in the morning while something more unique like recipes in the evening (hours before meal etc).

    Your current idea of 75-90 seems to be a good start!

  13. Vivian Blair says:

    Wow awesome post – as always!

    Really good tips to follow here – Facebook is becoming a good challenge these days

  14. Sherman Mata says:

    Thanks for sharing..! This is really awesome article about social media marketing again from your blog.

    Actually, Facebook is my most favorite platform for social media marketing. However, it is an embarrassing that I missed some trick about how to do better perform on that platform. Sometime, I used the hasstag but I found that was a mistake after read this article.

    You know..? This is the first know about #FridayHasstag. That was really interesting..!

    Thanks again for sharing..

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