3 Creepy Myths about ‘Buying’ Facebook Likes Nobody Wants to Tell You

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We all want our blogs to get to the top with insane amount of fan following. Likes, Pins, Followers, Stumbles : Every blogger loves that.  You, me or anyone else would love to get Thousands and Thousands of likes in their fan pages.

Okay, but the question is HOW?

Now there’s two ways of doing it. Either the ol’ traditional way of building fans on trust; or the new ways of ‘Buying fans‘ for a few bucks. You see, ‘likes‘ has gone through a drastic change in recent years.  Earlier we needed almost a Years’ time to get atleast thousands likes. But, why to do so much hardwork, when you can get more than 1000+ likes in a matter of seconds? Moreover websites such as Fiverr and SEOclerks have paved the way of buying ‘LIKES‘.

But why to buy fans?

This has been the burning question among bloggers these days. Some go with and some against it. It has both pros and cons at the same time. Now, reverting back to the question, in the current competition of blogs where millions of blogs are pitted against each other, who gets the TIME? Barely you get time to write a good post, where is the time to build such a page? Whereas, by spending a few bucks you can get tons of followers.

Beat this : 5000+ Facebook Likes for 5$

Sounds irresistible? Plans like this has been successful to capture blogger’s mind. Believe it or not, I too had fallen into the trap. But by God’s grace, luckily I didn’t bought it.

Basically, Facebook is the best way to build an great fan base. Facebook Likes indeed can help your reach to more and more people, and increase your audience. But what matters the most is how you do it.

So today, I’m here to throw light on why you shouldn’t buy Facebook likes & how are they harmful to your blog.

1. Buying Likes won’t help you for Instant results

It’s the most common mindset for bloggers striving for likes. The  basic reason : Instant Results. Call it a taboo or myth, most people think that getting more likes will make you instantly popular in your niche. It’s NOT going to make you rich, or popular, either.

Always remember, there are no shortcuts in social media marketing. There are other ways available, but  they aren’t preferred  or encouraged much. Yes, buying fans is a good option, but it is a short-term process. Who knows? One fine day all of your fans gets deplete at a steep rate. Or the worst, gets shut down by Facebook!

Even if you try to go other way, building genuine fans, there’s quite a ‘err’. Even though they have ‘liked’ your pages, they might have different hobbies, taste or niche. So basically, they don’t have interest in your blog, since they aren’t interested in your niche.

No matter what, you won’t see INSTANT RESULTS either way!

Still, it’s better that you go with authentic way and assure that your likes are genuine rather than fake.

2. Buying Likes won’t increase your Edge Rank

If you go through Facebook marketing, you would often see the term ‘Edge Rank‘. Basically, Edge Rank is the algorithm used by Facebook to determine which comes first at one’s news feed.

Here too comes a great myth. Often people assume that when they update their status, almost all your friends and your fans will see this. Unfortunately, it’s not the truth. Facebook uses a different algorithm for it too, which almost no one knew beside Facebook engineers themselves.

This means that if you are buying likes for the sake of getting the best of Edge rank, then it is going in vain. Edge Rank is more of SEO. Wherein SEO, buying cheap links won’t improve your Search Engine Rank. Buying Fake fans won’t improve your Edge Rank

3. Buying Likes Won’t Help for  Marketing

If you hope that these new likes will make other people interested in your stuff, BEWARE. They aren’t.

First of all they might or might not have interest in your business. Second, most of these likes come from account which are either programmed or are largely inactive. Which makes that it won’t help you at all.

So, here are some of the few major drawbacks of buying fake likes.

Will you still buy Facebook likes?

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