Getting followers on Facebook quickly is one of the things my people ask me most. Here are the 5 best techniques and a trap to avoid.
To get followers on your Facebook page quickly, you have to understand how Facebook works and use its tools. The main elements are to select the people to invite, have a relevant page name and give a good reason to follow your posts.
Facebook has changed the way it works and you have to adapt to be successful. There are some traps to avoid and you have to be cunning to get a lot of followers. I was able to identify 5 main techniques that I detail here.
How To Get Facebook Followers Fast? 5 Essential Techniques:
Followers are different from friends on Facebook because they are not directly connected to your profile. They connect to your Business page. During my research, I noticed some simple and free techniques to get followers on Facebook. They work every time, so don’t hesitate to use them.
Related Topic: The Secret Facebook Algorithm To Determine Your Reach
1. Invite Some Friends To Like Your Facebook Page…
…Yes, only some! Not just any friends!
This is what is proposed to you when you create your page. You are offered to invite your friends to have a base of followers to your page. The trap here is to invite all your friends.
To invite your friends on Facebook, go to your page. Then you have to click on the “invite friends” button which is accessible after clicking on the three little dots.
But be careful!
Invite only those who will react to what you will publish. They must already be interested in the topic of your page. If this is not the case, ask them personally not to simply like your page, ask them to react as often as possible to what you publish.
The interest here is to have “qualified” followers. I talk about it later in this article, it is an important element to assimilate to have a successful page.
2. Add a link to your page on your website.
People visiting your website can be simple passengers or potential customers. If they have the slightest interest in your business, they will not hesitate to follow your Facebook page.
So make sure it is visible on your website with a widget for example that will display the Facebook logo.
Normally, if they follow your page through your website, they are interested in what you do so they are very highly qualified followers.
Related: 6 Techniques to Increase Your Facebook Reach.
3. Having an Optimized Facebook Page Name…
I have found that the search on Facebook will be more and more important in this article. Take advantage of this!
The name of your page must contain the main keyword of your activity. If you sell flowers, name the page “Flower Sales” and then your brand name. That way, all searches for flowers will return to your page.
If your business is not a well-known brand like “Coca-Cola” or “Disney“, you can imagine that few people will search for your business name on Facebook. If you have already created your page with only your company name, it’s not too late!
To change the name of your Facebook Page, you can go to the About Tab and then go to Page Name and Edit Name directly. Facebook will then approve or deny your request.
This will help you grow your qualified audience (which I talk about later in this article) since the likes will come from people who have searched based on your business.
4. Invite Non-Followers Who Liked Your Posts.
When you post photos, videos, articles, links… your followers like or react… OK. But as you know, liking makes your post visible on your followers‘ news feed and they can react to your post even though they are not followers of your page.
When they do, you can spot those people who are not yet your followers but who have clearly expressed an interest in what you do. Facebook then offers to invite these people to like your page.
To get people to like a Facebook Page:
- Click on one of your posts.
- Click on the likes and reactions.
- You have access to the list of people who have reacted.
- Invite people when the button appears.
- They will then receive an invitation to like your page in their notifications.
Related: How To Quickly Increase your Visibility On Facebook.
5. Include Your Page Link In Your Email Signature.
When you send emails, it is necessarily to your customers or prospects who are subscribers to your business info
Insert the URL of your Facebook page but also for Twitter and other social networks to inform them that you are present on the social networks!
This may seem “too” simple but it is often a very good way for your contacts to learn more about your business. The fact of seeing that going to your page is accessible, will encourage them to click.
The Trap To Avoid To Get More Followers On Facebook
There are hacks to automatically invite these non-followers. They are often lines of code to enter into the console of your computer and if at first glance it works … infiltrations on your page can take place and Facebook can block your account by considering you as a “bot” or a “robot”.
Another trap is to buy followers via services on eBay or others…it is UNNECESSARY and UNPRODUCTIVE.
You simply risk not being able to show your posts to people who are really interested in your page (or even who speak your language…) and Facebook can ban your account for life for this practice.
Conclusion: On Facebook, the number doesn’t matter. Only quality counts.
Read also: How To Choose Between A Facebook Page or A Group
How to Get “Qualified” Followers on Your Facebook Page?
You have just discovered 5 techniques to increase your number of followers on Facebook. I mentioned the term “qualified follower” which is very important. You need to understand several professional basics first.
Facebook wants your page to be relevant to your followers so think carefully before executing each of these actions. Gaining Facebook followers is simple and effective if the actions are well done and targeted to the right people.
You need to get “followers” who have value and who will help your page to grow. Qualified followers are those who are fully interested in what you are doing. They will react, comment, and share your posts more easily than “unqualified” followers.
In the end, your followers serve as a springboard to attract more and more people. Facebook has understood this and has decided to reward followers who get involved. That’s why the “Super-Fan” badge was created.
How to get Super Fans on your Facebook Page?
Super Fans are the most qualified followers possible as they are categorized by Facebook as those who interact with your page the most.
To enable the Super Fan Badge on your Facebook Page, you need to go to the page settings, access the Facebook Badges tab and click on the “Enable Super Fan Badges” button.
To get Super Fans on Facebook you must:
- Post regularly on your page
- Have engagements on your page
- Activate the badge in the settings
- Let Facebook ask some followers to become a Super Fan of your page
- Continue to post regularly and with quality to maintain the relationship.
Having super fans will allow your page to show future followers that there is a real interest in following your page. If some people are absolute fans of your content, why not others?
However…If you ever find that you don’t have a SuperFan, or that the option is not enabled. It’s because you either don’t have enough followers, or you don’t post enough on your page to generate engagements.
Read also: How to boost engagement on Twitter
BONUS: Post Videos to Get More Facebook Followers.
If you’re a Youtuber, a video content creator, or if you have long videos to share with your audience… Then posting them on Facebook can bring you a lot of views and followers!
Facebook usage is evolving as the number of followers increases. And video viewing is becoming more and more important. Just like on Youtube, Tik-Tok, or Instagram, users can watch videos without limit thanks to the specific algorithm on Facebook.
The video section offers videos from various pages, without the need to be a follower for the user to continue watching videos on Facebook. So once you’ve seen a lot of videos from pages you’re a follower of, Facebook won’t want to lose you and will offer other videos that are related to the ones you’ve just seen, or that you might like.
This is where the strategy to gain followers pays off.
By posting videos and filling in the descriptions, tag, and with a good title, you will be able to benefit from the proposal made by Facebook towards viewers who watch videos whose subject is similar to yours.
And next to the name of your page will be a “follow” button
This technique is very powerful because you just have to post your video and wait for the Facebook algorithm to do its job and reference you in the suggested videos.
Frequently Asked Questions About How To Get More Facebook Followers:
How do I get 1,000, 5,000, 100,000 followers on Facebook?
You have to be patient to see your number of fans grow. If you start from 0 today, it is by being regular that you will manage to increase the number of your followers. I talked here about free techniques. There is Facebook advertising to quickly increase the number of your followers but you need a serious budget to reach 100 000 followers.
Why does my follower count drop when I post?
It is possible that some followers decide that they are no longer interested in your posts. They will then choose to unfollow when your new post is on their news feed. This should not be seen as a bad thing, it allows you to sort out your followers so that you only have those who are really fans of what you do. But make sure that your posts remain of high quality and interesting so as not to lose everyone. The goal is to always grow of course.
To get more followers on Facebook, don’t look for the quantity, look for the quality!
We are looking too much to seeing our number of followers increase. We must not fall into this trap, be patient and do everything to have qualified followers, who are interested in your business and who will then be in some way ambassadors of your company.
Your qualified audience will then become an engaged audience!
