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Home / Social Media / 6 Ways Buying Fake Followers Will Harm Your Campaigns

May 23, 2018

6 Ways Buying Fake Followers Will Harm Your Campaigns

Social media marketing takes a lot of work. The number of followers you have, whether it be on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, or all of the above, can be a crucial determiner of your marketing campaign’s success. But attracting those followers takes a lot of creative investment. When your page finally breaks 1,000 followers, it’s a great feeling.

Because your following is such an important part of social media marketing, it can be tempting to take the easy route. Some businesses buy fake followers to make themselves appear more successful and subsequently attract real followers. However, this route can result in serious consequences that will harm both your campaign and even your account.

If you’re even slightly considering buying fake followers, here are six ways doing so can harm your social media campaign.

1. Decreases in Engagement Rates

If you are buying fake followers, you are also buying low engagement rates because the followers you buy aren’t going to engage with your ads or campaigns. If the number of fake followers you have outweigh the number of real followers, putting out engaging content is a waste of time—the fake followers aren’t going to bite.

2. Difficulty Tracking Genuine Metrics

When a significant portion of your followers is fake, it becomes difficult to track and measure numbers that are genuine. For instance, when you roll out a campaign that generates less-than-desirable metrics, how will you know if the results indicate users being uninterested or fake followers being the only (and unengaged) audience of your campaign?

3. Low Conversion Rates

The whole purpose of a social media campaign is to drive customers to buy something or take action in response to your ads. Your fake followers aren’t going to generate these conversions. Also, if other users suspect that you are buying followers, they are not likely to engage with your ads or your page. As a result, your campaign’s conversion rates will be low or even nonexistent.

4. Reduced Reach in Feeds

Platforms like Facebook and Instagram have algorithms that take engagement levels into account when prioritizing content in users’ feeds. With the aforementioned consequences of a fake following already affecting your campaign, these platforms will push your content to the bottom of feeds or exclude it from feeds altogether. As a result, your campaign will proceed to have lower reach, ultimately begetting a failed campaign.

5. Deletion of Your Page or Account

Social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter may take serious action against your account if they suspect you are buying followers. Facebook, for instance, will block your account if it detects that your page is buying fake likes. Obviously, you need an account to have a campaign, so deletion of your account guarantees a failed campaign.

6. A Decrease in Perceived Credibility

Most important, buying fake followers decreases not only your page’s overall credibility but also your business’s credibility. If users discover that you buy followers, they will view any of your ads or campaigns as spammy or a nuisance.

But your credibility with users isn’t the only reputation that will harm both existing and future campaigns. Buying followers also harms your credibility with social media platforms. If platforms flag your accounts for generating a fake following, you may encounter significant difficulty redeeming yourself and starting a new advertising partnership with those platforms going forward.

7. Best Practices for Attracting an Authentic Following

Instead of taking the easy route, here are some basic best practices for building an authentic following for your social media pages:

  • Write compelling ad and post copy
  • Post relevant and compelling content
  • Post regularly
  • Engage with users and other pages
  • Incorporate trending topics into your ads and posts

You may think yourself cunning for buying fake followers and fooling the world into believing your brand has a good grip on social media users, but, as this post proves, buying followers brings all harm and no good.

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About Anna Hubbel

Anna Hubbel is a contributing writer for the AdvertiseMint Advertising Blog and writes about trending digital advertising topics, including news stories, how-to guides, and detailed marketing strategies regarding Facebook Ads, Instagram Ads, TikTok Ads, Snapchat Ads, YouTube Ads , Amazon Ads, Google Ads, and Pinterest Ads. Anna has written columns for OnStage Blog, a theater-themed website and has experience as a videographer, photographer, and web designer. Anna earned her Bachelor’s degree in Communication from Saint Vincent College and a Master of Arts degree in Communication, with a focus on organizational communication, from the College at Brockport. Anna ensures that AdvertiseMint produces high quality content for businesses looking to hire a digital advertising agency.

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