5 Ways To Instantly Boost Your Facebook Page Traffic

-Exponential Growth- Every brand and business wants to know the secret of how to increase the number of fans to their Facebook fan page. While there is no one stop shop to success, there are some sure fire ways to grow your fan base organically.

Before reading the tips it is important to note that if you want to build and grow a successful fan page you will have to communicate regularly with the people who are invested in the company. If real people who are genuinely interested in the business are not inviting their friends, there is going to be very little networking going on, which defeats the point of using a social networking site, does it not?

That said, here is a list of five things you can do to increase your fan base by at least 100 in one week.

Post the fan box to your site! Post it on every page, on your blog, and on your twitter accounts. Still have a MySpace? Post a link there too. This is the best way to obtain fans that are already excited about what your business is doing. Add your fan page URL to your email newsletters as well, which can bring a large uplift in fans depending on the size of your contact list.
Reach out to people with direct interest in the company you are promoting – the marketers, the President, the CEO – add them as friends to your own network and have them each invite 100 of their friends. Out of 500 invites you’re going to see at least 20 of those people convert to fans. Do not underestimate this tip. It is imperative for a business to have all interested parties participating in social media and it is up to you to lead and coordinate that effort.
Create a simple and direct landing page that makes it very clear what you want people to do. Look at the WooMe fan page for example – originally we created a very dynamic and interactive fan page that would allow people to view and rate fan photos, sign up for the company blog and watch videos from WooMe TV. However, we revised our strategy and decided to focus on one thing – get people to click the “become fan” button. We also added an “invite friend” box that supports the first goal by encouraging new fans to invite their friends to become fans of the brand as well. By doing this we saw our visitor to fan ratio double.
Use applications to help spread awareness of your brand. My favorite is the Poll application that allows me to create interesting and funny questions for our fan base to answer. Invite your professional network to participate and give them specific directions to invite their networks as well. The more interesting your poll, the more likely it is that people are going to participate. I suggest you spend an hour reviewing other polls and noticing what kind of titles peek your interest and generate lots of participation, then try it out for yourself.
Use photos; use them for anything you can think of. People love photos. I upload one photo and generate 200+ views on it and upwards of 400+ views if I tag someone else in it. Utilize the space to include a link to the company blog in the description box of the photo. Makes sure the photo has a watermark that brands your company with their logo and blog URL. It will bring people back to your page, I promise. People love photos, don’t doubt it, try it out and see for yourself.

Remember, you learn the most by doing! Try these tips out and get creative. The more time you spend in the space the better you will get and the more engaged you will see your fans become.

Veronica Reynolds is the Community Manager at WooMe.com, the world’s largest live introductions platform where people meet live in chat sessions via webcam around any shared interest for fun, to hook up, or for pure entertainment. Veronica loves social media and is online a lot so hit her up on WooMe or Twitter to say hello.

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Very interesting, there are a lot of articles like that on the web, and they pretty much all say the same thing. But i notice here something new which is, i think, very interesting for increasing the number of fans: the integration of a “suggest to friend” box in the WooMe landing page. I never saw something similar, could you please tell us how that was made?

Thanks,

Elie
http://www.webketing.fr

Comment by Elie Prudhomme — October 27, 2009 @ 11:55 am
Since FB messed with their news feed and made it the highly-annoying “live feed,” many people have switched their preference on the home page to “status updates only” which shows only individuals’ updates, not fan pages. So much for getting your word out if you have a FB fan page.

Comment by Dee — October 27, 2009 @ 12:11 pm
Great Info …

Thanks,
adloussopy,
http://www.facebook.com/pages/SPACIFY/79444799925

Comment by adloussopy — October 27, 2009 @ 12:25 pm
for tip #3, did they use FTML to create that direct landing page? i’m not very familiar with it so i was wondering if you had any tips on how i could manage that.

Comment by Sean — October 27, 2009 @ 1:34 pm
Yeah customized landing pages are generally made with FBML.

Comment by Elie Prudhomme — October 27, 2009 @ 1:48 pm
Yes, I too am very interested in knowing how the woome landing page was created!

Comment by Angela — October 27, 2009 @ 1:53 pm
Yes, where do you get the code to add the “suggest to friend” box that WooMe landing page?

Comment by Noah Heller — October 27, 2009 @ 3:06 pm
I also want to add a “suggest to friend” on my landing page.

How is that done?

Comment by Matthew Tommasi — October 27, 2009 @ 3:27 pm
I love the WooMe Page…how do you create that invite box?

Comment by Mike Street — October 27, 2009 @ 5:24 pm
hang tight I’ll respond with an answer soon

Comment by Veronica Reynolds — October 27, 2009 @ 5:36 pm
Also look forward to seeing how you did it! Thanks Veronica!

Comment by Tyler — October 27, 2009 @ 6:50 pm
Thanks, Veronica!

Speaking to point #4, another great way to boost traffic is to give your fans some kind of promotion on your Fan Page so they have reason not only to come to your page, but also to share it with their friends. You can easily set up and run an interactive promotion with the Promotions application, a Verified and Suggested App. Check it out here: http://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=48008362724

Cheers,
Brendan
http://wildfireapp.com

Comment by Brendan McManus — October 27, 2009 @ 7:12 pm
Brendan – absolutely agree. Engaging the userbase is a great way to facilitate the growth of an active and involved community.

I used your promotions application before, very interesting concept. Definitely a lot of moving pieces to ensure success with that. I would suggest people trying their own smaller social media campaigns before investing in your product to work out the subtleties of online promotion first, and then use the knowledge to make a big splash with the use of the Wildfire Application.

Comment by Veronica Reynolds — October 27, 2009 @ 7:42 pm
Veronica, what a great post. Fantastic facebook page as well. Bravo.

Comment by Brad Kleinman — October 28, 2009 @ 6:52 am
Thanks for the feedback everyone.

I found this post that I think is very helpful and explains how to personalize your invite friend box and defines the code used to create it. Send me a message once you’re able to incorporate the code in your page, would love to see your page in action.

http://wiki.developers.facebook.com/index.php/Fb:multi-friend-selector

Here is the code that we used for the invite friend box. Enjoy.

Comment by Veronica Reynolds — October 28, 2009 @ 8:15 pm
ah i see that I can’t post the code here. If you want it send me a message I’ll help you out.

And ps, I’m sure you know this, but remember to install an FBML app to your fan page to manifest your own personal landing page.

Comment by Veronica Reynolds — October 28, 2009 @ 8:18 pm
Hi Veronica

Could you please send me the code for the 'invite friend box'?

I want to integrate the 'invite friend box' into a custom tab on my FB page.

Thanks

Matthew Tommasi

Comment by Matthew Tommasi — October 31, 2009 @ 6:42 am
Hi Veronica

Could you please send me the code for the ‘invite friend box’ as well?

I can use the small version of the ‘invite box’ in the side bar of my page but I would love to integrate the full version including images etc.

Thanks

Comment by Chris Odell — November 1, 2009 @ 5:24 pm
..LOL, Just create my WooMe page, that’s cool resource Thanx!

Comment by Mark — November 2, 2009 @ 12:24 am
Hi Veronica, could you please send me the code for the invite friend box. Thanks for what ever you might be able to provide.
Kudos on the Landing Page, it really sticks out. Looks Great!
Thanks again,

Marshal

Comment by Marshal Walker — November 3, 2009 @ 2:59 am
These are great tips! The WooMe page is great, too. Thanks for sharing the information. I love sexy, funny Facebook examples. Hvae you seen this video about another way to get Facebook fans (LOL!) http://retwt.me/E2Ta

Comment by Kat — November 8, 2009 @ 9:02 pm
Hi Veronica,

I love the WooMe landing page, any chance of getting the code or assistance to replicate?

Cheers and well done!

tgs

Comment by thagoodshepherd — November 9, 2009 @ 3:30 am
Hi Veronica

Could you please send me the code for the ‘invite friend box’?

I want to add the ‘invite friend box’ into my FB page.

Thanks, Paul

Comment by Peck Drywall and pai — November 14, 2009 @ 6:11 pm
Hi Veronica, could you send me the invite friend code as well?

Comment by Martin — November 17, 2009 @ 8:40 pm
Hi Veronica.

Please add me to the list of invite friend box code! : )

thank you.

Comment by Jane — November 18, 2009 @ 1:11 pm
Hi Veronica,

Pls send me the invite friend box code as well. You can send it to eiisolutions001@gmail.com.

Thanks a million!

Comment by Steve — November 22, 2009 @ 6:27 pm
Hi Veronica,

Please send me the invite friend box code. You can send it to terencetan9401@yahoo.com.

Thanks a million!

Comment by Terence — November 24, 2009 @ 11:55 am
Hi Chris ! How can I creat the Small version of the "invite your Friend box" ? Because the one I have is too big, and don't need images etc… Can you give me the FBML ?

Thanks !

Comment by Jay — January 7, 2010 @ 7:09 am
hi veronica, could you send me the code for the 'invite a friend' box on the woome example you showed in facebook?

would very much appreciate it… keep up the good work

mac

Comment by mac — February 7, 2010 @ 11:22 am
Hi there,

Veronica this has been a great insight from you, Thank you very much, I have started a page on facebook, it's based on Thoughts related to design, creativity, ideas, photography, art, n any creative thing…in one month the page managed only 40 fans…but now I will follow your tips…hope they work, here is a little link to my page on facebook
http://www.facebook.com/pages/My-Thought-School/2...

Comment by Vishal Kuberkar — February 10, 2010 @ 4:58 am
Hi Veronica –

I just found this post. Could you please send me the code for 'invite a friend' box for facebook? Also, since I'm not very tech-savvy, any information about how to install it would be appreciated. Thank you!

Wendy

Comment by Wendy — April 13, 2010 @ 11:45 am
Could you please send me the code for the "invite a friend" box that is on your woome landing page? I enjoyed your article and would like to incorporate this on my page.

Thanks,

Matt

Comment by Matt — July 8, 2010 @ 8:30 am
Hi Veronica -

Could you please send E-Mail the code for "invite a friend" box for my FB page?I'm just now getting started in Social Media and appreciate the help.

Thanks,

Vince

Comment by Roof Express — July 25, 2010 @ 10:53 am
[...] was when I implemented one of the most basic rules in the Facebook Marketing Playbook – adding a landing tab introducing myself and asking people to [...]

Pingback by How To Attract 57,000 Likes And Become Famous On Facebook — October 1, 2010 @ 11:02 am
Hi Veronica,
Great article, it was most helpful.
Pls send me the invite friend box code as well. You can send it to tony@thefunkypenguin.co.uk

Many thanks,
Tony

Comment by Tony Winyard — October 1, 2010 @ 12:33 pm
Hi Veronica,

Thanks for the info. Please send me the code for the invite friend box code. My email is info@thesafaricompany.co.za

Thanks,

Dirk

Comment by Dirk — October 1, 2010 @ 4:37 pm
If you need help creating your "landing page" they mention here and know a little HTML then you can use a blog we wrote some time ago showing step by step how to customize what fans vs. non-fans see when they hit that page… the link is here: http://www.atomicdc.com/blog/its-all-about-the-fa...

Comment by Dallas web designer — October 4, 2010 @ 9:31 am
Hi Veronica,

Thanks for the info. Please send me the code for the invite friend box code. My email is ariollet@gmail.com

Thanks,

Antoine

Comment by Antoine — October 8, 2010 @ 9:22 am
Veronica,

Great article if your stil providing the code please email it yourgridironfix@gmail.com I would greatly appreciate it. Thanks Chad

Comment by Chad Sanchez — October 26, 2010 @ 2:33 pm
This is very helpfull. Tnx! I must ry it on my FB.

Comment by Erica — December 14, 2010 @ 5:00 pm
Facebook is a very powerful marketing tool if done correctly

Comment by Diane — December 30, 2010 @ 5:40 am
up to the mark contents

Comment by Ranjeet — April 12, 2011 @ 5:41 pm
thanks fao facebook
http://www.audiodj.co.uk
http://www.steamcleanteam.co.uk

Comment by zak — April 16, 2011 @ 9:14 pm
Can you add me to invite box code?

Comment by Appliance Fixer — July 16, 2011 @ 2:14 am
How can you fix the invite box code mate! I really surprised to see the experiment. Thanks mate!

Comment by John Pollard — August 13, 2011 @ 1:00 pm
will try these methods out
http://www.facebook.com/pictaurus

Thank you

Comment by Aditya — October 10, 2011 @ 4:08 am
bit late on this one but interesting article! Thanks

Comment by Adam Chivers — October 18, 2011 @ 10:28 am
Great article. Keep it up and always inform new things. Will come back and check this again. Thanks for sharing. Coventry Airport

Comment by Coventry Airport — December 17, 2011 @ 7:19 am

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Very interesting, there are a lot of articles like that on the web, and they pretty much all say the same thing. But i notice here something new which is, i think, very interesting for increasing the number of fans: the integration of a “suggest to friend” box in the WooMe landing page. I never saw something similar, could you please tell us how that was made?

Thanks,

Elie
http://www.webketing.fr

Comment by Elie Prudhomme — October 27, 2009 @ 11:55 am

Since FB messed with their news feed and made it the highly-annoying “live feed,” many people have switched their preference on the home page to “status updates only” which shows only individuals’ updates, not fan pages. So much for getting your word out if you have a FB fan page.

Comment by Dee — October 27, 2009 @ 12:11 pm

Great Info …

Thanks,
adloussopy,
http://www.facebook.com/pages/SPACIFY/79444799925

Comment by adloussopy — October 27, 2009 @ 12:25 pm

for tip #3, did they use FTML to create that direct landing page? i’m not very familiar with it so i was wondering if you had any tips on how i could manage that.

Comment by Sean — October 27, 2009 @ 1:34 pm

Yeah customized landing pages are generally made with FBML.

Comment by Elie Prudhomme — October 27, 2009 @ 1:48 pm

Yes, I too am very interested in knowing how the woome landing page was created!

Comment by Angela — October 27, 2009 @ 1:53 pm

Yes, where do you get the code to add the “suggest to friend” box that WooMe landing page?

Comment by Noah Heller — October 27, 2009 @ 3:06 pm

I also want to add a “suggest to friend” on my landing page.

How is that done?

Comment by Matthew Tommasi — October 27, 2009 @ 3:27 pm

I love the WooMe Page…how do you create that invite box?

Comment by Mike Street — October 27, 2009 @ 5:24 pm

hang tight I’ll respond with an answer soon

Comment by Veronica Reynolds — October 27, 2009 @ 5:36 pm

Also look forward to seeing how you did it! Thanks Veronica!

Comment by Tyler — October 27, 2009 @ 6:50 pm

Thanks, Veronica!

Speaking to point #4, another great way to boost traffic is to give your fans some kind of promotion on your Fan Page so they have reason not only to come to your page, but also to share it with their friends. You can easily set up and run an interactive promotion with the Promotions application, a Verified and Suggested App. Check it out here: http://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=48008362724

Cheers,
Brendan
http://wildfireapp.com

Comment by Brendan McManus — October 27, 2009 @ 7:12 pm

Brendan – absolutely agree. Engaging the userbase is a great way to facilitate the growth of an active and involved community.

I used your promotions application before, very interesting concept. Definitely a lot of moving pieces to ensure success with that. I would suggest people trying their own smaller social media campaigns before investing in your product to work out the subtleties of online promotion first, and then use the knowledge to make a big splash with the use of the Wildfire Application.

Comment by Veronica Reynolds — October 27, 2009 @ 7:42 pm

Veronica, what a great post. Fantastic facebook page as well. Bravo.

Comment by Brad Kleinman — October 28, 2009 @ 6:52 am

Thanks for the feedback everyone.

I found this post that I think is very helpful and explains how to personalize your invite friend box and defines the code used to create it. Send me a message once you’re able to incorporate the code in your page, would love to see your page in action.

http://wiki.developers.facebook.com/index.php/Fb:multi-friend-selector

Here is the code that we used for the invite friend box. Enjoy.

Comment by Veronica Reynolds — October 28, 2009 @ 8:15 pm

ah i see that I can’t post the code here. If you want it send me a message I’ll help you out.

And ps, I’m sure you know this, but remember to install an FBML app to your fan page to manifest your own personal landing page.

Comment by Veronica Reynolds — October 28, 2009 @ 8:18 pm

Hi Veronica

Could you please send me the code for the 'invite friend box'?

I want to integrate the 'invite friend box' into a custom tab on my FB page.

Thanks

Matthew Tommasi

Comment by Matthew Tommasi — October 31, 2009 @ 6:42 am

Could you please send me the code for the ‘invite friend box’ as well?

I can use the small version of the ‘invite box’ in the side bar of my page but I would love to integrate the full version including images etc.

Comment by Chris Odell — November 1, 2009 @ 5:24 pm

..LOL, Just create my WooMe page, that’s cool resource Thanx!

Comment by Mark — November 2, 2009 @ 12:24 am

Hi Veronica, could you please send me the code for the invite friend box. Thanks for what ever you might be able to provide.
Kudos on the Landing Page, it really sticks out. Looks Great!
Thanks again,

Marshal

Comment by Marshal Walker — November 3, 2009 @ 2:59 am

These are great tips! The WooMe page is great, too. Thanks for sharing the information. I love sexy, funny Facebook examples. Hvae you seen this video about another way to get Facebook fans (LOL!) http://retwt.me/E2Ta

Comment by Kat — November 8, 2009 @ 9:02 pm

Hi Veronica,

I love the WooMe landing page, any chance of getting the code or assistance to replicate?

Cheers and well done!

tgs

Comment by thagoodshepherd — November 9, 2009 @ 3:30 am

Could you please send me the code for the ‘invite friend box’?

I want to add the ‘invite friend box’ into my FB page.

Thanks, Paul

Comment by Peck Drywall and pai — November 14, 2009 @ 6:11 pm

Hi Veronica, could you send me the invite friend code as well?

Comment by Martin — November 17, 2009 @ 8:40 pm

Hi Veronica.

Please add me to the list of invite friend box code! : )

thank you.

Comment by Jane — November 18, 2009 @ 1:11 pm

Pls send me the invite friend box code as well. You can send it to eiisolutions001@gmail.com.

Thanks a million!

Comment by Steve — November 22, 2009 @ 6:27 pm

Please send me the invite friend box code. You can send it to terencetan9401@yahoo.com.

Comment by Terence — November 24, 2009 @ 11:55 am

Hi Chris ! How can I creat the Small version of the "invite your Friend box" ? Because the one I have is too big, and don't need images etc… Can you give me the FBML ?

Thanks !

Comment by Jay — January 7, 2010 @ 7:09 am

hi veronica, could you send me the code for the 'invite a friend' box on the woome example you showed in facebook?

would very much appreciate it… keep up the good work

mac

Comment by mac — February 7, 2010 @ 11:22 am

Hi there,

Veronica this has been a great insight from you, Thank you very much, I have started a page on facebook, it's based on Thoughts related to design, creativity, ideas, photography, art, n any creative thing…in one month the page managed only 40 fans…but now I will follow your tips…hope they work, here is a little link to my page on facebook
http://www.facebook.com/pages/My-Thought-School/2...

Comment by Vishal Kuberkar — February 10, 2010 @ 4:58 am

Hi Veronica –

I just found this post. Could you please send me the code for 'invite a friend' box for facebook? Also, since I'm not very tech-savvy, any information about how to install it would be appreciated. Thank you!

Wendy

Comment by Wendy — April 13, 2010 @ 11:45 am

Could you please send me the code for the "invite a friend" box that is on your woome landing page? I enjoyed your article and would like to incorporate this on my page.

Matt

Comment by Matt — July 8, 2010 @ 8:30 am

Hi Veronica -

Could you please send E-Mail the code for "invite a friend" box for my FB page?I'm just now getting started in Social Media and appreciate the help.

Vince

Comment by Roof Express — July 25, 2010 @ 10:53 am

[...] was when I implemented one of the most basic rules in the Facebook Marketing Playbook – adding a landing tab introducing myself and asking people to [...]

Pingback by How To Attract 57,000 Likes And Become Famous On Facebook — October 1, 2010 @ 11:02 am

Hi Veronica,
Great article, it was most helpful.
Pls send me the invite friend box code as well. You can send it to tony@thefunkypenguin.co.uk

Many thanks,
Tony

Comment by Tony Winyard — October 1, 2010 @ 12:33 pm

Thanks for the info. Please send me the code for the invite friend box code. My email is info@thesafaricompany.co.za

Dirk

Comment by Dirk — October 1, 2010 @ 4:37 pm

If you need help creating your "landing page" they mention here and know a little HTML then you can use a blog we wrote some time ago showing step by step how to customize what fans vs. non-fans see when they hit that page… the link is here: http://www.atomicdc.com/blog/its-all-about-the-fa...

Comment by Dallas web designer — October 4, 2010 @ 9:31 am

Thanks for the info. Please send me the code for the invite friend box code. My email is ariollet@gmail.com

Antoine

Comment by Antoine — October 8, 2010 @ 9:22 am

Veronica,

Great article if your stil providing the code please email it yourgridironfix@gmail.com I would greatly appreciate it. Thanks Chad

Comment by Chad Sanchez — October 26, 2010 @ 2:33 pm

This is very helpfull. Tnx! I must ry it on my FB.

Comment by Erica — December 14, 2010 @ 5:00 pm

Facebook is a very powerful marketing tool if done correctly

Comment by Diane — December 30, 2010 @ 5:40 am

up to the mark contents

Comment by Ranjeet — April 12, 2011 @ 5:41 pm

thanks fao facebook
http://www.audiodj.co.uk
http://www.steamcleanteam.co.uk

Comment by zak — April 16, 2011 @ 9:14 pm

Can you add me to invite box code?

Comment by Appliance Fixer — July 16, 2011 @ 2:14 am

How can you fix the invite box code mate! I really surprised to see the experiment. Thanks mate!

Comment by John Pollard — August 13, 2011 @ 1:00 pm

will try these methods out
http://www.facebook.com/pictaurus

Thank you

Comment by Aditya — October 10, 2011 @ 4:08 am

bit late on this one but interesting article! Thanks

Comment by Adam Chivers — October 18, 2011 @ 10:28 am

Great article. Keep it up and always inform new things. Will come back and check this again. Thanks for sharing. Coventry Airport

Comment by Coventry Airport — December 17, 2011 @ 7:19 am

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