How many Facebook likes should a business page have? Do you need Facebook likes for a small business. What social media do I need for a local business?

There is no clear easy answer on... How many Facebook.com likes does a business need?

First things first are you trying to improve your position on search engine rankings like Google.com ?

In this case it may be better to have it constantly and slowly growing. Just like Google likes to see updates on a site in order for it to rank well. Then it would make sense for the same to work via your Facebook
business page. However you need to have the Facebook social plugin on your actual website in order for it to fully help.

Click here to see how to get the Facebook.com Social Media Plugin.


Do you want to look good so people assume you are a legit company and or have a good honest running business?

Well there is no perfect answer for that so I will try to break it down.

Look at your competitors first and of course you need more than them. By more I mean enough more for you to be the clear choice. If your competitors Facebook.com Likes are 1,000 for example then you need 1,500 at least. More would be even better.

Small Local business seeking customers just in their surrounding area : around 300 likes or more than your competitor.

Small business seeking customers from any market area : 1,500 likes or more than your competitors

Large business looking to find new customers via Social Media : 10,000 likes

The likes are not the only thing that matters. Having your page actually being used is a major part of looking like a well liked business. You can not make customers care enough to comment or share your Facebook post even if you are the best business ever. You can buy likes for any post on your business page. In order to have something for people to like you need constantly post. Don't have time for that get yourself a GHOST WRITER!

Facebook Likes for Business not enough Now there are Stars! Facebook.com Ranting/Ranking system for Businesses Mobile and Desktop.

Facebook is apparently testing displaying star ratings, out of a possible five in total, on Pages on the desktop version of its site, according to a reliable tip received by TechCrunch this morning. Screenshots and live testing show that Facebook has turned on the star rating display for at least a small subsection of users, providing information to network users that goes beyond the somewhat sentiment-deprived basic Like.

Using a star system for place and page ratings isn’t entirely new; Facebook has been collecting star ratings from users on the desktop and via local search for quite a while now, and also seeking star ratings on content and apps via Timeline. What is new is making this information explicitly displayed on the social network itself, in a prominent place on a business or place Page.

This shift, if it moves from the testing phase to general adoption, has a couple major implications for Facebook users. First, for general members, it provides an increased degree of sentiment information surrounding places and content that goes well beyond the simple off/on attribute of the Like. The Like is actually fraught with ambiguity – users employ it variously to express sympathy, solidarity, endorsement, a sign of interest or even in some cases a feeling of dislike. The number of Likes something has indicates how present it is in public consciousness, but not necessarily how people generally feel about it.

Comments provide some sense of sentiment around a Page, but the five-star system threads the needle between ease-of-use, information and digestibility, compared to both the Like and text comments. And as Facebook moves to become a platform geared towards providing public information, as well as real-time interactivity around media like TV, offering more granularity around how its users feel about people, places and things makes a lot of sense.

For businesses, it’s not clear yet whether displaying this rating will be optional or mandatory, but if Facebook is making a play to compete with the Yelps, Foursquares and Angie’s Lists of the world when it comes to local discovery and service recommendations, it would make sense that they are required by default. That could mean a considerable shift in how businesses use FB, with more emphasis placed on customer service versus just maintaining a presence on the network. Likes are easy, after all, but getting users to fill up that star bar will require a lot more effort and interaction.

We’ve reached out to Facebook to learn more about this feature, the extent of the test and whether a wider rollout is planned, and we’ll update when we receive more information.

Update: A Facebook spokesperson provided the following confirmation and info from the company:

We’re extending star ratings on Facebook from mobile to desktop – to make it easier for people to discover great businesses around them. This is beneficial for both businesses and consumers. Star ratings encourage more people to rate a business, making it eligible to appear in News Feed and help others discover a business they didn’t know about previously. For businesses themselves, this also leads to greater brand awareness.

As you may recall, star ratings launched in early 2012 with the introduction of Nearby on mobile. Now we’re bringing the visibility of star ratings to a more prominent spot at the top of Pages’ timeline on desktop and to the preview in News Feed.

Thanks to FB user Om Agarwal for the tip.

Article Shared Via: http://techcrunch.com/2013/11/07/facebook-pages-star-ratings/

TOP FREE Social Media Exchange sites for FREE Facebook likes. Sites like Addmefast.com and Followlike.net. Get Real Facebook likes, Twitter Followers, Instagram likes and more.

Once you find a site you really like or one that really works well for you, you always want more and more. First I found addmefast.com super fast results but heavily abused meaning you lose half the likes you get by the next day. The next site that worked really well for me is Followlike.net. The owners care about the performance of the site and the quality of its users. So while there is less likes earned for your Facebook Page most of the likes are there to stay. Also Followlike has more social media exchanges to offer than addmefast. I have used many but these listed are the best

1. AddMeFast.com  earning points is pretty quick especially if you already have established accounts that you dont have your friends on. You should only do about 10 of each earning points section then move on to the next because a lot of errors will start repeating themselves. You can start over when you have done ten of each there just need to be a little break in time between each network you are using for points.

2. Followlike.net There is a massive list of Social Media options on this site. Everything you could want to promote can be done here. As a awesome added bonus you can buy and sell backlinks and earn coins so very little work for a much better reward compared to addmefast.

3. Likesniper.com All the main goodies are here Facebook, Twitter and Google +/Youtube Promotions. The best feature for the points is Website hits or Traffic. Everyday you login you get 50 points and 50 points is equal to 2,000 hits to your site. Good deal.

4. LikeBlaster.org This is a little slow process compared to the rest however they have Social Media services all the other don't like Fancy.com, Keek.com and Ask.fm

5. LikePlanet.com Slow loading time for your first visit but worth it. All the regular free likes Facebook, Twitter and Youtube plus they offer a backlink service with tons of traffic for a good price.