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How I make $22,000 per month with Facebook Instant Articles and Audience Network

Updated on Oct 10, 2018 @ 3:19 pm by 818 Comments

How I make $22,000 per month with Facebook Instant Articles and Audience Network

Servando: Hey guys. This is a guest post by Ronald from Web SEO Marketers, who’s monetizing his Fan Pages with the Facebook Audience Network (similar to Adsense) and using Facebook Instant Articles (The articles that load super quick in your Facebook Newsfeed) to get great CPMs and massive engagement in his posts.

This is a very similar technique to what I explained about viral traffic in posts before, but instead of relying on Adsense or any other network (pop, native, interstitials, etc), Ronald is using Facebook’s network to monetize his fans.

Most people don’t even know Facebook has their own Adsense Alternative, and setting up a site for Facebook is more difficult than setting up an Adsense account. But don’t worry, Ronald went above and below to make sure you understand every step of the process with tons of images.

If you want to learn more about Facebook and monetization check out all the blog posts we have in this category. Cheers.

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Yes, that’s not a lie! I am talking about making US$22,000 in just one month, with Facebook Instant Articles and Facebook Audience. And the best part of it is that you don’t need to worry about one single click, there is no need to worry about CPC or CTR%. 

We’ve all been witnesses of how much growth Facebook has gotten since Mark Zuckerberg and his colleagues decided to launch a small project that they didn’t even think would become so successful. It all started as a website that was planned for the students of the University of Harvard to communicate easier among themselves and also share content.

For a few years, many publishers have used Facebook and other social networks in order to drive traffic to their blogs and website and monetize the traffic with platforms such as Adsense, CPA and CPM Networks.

Now Facebook expands the scope of Audience Network to display their own ads along with Facebook Instant Articles, which is a platform that allows publishers to optimize their articles in a way that they can be displayed immediately after you click on them. As we all know, no matter how well we optimize our blogs and websites, there’s always been a problem with the time it takes for the articles to load on mobile devices, so this comes into the action and solves that problem.

Now that we talked a little bit about how things have occurred, let’s talk about the reason that made you visit this post. 

How to make money with Facebook Instant Articles

Facebook Audience Network pays its publishers an eCPM rate based on the countries and also the volume of traffic each publisher gets, but I can certainly tell you that it pays more than any other CPM network I’ve ever worked with. Here is a screen capture of my performance report so that you can know what I am talking about.

Make Money Facebook Instant Articles Audience Network - Performance

This report is from 03/19/2017 to 04/25/2017 and you have to admit that it’s not too bad, right?

Make Money Facebook Instant Articles Audience Network - Daily Revenue

Average eCPM is $1.45 and most of the traffic I get on this site is traffic from Hispanic countries such as Mexico, Colombia, Puerto Rico, Argentina, etc. When I look at the performance report filtered by countries, I can see an eCPM as high as $4.58 for countries like the United States. Not bad at all! 🙂

Make Money Facebook Instant Articles Audience Network - Country CPM

The best part of all this is the fact that you don’t need to worry about ad placements, whether you need use text or image banners, no worries about clicks and no worries about CTR%.

I mean, I’ve been able to make a lot of money with Google Adsense, but this one makes it so simple that I’m making money without moving a tip of my fingers. Google Adsense it’s even one of my favorite Networks and the way I have my articles setup allows the visitors who are not coming from Facebook to also see my Adsense banners, which means that I am monetizing my traffic with both. You can read more about increasing your earnings with Google Adsense in the following guide:

If you are a beginner, then this guide can also help you:

But now let’s go ahead and dive into what you really care about…   

How to get Started with Facebook Instant Articles

The first thing you need in order to start making money with Facebook Audience and instant articles is a Facebook Fan page. If you don’t have one yet, follow this guide on how to create a Facebook Fan page.

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If you already have your fan page then follow these steps in order to get started: 

1. Sign up for Instant Articles

Here’s the link for you to sign up for instant articles.

You will be prompted to select which page you want to sign up with, in case you have multiple fan pages, just select the one you want to use, accept the terms and conditions and click on the green button that says “Access to Instant Articles Tools”.

Make Money Facebook Instant Articles Audience Network - Page Selection2. Set up Instant Articles and Connect to your site

For this step you to go to the main page of your fan page and click on the option that says “Publishing Tools”. 

Once you’ve done that, you will see the options for instant articles enabled for your fan page now. [1] You need to click on the option that says ” Configuration” and then [2] scroll down until you see the option that says “Tools“, which also has a different list of options. [3] You need to click on the option that says “Connect to your site“.

Make Money Facebook Instant Articles Audience Network - Site Connection

In this step [4] you’ll see an HTML tag that needs to be placed into the header of your WordPress site before you can claim your site, if you are not very familiar with this, then I’ll recommend you to read this article.

Once you’ve added the code to your WordPress site header, you’ll probably need to clear the cache if you use a caching plugin, then you only need to [5]add your site’s URL into the corresponding field and [6]click on claim URL.

Make Money Facebook Instant Articles Audience Network - URL Setup3. Customize your Articles Styles

What we will do in this step is to customize the way your articles will be displayed to people whenever they click on the instant article version from the Facebook Application.

The first thing you need to do here is to go back to your Facebook Fan Page, then you’ll go to “Publishing Tools” and then from the instant articles section, you will click on “Configuration“. Now scroll down and you’ll see the option that says “Styles“.

Now this is very simple so I will not get into many details, just click on “Add Style“, look at the options that you have the for the typographies and stuff and also make sure that you “Upload you logo“, that’s the most important part here and it’s also required for you to be able to publish Instant Articles. Make sure your logo is a PNG file with dimensions of at least 1200 x 140 and you will not have a hard time with this step.

Make Money Facebook Instant Articles Audience Network - Styles

Make Money Facebook Instant Articles Audience Network - Logo

So far we’re good, and now we need to head over to our WordPress Dashboard in order to perform some actions there, let’s see…

4. Install Plugin and Setup the Plugin

In order to take advantage of Facebook Audience and also use the instant articles feature, you need to be registered as a developer, if you aren’t registered yet, don’t worry, we’ll take care of that also during this step.

Now you need to download and install the following plugin: Instant Articles for WP.

Once you’ve installed and activated the plugin, let’s go to the plugin and add your “Facebook Page ID“, this information can be easily found in the about section of your Fan page.

Make Money Facebook Instant Articles Audience Network - Dev App new

Right after you’ve done that, then go ahead and place the name you selected for your style configuration on step #3 of this guide and scroll down to make sure you mark these following options.

Select “Audience Network” for the ad type and 300×250 for ad dimensions.

Make Money Facebook Instant Articles Audience Network - Dev App Registration new5. Sign up for an account as a Facebook Developer

Follow this URL in order to register as a Facebook Developer, another screen will pop up and then you’ll have to fill out some information and then hit “Create App ID”

Make Money Facebook Instant Articles Audience Network - Dev App register new

Make Money Facebook Instant Articles Audience Network - email new

Once you’ve finished registering your new developer’s account you should be able to see your dashboard, from there you need to copy two pieces of information. One is your ” App ID ” and the other one is the “App Secret“, which you’ll need to click on the “Show Button” .

Make Money Facebook Instant Articles Audience Network - App Secret

Now on that same screen, you need to go where it says “Settings“, right at the top left corner. Select “Basic” and then scroll down a little bit and you’ll also see a button that says “Add Platform“, you need to select “Website” and then enter your URL in the corresponding field and then click on “Save  Changes“:

Make Money Facebook Instant Articles Audience Network - Platform Selection

We are almost done here… We’re just a couple of steps away from making money with Facebook Audience. 

6. Submit Articles for Review

By now, every new article you post should also have its own version for Instant Articles, but before your articles can be published as Instant Articles on Facebook you need to be approved. Don’t worry, this process only takes about 72 hours, that’s not too long.

In order to get your articles reviewed and approved, I recommend making sure that you always have the cleanest possible format for each article, this means that you should avoid using anything other than text, images, and video as much as you can. Examples of this are plugins that you use to add elements to your WordPress Articles.

In my case, the only plugin that I use to insert other elements to my articles is a plugin named “Quick Adsense“, this is because I want all users who don’t see come to my site from Facebook to still see my Adsense banners, this way I can still monetize both sources of traffic.

Let’s get started!

Here you need to edit at least 5 articles and make sure that these 5 work fine on Facebook Instant Articles. Go ahead and edit your articles one by one, scroll down to the bottom on each article, and you will see and new tab there indicating whether your article was successfully converted or not.

Make Money Facebook Instant Articles Audience Network - Submit Post

If you already edited your article and you made sure it complies with what I mentioned in the previous paragraph, then go ahead and publish your changes on your WordPress. You should see a message saying that your article was successfully submitted.

Make Money Facebook Instant Articles Audience Network - Post Submitted

Once you’ve done this with at least five articles, then it’s time to head over Facebook Instant Articles and Configuration, you should already know how to do this.

You should be able to see the blue button “Submit for Review“.

Make Money Facebook Instant Articles Audience Network - Review

Once you submit your articles for review it takes from 24 to 72 hours for it to be approved, after that, every time you publish a new article on your WordPress it also generates a version for instant articles which you only need to copy the URL and paste it anywhere on Facebook, it will show the instant article automatically.

7. Sign Up for Facebook Audience and insert your Ad Placement

The last step before you can start monetizing your blog or website with Facebook Audience is to sign up and get your ad code. In order to get this done, from your Facebook Fan Page panel, you need to go to “Publishing Tools“, “Instant Articles Configuration” and then click on “Audience Network“.

You will be prompted to accept the terms and conditions of the service and then “Submit” your request. This will immediately send the request and also create a new Facebook App for you, now you’ll see the following options, here you need to click on “Dashboard“.

Make Money Facebook Instant Articles Audience Network - Dashboard

This will take you over to your new Facebook App, which offers you a dashboard with all the analytics for your articles and your earnings.

Once you have your Facebook Audience Dashboard opened then you’ll click on the option that says “Placements” and you’ll also click on the option that says “Get Code“, which you’ll be able to see immediately.

Make Money Facebook Instant Articles Audience Network - Get Code

After this, select the option for banners and save it. You can just close that window afterward, there is no need to copy the code. Instead, go ahead and copy the “Placement ID“.

Now go back to the “Instant Article Plugin“, open your advanced settings and paste your ad placement into the Audience Network Placement ID.

Make Money Facebook Instant Articles Audience Network - Instant Articles

 

Make Money Facebook Instant Articles Audience Network - Instant Articles WordPress Setup

Now it’s just a matter of waiting until your application gets approved and you’ll be able to start making money with Facebook audience.

8. How to setup the payments

Last but not least, I know you also want to know how to get paid the earnings you generate. Facebook Audience offers two different methods of payments, Direct Deposit and PayPal. The payments are made every month by the 21st, just like Google Adsense, which means that whatever you earn until the last day of the month will be paid on the 21st of the following month.

In order to set up your payments, you need to go to your “Publishing Tools“, “Instant Articles Configuration” and then click on “Your Dashboard“. Once you do that, you should be able to see the option “Audience Network” which is located on the left side, you need to click on “Payout” and “Create/Select Payout“.

Make Money Facebook Instant Articles Audience Network - Payout

Once you’ve completed setting up your payment method, you also need to complete the Tax Form, in order to do this just go back to the payout section and you’ll be to see it. Just download, complete and upload the corresponding form depending on whether you are inside or outside of the United States.

Make Money Facebook Instant Articles Audience Network - Tax Forms

And that’s it! All you need to do from here it’s to create your articles as you always do and share them on your fan page or anywhere within Facebook. The more traffic you have, the more impressions your ads will get, and you’ll be able to make more money.

For more information on how to get traffic, targeted fans, etc. Check out the following guides:

I hope you liked this article and I also hope it’s some kind of a piece of helpful information. Please share your comments here and also share this article with others. 

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  1. Hi there,

    There should be an update to this, since now it says “Page is inelegible for Instant Articles”

    One question, how can I have my brand new fan page with 5k fans approved for Instant Articles in 2019?

    What are Facebook minimum guidelines to get approved?

    Reply

  2. very nice article. before I don’t know too much about this. I am not a citizen of US, then what should I provide instead of tax biodata?

    Reply

  4. I am so delighted that I found your blog. I was just looking out for this topic. Your article is great and is extremely smartly written the article. Thanks for sharing.

    Reply

  5. Thanks for recent reply,, i would like to ask one another question.

    What is the highest CTR you had on facebook likes campaign? And what was the lowest cost per like you ever experienced? Thanks!

    Reply

  6. Hello i want to ask,, i have 0.01€ cost per like on facebook for my page,, but its on 1€ budget per day,, How to safely and steadily increase budget without increasing cost per like? Would be 10€budget per day with 0.02€ cost per like possible?

    Do you have any experience and tips for this? I would be very gratefull for whatever info you can provide on this topic. Thank you!

    Reply

    • Hi Martin. The numbers you mention are definitely possible.
      One way is to scale your ad by $1 every 2-3 days until you reach $10 per day or whatever budget you like. It takes time but this gives the algorithm some time to adjust every time you increase the budget. If you find at some point the cost per like is increasing you can try decreasing it by $1 again.

      Another easier and fastest way is to have 10 adsets running at $1 per day each. Start having 2-3 adsets and if that works duplicate them until you reach your desired number.

      Cheers.

      Reply

  7. If you really want to make easy money then you should consider picturepunches.com. Probablt the easiest way to make money online today.

    Reply

  8. Can I use another ad in website like adsense or yengo together with facebook instant article. Now I have been used only fbia cause I worry that maybe my website was banned from facebook.

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    • You can use any other ad network that follows the rules of Facebook like Google Adsense, however when the traffic goes to the instant article version of your website they won’t see any other ads.
      The ads from a secondary network will only work for desktop/laptop traffic.

      Reply

  9. HI,
    i’m work with IA few monts. But last month i have to much red alert warning? I don’t write about violents, xxx post. I don’t know what happening?
    Any upade that help me?

    Reply

  10. Facebook Instant Articles is a great option for web publishers to monetize their contents. But unfortunately, I am facing minimal readership problem now and hope that I can try it in the nearby future. Thanks for explaining everything in detail.

    Best wishes,

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  12. Question: I received this note from someone on my FAN PAGE — the page is not huge, but has over 30K — “Give me your email id I’ll add you to instant article dashboard where you should apply for approval on your page by facebook. Once you get approved by facebook then we’re all good you can start work
    Once your page get approved by facebook then you’ll get access to facebook instant articles .””Hello I’m Interested in renting your page i’ll just give you 2 articles in a day that you can post yourself on the page Note: We don’t need any kind of access on your page.” Will working with this person being part of their Team via my Fanpage address lock me out of my own FanPage if all the articles have to be pre-approved by Fb? Is this even legit?

    Reply

    • It’s probably not legit.
      Just make sure you never five them access to your page or passwords because there are a lot of scams to steal pages like that.

      If you still want to try it give them another email not related at all to FB so they can send you more info.

      Reply

  13. Hey there. I am applying for facebook instant article and getting minimal readership problem. I understood that the minimal traffic must be at least 3k per day. How do i share my website to my page? Do i have to linked my published articles url from my website to my page post? In order to gain more traffic. Help me please

    Reply

    • There are many ways to get more traffic but when you get declined for minimal readership it’s either the website is quite new or it hasn’t really received much traffic in the last months.

      Reply

  14. Hi quick question, can I use other language in my articles? or it will not be accepted if its not written in english language?

    Reply

  16. I am getting a ‘minimal readership denial’ to my submitted url in instant articles. It is saying because your site has a minimal readership, it won’t be approved. My site is new, can you tell me how much visitors I need for Facebook to approve it

    Reply

  17. Hello sir how are you?, I created 3 fan pages in Facebookk and Im trying to sign up for Instant Articles but it says that “This Page is ineligible for Instant Articles” on all of them. Could you help me fix this problem please. Thanks!!

    Reply

    • Facebook made this difficult so we only tried one at a time (every day we tested a new one until we find winners) but also kind of looked at it by the number of impressions and how viral the post goes on FB.

      Reply

      • 1. Correctly I understand that in momentous articles the number of characters is important, the more characters, the more advertising, the more clicks on advertising?

        2. What kind of articles do you promote the most – simple stories, posts with many pictures or articles that have video?

        Reply

  22. Great article sir. Very helpful. I would like to know whether I can link my free wordpress blog with FB instant articles. I can’t afford to upgrade it. So have you written any post regarding this? If yes please give the link sir. Thanks and Regards.

    Reply

  23. -Facebook permite utilizar IA con Google Adsense? o Viceversa?
    – Porque no es recomendable usar IA en blogger?
    – Pensaba usar un blogger con cada cuenta de IA independiente para registrar por separado mis anuncios con cada articulo, para saber cuanto retorno me genera cada articulo, invirtiendole dinero en publicidad para asi saber si gano o pierdo… o que me recomendarias para llevar la cuenta de cuanto invierto y gano con cada aritculo para saber si es retable o viral. Gracias Saludos 🙂

    Reply

    • Hola Guido.
      1. Si, ambos se pueden usar ya que cuando se muestran unos no se muestran otros.
      2. El problema aquí será ver si puedes obtener múltiples cuentas de IA sin dificultades. De ser así, adelante!

      Reply

  27. I just got approved by Facebook Instant Articles and it’s so cool. I also have adsense so I’m using both!

    Reply

  28. Hi great post. I have come to it atleast 3 times for reading. Btw I was trying to run some FB ads for IA links shared on my page. However FB is sending that traffic to website and not the IA. I heard that FB is doing it intentionally. Do you have any info about it. Thanks

    Reply

  31. Great post! You’re so easy to read 🙂
    I just got my blog up and running, hopefully I can make some money with it!

    Reply

  34. now it’s finish right ?
    some of them still have it. new members can’t get the approval isn’t it ?

    Reply

    • Hi there, Thanks for the informative writing. Quick question,I have a web site with WP made for affiliate marketing,and also a FB page created for the same purpose. since am not making any success so far with that ,can I convert this in to fb instant articles. Actually what type or articles should I make.My website now only have landing pages.
      Thnx
      Mangala

      Reply

  35. How do I create my own website
    And how Long Will it stay before I can qualify to benefit from fb instant article

    Reply

    • There are a lot of ways to create your own site. Just need to do a quick google search 🙂
      Usually it takes several weeks of you posting content so they don’t reject you for being new.

      Reply

  36. Hi. Great article! I have runned IA å couple of years but now got banned from audience network. Got this:

    We have found your Property to be in violation of the following Policies:

    3.2 Artificially inflating clicks, impressions, or conversions: You were found to be in violation of Audience Network Policy 3.2 which states: “Ensure you implement Audience Network Ads in a way that delivers the expected clicks, impressions or conversion (i.e., avoid implementing Audience Network in a way that artificially inflates clicks, impressions or conversions). For example, don’t use automated, deceptive, fraudulent or other invalid means (ex: through repeated manual clicks or the use of bots) to artificially inflate clicks, impressions or conversions, and ensure that one click on an ad only logs one click.”

    As a result of these violations we have disabled ad serving to your Application…………………….. .

    I have never used any bots or clicked ads myself. Waiting for complaint now but dont have high hopes as I cant see what im doing wrong or what I can change. Any suggestions?:s

    Reply

  37. I don’t have a website can I still be able to benefit from this
    Again can a Mobile phone do all this for me
    What of creating a mobile website will it serve as alternative to website

    Reply

  38. Good day,

    I would like to inquire whether it is possible to buy a sponsored post or our service review written by you on your blog ?

    Or is it possible to buy a link in any existing post that is somehow webhosting-related?

    What are your terms?

    I will look forward to hearing from you.

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    Thank you,
    Project manager

    Reply

  40. I have a Facebook page with more than 1 million followers and I’ve been recently contacted by someone indicating they’ll pay me to post article link on my page. She is asking that I click on a link to be approved by Instant Articles on Facebook. Is this a scam?

    Reply

    • Yes! Don’t click anywhere if it’s not inside FB and don’t give rights to your pages to anyone you don’t trust!

      Never fill out your password in there unless you’re sure you’re on FB official’s page.

      Reply

  41. THis strategy has been doing so well for me and I want to thank you for introducing us to it! We have one new issue that has arisen. About 2 weeks ago whenever I run an boosted post or an ad instead of the link clicks going to my instant article it’s going to my mobile web page to my actual website. What could be the reason? I am not sure. The blog posts still stay on my FB page as an Instant Article, and organic clicks are going to instant articles. I’ve contacted Facebook multiple times about this and no luck yet. We tried using a CTA button (learn more) and we tried without. We tried old posts and reactivitng old ads and still going to Mobile web. Any suggestions? Thanks!

    Reply

      • I’ve been in contact with Facebook everyday trying to fix this and they still don’t have a solution. Anyone else having this issue? Anyone have any solutions?

        Reply

  43. Hi, if we have a website with a high traffic (from USA) with all other requirements what is the chance to be approved into instant articles now (June 2018) ? Best regards

    Reply

    • This is happening lately to blogs that seem to be new or that have very low traffic. Facebook seems to be more strict and they’re not accepting many blogs nowadays.

      Reply

  46. I was apply for instant article but 30days gone, still now it’s on review stage. Maybe faebook stop or hold their new instant account approve system.

    Reply

  47. I have a website https://www.lifeinvedas.com/. It has posts related to Alternate medicines, spirituality, God, Dreams, Numerology, Astrology, Beauty Tips, Etc. It has 220 total posts of 1000 to 2000 words each. I activated SSL certificate. But recently I forgot to renew. I chatted to Bluehost.Com. They said it is shared so automatically renewed. But suddenly Adsense earning fall down. I don’t know the cause. As you have so much experience in the same field. Kindly suggest some solution to the problem. I have five facebook page also. Guide for facebook earning too. Best Regards. Dr. Mamta.

    Reply

  49. Can you suggest me USA, UK, Columbia or Indian Facebook Groups for sharing my post for Facebook Instant Articles.

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  50. I tried to apply for Facebook Instant articles and have completed most of the procedure. I got to the stage where I should submit articles for review and I stopped. I went back to remodel my website and publish more new articles, I was offline for about 30 days, when I returned after a month and tried to complete the procedure, I was asked to connect my site. I entered my URL and got this message:

    “The provided URL is not being accepted because the site has minimal readership, which violates the Instant Article Policies (https://developers.facebook.com/docs/instant-articles/policy/). Please provide a different URL”.

    How can I explain my situation to Facebook or appeal my case? I’m fully ready now and my traffic is fairly good, about 15,000/month and growing.

    Kindly advice me.

    Best regards.

    Reply

    • Do you have that amount of traffic since this month only or has it been like that for several months? It seems to me like they’re checking some stats from analytics companies to see if they approve new sites or not.

      Reply

  51. Hello Friend,

    Thank for your interesting post. Sadly, my page recently have this message “You’ve Lost Access to Instant Articles” without any notification, then i try to apply for instant article once again in new page but after it was submitted for review, two days later it get suspended also (on wordpress, i have apply two pages ID in tags include the page get banned). I just want to know because of my site is violated or facebook is not allowed to use suspended page ID once again. Sorry for my bad English, I hope you can understand.

    Thanks in advance.

    Reply

      • Hello again my friend! Recently i have apply IA again with new website, but this site is getting down too often due too high traffic hits. Then Facebook has rejected and not allowed IA to be approved. Does it because of website issue as well? Thank

        Reply

  52. Hi
    Thanks for this great article, i recently submited two pages for instant articles review with one url, is this incompatible or not?
    thanks

    Reply

  53. Hola Servando, for instant articles Facebook pulls the articles straight from your website, right? If yes (which I am assuming), what happens to the Google AdSense ads? Do they stay there? How are they replaced with the Facebook ads? Most importantly, are we able to edit the article to be a little different then the one on my website? THANK YOU!

    Reply

    • Hi Paula.
      That’s right. They pull it from an RSS. When people enters your page through instant article your adsense ads are not displayed. This only happens for people on mobile devices with the Facebook app though.
      If your visitors enters via a browser or in a desktop device they will see your normal website with adsense ads.

      Reply

  54. Hello Servando,

    great article. Just a couple of questions. My website has good traffic (300,000 pages read a month) from organic searches, but the Facebook page only has a few thousand likes. What would be an estimated earning, in your opinion? Is it worth it? When the title of this article is “Make 22,000/month”, what kind of traffic do you need for that?

    The second question is there are a few people offering me money for Facebook Instant Approved Articles (whether mine, or if i know others’). They say they pay cash only to have access to Admin. Why would that be?

    Reply

    • Hello Laurence.
      In this method your organic traffic doesn’t matter. It’s all about your facebook fans and campaigns. If you have 300,000 visits per month from organic searches Google Adsense might be your best choice or affiliate marketing depending on your niche.

      And one more thing, never give admin access to anybody you don’t trust, even if they say they want to pay.
      There are a lot of scammers out there that just want to steal your facebook pages and ad accounts.

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  55. Hey,
    I have a few questions to you.
    1) Are you already using this method? It is profitable right now?
    2) Instant articles have share buttons on something similar to go viral?
    3) How much pages do you own and how big are these pages from your earning screenshoots?
    4) How often do you post daily articles to earn this amount of money?
    6) I understand that you have a lot of pages in various niches, and posts depends from niche?
    7) We all know that Facebook cut organic traffic. Do you see and difference beetween 2017 and 2018
    8) It is available to see and of your posts/pages?

    Thank you for blog! I am waiting for reply.

    Reply

    • Hello Andrezj.

      1. the method has evolved a bit and Facebook is more strict so it’s less profitable at the moment but not impossible.
      2. Yes, they have a much better experience for Facebook. Just go and check any of the big sites with instant articles and analyse the design.
      3. I’ll let Ronald answer this, but I know he has several pages with hundreds of thousands.
      4. Ill let Ronald answer this.
      6. Yes, each post and page has it’s own niche.
      7. Yes. Instant articles took a decline but they still perform better than regular articles by a good margin.
      8. No.

      Best regards.

      Reply

  57. Hola Servando, Your post really help me to set up Instant Article.
    I’m using FB Ads (CTW, click to web) to to promote IA, but I have some difficulties to convert all the visitor into IA traffic. Most of the traffic from Facebok (above 40%) directly goes to my website and not converted to IA.

    Could you give me some insight or how to configure FB ads setting to turn all traffic into Instant Article? Thanks.. 🙂

    Reply

  58. Hello friend im trying to get instant articles but when i go to sign up my pages are not showing… what should i do can you please advise me.Thanks

    Reply

  59. Hi,
    It’s a sad day for us, we got the ‘You’ve Lost Access to Instant Articles’ message today.
    My question is, will we get the money we earned in April? (it’s more than $10.000) Or Facebook won’t send the money because we have instant articles banned? I really hope we don’t lose this money….

    Thanks for your help!

    Reply

      • No reason, we got no messages regarding the ban, only that we violated the monetization standards.
        It’s strange that I searched a lot on Google about this issue (whether you get the money after the ban or not) but found absolutely no results.

        Btw this is a very useful article, we managed to set up Instant Articles with your post’s help.

        Reply

      • I have a site that have been around for more than a year, getting about 15,000 unique visitors per day (that’s about 450,000 visitors per month) mostly from search engine, facebook page has over 10,000 likes, but when I tried to claim the url I was getting the same message as Jen mentioned above.

        Seems like a lot has changed about facebook instant article. Even some people that previously had access to it, their access has been revoked for same reason. And facebook hasn’t made any effort to explain what they mean by “minimal readership”.

        Seems to me like they had more publishers than they wanted and was looking for a way to discharge some and also stop accepting new ones.

        Reply

        • Kinda. They’re very strict now especially after the cambridge analytica problems from last month.
          Hopefully the’ll relax a bit in a couple months after all this happens.

          Reply

  61. Hi…
    I am new in adsense & facebook articles..

    May i know, if i want to start website from zero, what language better based on your opinion to generate more income?

    Since i am from Malaysia.
    Start from English or Bahasa?

    Reply

    • Are you going to promote articles fro people in Malaysia or other english speaking country?
      If it’s for Malay people then write in Malay. The decision is up to you depending on your audience.

      Reply

      • Is that when i am write in Malay, the income generated better?

        May i know, the income generated based on country? Malaysia is that good generation?

        Mr Servando,
        Can i request permission to translate some of your article in Malay for learning in Malaysia?
        If can.

        Reply

        • Not necessarily. It will depend a lot on your audience as I guess more people will read it in Malay than English.
          Nobody knows the income generated by country as there are many factors and there’s no way to tell for sure.

          If you want to translate the article make sure you link back to me and not just copy and paste everything please.

          Reply

  63. I Have some More question. (Thanks For previous Reply)
    Are you still use Instant Article? is Nowdays R.I.P of Instant Article? Because Most of my Sri Lankan (Asia) Friends said They have low CPM as law as 0.03$. I can agree with it. because it was law country traffic.
    But they said either USA, Candada, Newzealand (Top level countries ) have also law CPM (just about 0.05$)
    is it true? IS now USA Country CPM is law as cents? What is the True. Explain about true using your experience. I will plan about Instant Article. But After this i was hopeless
    Please Explain This

    Reply

    • My CPMs on USA are still $2+
      They’re not close to being dead at all. They have been more strict lately due to a lot of clickbait articles and the cambridge analytica issues but a CPM of $0.05 in the US means either their traffic is super bad or fake.

      Reply

  64. Can I choose the category of the apps that can be displayed in my PPC website?
    If so, please tell me!

    Reply

  65. Hii, First Thank You For Sharing This Value Article.
    IN 2017 i worked with FB Instant Article. But unfortunately it was disabled. so now (2018) i will try to get it. I am from sri lanka. is getting approval for IA is impossible to this days? my friend said “nowdays facebook don’t Accept new applications for Instant article. is it true?

    when i have blog with good amount of traffic , Good Facebook Page and follow policies well. can i get approve from facebook? Or it will nothing happen in this days. i mean facebook stop approval for this

    Thank You and sorry for my bad English.

    Reply

      • But In the review process(pending review) it shows ” your site doent Follow instant Article policies. You Have Loss access to instant article” why this shows before approval? i have good amount of traffic.(20K daily) No clickbaits, only Original Content

        is they ignore all of this? or scam for new publishers?

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  66. hola Amigo…Servando Silva …una pregunta..
    yo ya tengo conectada una pagina de facebook con mi sitio wordpress pero ahora quiero conectar…otras dos paginas mas con el mismo sitio wordpress que pasos tendria que seguir para hacer eso….las dos paginas que quiero conectar ya son elejibles para monetizar con facebook instant articles espero me puedas ayudar.

    Reply

    • Si tu página de WordPress ya funciona con instant articles ya no necesitas conectarla con ninguna otra. Ya funcionará en modo instant articles sin importar de que página lo compartas o incluso si alguien más lo comparte por su cuenta.

      Reply

  67. Hello Servando

    Do you make instant articles and promote them with FB ads ?

    do you use PPE for this matter ?

    Thank you

    Reply

    • Hey Kamal.
      Yes. We promote the articles. Initially I use traffic as objective but after some time and getting data with the pixel we focus on content views.
      PPE is bad because that brings people who interact with your posts (liking, sharing, etc) but not necessarily visiting your site. We use PPE to get some extra engagement and virality but 80% of our ad spend goes to content views as objective.

      Reply

  68. Hi! Nice article. it seems i have learned a lot reading the comment section!

    I have a question about instant article my 3 pages was recently disabled for MONETIZATION violated a facebook policy and standards. Do i need to wait for 90 days before activation?

    I admit, I made mistake before some of my articles are clickbaits! we know clickbait can make more money but when facebook updated their policy a lot of pages have been lost their access to instant article because of violations.

    I already appealed here is the reply:

    “Thank you for submitting an appeal. We’ve reviewed your Page for monetization eligibility. At this time, we aren’t able to reinstate its access to Ad Breaks, Branded Content, and/or Instant Articles. To use these features, your Page must comply with Facebook’s policies and terms and our monetization eligibility criteria. We recommend that you address your Page’s compliance going forward, as it may become eligible within 90 days to re-access the monetization features previously utilized.

    This decision regarding your Page’s eligibility to use any monetization features on Facebook may not be appealed again for 90 days.”

    What I have notice they don’t approved pages with below 90 days old // you must also create a website/blog with high readership. Please make your content unique. Don’t duplicate content. avoid posting clickbait.

    May 16 is the reactivation of one of my page.

    I update this comment if what would be the outcome.

    Reply

    • Hey dagreatjen,

      Thanks for the great contribution you make with your comment. As we all know Facebook has been making many changes throughout the whole platform, not only IA.

      The main pattern I’ve seen so far on the accounts they’ve been disabling, as you already mentioned, is duplicated content and clickbait. So try to avoid those as much as you can so that your account stays healthy.

      Cheers!

      Reply

  69. Thanks for your info, i need to ask you about the reviews
    I have been waiting for what must now be over a month for my Page’s Instant Articles to be reviewed and had no response as to why it is taking so long.
    Are reviews taking longer than expected?

    Reply

    • Yes, they’re taking so long nowadays and many of them seem to be ignored or just take many weeks.
      Besides that Facebook has a lot of problems lately and they’re changing things after all the cambridge analytica fiasco so I’m sure approving sites is not important in their to do list.

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  70. Hello Sir,

    As per our last discussion my website is still block by Facebook. In the following week will be my last try to unblock it or else I am going to drop Facebook advertising idea.
    My question is that does facebook instant articles are available for Blogspot Blog. If so I have good blog which is suitable for FIA.

    Thanking You
    Regards
    Hrishi Dere

    Reply

  71. Dear ,

    Thank you for input here. I have a page 5000 likes at the movement also have a website like 13 visits average per day, How much likes need to page earn 2000$ per month ? please explain.
    Thank you so much

    Reply

  72. sir i have page which have 17k likes but one post reach is more than 50k so sir may i apply for this and how much i can earn from this page???
    waiting for your response thank you sir

    Reply

  74. Thannks bussy, Actually I am finding this type of infomation from long days. When I came up on your website. I leanrd everything I want. Thanks.

    Reply

  75. Hola Servando, te felicito por tu gran articulo es verdaderamente formidable y brillante desde el principio al final.He seguido las indicaciones al pie de la letra y ha ido todo sobre rueda. Te agradezco todas tus aportaciones que me estan ayudando bastante en poder arrancar con mi web. Seguire pendiente de tus consejos a traves de tu blog.Un saludo y seguimos en contacto.

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  77. Thanks for this post. Very helpful. However, I am a little bit confused in some aspects.

    1. Must my website be a wordpress hosted website?

    2. Do I need a website if I create an account through pagez?

    2. Will pagez pay the same amount to me or nearly the same as facebook article?

    Thanks once again.

    Reply

    • Hello Juan.
      1. WordPress is not mandatory but for this tutorial we used WordPress.
      2. No, if you use Pagez you don’t need a website.
      3. Pagez will pay a bit less as they get a commission for the service, but you’ll get an idea of how much you can make and if it’s worth your time then create your own website for maximum profit.

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  78. When trying to Claim URL, the pop-up said: We tried going to your page and checking the page tags present, but there was a failure.
    How do I solve this.

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  80. I set the Instant Article, got approved, started posting links and suddenly Facebook blocked me, I´ve lost the access without explaination. I requested a reply, Facebook told me by message that in 90 days will be possible to request the access again. This service is awfull, totally disrespectful. Now we know the real Facebook behavior, a bunch of liers selling personal users info to corruptive companies allied with dirty politicians

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  82. HI i read the complete post and it’s quite helpful. Fewthings i need to know.
    1. Can we use same website for Google adsense and Instant article both?
    2. Can we include youtube video URLs in our website posts?
    3. what is the minimum articles for get approve. I saw one guy said 20 and another said 10 and u saying 5 . so i bit confused.

    Reply

    • Hey.
      1. Yes, you can use it for booth.
      2. Yes, no problem.
      3. FB asks for 10 normally but the more you have, the better. They like to approve pages that have a history and making it look like new with just a few posts doesn’t help.

      Reply

      • Thanks for your info. with the help of this article and few other sources i setup instant articles successfully. One thing i need to know. Basically my page and site post are not match together much. But I can share my website URL in some related groups. and its shows instant articles also. Is it ok to use group rather than share on the page?

        Reply

          • My content is match with those groups. and admins allows me to post. There is another thing. Sorry for asking so many things but most of them are not clear even after searching through google. I have another facebook account which have connect to many related groups for my website. So if i share post through that account will it will be a instant article? because i setup instant article in another account.
            And today i saw some improvements in ecpm but not estomated revenue. What is the connections? How can i improve estimate revenue?
            Thanks in advance for your support. I have share this post with many ppl who interesting

            Reply

              • So my revenue will shows in estimated revenue right? What is the connection between eCPM and estimated revenue. i asked it because right now i can see some eCPM and 0 estimate revenue.

    • i can’t approve my instant i send them for review for more than 10 days ago any solution for it ?

      Reply

  83. Hi, i have read this article and it is very helpful for newbies. So i have two questions to get clarified and i have even contacted FB support team but they didn’t give me response.

    1) i have two FB pages in which IA is enabled for monetization. In one of the account it has 70$ balance & in another FB account it has 30$ balance in it. So will i get my payment as it reached the 100$ threshold or will i get payment after each account reaches 100$?

    2) Can i use one of my facebook page instant article audience placement code to another facebook page which is already approved for instant article.

    Ex: i have two apps enabled for IA


    1. ABC – App placement Id – 2928———–2128

    2. XYZ – App placement id – 1823————2202.

    So can i use my “ABC” App ads placement code in “XYZ” App for monetisation?

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  84. I have posted one of the viral news (seeing the thumbnail will attract users to click on it) in a big group but im not getting the reach.

    So after the reseacrh in google i came to know that facebook is not encouraging the post if the post has any youtube video/Youtube video thumbnail. So is it true??

    Reply

  85. Hello!

    I would like to ask if Facebook Group is good investiment, i have offer I can buy 110 000 members for 1500€. Group is very active and yesterday 2200 posts were made.

    Also if i post articles into it even if I am admin, will facebook mark them as spam or ghost them, also any advices ideas you have for growing this Facebook group and business with it?

    Thank you very much i would be very pleased if you will answer!

    Reply

    • FB will not mark them as a SPAM unless people report them.
      If the posts you publish in the group are related to their niche I don’t see any problem.
      Groups grow organically with engagement and activity, so it should be growing at its own rate already as it has more than 100,000 members.

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  86. It says “You must create 10 or more articles in your Production library before submitting for review”, but I have more than 10 posts and “This post will be available as Instant Article once it is shared on Facebook” is also shown in each post while editing it !
    But the blue button isn’t showing, how to fix it?

    Reply

    • Honestly, FB has been so buggy and difficult with Instant Articles lately that I receive messages like this one all the time. You’ll need to be patient or use an alternative like Pagez meanwhile.

      Reply

  87. I don’t recommend using “Facebook Instant Article” on your blog. It steals the referral trafic to your site. You will loose the Adsense Income, because the reader stays on Facebook, but not on your site.

    Your Facebook Fans are not yours. They’re Facebooks.

    There’s a reason buying Likes is a fool’s errand. And we focus on recommending other ways to use Facebook advertising instead.

    The same thing happens when you post content on Facebook. Technically speaking, it ain’t yours anymore.

    If you use Instant Articles, you have to be comfortable with the tradeoff that while you’re going to get blazing fast articles, you’re also running the risk of losing that precious Facebook referral traffic back to your site.

    For some businesses, that’s ain’t no thang (as we’ll explore in a second). But for others, like media giants who generate the bulk of their online revenue from ad-supported methods like display ads (yuck) and sponsored posts (bore), that’s an issue.

    Reply

    • For most businesses what you say it’s true. They’re taking you more and more into their own ecosystem and leaving you out. However this strategy focused mostly on making money from viral articles and instant articles work better than Adsense.

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  88. Hi Servando! Thank you very much for sharing this great article!
    I try all the step also add RSS.
    There are 3Q ask you:
    Q1: I shared one of my article on my page but the Plugin Instant Article still show:
    “This post will be available as Instant Article once it is shared on Facebook.”
    Q2: I have 10 articles submit and it show: “Congratulations, you are now approved to publish Instant Articles!”
    but why on status some articles showing: “live (didnot share on FB)”, some showing “unpublished”
    Q3: your last segment: “share them on your fan page or anywhere within Facebook. ”
    Can I add the article link on a page post, maybe even not showing on FB page but showing on boost, is that mean ‘anywhere within FB’ “

    Reply

    • FB is getting difficult to approve ages for instant articles lately. And they’re changing the ads platform and reporting system since January and again this month. I¡ll try to update this guide later but they’re making it definitely difficult for many new users.
      You could try using an external service like Pagez.

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  89. Hello Sir

    This is Hrishi Dere. After apporval from Adsence I have not earn enough money till now. Maybe because Adsence pay for click only. The same traffic is earning more at propellerads. As we know the terms of adsence we can not use propeller ads on adsence page. I was about to try Instant Articles. But before that my website got ban by Facebook. The problem is not with the website maybe some competition fake report make Facebook take that decision.

    I also heard in a discussion that a .in domain works more better for FIA. is this true also Do you know how can I get my website unban from facebook.

    Please help. Thanking You. Happy Gudi Padwa / New Year.
    Regards
    Hrishi Dere.

    Reply

    • If your site has been banned because a competitor reported you start a new website.
      As for your ads, it’s weird that you earn more with propeller than Adsense. Unless your ad placements are really bad and nobody clicks them ever.

      As for the domain question, I’ve never use a .in domain so can’t say much about it. We always use .com or .net domains.

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  90. From march 1 st facebook audience dashboard made a new one, can you upload that new one to your post. b’cos the older dashboard not display right at the moment. thanks

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  92. Hi, I’m already on step number 7 of this guide. There, the last paragraph says:
    “Now it’s just a matter of waiting until your application gets approved and you’ll be able to start making money with Facebook audience.”

    My question is, how will I know that I got approved? Just by clicking on my Instant Articles posts and check if I have some advertising? Is there a better way to know it?

    Thanks for all your answers!

    Reply

  93. We cant use Native Ad on Instant article. We found Banner Ads but want to put Native Ads or Set up the Native Ads.
    How can we do That?

    Reply

    • You can’t use any other type of ads in instant articles. They’re under facebook’s control and they don’t want competition of course.
      But for the people who visit your site from desktop devices you can show whatever you want as always.

      Reply

  94. Instant article plugin doesn’t seems to Auto post. when i publish article from my blog, am not seeing any message as you said. Is frustrating…please can you help by updating your blog post because it doesn’t seem to work

    Reply

      • I already figured it out, completed everything and approved. From this point you said we have to share the post which i already did (it is only visible to my friends)

        Since, I already have this article posted on my Fanpage. If i should drive traffic to the article in my Fanpage using Facebook ads, will it count in revenue.

        Am trying to figure how to make the Instant Article reach more audiences. Any help, please throw some light.

        Reply

        • Perfect.
          As for boosting the post, only do it with your best and most viral posts. The worst one won’t perform well and you’ll only spend more money than you’re earning.

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      • I have a question about invalid traffic in Google AdSense.
        Google AdSense prohibits invalid traffic.
        1. By the way, if I go into my blog web site and see it, is it considered a fraud?
        2. Is it possible for another user to come back again as a fraud?

        I really am curious
        I’m asking you as an email subscriber

        Reply

    • Here, the author doesn’t mention the RSS feed and it is important nowadays to autopost articles from your blog. Just add “feed/instant-articles” after your blog domain and be sure that all your posts are there. For example, browse “myblog.com/feed/instant-articles”. There you will find your posts in HTML language.
      After that, you must go to your Publishing Tools on Facebook/Istant Articles/Configuration and paste your feed URL there. Then go to Production Articles (refresh if necessary) and you’ll find now your posts there.

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  95. I created a fan page, it’s about 2 weeks old now. When I try to sign up for instant articles, it just doesn’t show as a page that I can start with. Is it because my fan page is new, or what else could I do to solve this problem? I created this page from my personal facebook.

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  96. Hai, I’m beginner of instant article.
    When ever I tried to sign up with instant article I couldn’t find my own create pages.

    “You must be an admin of this Audience Network app. You need to contact a current admin and have them add you as an administrator in the roles section.”

    This will appears and I’m the only one admin and run the page.
    Could u help me to sign up with instant article plz help me

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  97. How to write articles? My articles are disapproved by Facebook. And my page gets blocked to do Instant articles. Tell me what to do.
    And my post font opening from right to left not from left to right . What should I do?

    Reply

    • How to write articles? that’s a weird question.

      If you’re articles are being denied you should read their terms of services and rules to see what’s allowed and what’s not.

      Reply

  98. Hi,
    I am a beginner of creating instant articles and currently looking for the way to include my ads into the article. I found out the following message at “Audience Network” when I was trying to get started:

    “You must be an admin of this Audience Network app. You need to contact a current admin and have them add you as an administrator in the roles section.”

    I have other Admins on my Facebook Page. But none of them administrator of Audience Network app id on my Page.

    I have tried to use the contact forms to no avail and I’m a bit stuck on what to do. It may not seem like a lot but there was $100 in the account pending payout.

    Please help me. Thank you very much.

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  99. I have have pages ranging from 239,000 fans all the way down to 1,000 fans, with everything in between. I’m in the process of growing an entire network. I have been playing around with Instant Articles for a few months, but I’m interested to learn more about what kind of articles draw in more traffic and any advice you may have on optimizing performance on the pages. Would love to chat one on one with you if you have the time!

    Reply

    • Hey Michael. Obviously clickbait or super interesting articles will draw more readers but ultimately that will depend on your pages and the niche (only testing a lot of articles you’ll find which articles drive more traffic).
      As for optimizing for performance, do you mean on your FB pages or in your instant articles website?

      Reply

  100. Great articles!
    1 why will we need two facebook apps to use instant articles?
    2 Does it work if we add audience network into first app named “instant article” you mentioned?

    thanks,
    Andy

    Reply

  101. I am not able to figure out how to submit the articles for review.Are we supposed to go to the production library and click on creat,then paste the links of our already created articles from the website there? I tried doing that but keep getting this error “Missing canonical URL for article: There is no URL specified for this article. A canonical URL needs to be claimed and placed within the HTML to generate an Instant Article. Refer to URLs under Publishing articles in the Instant Articles documentation for more information on claiming and inserting a canonical URL.”
    Can you please explain what i am doing wrong here and what should be fixed and if this is the wrong way of submitting articles then please give a step by step break up of this. I tried googling it but could not find a clear answer
    Thanks

    Reply

  102. Servando you said we could start with 2k-5k budget . let’s say that i have 2k budget how should i split it ? should it be like 1k for growing the page with fb ads and the other 1k for promoting articles testing them and the other basic stuff (hosting-domain name ..) . please suggest a wise strategy for spending the budget so we don’t burn the money with less benfits ! thanks in advance

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  103. I get about 60,000 page views per month from Google search results and my articles are monetised with Adsense. But I think the problem with your entire article is that this $22,000 per month (which is impressive) is also based on over 15 million impressions per month (also impressive). The chances of my FB Instant Articles getting that many page views is slim to none. If I’m getting around 2,000 organic page views per day and $15 to $25 per day with Adsense based on clicks, then I’d only be getting a TINY fraction of that on FB Instant Articles. And if so, then a $1.45 eCPM is pretty worthless on 1000 or less FB IA views. I’d be better off using social media to drive visits to my non FB Instant Articles pages that are monetised with Adsense and garnering clicks that way.

    I’d welcome your thoughts and comments on this. Yes, I’m very impressed at 15 million impressions and $22K per month, but I honestly don’t think that’s realistic for most people unless they are paying for traffic (boosted posts etc) or have some viral posts. Can you share what your unique page views are in Google analytics relative to those 15 million monthly impressions?

    Thanks for any insights you can offer.

    Kind regards,
    Rodrigo

    Reply

    • If your traffic is mostly organic this strategy is not for you. You could try and see what happens if you build a fan page from your traffic but the articles need to ve really viral and most probably since you receive organic traffic your keywords are not like that.
      And yes, this strategy is based on paid traffic and/or having huge fan pages built over time.

      Honestly, in your case I’d still just have Adsense alone and try to optimize it as much as possible (ad location, ad sizes, etc) to get the best CTR and increase your CPMs. Other than that, depending on your website niche, I might try native ads like Revcontent.
      Best Regards.

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  104. thanks for the information.

    i did all you said but my articles which i already edited are saying: This post will be available as Instant Article once it is shared on Facebook.

    and secondly on the facebook page , while i want to submit for review, this what am getting:
    Please address these issues before submitting
    We have automatically detected one or more common errors that need to be fixed before you can submit for review.
    Not Enough Articles

    please help me out

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  105. Thank you for such a wonderful step by step tutorial.I wish facebook had given one as well. I was able to claim my website but i have run into another issue.I am not able to figure out how to submit the articles for review.Are we supposed to go to the production library and click on creat,then paste the links of our already created articles from the website there? I tried doing that but keep getting this error “Missing canonical URL for article: There is no URL specified for this article. A canonical URL needs to be claimed and placed within the HTML to generate an Instant Article. Refer to URLs under Publishing articles in the Instant Articles documentation for more information on claiming and inserting a canonical URL.”
    Can you please explain what i am doing wrong here and what should be fixed and if this is the wrong way of submitting articles then please give a step by step break up of this. I tried googling it but could not find a clear answer
    Thanks

    Reply

  106. I am not able to claim my website.Wheni try to connect it ,it gives the following error message
    The “fb:pages” tag on the URL doesn’t contain this Page’s ID. Please work with your developers/webmaster to add this tag to your website
    I have added the pages id in the app.Can you tell me what i need to fix?

    Reply

      • Thank you for such a wonderful step by step tutorial.I wish facebook had given one as well. I was able to claim my website but i have run into another issue.I am not able to figure out how to submit the articles for review.Are we supposed to go to the production library and click on creat,then paste the links of our already created articles from the website there? I tried doing that but keep getting this error “Missing canonical URL for article: There is no URL specified for this article. A canonical URL needs to be claimed and placed within the HTML to generate an Instant Article. Refer to URLs under Publishing articles in the Instant Articles documentation for more information on claiming and inserting a canonical URL.”
        Can you please explain what i am doing wrong here and what should be fixed and if this is the wrong way of submitting articles then please give a step by step break up of this. I tried googling it but could not find a clear answer
        Thanks

        Reply

  107. Hello,I am based in Pakistan and my country does not show up in the list of countries supported for the payout on audience network. How can i sign up for that from Pakistan?

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  109. Really good article.
    However, I’ve followed all of the steps you’ve laid out…
    The only problem I’ve run into is the new articles I published (even though the WordPress plugin says they were pushed to Instant Articles)
    Don’t show up in the Production Library.
    Any suggestions?

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  110. Hi, i followed all the steps correctly and was approved in just 24 hrs. i placed the ad code on my article html and shared it on facebook but not ads is showing.

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  111. That’s a nice article. You covered all the aspects.

    BTW, here I have one requirement and I could not find a solution anywhere. I have two sites. They are complementary. And I wish to send posts from both into single instant articles. How could I do that? I saw I can add two blogs but there is only one box for RSS feed.

    Could you please help me out on this matter?

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  112. Hi Servando-

    This is a great post. I have a question about ECPM. Initially when I started in beginning of January I was getting around $6-10 ECPM in the USA. Now I am achieving only around $2 ECPM in the USA. I don’t expect my ECPM to be as high as $10 but definitely not as low as $2 what are some suggestions to increase ECPM to a mark that is somewhat consistent. I do understand there will be fluctuations but what are some ways to increase your CPM? I am boosting posts and achieving under .01 CPC in the USA with viral sports news/content. So If we can have 3-4 ads and have users at least scroll to 3 of them with a ECPM of $4 we should be profitable. We have a pretty good budget we are working with as well. Thanks!

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    • We usually have at least 3 ads and enough paragraphs with not many images in the content to get a better CPM.
      The CPMs overall have been reduced because many advertisers skip the instant articles placement from their campaigns, so there are less bidders. it’s something that was going to happen sooner or later. We depend a lot also on our organic traffic as that gets more CPM than boosted posts unfortunately.
      You can still achieve $4-6 in USA sometimes, but it’s getting difficult.

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  114. how much you need to spend to build a page with 50 k targeted usa fans ? will 500 $ be enough ? if no how much money it will cost ? thanks !

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    • If all the money is targeted to just likes, it might be possible. Consider doing some tests and if you can get likes for 2 cents or less you’ll be on your way. If your likes are above 4-5 cents then it’s not going to be possible with $500.

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  116. Hi while this is such a great piece and so easy to understand (and I thank you for that) with the new FB changes, IA earnings have dropped (for me anyway) significantly. I have a FB page of just over 500K fans, I post 4 of my own blogs a day and even boosted one last week and I barely scraped in $25 in total for the whole week. I’m absolutely baffled and puzzled by these extremely low earnings. What is your advice for this? Thank you again.

    Iva

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    • Is it just the CPM or also your reach decreasing? We’ve seen some of our overall CPMs decrease because it’s beginning of year (advertisers pay more in Q4 than the rest of the year) and we’re still analyzing data to see what happens with the new FB update.

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      • It’s the CPM, not the reach because I boosted one post and it had a reach of almost 90K but still brought in nothing. I know the changes that have taken place but even boosting, with a good reach and plenty of shares, how could the earnings be so low? It just makes no sense to me.

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  117. Great article.
    I have a question:
    The revenue reports for instant articles seems to add up and show the total revenue for the day but not on a per article basis. Wouldn’t this make it difficult for people to figure out which article gave them the best ROI? And which ones readers did bother scrolling down? Is there a way to get that data?
    Thanks

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  118. What if my Facebook profiles are marked as spam, because i don’t have a big fan page and I post in groups, is there anything i can do about it?

    And can you tell me some other social networks for posting and sharing, having an Adsense account?

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  119. hello
    I liked your article
    But I’m a beginner and I have just $ 100 as you advise me to get $ 500 a month to help my family

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    • With that budget you’re better off starting with blogging or simple SEO.
      Otherwise you’re not going to learn anything with this method as we recommend having at least $2,000 to get started.

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  120. Hi ! great post very well explained i myself tried to start online marketing project recently i actually bought a fb fan page and i have a website with different categories contains some articles the fb page is about 60 k likes mainly tier 1 countries (16 k USA /4K UK/2k Poland …) the problem is that the page was about a movie and i changed it to video mems and funny videos…etc the insights are not that bad actually i get like 10k to 20k on reach and about 1k to 2k on engagment however after i set up the instant articles and posted some articles to test them i had bad results 1k to 2k on link reach and 0 engagment no likes or comments i only got some link clicks and gained some sents on audience network … i have a little budget right now 1000 dollar what do you think the best way to invest it and get some profit to re invest in the project
    1) invest the 1000 dollar in fb likes to grow the page and maybe the link reach and engagment will get better
    2) invest the 1000 dollar in fb ads to boost the articles and use the arbitrage model with targeting the right audience ex if i am posting an article about movies i will target peopole who love movies put 15 dollar on article and expect to get profit or even break even ..etc
    3) invest the 1000 dollar on creating fb profiles and groupes and adding peopole and then just posting the articles on groupes and fb profiles with friends … a bit risky and take a lot of hard work
    4) invest the 1000 dollar on buying anew micro niche page and write some articles on that micro niche hopefully it will have better reacg/engagment ….
    i am sorry i know that my comment is too long i am just a newbie and i have alot to learn i wish you can answer me and maybe put the 4 ideas in an order from best to worst .. thanks in advance !

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      • Thank you ! you mentioned in one comment that we can boost the articles that preformed well using fb ads what the best targeting method we can do mobile only and earn money from facebook audience network or mobile and desktop to gain money with facebook audience network and adsense as well ! What will be the most profitable ?

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        • The best method is initially going for the interest of people who you’re targeting + your fans.
          Later you can create lookalike audiences from people who engaged and visited your page instead.

          Mobile works better.

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  121. What Does It Mean “please include all of the images found in the web article” in Facebook Audience Network? Recently I Applied For Instance Article And Facebook Said They Found That Problem In My Article.

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  122. It is not easy, hardest and need lots of time to set up, sometimes its fails if you are expert in the field.Making money online is not easy.

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  123. Hello servando thank you for this post; i have 2 questions for you please
    1) what the estimated budget to do setup this business nowadays and get 100 dollar per day in revenue ?
    2) what the strategy or the method you are using to get 0.01 dollar per like on USA/Canada/UK ?

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    • I recommend having at least $2,000 USD to learn and test this business, and preferably above $3,000 to get started.
      No specific method. We start with likes in targeted niches and then run lookalikes audiences of the people who already liked out page.

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      • i always do good targeting but i end up paying around 0.6 dollar per like ! what could be the problem ? also do you think buying a fb page with good engagment in the niche you want a good idea ? it will be easier done grow it from scratch !

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        • Some niches are just more expensive and there’s no work around that. Another strategy we use is to boost with engagement ads some of our best posts (images or video) and then invite all the people who interact with it. Many times that can bring you cheaper likes than running likes campaigns.

          As for buying the page, you need to vet it really good. Otherwise I’d rather build it myself. maybe pay them for a test by promoting a couple links or whatever you want to promote and see how it goes and then decide if it’s worth buying it.

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  125. Hola Servando, tengo un sitio web con aproximadamente 10 mil usuarios únicos al día. Con Adsense, aproximadamente cuánto debería estar generando? El sitio está dirigido a la comunidad hispanohablante (México, Colombia, etc)

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    • Imposible de decir.
      Depende de la calidad de tu tráfico, de donde provienen, el país, dispositivo, keywords, etc.

      Y eso además del CTR y diseño de tu sitio. No existe un “deberías ganar X cantidad”. Depende de muchos factores.

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  126. Hello!

    Do you think it is possible to get 0.01€ per like on USA/Canada/UK ?
    How hard would it be in scale 1-10

    Thank you for your time Sir.

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  127. hi thank you for all the informations i have a couple of questions i hope you can help me and answer them please
    1) will adsense and/or fb audience network ban me if i rewrite viral news and entertainment articles that other websites post like viralnova buzzfedd little things …
    2) is the viral news/entertainment articles against the TOS of adsense and/or fb audience network

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    • If you rewrite them, no. If you blatantly copy them most probably yes.
      News ar enot against any ToS but you should read the rules to see which kind of news and headlines you can write.

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      • i mean the articles with headlines like :
        “8 Actors Who Walked Away From Fame”
        “10 Curious Things You’ve Probably Never Seen”
        “Inedible Stuff That Looks Like Delicious Food (15 Pictures)”
        “What Does Your Favourite Disney Star Look Like 10 Years Later?”
        etc… ?

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        • Those won’t work good anymore. It needs to be something inside a niche.
          If your page is about actors, then the first one works. If your page is about food, then your third headline works.

          But not all of them in a generic page with no specific niche.

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          • One more question please you said “For us, around half a million followers in 3-4 fan pages. 1 website only” do you mean that you have a website with general url that have multi niches (entertainment, news, animals…etc) and you post the articles based on the page niche for example : news articles posted in a news page / animals articles are posted in a animals page …ect ?
            thanks in advance !

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  128. Hi Servando! Thanks for sharing such a great article! I’ve created a great article on how to make money using Facebook and was wondering if I can guest post on your website? Either way keep up the good work!

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  129. Thank you for answering my last question on the 8th. So in order to make between 10,000-22,000 per month like the guest blogger we are looking at a fan page, or fan pages that topple over a half a million to a million followers? It seems like an awful lot of work to generate that type of revenue.
    Also can the fan pages be in any niche? What would you say are off limits? And when Payment is received is usually by check or direct deposit? And does the payment actually state that it came from facebook?? Sorry for all the questions. I’m just curious about how all this works. Seems like it can be rewarding but the entry to get involved also seems tough.

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    • Yes, it’s a lot of work and requires dedication. Most people don’t earn $22,000 per month with any job, so this shouldn’t be super easy either.
      The fan pages can be made form niches which have articles that can go viral. Some have more potential than others but it depends on how good you’re at creating content, your copywriting, headlines, images, etc.

      I receive payments via paypal so i’m not sure how it looks via direct deposit, but with Adsense we received everything direct and it said something like Google Corp or something like that.

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      • Good afternoon. Wonderful article. I’m from Ukraine – we are doing about the same as you. Servando Silva tell me – how do you see the future perspective in connection with the update of the algorithm FB ? Thanks!

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        • We still don’t see changes yet but I guess pages with focused/rich content in any niche will perform much better than generic clickbait articles. This is something FB does every 6 months or so.

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  130. great post thanks ! do you think this still can be done and make profit from it even after the latest fb update about the newsfeed algorithm ? “your feed will instead be dominated by posts from friends and family, as well as Facebook groups you are a member of ” mark announced it 3 days ago !

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  131. hello .. if i have two facebook page linked with two different website for instant articles.. will i get paid if total of two apps is 100$ within a month or i have to earn 100$ seperatly for two account?? i have same payout information and account..

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    • Yes, you will get paid if total of two apps is greater that 100$. As you said, payment and account is same, So you don’t need 100$ each to get your payment. Facebook will see their combined total.

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  132. Recomiendas hacer los artículos manualmente en fbinstant articles siempre o con wp? La verdad tengo muchos problemas intentantando enviar los artículos desde mi sitio web.

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