IMPORTANT UPDATE: As of April 2020, Facebook has closed down the Facebook Audience network program for web publishers and in-stream ads. This means you CAN’T apply to monetize your traffic from Instant articles on Facebook anymore 😞
You can read all of the details here: Official Facebook announcement.
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.
BTW, If you’re having problems getting accepted by Facebook you should check this article out, and also you might be interested in how to set up Facebook Instant Articles with Blogger.
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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 eventhink 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 its 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.
This report is from 03/19/2017 to 04/25/2017 and you have to admit that it’s not too bad, right?
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! 🙂
The best part of all this is the fact that you don’t need to worry about ad placements, whether you need to 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 the 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”.
2. Set up Instant Articles and Connect to your site
For this step you 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“.
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.
3. 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 them for the typographies and stuff and also make sure that you “Upload your 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.
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.
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 the following options.
Select “Audience Network” for the ad type and 300×250 for ad dimensions.
5. 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“
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“.
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“:
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 these 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.
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.
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“.
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“.
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.
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.
Now it’s just a matter of waiting until your application gets approved and you’ll be able to start making money with the Facebook audience network.
8. How to set up 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“.
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.
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:
- Facebook ads Case Study and how I grow my niche to 1,000 visitors per day in just 7 days
- $200 per day with Adsense and viral websites (Part 1)
- $300 per day with Adsense + Propeller Ads and Facebook Viral Traffic (Part 2)
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.
Is there any policy issue if I use Adsense and Facebook Instant article both?
If you use Instant articles the Adsense ads aren’t shown.
hai iam fazly ,i followed all the setups but it shows error message like “URL unclimed” in production rss feed.
I am using blogger i use this url for RSS feed-https://www.letroot.com/feeds/posts/default?alt=rss
what should i do?
Monetization with Instant Articles and the Audience network doesn’t work anymore, unfortunately.
Hi , someone messaged me a few days ago giving me instructions on how to publish instant articles thru my Facebook page and telling me that I will get paid if I publish articles of BuzzFeed on my page, are you saying that this is no longer true?
Hello Jed.
Well, you can still set up instant articles but you can’t monetize them with FB’s audience network and get paid. For me, this defeats the point of using instant articles at all.
wait what? I know some people still earning $$$ from instant article even today. I am so confused.
Yeah, I’m not sure what’s going on either.
Perhaps they already had accounts running? We’re not using Instant articles anymore though so I’m not updated as of 2020.
But when I chat with A Facebook Representative on their business support live chat He said Facebook has not remove or stop Audience Network
Thankyou for the content . I do have a question for year 2020 , so we are now not able to monetize new fb pages for instant articles ? would appreciate if you reply 🙂
Hello!
Unfortunately, it’s not possible anymore. At least not for publishers( websites), only for app owners.
Hello, can I copy the content for a website using Facebook Instant Articles? What are the conditions for a website and fanpage to be accepted? Thank you !
You shouldn’t. Create your own content and don’t be lazy.
Also, while IA is still available, the FB audience network for publishers that pays you for the views is closed and I don’t think FB will open it again for now.
i love it this blog so valuable
We have found your App to be in violation of the following Policies:
We detected artificial or poor quality clicks, impressions or conversions.
Make changes to your app to prevent the following:
Artificial traffic
Accidental ad clicks
Encouraged or rewarded clicks
Manipulated ad targeting
To read our full policy, visit Audience Network Policy 4.2 Abnormal Behavior. As a result of these violations we have disabled ad serving to your Application.
I received this email from facebook and my ads has been disable. But my traffic is original and i use auto ads placement. How to fix this ?
I also appealed but facebook deny my appeal, can i create new app and put new ads placement on my instant article Will it work or not ? my Instant is safe only ads has been disable
please reply with details
Are you using Audience network for an app or for your website?
If it’s a website, yesterday FB just announced they are closing the Facebook Audience Network program for sites as it wasn’t doing really well for them, so that might be the reason behind that email.
I am using Instant article, what can i do now
It looks like this business is over for now. They closed the option to monetize that traffic so I’d recommend not using Instant Articles anymore. I’ll update the post with the news later today.
Rakesh kumar, i have face a same problem with you. FB suddenly disabled my Audience network APP. The reason is same, they said they detected artificial or poor quality clicks, impressions or conversions. But i never done this , and my appeal to facebook never get response. They even withold my payment because of this app being disabled.
May i know have you found solution on this? i badly need a solution for this to get back my payment
Hey guys. As I mentioned, FB closed the FB audience network for publishers in February, so I don’t think they will re open accounts.
Can we use audience network for instant games?
Hello you have a good article. Thank you for sharing.
I just want to ask, why is it my articles when it started to get traffics from facebook it will automatically not converted into IA.
When i post my article it converts into IA, but when that article get more traffic from facebook it will automatically not converted into iA.
To my publishing tools its all LIVE no error or something. this happened to me since last december 2019.
Is this something only you see or also your fans? Are you getting no money from IA after you start receiving traffic?
Can i buy traffic from Facebook ads to make money from fb audience network. this may sound stupid but i have seen many big news sites doing this.
Yes, you can, but you should know from our experience that the traffic you buy from ads performs much worse than organic traffic in terms of CPM with the audience network. I don’t know why but FB detects the traffic and they instantly lower the performance a lot.
Can you share experience about Facebook Audience Network in-stream ads on website requirements? Like how much traffic a website should have and how long a website should consistently have requirement traffic to qualify for Facebook Audience Network in-stream ads
Ad revenue? Facebook is giving publishers 100 percent of the ad revenue if the publisher sells the ads, and is taking only a 30 percent cut if the ads are sold through the Facebook network.
hi there servando i want to drive traffic from outside facebook to instant articles like native ads, is it possible and how i can do it .
thank you a lot in advance
Hello.
No, Instant articles only work when traffic comes from the Facebook mobile app from Android and iOS.
I have entirely UK traffic, how much can I expect to earn from 500k visitors per month using Instant Articles?
Thanks
A.
Last time I remember UK traffic was worth between $2-4 CPM. So it means with 500k visitors you could get between $1,000 and $2,000 USD per month.
This changes a lot according to your vertical and type of audience, so just take it as a rough estimate. it could be better or it could be worse for sure.
Does it work in blogger ? I mean . Blogspot
This is my website
https://khe-tech.blogspot.com
Yeah, we have a guided for Blogger/blogspot at the beginning of the article.
hi sir thanks for the article , i have a facebook page with 10k likes and followers and i get from 200 to 300 each day to my blog , i will be accepted in this facebook or not , and can i see an example of this facebook ads ?
Hello.
If you have 10k followers and 300 visits per day you have high chances of being accepted.
As for examples, just google images for facebook audience network ads.
hello sir, accept greetings
we have a facebook page with 8k likes and 35k followers, it basically contains videos for kids. and a single video reaches 5k to 10k views in a day, and sometimes it almost reaches 30k to 90k vies in a week.
we have also a website on wordpress, but there is no traffic on website due to no work. kindly suggest us and help us that how to use facebook instant articles service
thanks a lot
Hey man.
If you have a lot of video views I recommend you to work with FB ad breaks instead. You can read more about how that works and how to apply here: https://www.facebook.com/facebookmedia/solutions/ad-breaks
It must be:
If you use Instant Articles, you and if applicable, the entity you represent must comply with.
all of your website’s content is only available to people with paid subscriptions.
Don’t include any interactive social media plugins
Paid subscriptions? what are you talking about?
Hi, I have a facebook page with over 629,100 likes and over 634,542 people follow. I have lost my page monetization. It’s take 90 days to fixed. There any others way to earn money by my facebook page?
Of course. Does it have a good reach when you post links? If that’s the case, you can monetize your traffic with many other networks.
i could not complete Instant Articles submit url , there is this message saying
Qoute”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.”
could you please tell me what to do and how to fix this ?
thank you
i’ve choosen Development URLs (i put a tick in it) and the url is submitted . is this good thing or bad thing and what is Development URLs ? thank you
Hey Laila. We have linked an article about that problem at the beginning of the text 🙂
yes i’ve read it now
but i could not submit my website . my website is https and not http could this be a reason why i could not submit it ? should i contact hosting company to change my website from https to http ? what is Development URLs ?because if i checked it i can submit my website . i will read their policies and i will try increasing my website’s traffic , i have around 20-30 visitors per day , could you please tell me what should i do? my website does not require signing up to read articles . thank you
No, you don’t need to move to HTTP. We always used HTTPS without problems.
When you’re saying you get 20-30 visits per day, are you talking about traffic from your Facebook’s page?
traffic not from facebook page
OK.
They don’t really care if you have traffic coming to your site if it doesn’t come from Facebook.
They care about the traffic your fan page drives to your site mostly.
So how much traffic does it really need to come from facebook to my website to get approved instant articles?
Any number of minimum fans on my page required?
Or Any other minimum requirements?
I searched this on google and didn’t get any relevant answer.
Honestly, nobody knows…
Facebook is very secretive about things like that and it’s difficult to find information about it.
Some people get approved with fewer articles or traffic than other people, so it’s a hard take and sometimes it looks like they’re not even looking for new publishers…
Hi! I run a media publication and your articles are really insightful. I really enjoy reading them. Thanks for the tips. I was about to apply to Instant articles and it is telling me that my URL cannot be accepted because of low readership. How do I fix that? Like what specifically is Facebook looking for? How many unique visitors per day does my website need to have? And Do they want a specific amount from Facebook & organic searches? I would really appreciate if you can help me. Regards
Hello Mari.
We have covered this question in this post.
Great article and wonderful step by step directions EXCEPT what If you do not have a word press site? (50% of people do not use word press – big smile)
Is there a code that will make a regular site be able to work with it? Looks like you have built something amazing!
Hello Alana.
Actually WP “only” has around 31% of the market share, so more like 70% of the people don’t use it.
Unfortunately it makes it more complicated. we have a tutorial for blogspot but if you’re using something else you’ll need to figure it out.
Hello! i want to use adsense ads in my website can you please tell me a way to increase my traffics.
There are dozens of ways to increase your website traffic. Are you already interested in learning one type of traffic source so I could recommend something?
If you’re looking to use Facebook ads, it’s a matter of testing a lot of ads and scaling the profitable ones.
Yes i would love to for now i will try my chances with adsense and I’ll be greatful if you give me some sources.
Thanks Bro
i was thinking About pinterest if you got something but you can recommend something else .
Thank You very much again
If you’re interested in Pinterest you should check out Melysa Gryffin’s website!
OK Thanks bro very much
SO i am using MGID native ads , and a-ads in my website , so if i apply for instant articles , will it reject because for using other natives ads ?? or can i use it later after doing aproval?? please tell me can i use other ads in my website after instant articles get aproved?
You have better chances disabling your current ads when applying to other networks.
When you use instant articles you can’t use anything else as FB decides the layout of your ads and how they show them (only for mobile traffic coming from their app).
Great post keep the good work buddy
I got approved for Instant Articles and I’m trying to get the ads showing but it’s saying “idle” for the status not enabled. Also this tutorial is a bit outdated they have updated the dashboard so it’s slightly different now.
Thanks
I’ll try to update the tutorial but honestly FB keeps making changes every few months and it’s a bit difficult to keep up with their tweaks.
Hi! I have a brazilian Facebook page with 200k followers. This page is for my online shoe business in Brazil. Can I use it for instant articles connected to a fashion wordpress blog? What figures maybe could I earn per month?
Yes, you can.
Nobody can tell you how much you can earn because that depends on your niche, geo and overall engagement of your page.
The closest things is you try and see if it works for you.
I was searching about Facebook Boost posting option for adsense. Is it safe 4 adsense, if we have not traffic and we buy traffic from boost posting on fb. Plz reply me with a beat article on this query.
Thankyou so much to write this helpful article.
We talk about Adsense for monetization in several articles linked in this post 🙂
It is safe as long as you don’t break the rules both with FB and with Adsense, but it’s not a super easy strategy. You need to learn how to optimize campaigns and have a proper budget per month to keep it going.
How long is it takes to approve after submit? It says it could take 30 or more fays…
Yeah, FB takes a long time to approve some pages and many times they don’t approve them now because they have strict guidelines and quality requirements.
Hi,
Do you know how to see how many unique vistors a site has each day on its instant articles?
I cant find anything, just find imps, but that doesnt say anything about how many unique vistors you have. I know you can click one and one article to check in the publishing section, but isnt there an easier way?
Hello Friend,
I have plane to start a Viral news site,and spend around 1000 usd monthly on facebook,this method still working or dropped?
If you have a FB audience network account the CPMs are a bit lower nowadays but with some good viral posts you can still earn good money at a decent ROI.
Really helpful article, sir i have my own page on facebook and now i will use fb instant articles for advertisement.
Thanks for this very helpful article.
but I have a small question.
is there any problem to use google adsense and facebook instant articles in the same website ?
No there’s not a problem. in fact it’s a great combination because Adsense will show up for desktop users and FB Audience network will show for mobile users as long as they are using the app.
Fk it instant u can earn with google adsense.
You can use both and earn even more.
Hi, do you mean that the ads show to the fan page followers? want to get more traffic I must have more followers?
Thank you very much!
That’s right.
Not exactly the ads, but the instant article format will be shown to your fans when browsing the mobile app.
Really, this is very helpful article.
I want to learn hot to increase my Traffic to my my website
What kind of traffic source do you want to master?
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?
Hi vic. We have an update about that as well. Check it out here.
Obviously it doesn’t guarantee getting approved because FB is super hard nowadays and even more after their Cambridge Analytica fiasco this year.
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?
If you’re not form the USA you still need to fill it with your data and sign claiming you’re not from the US.
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!
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!
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.
If you really want to make easy money then you should consider picturepunches.com. Probablt the easiest way to make money online today.
What’s your experience with that website so far Farris? Can you tell us more about it?
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.
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.
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?
Contact FB support and ask them what’s wrong.
They can issue warnings due to many different things.
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,
Great article. I had no idea about FB Instant Articles. Do you use Google Adsense and Media.net together?
Yeah, i tend to use both and depending on how they perform leave the best for the niche.
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?
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.
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
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.
Hi quick question, can I use other language in my articles? or it will not be accepted if its not written in english language?
Yes you can.
At least we’ve tried Spanish and it works.
Does the domain we use need to be 1 year older to get accepted?
No, but they ask for it not to be new and have traffic.
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
Take a look at this article 🙂
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!!
Please read this post about that and make sure you fill all the requirements.
Hi, thanks for the great article. When promoting an article, how do you analyze which article has brought profit?
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.
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?
DO i need to build a website for this or a wordpress blog is enough?
A WordPress blog IS a website and yes, it is enough 🙂
I made almost $6000 one month. If anybody needs help promoting their IA’s I can promote to 3,000,000 of my FB fans. Serious people email me at mares_mike3@yahoo.com , and keep up the good work Servando
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.
No, you can’t do that with a free wordpress.com site.
-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 🙂
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!
What will be the minimum withdrawl ammout. And how we cam withdraw our earnings?
Via Paypal payments are made always after the 3rd week of the month, so you don’t decide when to withdraw your earnings. They just do it every month automatically.
why about article? do you write by your self or hire content writer? what nice article its high CPM?
We used to both write those ourselves and have some writers to compete with us.
Nice article. I have two fan pages with a total of 4k fans. Thanks for this light.
I just got approved by Facebook Instant Articles and it’s so cool. I also have adsense so I’m using both!
Those 2 are the best combination to make money 🙂
Hello Ernest, what did you do to get approved? How much traffic does your site makes? Did you get “minimal readership” error at first?
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
I have heard this before already just from a few persons.
They must be doing some changes or bugs like all the time…
So, you make money through affiliate marketing? Is that it?
Hmmm, no.
This article explains how to do it with FB audience network. Did you read it?
i use blogger from google, not WordPress. am i able to use facebook audience?
Yes. Using blogger is usually a bad idea but anyways, here’s the tutorial to use instant articles with blogger.
I Reg for instant article Please where can I find the publishing post on my page I can’t find it
If you’ve been approved all of your articles can be posted as instant articles in any fan page.
now it’s finish right ?
some of them still have it. new members can’t get the approval isn’t it ?
It’s super difficult to get approved now. It’s not “finished” but just requires a decent site to make it.
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
It’s not like you need to convert your page. Facebook just shows it in a different way for people coming from FB when you get approved into the program.
As for the things that work better it’s mostly viral articles in niches.
Hi Silva,
Thanks for the answer, can you please send me a sample article. I guarantee of that I wont misuse it any means. my mail address mweerawanni@gmail.com
Thnx
Mangala.
Just check sites like buzzfeed and viralnova. They have thousands of examples published there.
How do I create my own website
And how Long Will it stay before I can qualify to benefit from fb instant article
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.
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
Was your traffic organic or from ads? Maybe someone decided to attack your site with bots or something.
All organic traffic. Yeah, thats what i wrote in the appeal. Could even be some of my competitors.
They also wrote:
“ensure that one click on an ad only logs one click.”
You have any clue how to manage this?
Not really. Specially not for instant articles because for Adsense there are some plugins that can do it.
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
No. You need a website to do any of this.
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
Thanks Nata.
We’re not interested in guest/sponsored posts for the sake of a link.
Sorry.
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?
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.
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!
Same here 🙁 All my boosted posts opening in with my mobile web pages. Did you find out why?
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?
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
If it follows all of their guidelines and it’s not a new website the chances are pretty high.
You only talk of WP. Does fb instant apps work with blogger as well?
Yes, just read this new guide.
Please when I try to claim my URL, it shows: 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
Please what should I do?
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.
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.
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.
Well, you need to check why your earnings went down.
Do you have less traffic? Do you have same number of clicks but lower CPC?
Did you lose rankings somehow?
Do you have approved Instant articles for sell if you have contact me on my email mr.mohddilsher@gmail.com
Hi
I m a huge fan of your blog. Do we have something in Pinterest .
I don’t really use Pinterest at all, so no comments here.
Can you suggest me USA, UK, Columbia or Indian Facebook Groups for sharing my post for Facebook Instant Articles.
No.
We get traffic with our fan pages and ads, not spamming on groups so we don’t have experience with it.
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.
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.
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.
Hi Briddon.
That’s right. If they ban a site from their system you can’t use the same fan page or website to apply again, or they’ll just ban it fast.
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
I’m not sure. Unless they literally visited your site when it was down and rejected it but it’s hard to say.
Hello Servando,
Nice to see you again! Recently Facebook has updated some changes to Instant Article and it’s getting hard to apply. In this case, do you have any idea about traffic requirement (google analytics), how many is needed for url to be submitted?
Thank you again.
Hi servando please Do Facebook Has A blog Age before approving One Blog for Facebook Instant articles?
Like how old must a blog be before applying for Facebook Instant articles?
Hi Mack.
Not age but more the number of articles. However, I don’t use instant articles anymore as mentioned at the beginning of the article and I don’t know if they’ve changed the requirements or if they even accept new publishers anymore.
Hi
Thanks for this great article, i recently submited two pages for instant articles review with one url, is this incompatible or not?
thanks
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!
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
Thanks for reply. I am waiting for hearing from Ronald.
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.. 🙂
If they go to your website without being IA you just need to filter the traffic and only leave mobile devices from android and iOS.
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
Are you sure you’re logged in with the proper business account?
None of your pages appears or are they too small/new to be considered?
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!
What was the reason behind your ban? Hope you get that money at least.
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.
Hi Gabor,
Did you receive the money you earned in April?
We have similar problem.
Hi Servando, when claiming URL I 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.]
If the site is new or has no traffic before applying for Instant Articles they can send you this message.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
Hello,
A really good article,
Can I create an ad campaign for the instant article on Facebook?
Yes, you can but we have seen much better results with organic traffic going to instant articles than paid campaigns. Not sure why but it seems like FB does something different.