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.
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 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:
- 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”.
- 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“.
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.
- 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.
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…
- Install Plugin and Sign up for a Facebook Developer’s Account
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 look for the button that says “Get App ID“, if you are already registered as Facebook Developer you don’t need to do this.
Follow the steps in order to register as a developer and then “Create New App“, another screen will pop up and then you’ll have to fill out some information and then hit “Creat 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“
Now it’s the time to go back to the Instant Articles plugin and then login with you “App ID” and “App Secret” which you can find on your Facebook App Dashboard. After that you’ll see the option to “Login with Facebook“, go ahead and click on it, and it will now show you a list of the Facebook Fan Pages that you manage with your profile. Here you need to select the Fan Page in which you are going to implement Facebook Instant Articles and click on “Select“.
- Our next step here is to go ahead and click where it says “Open Advanced Settings now” and select the Article Style that you have edited before.
- Select “Audience Network” for the ad type and 300×250 for ad dimensions.
- The last thing to do here is to make sure that you check the option that says “Publish articles containing warnings“, this is in order to ensure that your Google Adsense Banners inside the content don’t prevent your instant articles from being published.
We are almost done here… We’re just a couple of steps away from making money with Facebook Audience.
- 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.
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.
- 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 Facebook audience.
- 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“.
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:
- How to create your first Facebook Likes Campaign
- Facebook ads and how I grow my niche to 1,000 visitors per day in just 7 days
- $200 per day with Adsense and viral traffic (Part 1)
- $300 per day with Adsense + pop networks 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.
Hello, thank you for the great content. I am attempting to set up my Facebook Instant Articles Feed and am not certain if I understand things completely. I have a blog with 34 posts, I installed the plugin and activated it (there was no app id or secret pin) I connected my page and can not find my WordPress Feed. There is a message that states I do not have enough articles, If I have the plugin installed, shouldn’t I have enough articles?
Thank you for your help.
Hi Paul,
It seems like the Instant Articles plugin has been updated, so I’ll try to get this guide updated too ASAP.
In the meantime, you can just take look at this guide: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/instant-articles/wordpress-quickstart#guide
Cheers.
Hello,
I’ve losing my payment for already two months. Although Facebook is saying they’ve transferred the money and the status is showing “paid” on payday, I still don’t receive any money. Does anybody know what might be the causes are and anyone known how to deal with this problem?
Thank you so much in advance for helping.
What’s your payment method?
Hi, Servando! Please tell me – did you find out of instant article advertised on Facebook Ads? That is, ads are displayed in the format of instant articles? Tnx
Yes, they are.
what is minimum payout of facebook instant articles ?
Hi Guys,
Great article!!
Although my performance did not turn out very well and would love your advice.
My FB page has 440,000 fans.
The Instant Article post on FB reached 132,282 people
The post received 135 likes , 355 comments, and 148 shares.
Facebook reports 3011 clicks for the post with my own blog software reporting 2800 views.
Google Analytics reports 917 Unique Visitors
Adsense Impressions 339 (total earnings £0.09)
FB Audience Network 638 Impressions (total earnings $1.97)
So basically, with a huge reach, we made a grand total of $2!
Where should I be looking (or what should I be doing) to improve this to achieve $30 per post? or even $300 per post?
Thanks for a legendary post!!
-Daz
Hello Daz.
looks like your CTR is quite low.
For Adsense even more than the Audience network, so you might want to get started there (improve your CTR testing various ad locations, sizes, etc).
Also, for a 440 fans page, getting 600 clicks (with instant articles enabled) it seems like your reach is quite low. Have you tried boosting your posts to get a lot more traffic?
Thanks for your reply!
No I didn’t decide to boost as I considered 132,000 reach quite substantial. What reach and impressions did you get to achieve $22k per month? (Very impressive figures!)
Also, the Audience Network Ad is at the bottom of the article. Where did you have yours?
Is an Ad impression within an Instant Article only calculated when the reader scrolls down to view the Ad or when the page initially loads without a scroll down?
Hi.
The concept of reach on Facebook means that 132,000 saw your Facebook post on your Facebook page, but it doesn’t mean that all of them clicked it.
So, for monetizing terms, this doesn’t give you any kind of earnings. It will help you see how interesting for your audience is your content.
The amount that counts is those that clicked the post to see your website, in this case Instant Article.
Also, unique visitors is one thing and total of views that those unique visitors are different concepts and Facebook and Google Adsense won’t pay you for the quantity of people that visit your website, but for the quantity of views and clicks those visitors generate.
Hope you may understand.
Awesome thanks Richard!
In my situation what would you advise I do/try next?
I recommend as Servando said, you should promote your posts and Google Ads doesn’t work on Instant Articles. I mean, ads from google aren’t showed when users are watching through Facebook Instant articles.
My advice would be to promote or boost your posts.
Thanks once again both for your help!!
One final question.. where can I go to find writers who can do 400/500 word articles for $3 to $5? (You mentioned this in a previous post but didn’t say where to find them).
Upwork is a great place to start.
Forums, freelance sites, fiverr, iWriter.
Hi Daz,
Since Servando and Richard have already covered pretty much all the opportunities you could address in order to increase your revenue, I’m just going to cover one single thing I’ve noticed.
Reaching 132k with only one post on a page with 400k likes is not bad at all. Now you should look at factors that would make people click on the article rather than just share or like it, which is not bad, but you definitely want the click.
That being said, do some A/B testing with different types of articles and see which ones get more clicks. Try different images, that’s actually very important in social media as well as the title. Your title needs to be something that catches the reader’s attention and leaves them with the feeling of “I want to read this…”
I hope this helps you out. Also feel free to reach out to me if you need anything else.
Hi,
I recently started with instant articles.
I am getting some problem with instant articles.
Whenever I post instant articles it gets published but gets invisible from newsfeed in 1-2 minutes but shows in page manager app but not in fb app.
I encountered this problem some days back at that time I deleted the website and remade it.
The problem was solved but from last 2-3 days I’m facing the same problem.
I’m facing this problem with my recently created articles, older articles are working fine.
Can you guys help me as I’m not getting why this is happening
Hello, I new here…
I already did all the steps and I have everything ready.
I’m seeing that you need to have a lot of traffic on the fan page to make money, right?
How can I do to earn more money? I do not understand 🙁
Hello Tatiana.
The idea is to build pages with high engagement and drive traffic after that.
Check out the other articles linked t the end of the post for more info.
Thanks for this informative info. I just got my account setup and I have been approved by Facebook. So let me see how it will go. Thanks again.
Glad you liked it 🙂
i see this error when i add placment id
Invalid Audience Network Placement ID provided
Hello,
It is normal, when you do step 6 “Sign Up for Facebook Audience and insert your Ad Placement” this is deleted. That happened to me too;)
The amount is too huge buddy 🙂
Recently, I have also signed up for the instant article and let’s see how it will go.
Thank you for sharing. A few questions:
1) Am I correct to say that Facebook is paying us for displaying our own articles in IA format on our own Fanpages? Or are they setting us up so that their ads can appear alongside our articles on the fanpages?
2) I run autoblog, so would auto generated product blog posts be approved for Instant Articles?
Hello ronald, thanks for sharing this great article. I have followed your steps using audience network and instant articles successfully. Everything runs well except for the payment, it shows warning that say “currently ineligible for payment” even i have set up the payment information. Does it usually happen for a new registration or the audience network limits the publisher country?
I have the same warning, although I got an invoice from Facebook for may yesterday. I guess I’ll have to wait till 21st to see if receive the payment.
Did you figure out how to drive a massive amount of impressions to your Instant Articles? Can you share some suggestions, if you have any?
I’ve learned that you need daily impressions in the minimum of 100K+ to make a decent amount of money.
I have the same problem. I completed the payout forms but it says: currently ineligible for payment. Is this an idle message before 21? did you got the money? Thanks.
Hello i am a 8-year chinese website ownner,i have ever earned 100K dollars/month and now iam studying affiliate website.Hope to have some contact with you.
Max
Did you say you are 8 years? And you’ve earned 100k in a month? How did you do that? Teach me … my email is muddynesh@gmail.com
He said he has been 8 years in the industry, not he’s 8 years old.
Great Share Ronald i really inspired!
i wanna ask a few things
what is better we use viral articles or specific niche?
i don’t use google adsense is it secure if i mix with propeller ads?
for example I copy the article from ezine and i put the source in my web is it save?
Thank you 🙂
Nice guide Ronald, thanks. I have one doubt.
When creating a placement, what format do you use? There’s banner, native or interstitial.
I’ve not chosen any of them, so I guess it’s set on auto? I’ve read on a guide on Facebook that native should be getting a higher CPM than banner, although I couldn’t confirm that statment anywhere else.
What’s your experience regarding this matter?
Hey Javier,
That’s actually a great question.
Native and interstitial are only intended for apps, so the one you should select here is banner.
Thanks for reading.
WordPress plugin users
Use 422807894730947 as the Page ID in the settings of the Instant Articles plugin for WordPress.
Warning
The fb:pages tag on the url doesn’t contain this page’s id. The url has fb:pages tag but they don’t have this page’s id. Please work with your developers / webmaster to add this tag to your website. How to solve this problem?
Check here: https://www.facebook.com/business/help/community/question/?id=10156960334050657
step 5 submitted article for review? where from myonlineinsurances.com page
Hello bro,
how long does it take for the ads to start showing?
My application was approved and I have completed everything, including the payout form.
I have added the long placement id to the instant articles plugin but it has been 4 days now and the banner ads I selected during the placement are not showing on my instant articles. Do you get any notification after filling in the placement id at the instant articles plugin?
This is working for me.
Thanks for sharing.
Good to know 🙂
Hey, I followed all of the steps. I’ve been accepted and approved an all. When I click my link I do not see it pop up like instant article. It shows in FB browser but doesn’t show like Instant article and I do not see IA ads. When I check instant article from mobile page manager I can see which articles have ads and show as IA but doesnt show like that when I share it to my page and I click on it.
Hey Phill,
Are you using any custom format for your post?
You need to make sure that your post has a clean format and also ensure that you’re selecting the option to publish articles containing warnings, that’s under step 4.
Pls check out my comment and help me out.
I have placed my ads and submitted the id at the instant articles plugin on my wordpress but ads are not showing. Almost a week now.
Hello,
May I know what is the estimated cost for implementing this strategy and based on your experience how long do we have to wait until it started showing result?
Hey Khairul,
Time and effort are definitely two things that go hand by hand with any kind of business model, obiously you will not start getting those kind of earnings since the beginning, but if you follow the guide that Servando has built about growing Facebook Fanpages from scratch and you also implement this technique, you’ll be able to start earning a couple of extra hundreds that will become more and more, little by little.
It’s all about delivering great content to your audiences and being consistent on it.
Thanks for stopping by.
Awesome post, Ronald. Really helpful. Can you help with a few questions?
1. Was the $22K/month from one website/FB page or multiple websites/FB pages?
2. How much of the $22K was profit? Did you buy any Boost Posts or Page Likes?
Great job guys! Keep the useful posts coming! Thanks!
Great question Jim,
I actually have multiple fanpages that I monetize with the same viral website so that should be the answer to your first question.
And I also invest on Facebook ads in order to get more fans for my fanpages, so not all of it is pure profit. The way I work on it, I always invest around $500/mo in Facebook ads and I also pay a couple of people who help me maintain my Fanpages active with fresh content, responding to comments and answering messages.
Thanks for stopping by.
Ronald,
In your 2nd screenshot, how did you go from 32 impressions (on Marzo 16) all the way to 51,589 impressions (on Marzo 17) in one day and then consistently generate 100K+ impressions everday? Did you boost your posts in FB? Can you provide tips on how to jump start impressions?
Thanks again.
Thanks guys for this valuable article.i successfully integrated instant articles on 18-05-2017 that means two days ago with my WordPress website it works fine but adds are not displaying on my instant article so guys can you help to check what point i missed or did wrong during integration i checked every thing by my side if you guys help me that will be appreciated because if ads not displaying on my articles then it will be waste for me or ads will take some time to display on my instant articles thanks in advance.
Hey Sumit,
Did you follow the steps as specified?
Did you apply for Facebook Audience and implemented the ad placement as specified in the article?
My recommendation is to go ahead and re-check the guide, make sure you’re not missing anything and also remember that there are some stages of the process in which you have to wait a couple of days in order to get Facebook’s approval.
Thanks Ronald Segura@Web, i started instant article for indian traffic but in india its not generating much revenue can you help me how i can increase revenue in india from instant article or what i can do to earm more because nothing works for me
Hi, Ronald.
Thanks for such a useful post. I was not aware that we can make money from facebook through this way. You have explained the topic in sufficient details with required screen shots.
Hey Mohan,
I’m glad you liked the article!
Thanks a lot for stopping by!
Hello friend. i dont have wordpress but blogspot how do i go about setting up me App ID with my blog account since in don’t have wordpress?
I think this was mentioned in another comment below. please see if that helps you with your question.
hi,
How you get actually enough members to page that used instant articles, and how many number of your fan page to earn that figures . finally how can i promote my fan page and boost instant articles to get more traffic ?
Thanks
Hey Sayed,
Please be a little clearer with your question, I was only able to understand that you want to know how to get more fans and also how to boost your articles.
First of all, Servando has already created some powerful guides on how to create a viral website and also grow your fan page, you can find those resources within this article.
You can also boost your instant articles through Facebook Ads and select the option for the placement of the instant article, I think I have already answered that question in the comments below.
Cheers.
thanks for your reply,
but i don’t understand this step “select the option for the placement of the instant article”.. please explain with screenshots or more details as you did with your great article .
Cheers
Curious on your opinion about this vs. Adsense?
Does boosting posts send people to my page, or to the instant article?
Which solution seems more lucrative?
Hey Jess,
You can actually do both. When boosting your articles with Facebook ads you have the option to select the placement for Instant Articles, which will display your articles in the mobile news feed as instant articles. Users who are on Facebook from other than the actual Facebook App will still see the original version of your site.
Thanks for reading.
Hey Ronald,
Just following up – been publishing with Instant Articles for the three days now. Here are my numbers so far…
– 8,135 Impressions
– 52 Clicks
– $1.54 Estimated Revenue
– My FB page that I share the articles on has 16.7k fans.
– I have been boosting every article I share for $5 (2 a day).
– Did you have more luck boosting posts, or just boosting your actual FB page?
– My ROI isn’t too great right now – but I can spare $1k/mo on advertising, with these bad of numbers should I consider investing more?
Looking for some input or ideas…
Also, my FB page and blog is about mobile gaming – What do you think about editing the Ad Categories to only show ads for gaming, rather than showing every category?
Thanks so much in advance,
Jesse
Hey Jess,
Looking at the numbers you’ve shared, I can tell you the following:
The number of impresions is actually too little, so you need to work on the way to get more traffic in order to see some decent profit.
The number of clicks is ok, considering that my CTR is also about 1%.
You also need to take a look at the countries where your visitors are coming from, that’s also a factor to take into account.
My personal recommendation is to grow your fanpage, that’s the way I would do it. Take a look at Servando’s guide for growing Facebook pages from scratch, that can help you a lot.
https://stream-seo.com/how-to-get-likes-on-facebook-page/
Hey Ronald,
Thanks for the reply. Great advice. I’ll spend a little less a day on boosting articles and focus more on boosting my page..
Is there a certain number of fans you’d aim for? Is 50k too small, 100k?
The game I write about is very popular worldwide – which countries should I be targetting? I’ve been targetting worldwide. Language: English
Interest: The Game
Cheers,
Jesse
Awesome post! This came just in time for me. I’m finally setting up my own viral niche site after spending a couple of years writing and watching my employer make all of the Adsense doe. I’m currently in Vietnam and have been worried about getting the Adsense approval.
It looks like with this method I can get up and running sooner to monetize the articles then apply for Adsense when I have more articles, maybe 50. Does this work with new sites? I see you mentioned 5 articles. Is that enough to get rolling with this method?
I’ve read other posts here about building page likes quickly and was impressed with the results. I’m hoping to do half as well on my initial campaigns 🙂 Is the best advice to follow on the anime post you wrote? https://stream-seo.com/facebook-ads-niche-site/
One last question if I’m not too much of a bother. I saw you don’t recommend dating for Facebook ads. I’ve been doing some dating coaching and realized it’s a great side business for me. Do you think this is something I can direct people to a landing page for? or will it get banned? Thank you for any advice! Love the site! So much better than all the other garbage people are pushing.
Hi Glen.
Yeah, the strategy from that post (although it’s 3 years old) works, however if you want to go deeper on Facebook Ads and all the new features that have been slowly added i recommend you to check the fptraffic blog as well.
As for the instant Articles, they require you to submit at least 5 articles, but I definitely recommend you to get started with 10 when they review it.
As for dating, it’s not only that I don’t recommend it, but it’s completely banned from Facebook except from a few whitelisted big brands. So running anything related to dating will get your ad account banned sooner or later.
Glad you like the site man 🙂
Thanks for the reply Servando! It’s crazy you mention fptraffic. I used them years ago and forgot about them. Just signed up a couple of hours ago again before reading this! LOL. I’ll def look deeper into their blog for that info. So glad to have found them again.
Thanks for the advice too! Looks like I need to figure out a different way to advertise as a coach.
Hi Glen.
Even if you don’t use their tool, their blog has some great info about FB Ads which is updated as of 2017. Definitely worth a read 🙂
Hello Servando silva, i started instant article for indian traffic but in india its not generating much revenue can you help me how i can increase revenue in india from instant article or what i can do to earm more because nothing works for me or any alternative.
India never does a lot of revenue. It’s a tier 3 country so the prices are very cheap there. there’s not much you can do about that. I prefer tier 2 or tier 1 countries for that reason.
Creo que el truco esta en como obtener este trafico, yo ya lo tengo pero no tengo fanpage de muchos seguidores
¿tienes algun truco de como obtener trafico ademas de grupos y esas cosas?
No es ningún truco. Sin spamear grupos puedes obtener el tráfico si construyes tus páginas con audiencias en un nicho apasionado comprando anuncios y obteniendo posts virales. No hay un “truco secreto” para esto.
Hi,
I am unable to submit my site for review as it is asking me to write at least 5 Production Articles. So what should I do ?
Write the 5 articles or if you can write 10 before submitting it.
Hi,
When you edit an article for review, the tab for instant articles is only available for posts and not pages. On my site I only have pages. How do I overcome this little glitch?
Hi Elijah,
In order to help you out with that issue, can you be more specific about what step are you on, and what exactly is the error?
Cheers!
Hi,
When you are editing an article in order to submit for review. If the article is saved as a “page” the instant articles tab does not appear at the bottom of the page when you are editing. However, if the article is saved as a “post” the instant articles tab appears and you are able to save your article as an instant article.
Thanks.
Hi Elijah,
I understand what you mean now.
Unfortunately, that option is not supported and Facebook instant articles are only for single posts/articles. Probably you could read about developing your custom RSS on Facebook and do it with some manual coding, if you do, please let us know.
Cheers!
Hey,
Thanks – but thats such a click baity headline 🙁
The article should be – How to setup FB Instant Articles and Audience Network, technichally. How you get actually enough visitors to instant articles if you cant buy traffic is the real secret sauce here, which is not even mentioned. Disappointing 🙁
Thanks
We have covered how to get traffic in different articles (linked at the end) on FB building huge pages and creating viral sites.
Basically Ronald is doing the same, he just wanted to explain how to setup all the FB things as it sure isn’t as easy as other networks.
Hello Servando, thats what Ive asked you on the other article about building pages and viral sites. Can I mometize them with fb advertisement not adsense. Does it pay better and can i put embedded yt videos on the viral site and still monetize with fb advertisement. One more thing… How do you get traffic theee days? Running one ad for page likes and then running daily ppe for the post that is linked to the site? Or ppe for all of your 10 daily posts? Thanks!
Hey George,
Let me give you my opinion in regards of that. First of all, Facebook will not promote your instant articles through FB ads, so I can advice you to do the same thing I do.
I only run FB ads with the purpose of gaining more Facebook Followers and therefore keep the greater audience, this way I only share my articles on my Fan pages and I let the fans do the rest. Embedded youtobe videos is a great idea that I have not yet put into practice, but I have friends who are doing very well with it.
Thanks for reading!
Hey Ronald.
I’d also consider running PPE ads to your best posts because even if the paid traffic won’t go to the instant article version of your site (can you confirm this 100%?), if the post is really good and clicks with your audience the organic traffic will be even greater than paid, and they will see your site in the instant articles format.
If you test it let us know how it goes 🙂
Hey Servando,
It sounds very logical, I never looked at it in that specific way.
I’ll give it a try and share the results here!
Hey Servando,
I was able to promote some of my articles using Facebook Ads and I was surprised becasue when I was looking at the placements for my ads, I was able to see a new option for Instant Article.
That means that we are definitely able to drive more traffic using Face Ads and the results are also great!
Cheers!
Hi Ronald.
But that means your ad is going to be shown in other instant articles from other sites, which is different to confirming your ad is being shown in the instant article format.
I’ll ask some of my friends about this anyway, but i’m almost sure you can promote them with ads and they will be shown in the correct (instant article) format.
Thanks Ronald! I got ya. I will surely try the method for sure. Thanks for the quality info!
Hi George.
Yes, you can use FB Audience Network and see if it performs better than Adsense. One thing that helps a lot of Facebook gives priority to FB Instant articles vs. other type of external links, so you can drive more traffic with each post and get more engagement and go viral.
However, it’s always a thing you should test because depending on the countries and your traffic Adsense might perform better. You can use videos in your page, sure.
As for the traffic, i do a lot of advanced stuff, not just buying likes and boosting posts, but also creating different custom audiences, lookalikes, using the pixel, testing a lot of ads with Power Editor, etc.
Ok. Got it. Testing testing testing. Btw do you have to be aproved for the FB network is one thing i did not get…? For the traffic you do agree to run ppes for some post as well? For some reason I cannot get notifications for the comments on this post…maybe its my phone. I will check regulary. Thanks for the quality ideas and information!!!
Yes, you get approved when you send your articles and site for review.
PPE posts as Ronald mentioned won’t work with Instant articles, but this is something I want to confirm 100% so im still waiting for that response.
Finally, which notifications about the comments are you talking about?
Thanks for this wonderful article!
I’m a noob and I have a question. Should we have a registered website of our own and hosting to use this? Because nowhere it is mentioned about having a website.
If yes, I already have a fb fan page and a website running adsense ads. Can I remove the asense and use this instead?
Hi Manjunath,
I can’t understand the first part of your question, please be a little clearer on that.
For the second part of your question, you actually don’t need to remove your adsense banners, indeed I still run Adsense on my sites, that way whenever I get a visitor who is not from Facebook mobile app, then I still monetize with Adsense.
Thanks for reading!
Thank you for the reply.
I have a website with 18 articles and have adsense ads running on it. Can I use the same 18 articles with fb instant articles too or should it be a different article?
I’m currently displaying 4 adsense ads in a page. Is there any change should I make to the page or can I use fb instant articles as is?
I have all of these, but, how to drive millions of traffic to my Instant Articles website? I don’t make any money with this, I just need traffic. I currently have 25k followers. How many followers do I need in order to have millions of visits per day?
Can you send facebook paid traffic to instant articles which are monetized with facebook audience ads?
Hey, thanks for this tutorial.
I tried to implement this but met a problem.
1. I use different custom post types in WordPress, but WP Facebook Instant Article plugin seems works only with standard Post types of content. Any chance to submit custom post types?
2. I use Thrive content builder to format my posts, and looks like I can’t submit Instant articles, which doesn’t formatted with standard WP Wysiwyg editor?
Thanks in advance
Hi Oleg,
First of all, did you select the option to “Publish Articles containing warnings” on step number 4?
If you did and still can’t get your article published, then you’ll need to create your article without any custom formatting submit, so that it can be converted as Instant Article. After you’ve published it on your Fan Pages then you can update it with custom formatting.
Another choice would be the development of your RSS Feed, which I will try to cover on a different post later.
Thanks for reading!
Hi! Ronad,
It was an eye opening article. I did not know that even Facebook has its own advertising network for publishers. And, you just explained everything in detail. Awesome.
Thanks for reading Sasmita,
I’m glad you liked this article, don’t forget to share it for those who still didn’t know.
Cheers!
Yup! Amaxing content. Combine it with previous articles and you got a money making method. For free! Thanks again Ronald!
This was a definitive post Ronald. Great job. I’m gonna bookmark it.
Thanks man. Ronald did a great job here for sure.
Hey Ronald,
That was a great article, we are also witnessing the power of Facebook Audience Network & Instant articles on our revenue dashboard. I have some question can you please answer them:
1. Can I know the name of your page & how much followers do you have?
2. Was your page growth organic or you had promoted some posts?
Hi Aatish,
I wish I could do that, but sharing that information publicly means putting my pages at risk of being copied and attacked by many people.
To your second question, using facebook ads strategically has definitely helped me build my fan pages audience and it also grows organically as I continue to share content that provides value to my followers, that’s always the key, don’t focus only on sharing links.
Thanks for reading!
Hello Ronald, thanks for the article. Please you will need to take care of those of us using blogspot as soon as possible. Please include it in the article how to use blogspot .God bless you.
Great write up, thanks for this! Just one question, does FB have the same type of traffic restrictions as Adsense? (Meaning no ppv, etc)
Hey Ronald,
In this case, Facebook Audience Banners will only be displayed within Facebook Mobile App, which means that you can’t drive traffic from any other place than your Facebook page or maybe groups.
Thanks for reading.
Awesome. So, how Many fans should be there for our page to earn at least $50 per day? Also, can we boost these articles via Facebook ads?
Great question Suresh,
I’ve noticed that whenever I promote any of my articles using Facebook Ads, they actually don’t promote the instant article version. One thing that I’ve also noticed is that share count and engagement, in general, increases considerably, maybe because the user never leaves Facebook.
Thanks for stopping by!
I can confirm that the reach and engagement is increased just because they never leave Facebook and Facebook gives Instant Articles an Advantage over the rest of the external links. it’s part of their algorithm.
Hey Suresh,
Thanks for reading, I am not really a friend of blogspot, there are numerous reasons why most people use WordPress, but I’ll be writing about it really soon.
Thanks for reading.
Excellent post, Ronald. Thank you for being so detailed!
Lovely post and genius indeed. I must confess that the procedure is way long. With that been said, I am currently using the blogger platform and not WordPress, so I beg to differ a little and ask this question in relation to ( Install Plugin and Sign up for a Facebook Developer’s Account). Should I visit https://developers.facebook.com/docs/apps/register#login and create an app directly and proceed to the next steps as instructed above? Or its only meant for bloggers on the WordPress platform?
Hey Joseph,
First of all, if you are still on Blogspot my suggestion is to make a move to WordPress right away. This guide was mainly intended for WordPress, but I will try to also prepare one for blogspot.
Creating a Facebok Developer’s account is not the problem, since you do that on Facebook itself. The actual problem would be to configure the custom RSS, since you don’t have the option to use a plugin, you’ll need to manually code it.
Thanks for stopping by!
That was a really helpful content…was long tho it helped me to start….thanks <3
Hey Rajan,
Thanks for reading! I’m glad you liked the article.
Cheers!