VK Boosting & Promotion

Most people come to us for community subscribers and post likes, and for most of them that is what boosting VK means. Views, clips, shares and poll votes are ordered less often. Every order adds to the count on one object: a post, a page, a video or a poll. Your first job is to pick the service that matches what's in front of you, not the word stuck in your head.

Confusion is common here. Post likes and comment likes are separate services, so if you need comment likes and order post likes, the likes land on the post. A clip and a video on the wall are also different things with different links. People mistake a personal page for a group, and a group for a public page. We see orders like this often, and the link almost always gives the mistake away if you look at it closely before pasting it.

The rule of thumb is simple. If you need people in your community, that's subscribers. Reactions under a post are likes, the counter under a post is views, and a video means video views or clips depending on the format. Shares, comments, poll votes and stream viewers are separate services too, each with its own link and its own logic.

A performer behaves like any regular user. In a closed group they can only send a join request and wait for an admin to approve it, and until then they are not a member. They can't get into a private group at all, since those are invite only. Public pages are always open, so they don't have this problem. Personal pages have their own trap. The page itself is open, but the follower list is hidden in privacy settings, and for performers that is the same as a closed page.

An open community gets its subscribers, and then it comes down to pace and who you want to see in the list. People often ask us whether live accounts will be real, active and of a specific gender. Live accounts start and finish fast, but they do a lot of tasks and don't look perfectly realistic. For real people, choose offers. These are real people who complete tasks for a reward. They work slowly, but they actually open the page. Gender and location can't be targeted on any order.

Start with a small order. See who arrived, what their pages look like and how they sit in the list next to your real subscribers. If you're happy, add more in several orders with breaks in between. Steady growth looks like a community's normal life, while a thousand new people in one evening in a group that used to gain a handful a week stands out right away, both to people and to VK.

When likes don't arrive at all, the link is almost always to blame. It points to a profile instead of a post, a clip instead of a post, a repost instead of the original, or a comment when post likes were ordered. This is the most common mistake in our VK orders, and the frustrating part is that performers honestly go to the address they were given. It's just the wrong address.

People most often confuse a community post with a post from a personal page. Their links look alike, but community posts have a minus sign before the number and personal ones don't, and if the minus gets lost when copying, the link opens someone else's page or an error. A link copied from the feed sometimes opens a general section instead of the post itself. A closed profile is a separate story. Only friends can see its posts, not even followers can, and performers are neither to your page, so there's simply nothing for them to like.

There's one check. Open the link while logged out and see what comes up. If it's the post you're promoting and it's visible without logging in, the link is ready for your order. If you see the feed, a profile, an error or a login prompt, performers will see exactly the same.

With video, first separate clips from videos on the wall or in VK Video. These are different services. A clip's link has its own format, and it tells you right away what you're ordering. For a clip, choose clips, and for a video, video views. One more thing about the counter. VK only counts a view on a long video after five seconds, so the number on the video doesn't have to match how many times it was opened.

The counter shows fresh numbers with a delay. It catches up over the first hours, so compare results the next day, not an hour later. If the same link is being pushed through another service at the same time, the two streams get in each other's way and growth comes in bursts. When a page shows fewer views than expected, one of these two is usually the reason.

Performers can't open a video hidden by privacy settings. While only you or your friends can see it, the order stands still, so the video must open for anyone with the link. The profile itself can stay closed, since that doesn't affect video visibility. The link must point to the video, not the profile, channel or album. Post views have a quirk of their own. They aren't unique, one person can add several, and views on a repost don't count toward the original. It's easier to track a video's total in the channel and video analytics.

Votes go to a poll that any user can see and that hasn't ended yet. Performers won't see a poll in a closed group, and voting inside an app or on a third party site isn't available to them either. You need a regular poll on a regular post. If the author disabled revoting, a performer who has already voted can't vote a second time. A finished poll accepts no votes from anyone, and orders on it don't run.

In an anonymous poll, nobody, including the organizers, sees names, only numbers. In a public poll, votes are signed and anyone who opens the post can see who voted. The order runs the same way in both cases, and VK sees the actions of performer accounts, not yours.

The goal with poll votes is almost always the same: win by a certain date. Real people vote slower than fast accounts, and a last hour push rarely makes it. So order early, not the evening before, and keep an eye on how votes come in while there's still time to add more. No one can guarantee a win, but an order placed with time to spare at least has a chance to finish.

VK removes boosted activity on its own when it fights fake engagement, more often where likes, views or comments are out of proportion to subscribers. No one can guarantee against drops, whatever they claim. With steady growth, drops are usually small. The higher the performer quality, the less gets removed, and bots get removed most often.

VK explicitly lists boosting as a prohibited promotion method, and for repeated violations a community can be blocked, have features restricted or get a warning. People regularly ask us whether VK will ban the group and whether people will unsubscribe. In our experience, with reasonable volumes nothing usually happens to accounts. Problems start when a page suddenly gets a volume it couldn't possibly have. A public page with a handful of subscribers and likes like a major media outlet stands out to both people and VK.

Hence the main advice: keep it reasonable. Estimate how many likes and views look normal for your group, check similar communities of the same size, and order within those limits. You can always add more, since people order again for the same group, post or clip. Getting a community back to normal after restrictions is far harder than reaching the same numbers a bit more slowly.