How to tell where a competitor's Facebook Shares are coming from?

[rjb627]

Is there a way to tell where a competitor's facebook shares and likes are coming from? How to also tell what ads they have running in Facebook and their spend?

I am looking at OSE's data and its telling me a competitor has 8.5K Facebook shares and 1K facebook likes. I go to their facebook page and it has about 25 likes. This site should not have anywhere close to the facebook shares/likes its receiving so wondering where they are getting their boosted traffic from.

[AlanMosley]

i doubt it, but i would check their API to be sure

[SuperlativB]

Sounds like shady shares to me,  would'nt surprice me if there is a company that provides that sort of service. Some kind of affiliate thing where you get paid to click the share button on sites all day. Althougt a Google search for "buy facebook shares" gives me results of "how to buy facebook stock"

[philipbuuck]

If you go to fiverr.com you'll see plenty of people offering to like or share your pages for $5.  They may have used a service like that.

I think that 1k Facebook likes number is counting the individual likes on each page of their site - not necessarily the number of likes their page on FB has collected.

[PeterAlexLeigh]

OSE share data is based on page rather than domain, so that's a massive number of shares for a single page!

It almost certainly has to be a follower/like service. They're a dime a dozen. If they were running significant facebook ads you would expect their facebook page likes to be much higher than 25.