{"id":88724,"date":"2013-08-02T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-08-02T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/travelstartblg.wpenginepowered.com\/facebook-like-google-plus-1-hack\/"},"modified":"2025-11-04T13:51:24","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T13:51:24","slug":"facebook-like-google-plus-1-hack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.travelstart.co.za\/blog\/facebook-like-google-plus-1-hack\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook Like and Google +1 Hack?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recently I wrote a post debunking some claims that <a title=\"Is Google+ as active as some claim?\" href=\"https:\/\/travelstartstg.wpenginepowered.com\/google-plus-is-very-active-or-is-it\/\" target=\"_blank\">Google+ is very active<\/a>. In researching this, I came came across a rather worrying &#8220;quirk&#8221; with Google+ and Facebook: You can get multiple +1&#8217;s and likes from 1 Google+ or Facebook account on one piece of content.<\/p>\n<p>By revealing my findings I feel like I&#8217;m making the internet a bad place. Well, I would if it weren&#8217;t for the fact that there are already so many worse people out there creating automatic like engines, one simply needs to Google &#8220;Facebook likes hack&#8221; to see a long list of people cheating the system.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s how I tested this on Google Plus:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/travelstartstg.wpenginepowered.com\/facebook-like-google-plus-1-hack\/plus1\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-29523\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-29523\" title=\"plus1\" src=\"https:\/\/travelstartmu.wpenginepowered.com\/zablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/10\/plus1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"60\" height=\"67\" \/><\/a>I found a piece of content on local tech news site <a title=\"Memeburn\" href=\"http:\/\/memeburn.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Memeburn<\/a> from a couple of days ago which had one lonely +1. Clearly it wasn&#8217;t getting a lot of attention on social media so it was a safe bet to use this piece for my test as it was unlikely to get more interest during the short 5 minutes it took to run my test. (nothing wrong with the contents of the article by the way, they always have insightful content)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/travelstartstg.wpenginepowered.com\/facebook-like-google-plus-1-hack\/plus2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-29524\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-29524\" title=\"Plus2\" src=\"https:\/\/travelstartmu.wpenginepowered.com\/zablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/10\/Plus2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"59\" height=\"72\" \/><\/a>I +1&#8217;d the piece of content in the share widget on the webpage in question, the widget then showed &#8220;+2&#8221;. Nothing fishy here.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/travelstartstg.wpenginepowered.com\/facebook-like-google-plus-1-hack\/plus3\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-29525\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-29525\" title=\"Plus3\" src=\"https:\/\/travelstartmu.wpenginepowered.com\/zablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/10\/Plus3.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"59\" height=\"73\" \/><\/a>I copied the page URL and went and shared it in Google+ from my personal account and reloaded the Memeburn webpage, the widget then showed &#8220;+3&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/travelstartstg.wpenginepowered.com\/facebook-like-google-plus-1-hack\/plus4\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-29526\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-29526\" title=\"Plus4\" src=\"https:\/\/travelstartmu.wpenginepowered.com\/zablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/10\/Plus4.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"58\" height=\"69\" \/><\/a>I +1&#8217;d my own share in Google+ and hit reload again, the widget then showed &#8220;+4&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/travelstartstg.wpenginepowered.com\/facebook-like-google-plus-1-hack\/plus5\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-29527\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-29527\" title=\"Plus5\" src=\"https:\/\/travelstartmu.wpenginepowered.com\/zablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/10\/Plus5.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"60\" height=\"70\" \/><\/a>I commented on my own share of the Memeburn post on G+ and hit reload again, the widget then showed &#8220;+5&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/travelstartstg.wpenginepowered.com\/facebook-like-google-plus-1-hack\/plus6\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-29528\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-29528\" title=\"Plus6\" src=\"https:\/\/travelstartmu.wpenginepowered.com\/zablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/10\/Plus6.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"58\" height=\"70\" \/><\/a>I asked a colleague to share my share of the Memeburn post in G+ and I hit reload again, the widget then showed &#8220;+6&#8221;. Okay, this one is a legit new +1.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/travelstartstg.wpenginepowered.com\/facebook-like-google-plus-1-hack\/plus7\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-29529\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-29529\" title=\"Plus7\" src=\"https:\/\/travelstartmu.wpenginepowered.com\/zablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/10\/Plus7.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"59\" height=\"71\" \/><\/a>I +1&#8217;d my colleague&#8217;s share of my share and hit reload again, the widget then showed &#8220;+7&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>All in all that&#8217;s 5 +1&#8217;s Google racked up from one user for one piece of content. I feel dirty&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Importantly here, this is not just the case with Google Plus, I also tested this with Facebook likes and shares with the same results. Also important here is that this isn&#8217;t just the widget Memeburn is using, try this on pretty much any site using an <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">official<\/span> Facebook or G+ like or +1 widget and you should get the same result.<\/p>\n<p>So, if you have a blog post which isn&#8217;t getting much engagement and you want it to feel like there&#8217;s a frat party going down instead of it feeling like the annual agoraphobics anonymous camping trip, this is a quick way to garner a few likes fast.<\/p>\n<h6>You&#8217;ll also need to have a diminished sense of right and wrong, but hey, that&#8217;s on your conscience.<\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently I wrote a post debunking some claims that Google+ is very active. In researching this, I came came across a rather worrying &#8220;quirk&#8221; with Google+ and Facebook: You can get multiple +1&#8217;s and likes from 1 Google+ or Facebook account on one piece of content. By revealing my findings I feel like I&#8217;m making the internet a bad place. 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