# Forum owners, how do you "fight" Facebook groups?

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**Category:** Community Building\
**Created:** [October 3, 2020, 11:13am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/forum-owners-how-do-you-fight-facebook-groups/166100 "2020-10-03T11:13:23Z")\
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**Post date:** [October 5, 2020, 8:01am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/forum-owners-how-do-you-fight-facebook-groups/166100/15 "2020-10-05T08:01:40Z")

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Hi All,

I have been fighting Facebook groups in the French community in London since 3 years and here are some strategies.

- 1 - Try to partnership with the admins of the facebook groups. Some of them will like you and your project. They will see an interest in working with you. So they will let you post or comment and you will also help them on your website.  
I prefer commenting in groups instead of posting, because in commenting i bring the answer to a question. For example Facebook group post is : "Hi guys, how to find accommodation in London " My comment will be → "go here, to the forum where you will find the wiki post that every users can improve, tweak ([Trouver un Logement à Londres - Auberges de jeunesses, résidences étudiantes, colocations et agences immobilieres - Logement - Français à Londres - Petites annonces gratuites - Forum](https://francais-a-londres.org/t/trouver-un-logement-a-londres-auberges-de-jeunesses-residences-etudiantes-colocations-et-agences-immobilieres/14))

- 2 - To do the above you need to have the answer to everything in your forum so gather the questions people are often posting in FB groups and write topics or wikis about it. Then to help you comment faster, if you have à mac, install Alfred ([https://www.alfredapp.com/](https://www.alfredapp.com/)) for better productivity and find quickly your forum topics

- 3 - do partnership with companies - in our case, we have agencies that post job offers, accommodations, au pairs, events etc… this is fresh content and free visibility for the companies.

- 4 - Create facebook groups yourself, it does give us a bit of visibility our stats of the last 6 months :  

- 5 - create a directory - on FB groups people always look for a dentist, a lawyer, summer camps, here is our answer for this → [https://francais-a-londres.org/tags](https://francais-a-londres.org/tags)

With a bit of patience and consistency we have our audience stats that looks like this : [Audience du site francais à Londres - Site Feedback - Français à Londres - Petites annonces gratuites - Forum](https://francais-a-londres.org/t/audience-du-site-francais-a-londres/11149)

Good luck to you all guys.

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