How to Fix Minimal Readership error for Facebook Instant Articles

Facebook Instant articles for pages are a good way to earn money online these days but few problems are faced by the newbies to get approved for Facebook Instant Articles. One of the main problem is the Minimal Readership Error that most of people get while they try to claim or submit website or domain for instant articles. In this post, I will tell to how to solve that problem of minimal readership and get your website eligible for Instant Articles. You may check the whole process to approve Facebook Instant Articles here- How to get Facebook Instant Articles approved- October 2018

In most of the cases, whenever you try to add website to Instant Articles in tits configuration section, you get this message, "The provided URL is not being accepted because the site has minimal readership, which violates the Instant Article Policies (https://developers.facebook.com/docs/instant-articles/policy/). Please provide a different URL." In this post i will tell you how to get this problem of minimal readership fixed.

Solution to Fix Minimal Readership Error on Facebook Instant Articles-

Minimal readership means that your website has very less or no viewers at all. So you need to send viewers to your website to claim your domain. But the problem is that Facebook needs to get those views from Facebook only (i.e. the viewers who visit your website from the links shared on Facebook). So you need to send the traffic from Facebook for about 10 days. Daily visits from Facebook traffic should be at least 1500. That means you have get 1500 views per day on your website for 10-12 days to clear minimal readership.

The no of days also depends on domain extension. The domains with .com or other TLDs get approved within 10 days but some domains that use free extensions such as .tk may take more time.

After your website has cleared the minimal readership, add your website or domain under the connect your site in configuration section of Instant Articles in Publishing Tolls on your Facebook Page. It will ask to add meta tag to your website's head section. Do that and your website will be added.

Now your URL will be checked by Facebook and it will show pending status. Send more traffic from Facebook to your website for few more days to get the URL approved. After that you can submit your articles for review but do not add any article in the production library until your URL is approved. How to get Facebook Instant Articles approved- October 2018

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