10/01/2026
Having difficulty making a post on your business page because it has a link in it? Meta has decided it doesn't make enough money so it is now forcing businesses into signing up for monthly plans if they want to post more than 2 links per month. All that content that AI is creating for you that has links to articles or to different pages of your website etc....it's now worthless unless you want to pay for it. It's not cheap. You pay about $5-$6 per post with a link when you average out the monthly cost and how few posts you get.
This is going to greatly impact small businesses and will continue to give larger corporations more of an advantage. There are some workarounds still, but Meta is working to close all of those up.
With that being said, this also impacts the Chamber. We cannot post links to Chamber Events, we can't share business posts that have links in them, even sharing links to community events would be restricted. Businesses either need to find it in their budget (even 8 -20 posts are not a lot), or start looking for alternatives to Meta for your communication and advertising. Selling on Facebook will be nearly impossible once they close the loopholes people have found.
Small businesses took Meta to where it is today...they have made Billions off of these small businesses. Without small businesses paying for ads, content creators won't exist. If you boost your post you can have a link, but, you cannot boost a post if you are unable to make the post in the first place. A post without a link often has very little value to a business. We will see where this all goes.
I feel that either their last quarter numbers are going to tank and they will realize they've made a huge error, or larger businesses and corporations will gladly fork out the $400/mo to post links unlimited and will gain more of the market share, and this monthly windfall will make up the difference to Meta and they won't care that the little guys are left to struggle. With so many small businesses struggling right now, and as Facebook as their main source of advertising and communication with customers, why do you suppose they chose right now to do this?
What are your thoughts? What alternatives might you try? Is it time for small businesses to walk away from Meta and get back to Google and other non-social media marketing?
