Hello, dear guests of the FIRELINKS.RU blog. Today we’ll talk about electronic assistants on social networks. Groups that are created for business purposes or want to provoke their reader into conversation need to think through the conversation process. Therefore, you need to understand what a bot is in VK and why it is needed, and also consider the setup process that will allow you to get an automated interlocutor.
There is often no time to respond to each user, and hiring a whole staff of operators to conduct the conversation is unreasonably expensive.
In the article we will look at what a bot is in VK and with the help of which services you can create them.
What are bots on VKontakte
Bots are custom “fake” pages that are designed for communication, sending spam, messages, boosting subscriptions, and simply for advertising purposes.
Bots can be purchased or created. But purchasing from special services is not profitable, because the bot accounts available for sale are designed correctly and with high quality, which affects the price of the page.
It is also not possible to register a bot on your own, because all pages on VKontakte are linked to a mobile phone number. You won’t specifically buy a new SIM card just for sending spam or promotion, will you? There is only one way out - to purchase bots cheaply through message boards.
Useful links: How to send a message to yourself on VK: 4 ways, How to gain subscribers on VK: 7 working methods, How to beautifully design a page on VK: 7 simple tips from the pros.
Why bots and offers are useless for business
Why is this happening? The answer is simple - these people are absolutely not interested in your group and your business. They received their reward and forgot about you. And even if the cost of one such subscriber is much cheaper than the target one received when launching paid advertising, the question arises: why do you need these offers at all?
Some authors of VKontakte projects believe that joining a group with several thousand subscribers is much better than joining an empty one. But the whole problem is that in order to fool people, you will also have to imitate at least minimal activity in your group. And you will also have to pay for this...And again, this activity will be fake. This is why I never buy offers anywhere and I don’t advise you to.
Why do we need chatbots?
Bots on VKontakte, as in other social networks, are needed to automate subscriptions, likes, and joining or unsubscribing to communities. A properly programmed bot will save you from sitting for hours at a computer or on the phone, from routine.
One of the main reasons for creating bots on a page is the initial promotion of an account. Users are more likely to subscribe to you and bookmark your channel if they already have friends in it.
Important! Do not overdo it with bots in your account - the site administration immediately blocks such pages, because they have large resources and have in their arsenal special programs that recognize bots online 24/7.
The blocking does not occur immediately; first, suspicious pages are deleted and “dogs” appear in their place. If their number exceeds the total number of subscribers by a third, then a ban follows.
Bots are also used to send messages and advertisements. The likelihood of purchasing a particular type of product or service increases sharply if your offer is seen by as many potential customers as possible.
Who are the offers?
A few years ago, bots were actively used on VKontakte, but today they have been almost completely replaced by offers. The social network VKontakte has a negative attitude towards inanimate accounts, and if you manage to fill your group with bots, it will simply be blocked. You will then have a long and persistent conversation with the administration and explain where you got these bots.
Offers, unlike bots, are real people who are ready to join a certain VKontakte group and perform certain actions in it, for example, like, repost, or write some comment. Why do they do this? For a fee, of course.
Here is a screenshot from a site where people are invited to earn money on VKontakte by performing certain targeted actions.
Types of bots
According to the degree of complexity of the program, bots are:
- Primitive - a simple utility that is capable of corresponding with users using a monosyllabic script, sending spam and messages. If there is no answer to the user’s question in the database, the chatbot will send messages “I don’t understand you.” Have you seen loanbots? All social networks and more are full of these advertisements. Such bots are often used by credit institutions.
- Advanced ones are bots with artificial intelligence. Such programs are capable of calculating several possible answers to questions, guessing the mood of the person writing, and providing the information that the user needs.
Bots for cheating and communication in VK: TOP-7 best programs
Chatbots exist to communicate and attract new subscribers, and many services allow you to create them. Depending on the topic of the group and needs, you can customize the program in different ways using online constructors.
They do not require programming knowledge, since in most cases clear step-by-step diagrams are used. It is important to understand the best systems and identify their distinguishing features. These are not bots for getting subscribers or viewers, but with a creative approach they can increase the number of clients or regular visitors.
#1: Aimylogic
This system offers modules that operate on the basis of artificial intelligence. At the same time, VKontakte is not the only social network, because there are also ready-made integrations for WhatsApp, Facebook, Telegram, Bitrix 24. Having a minimum of programming knowledge, you can assemble an entire script from pre-prepared blocks.
The machine learning ability allows it to achieve natural behavior, and based on the script, it is able to understand the meaning of what the client wrote. Embedding is even possible in voice assistants, and without leaving the dialogue you can carry out transactions, for example, to pay for goods.
For non-commercial projects, such as educational or entertainment projects, a licensed product can be obtained for free. This is available for one direction, that is, when selecting VK, other sites cannot be selected.
Business tariffs start from 5,900 rubles per month and reach 59,000 rubles per month, depending on the amount of information processed and the presence of intelligence.
Pros:
- convenient multilingual interface;
- clear system for composing dialogues and settings;
- large selection of sites;
- artificial intelligence and machine learning;
- possibility of free use.
Minuses:
- quite expensive business tariffs;
- the need for lengthy setup for maximum functionality;
- paid integration of the bot into the application for initial tariffs.
#2: Bot Kits
This service allows you to create a personal chatbot from scratch without programming skills and with endless behavioral variations. When used, statistics are collected and a client portrait is formed.
Additionally! Managers can at any time transfer control over correspondence to themselves in order to further process the client independently.
The user's responses are processed by machine intelligence, which can respond with meaningful, but pre-programmed phrases, as well as other content. Answer templates can be written in the form of pictures, videos, or audio files. You can expand the functionality by connecting external libraries to make the bot more efficient.
Tariffs range from 499 rubles for one program to 8,499 rubles for 30 bots, with the opportunity to familiarize yourself with the full functionality. The trial period lasts 7 days, during which time you can familiarize yourself with all the functions and make your choice.
Pros:
- demo mode;
- reasonable cost;
- constructing dialogues using flowcharts;
- two-stage dialogue processing.
Flaws:
- it will take time to fully develop;
- not all functions are present in standard development;
- the basic version includes only one program.
#3: Botmother
The simple and intuitive interface of the system allows us to call it an analogue of WordPress in the world of automated dialogues. The program can access the source code of other applications, as well as accept payments, because PayOnline is built into it. The first bot is free, allowing you to try out the full range of features, after which you can purchase more for a price starting at RUB 799. per month.
The application is able to collect statistics and builds a sales funnel, displaying effective and problematic stages. To implement a good conversation, you need to create blocks, and the process is accelerated by using vertical templates.
Advantages:
- the first interlocutor is free;
- ease of setup;
- accepting payments inside.
Minuses:
- no AI;
- no machine learning;
- inability to handle complex and branched dialogues.
#4: Chatgun
A specialized system for creating chat AI exclusively on the VKontakte platform. The owner can configure buttons for quick communication, sending media files and, of course, work out scenarios for the program’s behavior. It works on automated mailing and responds to user actions according to predefined cliches. The cost is 390 rubles. per month, but the first 5 days are offered free of charge and during this period you can get your money back.
Pros:
- low price;
- demo period;
- formation of mailings;
- sending media files.
Minuses:
- lack of artificial intelligence;
- primitiveness of functionality;
- there is no payment acceptance block.
#5: Robochat
One of the most popular services for creating an artificial interlocutor is VKontakte. Three areas of work are offered, including entertainment, a business segment and answers to questions. You can work through both regular dialogue and a quest for game interaction. Intelligence recognizes the city, the current time, can accept payments, offer coupons and discounts.
Important! The price depends on the number of subscribers in the public and the availability of some functions. Communities of up to 50,000 people can use the service for free; for other pages the cost is 399-999 rubles per month.
Advantages:
- clear division of topics;
- Keyword recognition;
- macros with reading personal information;
- targeting;
- convenient statistics.
Flaws:
- one platform;
- low functionality of initial tariffs.
#6: Gupsup
A universal system that allows you to create a robot for 30+ channels, which will be difficult for beginners. There are capabilities for recognizing and processing natural language, as well as designing full-fledged live dialogues in tree format.
Experienced developers can use the Bot Builder IDE, and there is also promotional campaign tracking and cross-channel synchronization. The cost will be announced individually after submitting the application.
Positive:
- one of the best sets of features;
- a wide range of social portals for posting;
- tracking progress using CRM.
Negative:
- difficulty for beginners;
- English only.
No. 7: BotVK
A simple and fast service for creating primitive chats that can carry out mailings, notify customers about changes in work and special offers, and answer simple questions. You can choose an entertaining, informational, sociable robot.
The first three days will be free, then for 1 page you will have to pay 100 rubles monthly. When using the database mailing module, you pay only 500 rubles for the entire time.
Pros:
- availability of a trial period;
- setup in a few clicks;
- low prices.
Minuses:
- primitiveness;
- lack of statistics;
- targeting only the entertainment segment.
Who needs chatbots
Let's say you have a fairly well-promoted VKontakte account, and you are selling a certain product through it. What do you face every day? Exactly. With the same questions from potential buyers. What a bot you purchased or created can do:
- anwser the questions;
- provide information on price, sizes, assortment;
- send messages about current promotions or discounts;
- automate the receipt and processing of orders;
- make it easier to find the right product or service by category.
In other words, bots help in promoting not only the account itself, but also with sales and communication among buyers or page guests.
Bots are needed for large portals, restaurants, fast food cafes, and delivery services. This simplifies the work and reduces the time for selecting a client and assembling orders.
How much do offers cost?
Prices for offers vary widely. To be honest, I myself have never used services for recruiting offers into a group, but finding them online is not at all difficult. Go to the search engine and enter the search query “Buy VKontakte offers” and get acquainted with the prices. Here is a screenshot that I made by looking at one of the sites providing such services.
But I want to warn you right away, by ordering offers, you risk ending up in the same situation as the author of this post in the discussion thread on the forum. That is, after joining your community, people will hang there as an absolutely dead audience, and this is even in the best case. And in the worst case, they will begin to unfollow en masse and turn into “dogs”.
How to create a bot on VKontakte: a short tutorial
Creating an advanced program will require the technical knowledge of a programmer. If you have them, then nothing is easier. But we are talking about ordinary users. Programming codes for us are like some kind of dots with squiggles.
For most users, I offer the following instructions for creating chatbots:
- Choose a special service for “bot building”. Today, the best of them are Chatgun, BotVK and Robochat. I dealt with the latter, so I’ll show an example with it.
- Click “Create a bot” and register via VKontakte. You can also specify an email.
- Link your community and allow the program access to it. After permission, a short tutorial on how to create a bot will be sent to your messages on the page.
- Check the box next to the community you want to embed the bot in and click “Connect”.
- Click on the template and connect your community. In the example, I indicated to include: a welcome message, a reaction to a subscription, an unsubscribe, and other unplanned actions. You can customize the template in any other way as you like and what tasks you want to solve using the bot.
In the welcome message line, you can write one or more options that the bot will send alternately. It is also possible to create individual messages by specifying recipients.
One of the functionality of this service is the ability to prescribe correspondence scripts in advance. To do this, you just need to think through 5 to 10 questions that users ask each other online.
Another feature of the service is the bot’s ability to see the name of the user who visited your page, his city and time. You can write all this into the algorithm and your page will be active even when you are sleeping or busy.
- Be sure to take the time to write down the keywords for which the bot will send responses to users according to your correspondence scenarios.
And add emoticons, attached images, macros. This will cheer up your guests and attract more subscribers online, 24/7. - Once all the necessary tools and algorithms are registered, click the “Save” button.
Important! Think over keywords and phrases carefully, because if at least one letter does not match in one word, the bot will not be able to respond to the message of a potential subscriber. Yes, this is painstaking work, but you only need to do it once, you will be amazed at the results.
A pre-written algorithm will allow your bot to respond to any sent file: picture, meme, photo or audio and video materials.
How to write a bot for VK yourself
This section will be useful for those who want to get acquainted with the structure of the bot in more detail and create a bot for VK for free and on their own.
· In any search engine we find the registration form in “VK”. In the “name” line, enter any name. In the “surname” line, it is best to enter a common surname. Click “register”.
· Then you need to enter your phone number and click “get code”.
· After confirmation of registration, a blank page will be generated that must be filled out. Now let’s move on to the main question, namely “How to create a bot on VK yourself?” In a new user's account, all required fields must be filled in. Namely the following:
Step by step:
1. Basic: first and last name are already filled in. This means you should indicate gender, marital status, birth details, city, language. Then - grandparents, brothers, sisters, parents, children, grandchildren - add as you wish. Click “save”. It is important to understand that the data will reflect the personality, so your VKontakte bot should look real.
2. Contacts: you need to add your country, Skype, and a link to your personal website. The last points may not be added.
3. Interests: It is important to include activities. Indicate a large number of interests (travel, books, humor, etc.). Next, enter your favorite music, then movies, books, TV shows, games, quotes, and then save.
4. Next is education, mark the school, educational institutions and save.
5. Career: you need to enter the place of study and activity, you can even have several, and also save it.
6. Service: it is necessary to indicate only, as a rule, the male gender.
7. Life position: should be filled in - political preferences, the main thing in life, worldview, the main thing in people, attitude towards smoking and alcohol, sources of inspiration, and save all this as well.
So, now follows the second stage of resolving the question “How to create a VK bot on your own?” Now you need to add an avatar and photo.
1. We search the Internet for a “picture” of a photograph of a person. Download them to your computer and save them.
2. It is advisable to find several photographs of the same person. In this case, the appearance of a “real user” is created.
3. The photo for the avatar should be of medium size; it should clearly reflect the face of our “bot”. You should not take animals or various extravagant photographs. Everything should be
as close to reality as possible. Upload the photo to the VK page and save it.
4. Next, add the rest of the photos, the more there are, the better. They can be varied. “VK bot” can be either in the singular or in a company or with a group of people. You need to upload at least 4-5 photos to your account. Let's move on to the third stage and find out how to create a “bot” in VK.
Next step…
The third stage of solving the problem: How to create a “VKontakte bot for groups”? The next stage should be full of the most active actions. You need to upload several videos and some audio recordings to the page of the new fake. And also share your account with friends. How to create a “bot” on VK without programs, so to speak, manually? This method of creating a “manual” bot will require your time. The fact is that you will need to add friends manually. You will have to create and accept friend requests daily. To make the fake user look even more alive, he needs to communicate.
So, in conclusion, we can summarize that you can create a VK 2021 bot in two ways: install a special program or write in the chat yourself every day and communicate with other users on its behalf. As you can see for yourself, there is nothing complicated. However, it is worth taking into account that in order to create a full-fledged “bot”, you need to spend your free time.
Cases: in what areas will chatbots help?
We have already briefly touched on the topic of areas of application of bot services, but I propose to dwell on this issue in more detail.
- A bot in an online store - your virtual assistant will not only respond to messages sent from potential buyers, but will also automate the collection of applications, process orders by category, delivery methods and provide already systematized information. You will only have pleasant little things left for the shipment of the goods.
- Bot for delivery, reservation and feedback services - ready-made applications arrive in the form of notifications. That is, the bot has already accepted orders, sorted them into groups, dates, checked transactions, and administrators can only check and confirm everything.
- A bot for orders in public catering – it’s not news to anyone that food can be ordered directly on the page of a particular cafe, sushi bar, or restaurant. But the bot can also offer an assortment, inform you about available promotions, place your order, make a payment and send a purchase receipt. This significantly increases the loyalty of consumers who find it easier to communicate on social networks.
- A predictor bot is an entertainment program that can give you a tarot card reading or simply give you the wisdom of the day, according to your zodiac sign. This service improves the mood of users, which increases the time they spend on your page.
- A business card bot is a simple, inexpensive case with information about your brand or company with functionality for accepting applications. This service operates 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year.
- Bot - test - mechanism can be simple or complex, with ramifications. It has taken root well in social networks and on the Internet for taking surveys among consumers of goods and services.
- A bot - a game - is an entertainment functionality that attracts new consumers while playing the game. This is very exciting and spurs interest in the establishment.
To summarize, I can say that if you have a small channel or page for simple communication, then you don’t need bots. But, if you have your own business and are actively looking for channels to promote your products or services on the Internet, then bots can help you.
Also, let’s not discount the number of subscribers, likes and comments on your channels, pages and accounts. After all, this is directly related to monetization and the amount of money earned. Automation of routine will help with this too.
In this article, I explained what a bot is in VK, why it is needed, and described in detail a short tutorial on how to create it. In other articles I will talk about its implementation in other social networks, stay tuned.
Sincerely, Ilmira Kolodey specially for the proudalenku.ru project
Download a ready-made bot for VK
In this section we will look in detail at how and where you can download the VK bot. In fact, downloading a bot is an absolutely simple task that can be completed by absolutely anyone who has the skills to use a PC. You can download VK Bot on the vk-robot website. or on other sites. They all have one thing in common, namely: the risk of downloading a virus, downloading an outdated program, which not only will not be useful to you, but will contribute to a quick ban and all sorts of other troubles. By downloading programs online, you are at great risk.
All you have left is the right to choose. In order to make the right choice, you need to qualitatively evaluate the bot’s functions that are necessary specifically for your activity. You can easily find a description of the functions on every site that offers bot downloads.
But if common sense tells you that you don’t need to download stuff from the Internet, then there is a reliable service that is not only free, but also won’t get you into trouble, even on your personal page - BossLike.ru
Bosslike has many functions that VKontakte users want: Likes, Reposts, Subscribers, comments...
