"I'm absolutely thrilled that my Good Things Guy website, an initiative I thought would be a small endeavour just five years ago, has been verified," says founder Brent Lindeque.

"[It has] also grown to over a million readers a month, with over two million page views in April alone; it's staggering," Lindeque adds.

According to Facebook, four factors are taken into account by the social media platform before proceeding with account verification. These include:
  • ensuring the authenticity of the account
  • checking the account's uniqueness
  • confirming it has full and complete information, and
  • confirming that the page is noteworthy in terms of real people searching for and desiring information from that account.
"Over the past couple of months, our Google ratings have been astronomical," says Brent. "Our March statistics reflected 4.26 million impressions and 87 000 click-throughs. Over the first two weeks in April, those figures jumped to 5.78 million impressions and 246 000 click-throughs," says Lindeque.

"People across the world are hungry for good news, especially in times of crisis. And even though we find ourselves in difficult times, there are still so many good news stories, stories of hope, goodwill and just good people doing their own little bit to make the world a better place," he adds.

"Now, readers can come to the platform and be confident that all articles are genuine stories of everyday people and only good things," concludes Lindeque. 

For more information, visit www.goodthingsguy.com. You can also follow the Good Things Guy on Facebook or on Twitter.