I am pretty new to MP & βorganicβ social marketingβ¦ I was stuck with the old fashioned PPC or paid advertising on FB, twitter & googleβ¦ but recently with social media becoming more and more greedy and unfriendly to small businesses starting outβ¦ I decided to go both waysβ¦
Thing isβ¦ especially with FB - They have become so militant, uncompromising and plain brutal in their systematic account blocking - Cutting someone off the grid with no warning, no option to communicate or understand what went wrong. Even for guys like me, who really donβt want to just spam everywhere and have their own product and just want to cut off some expensesβ¦
Unfortunately, even though I took some good advice, went slow and tried to really give out value through my new accounts (and really got a lot of good feedback from other users including many friend requests - I actually never received so many friend requests in my life )
Even so - I got blocked one account after the other without really knowing why
Thing is - Nobody really knows how FB red flags are raised or what to avoid since no one from FB really tells us, so in essence itβs all really guess workβ¦
I wanted to share an idea I have with the forum -
Facebook allows every account/profile to pick 3-5 of its friends and make them βTrusted Friendsβ - These are practically friends of the account that share another means of communication (phone, email, skype etc.) with the account owner, and can help the account owner get back in if he/she gets blocked, by βvalidatingβ them with a code they receive and pass to the account owner to enter from his/her computer!
My idea that I wanted to share with you and hear your thoughts, was that all of us here on the MPSocial forum could help each other out by connecting (some of) our profiles as trusted friends and βbail each other outβ in time of needβ¦
Because Iβm not sure that most of us here that are just starting out already have 3 more accountsβ¦
And I think itβs also just a nice thing to do AND a great way to learn from the more experienced account ownersβ¦
If youβre just starting out, you should definitely have 3 accounts to do MP experiments with.
Donβt risk your main (real) account, as FB is very strict.
If I get my FB accounts flagged, I donβt want to rely on anyone else, or to wait for anyone else to spare 10 minutes to save me. Iβd rather save myself, either by using the MP friends backup module (which is GREAT!) or by those 3 trusted friends.
Just think itβs a nice idea before I or anyone else buys 4 proxies for 4 different accounts that others could assistβ¦ we are after all on the same boat
Could you explain the MP friends backup module benny?
On most cases when FB flag you (for spamming groups or other things), they give you the βidentify your friendsβ test.
If you account has 5,000 friends, there is no way to pass this test.
MP has this great tool, where they backup the pics of your 5,000 friends, so that when the FB test pops out - you just need to look at the pics that MP saved, and itβs pretty easy to pass the test.
It has saved me a couple of accounts in the past. LOVE IT!
Unfortunately, I managed to pass the friends recognition test after 4 tries only to be blocked again after 3 days while sharing a post from my pageβ¦ and then BOOM - no more photo testsβ¦ just βsend us your ID!β
Then you should look back at the things you did, and see where you went wrong.
When you get the friends test, it means that youβre been watched by FB, even if you pass the test.
So afterwards take it slowly:
less joining groups & spamming groups
less posting links
less DMs
check your spintax to make sure itβs good enough
check your account actions to make sure that it looks human (sleeping 8 hours, posting stuff on own wall, liking/commenting on other peopleβs stuff etc.)
Yes. It only shows some functions about PAGE photo/coverβ¦ not account/profile and I donβt understand how to use itβ¦ Can you please explain how to use it? Thanks
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