What's Working On Facebook That Keeps Accounts From Being Banned

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I'm getting ready to start promoting some cpa offers on facebook and
would like to know what triggers facebooks spam filters and how some
of you are getting around the spam filters successfully.

I found this info on another forum is most of this correct.

You are likely to be labeled by Facebook as "potentially" bothering
or sending unsolicited correspondence if you:

send 4 friend requests and 3 are ignored
send 40 messages in the span of one hour in a day
send 10 wall posts in the span of one hour in a day
not networked (friends of friends, school, work or location)

You can be verified by Facebook if you:

have an account from 2008 or earlier (only removes captcha)
accept 20 or more friend requests (only removes captcha)
submit a valid credit card on file submit a mobile phone address
register from either a .edu or .gov e-mail address

You are likely to have your account disabled by Facebook if you:

get flagged by 30 or more users on a wall post get flagged by 10 or more users as "I do not know this person" on a friend request attempt to log in over 50 times in 10 minutes (incorrect password) directly impersonate or mispresent your identity (account or page creation) have more than one account

If spam prevention is triggered, you will have a employee working in Facebook's User Operations manually investigate what is going on. They will determine whether or not you are being abusive at large (on a page, group or event) or privately. If your account becomes disabled, you will need to contact Facebook (User Operations) who will manually evaluate your situation. In addition, they work with software engineers, fraud investigators, and inside salesmen.

Facebook keeps track of alot of data in order to analyze it for advertising purposes. One of the smaller departments in Facebook is the inside sales department. They talk to clients (advertisers) in order to sell space on the Facebook platform.

If you notice, Facebook usually keeps track of your upstream (upclick) and downstream (downclick) behavior since its particularly useful for advertisers. You will notice this if you click on one page that is on another page. Since Facebook wants to retain their client to help bring in close to $1 billion in revenues, they work pretty hard to remove spam and keep order on an otherwise Wild West on the Internet.

To finish up, there are plenty of interesting statistics about Facebook, its users and fan pages. Did you know that Thursday afternoons are the best time for user interaction (likes, wall posts, etc.)? Or that, fan pages catagorized (community excluded) as Website or Humor have 234% more users (historically) than pages on politics? Or pages on sex have 538% more interactions than pages on education?

Finally, as I have been saying the last few months (before new groups, places came out, and the new spam filters) expect to see alot of changes and new things ahead. You can bet that these will be based on networks, connections whether friend-of-friend, similar likes (pages), or IP filtering on supercomputing.
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  • Profile picture of the author eflo
    Great content - thanks!
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  • Profile picture of the author kemdev
    My take: don't try to 'fool' the system. And that goes nearly every social media outlet.

    Don't spam... actually USE the sight the way it was intended to be used. People always wonder why their accounts get banned when all they use their page for is to ram affiliate and CPA offers down other people's throats...

    ...do you really think Facebook wants that? Of course not. That's not what the site was made for. Sure, you can make some alright money by promoting an offer every now and again, but it's generally not anything very sustainable.

    Don't try to trick the system. Just follow the rules.
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    • Profile picture of the author highbids
      Besides spamming which I don't plan on doing, whats the best way
      you found & the safest way to promote fan pages that won't get your
      account banned.

      Originally Posted by Jesse Kemmerer View Post

      My take: don't try to 'fool' the system. And that goes nearly every social media outlet.

      Don't spam... actually USE the sight the way it was intended to be used. People always wonder why their accounts get banned when all they use their page for is to ram affiliate and CPA offers down other people's throats...

      ...do you really think Facebook wants that? Of course not. That's not what the site was made for. Sure, you can make some alright money by promoting an offer every now and again, but it's generally not anything very sustainable.

      Don't try to trick the system. Just follow the rules.
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  • Profile picture of the author garyv
    I like buying fan invites, from either fiverr or ebay.
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    • Profile picture of the author highbids
      If it's targeted to the fan page niche right.

      Originally Posted by garyv View Post

      I like buying fan invites, from either fiverr or ebay.
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