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Facebook’s Feed Now Punishes Pages That Ask For Likes Or Share Reruns

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Does this herald the end of like and share competitions?


http://techcrunch.com/2014/04/10/how-to-show-up-in-news-feed/?utm_campaign=fb&ncid=fb
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  • JessicAhh
    JessicAhh Posts: 3,903 Forumite
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    Don’t explicitly ask users to Like, comment on, or share your posts, either in text or photos. Facebook will detect this and reduce your reach

    Wow. That could mean the end of FB competitions full stop :eek:
  • mije1983
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    Moneybot wrote: »
    Does this herald the end of like and share competitions?


    http://techcrunch.com/2014/04/10/how-to-show-up-in-news-feed/?utm_campaign=fb&ncid=fb

    I hope it does! I'm very selective over which comps I enter on Facebook if they are L&S ones. Don't want to end up spamming my friend's feeds!

    JessicAhh wrote: »
    Wow. That could mean the end of FB competitions full stop :eek:

    Hopefully more companies will start using an app for comps, which quite a few already do.
  • Moneybot
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    I would hope there were more apps rather than the L&S especially those who don't ever name winners.
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  • JessicAhh
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    Yes, that's true... They will all have to be app based, if the pages aren't allowed to solicit even comments. Think this might be an end to some of the flash giveaways though, that only last a day or so? Although, Wallis Wednesday has always been based on an app...
  • robbies_gal
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    would be good to cut down on dodgy comps if eveyrone had to use an app
    What goes around-comes around
  • mjm3346
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    Not sure it will make much difference, remember how many there were when all competitions were supposed to be run using an app. They also don't appear to be doing anything about the 1,000s of pages that do not have the "FB disclaimer" on their comps.

    Some competition posts already say things like "you know what to do" so don't directly ask for a post share or like but guess what all the chosen winners (just by chance) will have done.
  • Moneybot
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    I think the difference this time is that they have changed the monitoring software for looking at what is being posted on peoples timelines. Regardless of whether it says L&S if the same picture gets shared in a short space of time the software should pick it up.

    This could also cut down on the "funny" cat photos too....
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  • mclarkie
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    Moneybot wrote: »

    This could also cut down on the "funny" cat photos too....

    :eek: I Can see a few peeps on here grumbling about that one :D
  • JessicAhh
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    mclarkie wrote: »
    :eek: I Can see a few peeps on here grumbling about that one :D


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  • sidsnot
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    I'm not a fan of like and share but I do feel for the very small businesses that rely on these type of comps to get the page noticed by a wider audience . This won't ever stop firms like Asda argos etc who have recently changed most of their comps to L+S from running comps as before the new rules came in they ran comps through apps. It is only punishing the small businesses. If anything it will mean more Rafflecopters but certainly a lot less L+S
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