Encounters of The Fourth Kind

I’m thinking bots are kind of beyond being aliens – hence I tie them to being encounters of the Fourth Kind.

And in this post I’ll proceed to tell you about my latest encounter of the Fourth Kind in Facebook land.

 

 

 

Everything’s all Tickety-boo, Then Bam!

How often has your chosen traffic strategy been humming along when Bam!

Your content has been removed by the social media powers that be?

I’ve had a number of such encounters and each time I am equally taken aback.

“This can’t be!”, as I exclaim in denial.

Then as I look into it further, I see there is no further.

Just a simple statement of violating community standards.

And further research shows me that I am supposed to know what part of those standards I have violated.

I pride myself for reading the fine print but – hey – I’m not going to know everything.

And then it just becomes a best guess scenario as to what I did wrong and how to correct it.

Many of the rules are applied by bots and lucky the day you get speak to a real person to get your answers, eh.

 

Latest Encounter of the Fourth Kind

I have a 2024 target to establish my online presence as an affiliate marketer and one of my tasks to do so – is with an activity that I call blog sharing.

And it’s an activity that really extends the reach of blog hopping.

The idea is to find blog content in your niche and make thoughtful comments on a particular post and then shout out to your folks on your social media accounts about the wonderful blog post and by whom.

I am assured by a coach that such activity may seem counter-intuitive but it helps me achieve my target to establish my online presence.

You not only get the attention of your regular audience – but quite often that of the actual blogger whose wonderful post you\’ve just shared.

 

Steps to Blog Sharing

To set yourself up for the task of blog sharing, keep a separate text file for each of the bloggers that you intend to share their content.

1. Create a new text file or Open an existing text file in the name of your blogger.
2. Enter these item headings in each text file.
   (Feel free to alter the template and make it your own.)

   Blogger’s Name:
   Blog URL:
   Date:

   — On Facebook (business page) and LinkedIn (company page)

   — On X.com

   — My comments

3. Read the blogger’s post and come up with content for each of the headings.
4. Enter your comments that you’ve made directly on the blogger’s post under “My Comments”.
5. Enter apropriate announcements of the blogger and the topic of their post that you will make on your social media account.
   
   I separated my headings because I need to keep my announcements brief on X and the other social media accounts have no character limit that I know of. The other two accounts I post on are my Facebook Business Page and my LinkedIn Company page.
6. After all posts have been made, save and close the blogger’s text file.
   You will have a historic list of all the comments and announcements you’ve made regarding each blogger.

Encounters of the Fourth Kind

During one blog sharing session I had 3 bloggers’ text files ready to go and each blogger’s post open.

And during the second sharing I realized I had a notification from Facebook.

It read something like, “We have removed some of your content for violating Community Standards, see why.“.

Well geez, the post was not unlike any other so I clicked to see why.

And they had already removed my content and everything apppeared to be good.

That – had me scratching my head wondering what was up.

What You Should Know

The typical stance is that you SHOULD KNOW what the standards are.

And as much as you thought you knew the rules, you are now faced with more research to find out what’s up with encounters of the Fourth Kind.

If you are ever in that situation, I have a few links for you to follow:

1. The Facebook Support Inbox

Just make sure you have your personal account or a business page open before opening that support link.

2. Instructions to let Facebook know that you disagree

3. Faceboook Community Standards for SP*M

After I determined that they cited me for SP*M, I had to read item number 3 carefully.

Then it was up to me to determine where I had gone wrong.

 

My Best Guess

There were two possibilities and I’ll move ahead with caution on these.

First is the frequency of my posts. I will take my time and not make posts one after the other without taking extra time between posts.

And second was a brief mention of hashtags. My guess was that by using the same hashtags over and over on different posts, Facebook took that as being SP*M. So therefore I will start using those hashtags sparingly.

 

In Conclusion

Hopefuly some of this helps you out if you ever have Encounters of the Fourth Kind.

At the very least you now have a few links that can get you started on some investigations if this ever comes up in Facebook.

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Let me know in the comments if you’ve encountered an infraction on social media and initially you were at a loss for where to go and correct the situation.