I just can't win sometimes. I'm constantly flagged by algorithms as spam or a bot. Back when many social sites and forums used non-alg flagging, I was never flagged as spam or a bot.
Facebook was the first to start flagging me & restricting my posts. Facebook suggested I get a blog or use their notes section. They eventually took away my notes for "too many links", they stopped the connection between my blog and facebook because of "Ad abuse". I never ran ads on my blog (I didn't know how to back then), I requested a count of flags with what was flagged so I could learn from my mistakes. I was informed that all my flags were bot or system flagged, meaning a bot or algorithm flagged my posts. This confuses me because Facebook has given me almost 100$usd in free ad space.
Facebook first contacted me with an offer of free ad space two or three years ago. So I advertised my NPO's page, Deoblou Corp. Not only did I not receive organic or natural traffic but I was receiving Controlled Faux Account Traffic. All fake traffic is not allowed by the facebook rules, guidelines and conduct policies. So, why did my free facebook ads cause traffic that might get me booted? I've thought about this over and over again but eventually I paid to put ads on facebook. When I did this, I noticed the automated like traffic. One time I paid for 20$usd for an ad and it was finished in just a few hours. I'm aware that your marketing location and tags can cause problems with their ad system. Ultimately, even when I exclude areas of automated like traffic sources, I still get it from the same few countries too. So now, facebook won't let me post most links nor will they let me message links. I'm a facebook contributor and I've been on since 2008. I've never had a human report me (that I'm aware of) but I'm still heavily controlled by facebook & now twitter.
Yes, Twitter has deemed me spam for too many links in my posts. This took me only seconds to figure out. I looked through my feed and saw, the same post with different links. In Example the post should say, "The Bitcoin ball is growing and rolling up" would have an attached photo and a link * 3dbtclist.com *. What I was seeing was an excerpt from the quote and a link...one was facebook, the other instagram, another ripl. Didn't take long to see I actually had automated posting on twitter! Seeing this I wondered if I had a similar problem on facebook but no. So, having this issue on facebook is problem some but having this issue on twitter is horrific for me. My twitter is almost completely business related. I use twitter for my news and I retweet what I read. So, this problem made me realize my techniques for being lazy keep interrupting my work. This was my Aw-ha moment but I'm a bit confused of what to do besides end automated processes and put links in the photos/videos. I have a linktree but is there a better option?
I'm honestly saying I could use some help if you want to offer any, please do.
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