Friday, July 9, 2021

FB deleted my 56 Property Posts


Yesterday was a bad day for me.

As all of you readers would know by now,

I write about property-related topics in Facebook

almost everyday.


So yesterday I was searching high and low in FB

for some posts which were written past few days.

AND to my surprise .... they were MISSING !!


Here is a screenshot of one of my posts.



At first I thought it was just a Technical Glitch

and thus I just ignored it and waited.  After 2 hours

I searched again .... and those real estate posts were

still not there.


AND that's when I started to panicked !!

Did I do something wrong with my marketing and

branding in Social Media Platforms like FB ?


So finally this morning, my fears came true.

I logged into my Facebook account and this pops up


WOW ... 56 of my posts on property-related content

were removed without my knowledge ....


Here are the screenshots :












BUT what irks me is why does Facebook do this

to me ?  And without giving me any Warning ?

What is worse is that I was NOT even given any

chance to make an appeal to them !!


I am an active member in many property Groups.

So whenever I make a post, I will then click the

SHARE button .


So my question is  ---  if FB doesn't like what I 

write or what I share, then why not just remove the

Share Button ?


Only after I have wasted so much time and effort

in sharing to other groups ... then only they deleted .

There is simply no justice at all ....


As a real estate agent, I need to post about properties

as part of my Marketing & Branding. But by totally

blocking my URL Link to this Blog of mine, it means

that I am losing out on a lot of opportunites.



BUT no worries.

I have 3 Solutions in mind


OPTION 1

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Use an Image Post which shows the Blog URL.



Thus if you are reading this now,

please SAVE/Bookmark this URL for your reference

since I will be posting in this Blog almost daily.


OPTION 2

===========

Use a Bridge Page.

A bridge page is essentially a Landing Page

which Re-Directs you to my actual Blog.

Its like using a 3rd Party.


Thus you will then click on the Bridge Page link

which will then bring you to this Blog,

bypassing the FB Lockdown .


Here's a video I created about Bridge Page




OPTION 3

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Use a Link Cloaker..

This cloaker serves to Mask/Disguise my Blog URL

to enable it to bypass FB robots.



Take not that a Link Cloaker is 

NOT the same as a Link Shortener e.g Bitly or TinyUrl.



There are Free and Paid Versions of Link Cloakers

in the market. But with advanced in technology by FB,

my personal experience shows that some of these

cloaking software or cloaking service are NO LONGER

effective in penetrating through the Facebook firewall .....



Thus you must be careful on this.