I just signed up on this forum because I was Googling around due to having been hit with this issue on a couple of my pages as well, one having 374K followers and the other having 320K followers. We post 2-3 times per hour, random news links from things happening around the world.
What I have determined is the blocks are the result of Facebook's spam filters being triggered. The reason why is anyone's guess because I have 3 other pages totaling around 2.3 million and none of those pages have been hit with these blocks, even while posting the same amount of times per hour (2-3).
You're probably wondering how I've come to this conclusion so, keep reading.
On Friday, I tried to post a link to one of the pages that had been unblocked on Thursday evening. I tried posting the same article 3 times and the article would disappear from Facebook as soon as I refreshed my browser. It wasn't until I edited the permalink by removing a few words that article was not removed from the page. This tells me that Facebook's spam filters detected the link had already been shared previously and thereby disallowed it from appearing in the newsfeed again.
Here is further proof of my theory. These articles hit a page of 374,522 followers. We have posted them a couple of times before but because they always performed so well we posted them again, only this time...with significantly different results, as you can see with the reach on each post. One thing to also notice is
how long the links had been on the page for no more reach than they were allowed.
(I have removed the website url from the images so no one will think that I'm just trying to advertise my website.)
Unlike
froufrou mentioned above, the
only thing I can share to the blocked pages are memes and videos. I cannot share any links whatsoever, no matter the source.
In response to
Robertkett, the same two pages were blocked from sharing links for 7 days and the blocks were lifted on Thursday by 7pm. By Saturday evening, the pages had been hit with a block
again and this time the duration is 30 days.
What
SEO mentioned above concerning Facebook scoring pages based on a number of different factors could very well be true and if so, that would explain the reason why my other 3 pages haven't been hit with blocks. If that does tend to happen, I will let everyone know.
I have appealed the block, however, I have yet to get a response. My appeal message was as follows:
I have reviewed the policies and nothing we post violates any of the Facebook page policies. We strive to follow Facebook's guidelines and provide a good user experience for our followers. The last thing we EVER want to do is run afoul of Facebook guidelines.
If the block cannot be lifted, please give us a reason for why this block was implemented. We don't post clickbait, fake news or misleading headlines. We have been posting news links 2-3 times per hour.
Please review this incident and reconsider. We don't know what we have done wrong so if someone could at least tell us the corrections we need to make, we will implement these changes immediately.
Thank you for your time and consideration.
Should I get a response from Facebook, I will let everyone know.
