Facebook "Spam" Update Discussion Thread

[MrBeastsOnToast]

This latest reach update has hit my page HARD. With my reach down by 80% or so since it rolled out.

http://newsroom.fb.com/news/2014/04/news-feed-fyi-cleaning-up-news-feed-spam/

Have you guys been hit?

 

[CyborgX]

Almost everyone who was sharing too many links or posting those so called 'Viral pictures asking for LIKES, Comments and SHARES have been hit hard.

And yes, that includes myself.

 

[MrBeastsOnToast]

Almost everyone who was sharing too many links or posting those so called 'Viral pictures asking for LIKES, Comments and SHARES have been hit hard.

And yes, that includes myself.

Interesting, i have not heard that too many links can cause this. It might explain why i was hit hard though - i hardly ever (once i think) asked for likes comments and shares. Although i did post about 4 links a day, with a video or pic post in between each one.

Where did you hear about the links?

 

[CyborgX]

Interesting, i have not heard that too many links can cause this. It might explain why i was hit hard though - i hardly ever (once i think) asked for likes comments and shares. Although i did post about 4 links a day, with a video or pic post in between each one.

Where did you hear about the links?

It doesn't matter if you share links. Facebook cracked down on pages which were sharing links which were irrelevant or cloaked. With spammy 'keywords. I know this because I own pages with over 9 million fans. Most of my pages have been hit, only two pages which I didn't do all that crap on are still very much viral.

 

[Roshaen]

I have some teenage pages but haven't seen anything as such so far may be we need to make it a bit more twisted to get away from facebook security.
There is always a second way to bypass and its a matter of time when someone is going to find that bug for sure.

 

[MrBeastsOnToast]

It doesn't matter if you share links. Facebook cracked down on pages which were sharing links which were irrelevant or cloaked. With spammy 'keywords. I know this because I own pages with over 9 million fans. Most of my pages have been hit, only two pages which I didn't do all that crap on are still very much viral.

By spammy keywords are you talking about viralnova clickbait style titles?

 

[MrBeastsOnToast]

It's NOT just a spam issue, it's an issue from ANY Links from facebook while on Mobile. Last month I was getting over 1.1 million uniques a day, mostly from Facebook. I'm down to like 65k daily now, it's killing me! I've googled, but not much discussion about it. I DID read on a facebook community post someone said while on Mobile, EVERY link they click on gets the message you see in the image I've attached. I thought my site was hacked or something, they way traffic PLUMMETED down. I tried a few of my links from my facebook page, and sure enough, I got the message. The BAD thing is, the message page isn't responsive, so the button to continue to the website was OFFSCREEN! It's impossible for someone to continue, even if they DARED to after reading the message. I thought it was just MY site, but I had a conference call with Simple Reach, and was told OTHER pageowners are suffering because of it too. How the hell has Facebook NOT picked up on this yet?? My site has NEVER been reported as spam, so it's really not a spam related warning. All I know is I'm losing THOUSANDS daily because of this.

Thats crazy, although after checking i cant see that happening on any of the sites i know to of been hit by this.

 

[maineyak]

http://www.passwordincorrect.com/facebook-sorry-there-was-a-problem-with-this-link/ was the first site I found that addressed this issue

 

[hitman247]

I'm getting hit pretty hard as well...so for now I am paying for reach and it seems to have helped a little.

I have tried everything from different domains (cloning old ones), swapping out plugins, different hosting, and different fan pages.

In the referrer I am still seeing the l.facebook and lm.facebook links - even though I am buying reach. I'm going to continue to weather the storm and hopefully after enough complaints FB removes this "link shim" thing they are doing.

 

[MrBeastsOnToast]

So is it the general consensus that l.facebook and lm.facbook referrers are all seeing a warning? As i have read elsewhere that is not the case.

 

[maineyak]

I'm getting hit pretty hard as well...so for now I am paying for reach and it seems to have helped a little.

I have tried everything from different domains (cloning old ones), swapping out plugins, different hosting, and different fan pages.

In the referrer I am still seeing the l.facebook and lm.facebook links - even though I am buying reach. I'm going to continue to weather the storm and hopefully after enough complaints FB removes this "link shim" thing they are doing.

I was paying FB for clicks to my site, but I can't see paying to have people see that damn warning message. Sure, Facebook will say I got 800 website clicks, but it's probably more like 800 people clicked and saw that message, and only 80 proceeded to my website after seeing a warning like that.

 

[mikeyoung]

So is it the general consensus that l.facebook and lm.facbook referrers are all seeing a warning? As i have read elsewhere that is not the case.

they're not. when any other user besides the targetted user clicks on a l.facebook lm.facebook link it shows the message

 

[maineyak]

they're not. when any other user besides the targetted user clicks on a l.facebook lm.facebook link it shows the message

Do you have proof of that? The same URL will show the same message regardless of who clicks on it.

 

[avi619]

Damn. This sucks. My 850K page now has a post reach of 500 :|
Is it possible to recover from this, or once your page is marked as spam, nothing can be done?