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    • Personnel_Concept
      Personnel_Concept last edited by

      Case- company Facebook page has more than 10K users and almost 50% are spam. When this happens, edge rank of the page is badly affected (because spam users are not interested in your shared content so they hide you/remove you from feed and of course never engage).

      Not to mention Facebook released an update end of 2014 where page will have less visibility anyway compared to user updates.

      Overall the Page updates get very less exposure / impressions

      Now only solution is to remove this huge no of spam users one by one or by an API.

      Question - Does removing the spam users regain the authority of the page ? Does that solve the overall issue ?

      What are the other solution to fix the situation ?

      Thanks.

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      • Menswelfare
        Menswelfare last edited by

        You can delete all spam post and unpublish this page only for 7 days,after 7 days you will publish this page and post one interesting item.i hope this is work

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        • Fuel
          Fuel last edited by

          Good Morning!

          I feel like it might be important to discuss how you acquired so many "spam" fans in the first place. I assume these fans were not generated naturally? If so, you could prevent this in the future by being more selective in your ad targeting.

          While the removal process will undoubtedly be slow and might not have a direct impact on the "authority" of your page, it will help increase your organic reach. When you have a high number of disengaged ("fake") fans that do not interact with any of your posts, your organic reach will suffer greatly. However, by cleaning up your fan base and reaching more fans who are actually interested with that you have to say, engagement as a percentage will increase - sending positive signals to Facebook - and your reach will increase because of this. It is always better to have a smaller number of legitimate fans that a high number of disengaged fans just for the sake of having x amount of followers. Happy fans = happy Facebook.

          Hope this helps!

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