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The post Fighting Spam On Your Social Ads appeared first on HostGator Blog | Gator Crossing . The world of social media is supposed to be just that – social. It’s a place where people can freely speak their mind about a product, brand, or their favorite cat (we’re looking at you Grumpy cat). This can be amazingly wonderful for some advertisers, but then it can also be their worst enemy. This post will cover the negative effects of social on social (Twitter and Facebook) ads and how you can fight them.   Twitter The most common type of spam on Twitter originate from fake accounts posting affiliate links or links to their products. These users are essentially riding the curtails of legitimate advertisers in order to get some visibility for free. How effective is this for them? We don’t know. Another type of spam comes from upset users. Although we all try our best to provide the absolute best products available, there will always be someone that is unsatisfied for some reason. These users can be very vocal about their opinions on social channels, even attempting to hijack otherwise civil threads with hate comments. Fortunately with Twitter, you’ll be able to see comments on any of your posts coming through your notifications. So if you’re watching your notifications, you’ll be able to quickly identify spam. The downside is that you can’t delete any of these comments, deserved or not. You can mark them as spam, but the chance of them being removed is very slim. For Twitter, you really have two options. Leave the tweet alone and hope the spam doesn’t get noticed Delete the tweet and recreate it in the campaign The second option is one of the worst options because, as many advertisers will know, Twitter rewards engagement. So if you have a tweet that has a lot of favorites and retweets, the tweet will tend to show more often. Although, Twitter does reward freshness, so it is overall a balancing act and a judgement call.   Facebook If you’re using Facebook’s “Boost Post” option, your ads are your posts on your page and you can easily filter through the posts with comments. However, if you’re using dark posts , then this is a much more involved process. Similar to Twitter, the most comment type of spam is affiliate links, product links, and even profile or page links. On Facebook, these can be deleted and abusive users easily banned. The next type of spam essentially consists of generally nonsensical, but positive comments. Mostly these are emojis and smiley faces. There are rumors that some fake accounts are created for specific purposes and these users click / comment in order to appear active. While we can’t verify this information, we aren’t going to usually delete the positive messages. Currently, Facebook doesn’t notify page administrators of comments on ads. However, they do notify for likes, which seems slightly backwards. However, here are 3 methods of finding your comments on newsfeed and mobile ads. 1. Manually Go Through Each Campaign I generally separate ad sets by display type. This makes it easier to go through all ads in these ads set in the campaign manager. The process is listed below: Click ad name so a view of the ad will drop down Look at view of ad to see if there are any comments If there are comments, click “Ad Preview” If this has a newsfeed element, you can click “View in Newsfeed” This will open the demo in your newsfeed and you can click comments Remove spam as needed   2. Manually Save Links To Add in Spreadsheets This is a tedious process, especially for those that create a lot of ads. To start, you’ll need to complete the steps in number 1 above. Then follow these: In the demo view, hit the arrow on the top right of the post Click save post Go to your saved posts (you can get there by clicking this link ) Click the post Copy URL and put in spreadsheet Delete saved post The reason you have to delete the saved post is because you can only save one post per page.   3. Power Editor To The Rescue This is the most efficient method I have discovered thus far. If you haven’t used the power editor before, don’t worry; it’s really pretty easy for mass edits. This helps grab all the posts you need (and the post IDs), and start viewing the posts. Here’s the process you’ll need. Visit power editor ( click here ) Download your ad account Click the active section on the left for campaigns to grab just the active campaigns Select all campaigns (if you filtered ad sets by display then you can select all those ad sets) Click the export import button on the top. (Button has two arrows) Choose Export Selected or Export All Open the downloaded document Play with the data until you have the “Ad ID” of your newsfeed and mobile ads Ad ID looks similar to a:602000000000 Move these to a different document / spreadsheet / tab Do a replace with CTRL + F to replace a: with https://www.facebook.com/?feed_demo_ad= Your results will look like a string of lines similar to https://www.facebook.com/?feed_demo_ad=602000000000 If you notice in the spreadsheet, there’s a “Preview Link” column. I have not yet been able to successfully see the newsfeed links by using this. That’s why I suggest appending the Ad IDs to the URL above. This process makes it easier to run through the list in a few minutes to go through the comments. If you wish to have multiple people, you’ll need to have them listed at least as an Analyzer on the Facebook account so that they can see the demo links.   Conclusion Remember, not all of the comments and tweets on your ads are spam. Do keep an eye out for general support requests and other beneficial interactions as well. It is always important to be responsive and helpful via your social channels. If you have your own suggestions about fighting spam on your social ads, let us know the comments below! web hosting Continue reading →