This is one of the most important tutorials on this website so make sure you read this and stick to the rules otherwise you risk losing your Facebook account and all the hard work you've gone to building it up.
Facebook Warnings
1. You are only allowed one account on Facebook. If you set up multiple accounts and access them from the same IP address (usually, the same location) then Facebook will close all your accounts.
2. Your Facebook account must be your real name. If you create a fictitious name on Facebook and start making friends with people you know from School, college etc, you may get reported and have your Facebook account closed down.
3. Don't use Facebook to send SPAM messages or as a bulk messaging tool or again, you will have your account closed.
4. DO NOT upload material, videos, photo's, web content you don't own the copyright material to. If you do this, Facebook will remove it and you may lose your account.
5. Avoid sending the exact same message out to multiple people when you are replying to emails or doing your friend requests. Facebook have filters in place to stop this.
6. If for any reason you get a WARNING MESSAGE pop up on your screen make sure you stop whatever you are doing, leave your account for 24 hours and then come back to it. You can usually have 2 or 3 warnings and then your account will be disabled, so be careful.
Best Practices
1. Don't spam the link to your website on other people's walls. It's very rude and offensive to the other person and it will make you look bad. Follow my Commenting best practices.
2. Treat others as you'd like to be treated yourself. Respect other people on Facebook. Facebook is a place where people come to get away from advertising and sales, so use it as a social networking site. Build up relationships with other people, get to know them first and you'll find that people become very interested in what you are doing.
3. Only tag close friends and people who know what you are doing in your Video's. People can report you for Tagging Spam if you are not careful. Tagging Spam is when people tag lots of people in a video or photo. Make sure you keep your video's personal and only tag the people who you are talking about in the video. See how I use video on Facebook here.
4. If you have your own Facebook group, make sure you send out valuable information and not just links to your business opportunity websites. If you want to get your members over to a website, make sure you have a blog, write good quality content and then link to an article which will help people on your blog. Remember, the aim with Facebook and Attraction Marketing is to get people to come to you rather than you going to them.
5. Engage in valuable conversation with people in the groups, on their wall's, when commenting on status updates, photo's or video's. Again, don't just spam your link on their profile.
6. When following the group friending strategy, make sure you limit yourself to 20-25 new friend requests each day. Change the email message every so often to avoid Facebook's spam filters. Make sure you use the person's first name in the email, and personalize the message as much as possible.
If you know of any other warnings, notices, best practices etc… please be sure to contact me so I can warn other members.
