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about a week and a half ago I got banned on the Facebook marketplace well at least shadow banned and that is once that happens your listings then get D ranked so hard that basically no people can see them anymore so what did I do in order for this to happen and also what can you do if this happens to you let's discuss Facebook and also it's attached Facebook marketplace I don't use the former a whole lot but the latter I use quite a bit especially when it comes to selling gaming PCs now depending on where you are in the world Gumtree Craigslist or offer up or other apps might be more popular but in Australia Facebook marketplace is a big way to sell gaming PC's so if you flat out get banned or in my case shadow bend it can affect of course sales dramatically and in this case I have spoken with a few friends who have been shadow bend in the past and what you can do about it but let's go on with my first case of how I got shadow ban personally so you guys cannot make the same mistakes as I did basically I wanted to have a bit of fun with a PC listing and I use some different words than in hindsight I realized I shouldn't have used because that obviously triggered something in the Facebook algorithm that automatically thought that I was selling something that I actually wasn't so what did I actually do in this listing well I had a rise in 526 hundred and a RT X 2060 PC for sale and in this listing I decided to spice things up or call it an MLG PC or major league gaming now it took that major league and I'm guessing it took the league part and in the item itself I actually put in the description it was a big ticket item and I realized after I got banned I'm like oh no the algorithm put those two words together ticket and also league and thought that I was selling tickets to a sporting event so it then went and shadow banned me and it's been a week and a half later and I haven't been unbent I've put in multiple reports to Facebook to say hey I was actually just selling a PC using some fun terminology to sort of spice up my listing and they haven't replied to me at all there's no number I can contact in Australia to try and resolve this they've pretty much just said nope you've done the wrong thing and here's how we're going to reward you so how you can identify if you've been shadow banned is the first thing is you're used to getting a certain number of messages and enquiries but all the sudden you get no views no increase not even from low balls which surprising so that's how you're gonna know your ads are sort of being filtered out and put right down the bottom after listing the second thing is in my case is I lost the renew ad feature just completely went away and I couldn't get that back that's how I knew something was seriously wrong straight away now I have had friends who have told me that they have been shadowed banned in the past but it's only been a temporary thing for using things like too many caps in a listing in the woods and so they said that went away after three days but in my case it's been more than three days so I think something is severely wrong now of course if you've incurred this problem or you want to know what to do if you incur this problem then I unfortunately think the only way to get around this is to either get a facebook rep to respond and realize that this mismatch in the algorithm or make a whole new Facebook account in itself and the problem with making a new Facebook account is apparently you have to be using Facebook actively on that account for three months before you can unlock the marketplace feature because if you make a new account Facebook marketplaces automatically not available so that really puts you in a tough spot if you then have to get your Facebook account which you've got all your photos or your memories or your friends and then go make a new account because of this and unfortunately I think in my case that's exactly what I'm going to have to do if I want to keep selling PCs on this marketplace so basically there is my example with Facebook marketplace I'll try and resolve this if you guys have any tips and tricks of your own be sure to drop them in the comments as well but with Computex coming up very soon I don't have time to resolve this I actually don't even have time to make a new Facebook I'm not even gonna bother until two weeks later and then I'm gonna to make a whole new account and start trying to sell PCs on that account but now we're moving on to the latter half of this video and we're gonna talk about what you can do to avoid getting shadow banned like I did or getting flat outright banned and the thing is you can use words and terminologies that will circumvent this algorithm because basically it's just identifying simple keywords and when one or two of them are matched it will then just simply wipe your ad off the listing and that will affect your other listings so in this case I'd advise you guys not to use too many caps in your listing it's okay to use them sparingly here there another thing as well as I'd advise not to use any business terms like don't say we are a business or anything like that because they do have those options for business sellers who have to pay for ads another thing is don't list too much in a short time period I heard from people who use this a lot that you should ideally be listing maximum one ad every three days your mileage may vary with this but depending on how busy Facebook marketplace is in your country they might have different rules no one exactly knows except the person or group of people who have programmed these algorithms another thing to look out for with Facebook marketplace listings is emojis if a detects you've used too many of these it will then again just pretty much nerf your listing right to the bottom another thing to be careful of too is using links that link to external websites this one can be a big no-no for detects especially too many of these in an ad than again you're going right down the bottom and the last two things to talk about which go hand-in-hand is visibility and also feedback but I believe the feedback itself if you have it private or open it doesn't so much affect your visibility as opposed to having a lot of bad feedback if you incur a lot of bad feedback within a short period of time your ads I believe will then get nerfed down to the bottom but if you have a lot of good feedback in a short period of time that will then boost your ratings ad visibility itself the more people that click on that ad over other ads that will boost that one to the top so the algorithm is similar to YouTube videos with thumbnails in that regard the more people are clicking on that particular ad the more Facebook marketplace is going to promote that out because it thinks it's hotter than the other ads but in terms of feedback itself actually having your feedback private or public I believe doesn't affect the listing directly but of course it is always a good thing to have your feedback open because it may be a determining factor if someone comes with your ad and says hey this guy's got private feedback what's going on or at least if he's got a public feedback and the ratings are high that may help that individual sale anyways in terms of me in my situation the moment I am currently shadow bent on Facebook but that's okay because I've still got good old gam tree to rely on and fall back to which doesn't seem like it has as strict as listing procedures as Facebook marketplace does and also on the relation to gum tree at least in I believe you can contact someone to get direct responses and help if something was to happen like it did on Facebook marketplace but regardless I enjoy being a guinea pig for you guys and talking about this thing as well as getting your feedback in the comments section and adding to the description if there's any other tips and tricks you've got in relation to not getting shadow bend but also keeping your ads to the 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