{"id":4916,"date":"2016-11-16T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-11-16T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.promosimple.com\/?p=4916"},"modified":"2016-11-16T16:13:59","modified_gmt":"2016-11-16T16:13:59","slug":"require-facebook-likes-giveaway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/psdev2.com\/blog\/require-facebook-likes-giveaway","title":{"rendered":"Why Can\u2019t I Require Facebook Likes for My Giveaway?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Many people hope to build their Facebook followers via their giveaways. And they absolutely can\u2014but they can\u2019t require Facebook likes as a means of entry. Here\u2019s why\u2026<\/p>\n

Facebook\u2019s Rules<\/h2>\n

About two years ago, Facebook instituted a rule around its \u201clikes\u201d:<\/a><\/p>\n

You must not incentivize people to use social plugins or to like a Page. This includes offering rewards, or gating apps or app content based on whether or not a person has liked a Page.<\/em><\/p>\n

This means Facebook began banning \u201clike-gating,\u201d or requiring likes of your Page in order to get something. Unfortunately, that also includes banning likes in order to enter a giveaway. You can’t require Facebook likes as a means of entry.<\/p>\n

What This Means for You<\/h2>\n

If you\u2019re using Promosimple to build your giveaways, you don\u2019t have much to worry about: We\u2019ve taken this rule into account<\/a>.<\/p>\n

While you can still encourage people who enter your giveaway to like your Facebook Page (and you should!), that entry will always be optional. It will look like this:<\/p>\n

\"you<\/p>\n

For simplicity\u2019s sake, you\u2019ll still see the Facebook Like option within the \u201cAdditional Actions for Entrants.\u201d But when you add it to your form, it can\u2019t be required, and it won\u2019t confer additional entries into your giveaway.<\/p>\n

Workaround Attempts You Should Avoid<\/h2>\n

We\u2019ve also seen people use our forms, but add language like \u201cYou MUST like our Facebook page to enter.\u201d This implies that they require Facebook likes for entry (in spite of what the giveaway form says), and that’s absolutely against Facebook rules.<\/p>\n

We strongly, strongly discourage this; just adding this language means that you are violating Facebook\u2019s policies and are in danger of having your page suspended.<\/p>\n

We\u2019ve built our forms to comply with policies, and we\u2019ll continue to update them to comply with any upcoming policies, but you could still find yourself in trouble if you try to cheat the system in the wording on your form or the way you promote your giveaway.<\/p>\n

The best way to stay on Facebook\u2019s good side and keep your Page\u00a0live and working is to comply with all of Facebook\u2019s policies.<\/p>\n

You can certainly use your giveaway form to encourage people to like your Facebook page, but you won\u2019t be able to require it.<\/p>\n

In the end, the goal is that your Facebook page is only liked by people who are really and truly interested in you and your business\/blog. And that\u2019s a good thing anyway, isn\u2019t it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Many people hope to build their Facebook followers via their giveaways. And they absolutely can\u2014but they can\u2019t require Facebook likes as a means of entry. Here\u2019s why\u2026 Facebook\u2019s Rules About two years ago, Facebook instituted a rule around its \u201clikes\u201d: You must not incentivize people to use social plugins or to like a Page. This […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":4918,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/psdev2.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4916"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/psdev2.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/psdev2.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psdev2.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psdev2.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/psdev2.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4916\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psdev2.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/psdev2.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psdev2.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psdev2.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}