Have you ever liked & shared a post on facebook as a way to win a prize? Apart from there being facebook issues with doing contests right on your wall, so many of these votes do not count because users (rightly) have all of their posts set to friends only which means the page can’t see your share.
When people share facebook posts from the SmartCanucks’ wall we can typically only see 10-20% of those shares (a reminder those who don’t set all posts to friends only, but some of them are shares to other pages) so the other 80-90% would not be counted.
For your share to be counted, you need to click the box shown, which will likely say Friends as default and choose public. I usually go back and change them to friends after the contest is over so my page doesn’t show them publicly forever.
thank you for sharing this information. wish i had of known earlier!
Funny thing is that these types of contests go against Facebook terms. You have to actually create an application to do a giveaway.
So Smartcanucks, don’t run contests like that. You might lose your page.
Please let me know if you need to know how to properly run these contest.
cheers.
I said right at the beginning of my post that there are issues with running facebook contests from your wall, but the fact remains that lots of SCers enter them on other walls
Good to know. However, will continue to share friends only.
I usually click on ‘only me’. Does this mean my entry is void? Would someone please e-mail me an answer? Thanks, I really appreciate knowing.
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