How to Remove Spammers from Your Facebook Page
The only thing certain in life is death, taxes and spam.
If you are the owner of a Facebook Page and have allowed your Fans to post comments, photos, videos and links on your wall.. you can be guaranteed that sooner or later spam will start appearing.
Sometimes fans see this as a way to promote their own business by regularly posting links back to their own sites.
To me, too much of this unwanted and uninvited activity is spamming.
It is super easy to ban this person from your Facebook Page and remove all the content they have posted.
Here’s how..
Fan Permissions
Firstly you want to check what sort of permission you have allowed your fans in regard to posting content on your wall.
Login to your Facebook Page then click on Edit Page,
Under Wall Settings click on Edit,
The Fan Permissions will tell you the posting ability your Fans have,
You could just disable this option and prevent your Fans from posting content on your wall, but that would defeat the purpose of having a fan page!
The downside of having this enabled is the spam you will receive.
Removing Spam
Head back to your Facebook Page and click on Just Others,
All the content that has been posted on your Wall by your fans will now be displayed.
Once you have identified someone who is spamming your wall, click on Report,
Next select a Reason from the drop-down menu, check the Banning option.. then click on <Submit>,
Then click <OK>,
The spammer has been blocked and all their content has been removed from your Page.
Simple.
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Thanks Matthew. Great work.
Do you know how to change the settings to only allow members of your group to post things on the wall?
At the moment people who are not members (we believe) are posting on our wall!
Also, is it possible for the creator to give the officer permission to delete wall posts and block users, and to send a message out to all group members?
And lastly, can a creator give their creator status to an officer if one day it's required?
Thanks!
WOW! This was very helpful. Thanks for posting.
This is crazy ! We should have the ability / power to remove anything we want from our pages..
"An administrator will review your request" absolute GARBAGE!
BAD MOVE Facebook…..
now anyone can comment anything they want on YOUR page and someone else gets to decide if it should be removed?
Don't forget that if you have a Facebook Page, YOU are the administrator..
Thanks for the great Fan Page tips. My page is FB new so spam is not an issue. I'll file this one away for later use!
Thanks,
Josh
Very useful. Many thanks.