If you are running a local business, your customers live nearby. Its their opinion that matters and not the opinion of people living in foreign countries. That's why today we are releasing a new featured called Country Restrictions.
A Facebook giveaway is a great way to reward your fans and grow your Page audience. Contests for Pages helps you organize two different types of contests : Form Contests and Timeline Contests. In this blog post, we will focus on the latter.
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It's been a long time (almost 5 years!) since we last updated the policies governing our apps. Back then, we had hired a law firm to craft the terms for us. They did a good job but lots have changed since then, notably with the adoption of strict data privacy laws in Europe and California. We thought it was time to review and update our policies accordingly.
Today we are introducing a new metric on the Stats page that will help you track the increase of Likes on your Page. The app records the number of Likes when the contest is added to your Page tab and will stop monitoring after the contest closes or once it's taken off the Page. This will give you a good overview of how your fan based increased while the contest was running. This is especially helpful if you added a Like button to your contest and want to track the impact on your Page Likes.
Contests for Pages is almost 10 years old and we have many long time customers that created hundreds of contests over the last few years. We heard from these customers that it can be difficult and frustrating to find old contests. At 5 contests per page, it requires a lot of patience to browse back through all previous contests. Today we are happy to finally make it easier to search and filter contests.
If you run a popular online voting contest where there are prizes to be won, then there is a risk that cheaters will try to rig the results in their favour. A quick Google search shows just how easy it is to buy contest votes off the internet. In this blog post, we explain the different mechanisms that we put in place to detect and prevent fraudulent votes.
It's hot summer here in Canada and we're hard at work adding new features to your favorite Facebook contest app. Today we are proud to announce the launch of a new tool to help you build better contests. We call it the Smart Quality Score.
Lorsque vous utilisez Concours pour Pages, nous vous offrons les outils pour partager un concours avec vos amis et vos fans sur Facebook. Mais parfois, vous devez cibler un une audience plus large ou plus spécifique pour obtenir de bons résultats. Dans ce billet du blogue, nous vous montrerons comment utiliser les outils de publicité Facebook pour donner un boost supplémentaire à votre concours et en faire un succès.