Automated posting to Facebook groups

What automated group posting is

You write a post once, pick the groups you belong to, and a system publishes it in each of them one after another. Instead of forty manual actions, one action.

The difference between tools is not the ability to publish - they all manage that. The difference is where the post is sent from and at what pace, and those two things decide whether your account survives the coming month.

Two methods, and one difference that decides everything

Posting from the cloud: you hand over a username and password, and the system logs into Facebook from its own server. Facebook sees a login from another country, from a device it has never seen, at the exact moment you are asleep at home. That is precisely the pattern of a stolen account.

Posting from your own browser: a Chrome extension runs inside the browser you already use. Facebook sees the same computer, the same address, the same session that already exists - because it really is you.

We chose the second method, and that is why we never ask for a password and could not receive one even if we wanted to.

What counts as a safe pace

Facebook does not count posts - it recognises a pattern. Forty identical posts in four minutes are the signature of a bot. The same forty posts spread across a day, at uneven intervals, look like a busy person.

So a system that publishes faster is not a better system. It is a system that will burn your account sooner.

• Varying gaps between posts - not exactly every 60 seconds
• A daily quota that stops on its own, even if groups are still queued
• A cooldown per group - never returning to the same group more than once a day
• An automatic stop the moment Facebook starts refusing, instead of retrying again and again
• Different wordings of the same message, so it is not flagged as duplicate text

What to check before choosing a tool

1. Does it ask for your password? If so, it posts from the cloud, with everything that implies.
2. Does it let you set a daily quota, or does it simply run until the groups run out?
3. What happens when a post fails - does it tell you why, or just mark it red?
4. Can you block days and hours - weekends, holidays, nights?
5. Is there a log showing what went out, when, and where?

What happens after the post goes out

Publishing is half the work. The other half is what happens in the comments - that is where the customers are.

A system that publishes and then disappears leaves you opening forty groups by hand to see who replied. POSTEMA collects the comments from every group into one place, so you see an enquiry instead of hunting for it.

Frequently asked questions

Keep reading

• How to post to many Facebook groups without getting blocked
• Chrome extension for posting to Facebook - why an extension
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