{"id":14,"date":"2013-07-18T12:56:27","date_gmt":"2013-07-18T16:56:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.social-contests.com\/blog\/?p=14"},"modified":"2013-07-18T12:56:27","modified_gmt":"2013-07-18T16:56:27","slug":"facebook-rules-checklist-for-contestssweepstakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.social-contests.com\/blog\/facebook-rules-checklist-for-contestssweepstakes\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook Rules Checklist for Contests\/Sweepstakes"},"content":{"rendered":"

Faceboo\"Screenk c<\/span>ontests\/<\/span>sweepstakes have proven to be very lucrative for brands seeking to both grow their email lists and engage with current followers. With ideas ranging from photo to social gaming contests, their are many creative ways to excite your fans and increase traffic to your Facebook page. Howeve<\/span>r, before jumping to your company\u2019s Facebook admin panel, here are a few rules you should know about creating contests on Facebook. Contests that fail to follow all rules almost always are found out and shut down by Facebook. Companies that continue to break these rules face their complete pages being shut down.<\/span><\/p>\n

Pre-Contest<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"ScreenMake sure to let Facebook know about the contest via this form https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/business\/contact.php. <\/span><\/p>\n

\"Screen<\/a>Sweepstakes\/Contests must be administered through a third party agency\/software service, either on a Canvas Page or a Page App. <\/span><\/p>\n

\"Screen<\/a>Make sure your contest is in compliance with state\/regional laws and guidelines for businesses running prize giveaways through Facebook. <\/span><\/p>\n

During Contest\/Contest\u00a0Components<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Screen<\/a><\/span>\u00a0When running your contests, you must not grant entry to the registration or form upon the user liking a wall post, uploading a photo, or commenting on your Facebook wall.\u00a0You can however set up like-gating, or suggesting a user like a page to enter your contest.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Screen<\/a><\/span>\u00a0Include an opt-in check box on your contest in order to legally send emails to contest registrants and utilize demographic\/email data. <\/span><\/p>\n

\"Screen<\/a>Your contest must state somewhere specifically that it \u201cis in no way sponsored, endorsed or administered by, or associated with, Facebook.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

\"Screen<\/a>Facebook\u2019s like button cannot be used as a voting mechanism for contests or a sweepstake entry button. <\/span><\/p>\n

Post-Contest <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Screen<\/a>Facebook\u00a0<\/span>messages, chat, or timeline posts cannot be used to notify contest winners. Companies must communicate with winners privately. <\/span><\/p>\n

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Since Facebook loves to change their rules and guidelines every season, its best to follow up with their promotional guidelines page for a comprehensive list. As for now, use our handy list when crafting your next social media promotions.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Facebook contests\/sweepstakes have proven to be very lucrative for brands seeking to both grow their email lists and engage with current followers. With ideas ranging from photo to social gaming contests, their are many creative ways to excite your fans and increase traffic to your Facebook page. However, before jumping to your company\u2019s Facebook admin […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.social-contests.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.social-contests.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.social-contests.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.social-contests.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.social-contests.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.social-contests.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24,"href":"http:\/\/www.social-contests.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions\/24"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.social-contests.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.social-contests.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.social-contests.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}