This guide on how to ban words on Facebook Page focuses on explaining specific steps so you can remove inappropriate words that you do not want to see on your Facebook Page. If you really want to improve your Facebook Page, you need to focus on following this article. I also share some necessary reasons for doing this in the last part of the article.
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How To Ban Words On Facebook Page?
To ban exact words on Facebook Page, you need to follow three simple steps that I share below. Note that after performing these steps, when someone posts a post on your Page or comments on a post on your Page and it contains banned keywords, it will be marked as spam and hidden.
However, when you take steps to ban keywords from your Facebook Page, the person who wrote the banned keyword in that list and friends of that account still see the post/comment. However, everyone else cannot see it.
Step 1 – Access Facebook Page
Visit the Facebook Page where you need to exclude keywords. Then click on Page’s Avatar. A menu will appear, you need to click on (Setting & privacy). Another window will appear, next click (Settings).
Step 2 – Access (Setting & privacy) window
After you complete step 1, a new window will appear. You can use the Search Bar named (Find the setting you need) and type (words) then click on (Hide comments containing certain words from your Page). Or you can also click on (Followers and public content) in the left column.
Step 3 – (Hide comments containing certain words from your Page)
In this part, you need to click on (Hide comments containing certain words from your Page) section. Facebook will then open a menu. In this menu, you have 2 options as follows:
- Add words, phares or emojis separated by commas: You can enter in the Search Bar the keywords you want to ban. You can also use the (Show variations) button to select additional related keywords and variations of the banned keyword you just entered in the Search Bar.
- Uplead from .CSV: You can upload a long list of all the keywords you don’t want your audience to use on your site. Click on the three dots next to the Search Bar and click (Upload from .CSV).
Another small note for you is that you can hide up to 1000 keywords in this section. After completing the steps, add to the list of banned keywords on Fanpage. You need to click “Save” to complete. And that is full steps of guide on how to ban words on Facebook Page.
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How To Ban Bad (Profunity) Words?
If you don’t know, Facebook also has a special setting to hide obscene words that are not useful for Facebook users. It’s different from the steps at the beginning of this article because there’s no need to provide Facebook with a keyword set. It’s quite simple to do.
First, you must access the (Followers and public content) section (you can review the instructions to access this section at the beginning of the article). Next, you need to turn on the blue button of the (Hide posts and comments with professionalism) section. You can look at the illustration below for easy understanding:
There is a small note for you, after you turn this feature on. You have the option to hide posts and comments containing swear/bad/profunity words on your Page. Facebook automatically hides words and phrases that are frequently reported as offensive.
Comments with these hidden words will still be visible to the people who posted them and their friends, but they won’t be visible to anyone else.
Why You Should Ban Words On Facebook Page?
After understanding the guide on how to ban words on Facebook Page. You can continue reading my content below. These are the main reasons why you should follow the above instructions. More specifically, you should ban words on Facebook Page because:
Make sure your Facebook Page is (clean)
Ensuring a (clean) Facebook Page and Facebook Business Portfolio will help you a lot. First, Facebook will evaluate that you have a useful history of activity on Facebook. And if for a long time you do not violate Community Standards, Meta Ads Policy, you also can upgrade your account to Agency Level (this type of account is hard to ban).
Second, a (clean) Facebook Page, without harmful content or comments, will help you easily reach new audiences. From there you can increase your reputation score and advertise more effectively.
Ignore inappropriate content
Normally, when Facebook Pages start to show positive signs, they will receive a lot of comments from the audience. Including good content, bad content, useful content, harmful content. To remove bad/toxic content, you must pay attention to the List Of Banned Words On Facebook and know how to prevent it through the instructions I shared at the beginning of this article.
Inappropriate content can completely get you banned. Worse than not being able to advertise properly, advertising intermittently, advertising being banned, restricted, etc. If this terrible situation happens, you can refer to my previous article about Detecting & Troubleshooting Banned Facebook Ads Account.
Prevent competitors
Sometimes competitors will be mean and bother you in many different ways. They can use Facebook Bot or a large number of fake accounts to post on your Page or comment massively (negative, offensive, defamatory).
To prevent this dangerous behavior from competitors, you can follow the guide on how to ban words on Facebook Page that I shared in the content section above.
Epilogue
Guide on how to ban words on Facebook Page will be really useful in cases where you seriously want to improve your Facebook Page and ensure achievements when running Facebook Ads for that Page. However, this is only a small part of a big picture about Facebook Ads and Facebook Marketing.
In the process of running Facebook Ads and implementing Facebook Marketing strategies, you will encounter many errors, difficulties. If you really need special support, don’t hesitate to contact SpeedX Agency immediately. We are always happy to assist you.
