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(Entry was posted by Alison Wood on this post in the Dumb SEO Questions community on Facebook, 05/21/2014).

Question about Linkedin account

Hi everyone. Myself and my director have been having problems with our Linkedin accounts whilst posting in the groups. I was notified by one of the group admins that my posts were being flagged for auto-moderation even though he had no moderation restrictions on his group. He said that if I have pending posts in other groups then I may have been flagged for "SWAM". My director`s account has a lot of pending posts too. I contacted each group moderator and asked them to lift the moderation flag but with little response. I carried on posting in the groups for a few months, some got stuck in the pending queue and some not. NOW...I posted in around 50 groups and when I went back to check, I couldn`t see the post in either "pending" or "discussions started" or "promotions".  I thought this was weird so a day later I posted the same discussion again. The same thing has happened in the majority of my groups.

Does anyone know if this is SWAM or something else? Has anybody been able to lift their SWAM status or am I going to have to rebuild my account?! Linkedin groups are quite important for me. Many thanks!!!?
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  • Alison Wood: Hi everyone. Myself and my director have been having problems with our Linkedin accounts whilst posting in the groups. I was notified by one of the group admins that my posts were being flagged for auto-moderation even though he had no moderation restrictions on his group. He said that if I have pending posts in other groups then I may have been flagged for "SWAM". My director's account has a lot of pending posts too. I contacted each group moderator and asked them to lift the moderation flag but with little response. I carried on posting in the groups for a few months, some got stuck in the pending queue and some not. NOW...I posted in around 50 groups and when I went back to check, I couldn't see the post in either "pending" or "discussions started" or "promotions".  ;I thought this was weird so a day later I posted the same discussion again. The same thing has happened in the majority of my groups.

    Does anyone know if this is SWAM or something else? Has anybody been able to lift their SWAM status or am I going to have to rebuild my account?! Linkedin groups are quite important for me. Many thanks!!!
  • Edwin Jonk: From the expert panel in this weeks SEO Questions hangout on air on 01:15:51 into the YouTube video: https://dumbseoquestions.com/q/question_about_linkedin_account +Alison Wood

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  • Alison Wood: Thanks :) I think my question was kind of misunderstood by the panel. After a bit more research, I think I'm at the bottom of it now.

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