Hi All,
(first post- woo-hoo!)
I'm working my way through Zeno's (awesome) FB guide and have a question regarding depth of FB accounts- how much context do you generally add to an account before running ads? Photos? Friends? Messages? Likes? Etc... Assuming that the IP access is clean, what makes an account look "real-enough" to support white-hat and build a history? I'm willing to devote the time/resources to building some depth and finding real-enough friends but not if I don't have to.
I checked out some of the spammy PVA accounts from a few sources basically to get a sense of what they offered and it seemed that they had about 4 photos, six-odd likes and 4-5 "friends" that were also clearly fake- wouldn't FB take one look at that and throw the ban-hammer at the lot?
Cheers,
KDF
Build it like a real account - add friends, talk a bit, fill out your profile, let it age a few weeks, etc.
Attach a billing source to pay for some FB credits in a game :P
Think of it from Facebook's perspective: a new account adds 5 friends, a profile image then starts spending $100/day on ads. Doesn't take a genius to make some automated checks to flag such obvious dummy advertising accounts.
By the way, why not just use your own personal account to create a Business Manager account, then make a grey ads account through that? If you're running white hat it's a bit superfluous to build a fake personal account.