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Mosquito Ads on Multiple Cadillac Dealers’ Facebook Ads?

Apr 13, 2012
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Heard from a Cadillac customer this morning, not happy with his FB page. Check out this post to an article about using human blood to poison mosquitos. This same post I found on multiple Caddy dealer sites. I can’t imagine real people are seeing these posts. Dealers spending thousands on digital advertising, but with inadequate inspection! #cadillac #advertising #facebook
 

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It looks like that article did exist at some point but it was deleted so now it 301 redirects to Brink Wire's homepage. On Brink Wire's homepage is a story about mosquitos. Brink Wire's homepage does not have an Open Graph image tag setup so Facebook automatically pulled the mosquito story's featured photo.

I'm guessing whichever social media vendor posted this has a content calendar database of Facebook posts and when this post was initially added to the database the Cadillac article did exist and I'm sure they weren't expecting it to get deleted.

This is just another reason why dealers should be creating their own content :)

My team of content writers post on average 10-20 blog articles a month for each of our dealerships.
https://www.garberbuick.com/blog/
 
It looks like that article did exist at some point but it was deleted so now it 301 redirects to Brink Wire's homepage. On Brink Wire's homepage is a story about mosquitos. Brink Wire's homepage does not have an Open Graph image tag setup so Facebook automatically pulled the mosquito story's featured photo.

I'm guessing whichever social media vendor posted this has a content calendar database of Facebook posts and when this post was initially added to the database the Cadillac article did exist and I'm sure they weren't expecting it to get deleted.

This is just another reason why dealers should be creating their own content :)

My team of content writers post on average 10-20 blog articles a month for each of our dealerships.
https://www.garberbuick.com/blog/
Yeah, you're right about that and Open Graph, which is very useful. If you're using a WP-based platform you can find plugins.
Example: https://wordpress.org/plugins/opengraph/ and https://wordpress.org/plugins/wonderm00ns-simple-facebook-open-graph-tags/.

At one point, I led a team that created over 750 articles per month for various dealer blogs. Long gone are those days. OG wasn't around.
 

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Multiple Cadillac dealers' Facebook pages simultaneously posted an article about using human blood to poison mosquitos, raising concerns about wasted advertising spend and quality control. A respondent diagnosed the issue as a content management problem where a deleted Cadillac article was redirected to Brink Wire's homepage, causing Facebook to pull an unrelated mosquito story's image due to missing Open Graph tags. The thread highlights the risks of outsourced social media management and emphasizes the importance of dealers creating their own original content with proper quality assurance processes.

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