Are Free Alcapod Groups (And Public Lempods) Safe? (Explained)
- 4 years ago
This video is part of a LinkedIn engagement pods training course that's publicly available and free to everyone: https://www.thisonemarketing.com/2020/04/13/linkedin-engagement-pod-safety-explained/
I want to talk quickly about using engagement pods outside of the ecosystem that I'm building here. So, there are other Alcapod pods you could join and there are some risks associated with them that I definitely should tell you about. The first one is the bigger the LinkedIn pod, the more obvious the engagement pattern is going to be. This is because Alcapod doesn't randomize the order of people engaging. It's always the same order of people in the pod. So if the pod only has a few people, it's going to be okay. But when you have like, say 50 or a hundred people and it's the exact same order of people engaging on each and every post, it's going to look very fake and it's going to run a risk of detection as well, when LinkedIn's ready to crack down on it. It's going to know where a good place to start is and it's going to be those pods. The next thing is that the more often the pods are used, the more it'll reveal its engagement pattern, right? So the combination of if it's a big pod and it's used a lot. It's going to be probably the riskiest pod you can be in. The next issue is with people not trained on engagement pod safety, so they don't know that they're supposed to be first-degree connected. And this is of course going to make it look really fake to the algorithm. The next thing is that with public pods, there's really no rules around liking and auto-commenting. So people can say whatever they want without being worried about getting kicked out of the pod. And they may hurt your reputation, but also they may be getting the pod to engage with posts that you wouldn't want to have to defend engaging. So just things that are off-brand. Maybe politically, not appropriate. That's happened before. The next thing is that there's no quality control on these public pods. People aren't making sure that pod safety is happening or anything like that. So they're basically pretty risky. And I would caution you to be very careful about using them outside of our engagement pods, communities that I'm building. But they're available and you can use them as much as you want. But there are definitely risks, that could of course lead to getting your LinkedIn account banned as well as just engaging with things that you wouldn't want your professional LinkedIn network to see you engaging with. So that is just a heads up about using free engagement pods like Alcapod as well as being in Lempod groups. With a lot of those pods, there's no pod safety or anything like that. The one thing that Lempod has though, that Alcapod doesn't, is that it limits posts to once every 24 hours. So it helps to reduce the likelihood of any big issues. What I do with Lempod is I don't contribute auto-comments or likes, I just use the auto-comments and likes for my posts.
I want to talk quickly about using engagement pods outside of the ecosystem that I'm building here. So, there are other Alcapod pods you could join and there are some risks associated with them that I definitely should tell you about. The first one is the bigger the LinkedIn pod, the more obvious the engagement pattern is going to be. This is because Alcapod doesn't randomize the order of people engaging. It's always the same order of people in the pod. So if the pod only has a few people, it's going to be okay. But when you have like, say 50 or a hundred people and it's the exact same order of people engaging on each and every post, it's going to look very fake and it's going to run a risk of detection as well, when LinkedIn's ready to crack down on it. It's going to know where a good place to start is and it's going to be those pods. The next thing is that the more often the pods are used, the more it'll reveal its engagement pattern, right? So the combination of if it's a big pod and it's used a lot. It's going to be probably the riskiest pod you can be in. The next issue is with people not trained on engagement pod safety, so they don't know that they're supposed to be first-degree connected. And this is of course going to make it look really fake to the algorithm. The next thing is that with public pods, there's really no rules around liking and auto-commenting. So people can say whatever they want without being worried about getting kicked out of the pod. And they may hurt your reputation, but also they may be getting the pod to engage with posts that you wouldn't want to have to defend engaging. So just things that are off-brand. Maybe politically, not appropriate. That's happened before. The next thing is that there's no quality control on these public pods. People aren't making sure that pod safety is happening or anything like that. So they're basically pretty risky. And I would caution you to be very careful about using them outside of our engagement pods, communities that I'm building. But they're available and you can use them as much as you want. But there are definitely risks, that could of course lead to getting your LinkedIn account banned as well as just engaging with things that you wouldn't want your professional LinkedIn network to see you engaging with. So that is just a heads up about using free engagement pods like Alcapod as well as being in Lempod groups. With a lot of those pods, there's no pod safety or anything like that. The one thing that Lempod has though, that Alcapod doesn't, is that it limits posts to once every 24 hours. So it helps to reduce the likelihood of any big issues. What I do with Lempod is I don't contribute auto-comments or likes, I just use the auto-comments and likes for my posts.