Those that keep in constant contact with me probably know what this is about, for those that don’t but know that I do a lot of Facebook posts, well, those will have to come to an end. I’ve been banned from Facebook on all my advertising accounts.
The reason? Beats me! But I have an idea as to why some accounts were closed: most likely because I was cloaking to offers they don’t currently allow. Another account, which was completely full of legit non-cloaked ads was also shut down. I’m not sure why, but it might be because I was accessing the accounts on the same IP or using the same credit card.
I’ve opened new accounts with new credit card numbers, addresses, and using private USA IPs. Some I get ads up on and they run for a day and the account gets shut down again. Some get shut down in 15 minutes after creation.
It has become too much of a hassle to continue with them (no rebill offers allowed, several niches not allowed, the constant filtering out of affiliate requests, horrendous support, long (dis)approval times, and this bullshit like and X now implemented in ads), and with the world of internet marketing constantly evolving, it is time I evolve as well. Facebook was a huge part of my income (lets put the number at over 90% of my revenue came from them), so my pocket is hurting a little. I had all my eggs in one basket, and now I’ve got to focus on moving them around a bit more.
So apologize for the lack of posts, but this has been what is up with me. I’ve been working hard to find new revenue streams and I just had to put my blog behind me. No guarantees if I’ll regularly update it as much as I used to.
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newjersey
that’s rough dude.
Facebook wants to have it both ways…
They want the money that affiliates are willing to spend, but they want all the ads to be for local mom and pops, fan pages, or other non-moneymaking bullshit.
Look what happened to me last night..
6:02pm – Facebook dude – ” I moved you to $5K/day, to go higher, I’ll need the attached form filled out.
Thanks,”
9:14pm – 44 ads disapproved (retro disapproval – all the good ones)
Still money to be made and they didn’t ban my account. I don’t cloak or run rebills and try to keep it within their guidelines. Although if you don’t push the limits on editorial guidelines it is tough to get a good CTR.
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Wanna
Which direction are you headed at the moment? Google? Yahoo? MSN?
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Phoebe Ann Williams
that’s sick …. facebook is really too expensive for my pockets right now,but i have made a few sales there.
… i will market things most people would not be expecting, for example food,clothes,education…. target a younger crowd with serious offers, no acai berry and colon crap nothing that has had allot of bad press coverage…. i know the payout is good,but affiliates have this saturated.
Is it possible u to ask someone u are close to and trust to setup all your campaigns on their account,until u find another stream of cash?
I never had problems getting ads approved. I have over a 95% approval
If i knew u well enough or u knew me,i would be a friend and setup your campaigns to get some quick cash……
hope things workout…. u are smart and u should work on a facebook application and market your things like these developers are……
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il
Don’t quit so soon! I was in the same boat as you, then figured out a way to get around it, now I know a thing or two about cloaking multiple FB accounts and anonymity
Send me an email, I’ll help you get some FB accounts that don’t get banned.
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globefrog
Exactly the same situation im in. Seriously fucked.
Ive learnt an awesome lesson though – don’t rely too much on the one traffic source.
Im trying to take it as a blessing in disguise, find more traffic, diversify & innovate.
In my opinion I think Facebook was willing to take our money while they were trying to hit profit targets for the first time ever and now they have succeeded they are shitting on 90% of the adboard. All this banning conveniently timed a week after they announce the first profitable quarter since inception.
Like Justin, I’ve taken a 90% hit on income & the exercise of finding new traffic, optimizing etc is an expensive and tedious exercise.
Some of you will have remembered the dramatic change in attitudes Facebook has had in the past with allowing / disallowing offers, this time around if they come pissing in the pockets of affiliates trying to get us back, my answer will be
my 2 cents
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Marty
Hey il, give me your mail, I want to know more about this !
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Stevo
Justin,
While we’re on the subject of Facebook giving us the shaft, here’s a recent ad disapproval message that they sent to me. I’d like to see if your interpretation is the same as mine:
“The content advertised by this ad is restricted. Per section 5 of Facebook’s Advertising Guidelines, this content is prohibited from being advertised on Facebook. We reserve the right to determine what advertising we accept, and will not allow the creation of any further Facebook Ads for this product. Ads for this product, service or site should not be resubmitted. We appreciate your cooperation with this policy.”
I interpreted this as meaning that I needed to abandon this offer and start with a totally new offer. In other words, this campaign is totally screwed. If I try resubmitted for this offer, I run the risk of being banned. Do you get the same idea? Have you seen this one before?
It’s funny, because I was running this offer just fine for about two weeks, having the ads being approved multiple times. And then, last night I changed the wording of the ad just a little bit…
I’d like to get your take on it.
Thanks!
Stevo
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