WalterW

I got banned for my 1st campaign

jeffrey73

Your problem wasn't with direct-linking or using a redirect. It is with promoting in the dog niche. I was instantly banned after running a Fanpage based around German Shepherds.

I know of a few other people that also got banned for promoting a certain MaxBounty "pet contest" submit offer. Coincidence? Yeah, I don't think so.

My main FB account also got banned and I didn't even run any ads on it!!

dowsp

Thank you for members who recently have posted about their bad experiences with facebook.... Although I am not sure if they were all actual CPA promotions... it still seems concerning that some members seemed to have been banned for what seem ridiculous reasons and on niche products that seem to be perfectly ok.

It seems that anyone who considers promoting anything on facebook if they are not sure would need to check with facebook before they promote to get their response that everything seems Ok with them, before one pays for a promotion...But as they are not easily contactable that makes it difficult.

I have now found that you can actually email Facebook if you are advertising to check with them... and I have asked them to give me advice or more detailed guidence with CPA promotions... I sent an email to them for information several days ago (4 or 5) and still had no reply.

What was annoying, is that it took me several phone calls to check on each option before I got a recorded message from them giving an email address for advertising..

I don't think just trying to read their website details on what you can promote is good enough... I think it needs someone from facebook to clarify a promotion is suitable, if that would be possible.

No One wants to risk or deserves being banned unless it was for some severe issue...

digitalairships

I purchased the same info product that Bill is referencing for running a CPA offer in the dog niche on Facebook.

Got my page all setup and then put together the ad just as recommended and Facebook keeps disapproving my ad. I have not actually setup the link to the CPA offer yet nor even hinted about it and yet I think since everyone who purchased this info product did it all at once Facebook didn't like it and now rejects all ads that follow the same principles.

I'm glad I read this here though as they've not yet banned my account so I've deleted the ads I resubmitted.

I contacted Facebook via their advertising email and explained that their own guidelines say nothing that would explain why my ads were disapproved. I even posted their own guidelines back to them and addressed each item point by point.

They haven't gotten back and probably never will. I think the company reflects its leadership and its leadership is a cocky kid who knows he's the big dog on the block and can get away with being arbitrary.

edakehurst

I make money everyday on FB with CPA offers. The only ones I have ever had denied are dating offers. Everything else runs fine. NOTE: Be careful if the offer is seen as a contest or giveaway and run it a little differently - FB has strict rules governing those things.

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rahip4567

they didn't ban it yet, but are cracking down on it. There are a few ways not to get banned, but long to explain... PM me if you wana know.

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Jeremy

To be Continued......lol

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Niel Rose

Not so sure how well Direct Linking works, but if you create a fan page with a short description and the link in the body, you should be fine.

Point the ad at the fan page.

Takes a bit more effort to get your ad accepted compared to the old days.

mubb

I have tried dating offers on Facebook and they were all rejected.

I am running now 'games + console' offers and they were accepted and they are making me money.

so I would say from my own experience that Facebook still accepts CPA offers, BUT not all niches are accepted.

you have to try and see

Niel Rose

I have also had some success with game offers.

dowsp

Just a further update,

I have had NO reply at all from Facebook... they seem a waste of time when you want to know specific details...

I was speaking with a respected Internet Marketer this weekend, and asked him about facebook accounts... and from what I understood, you can set up as many accounts as you want with facebook, that you can use to promote to other website links in ones posts... if for eg one was discussing various topics related to internet marketing...
maybe you could have one facebook account that discusses traffic, another that discusses web design, twitter social media or what ever....

Before discussing this with him, I was not sure if could only have one account for everything or not...

BUT he told me that you can only have ONE business account..

So at least I am clearer on this.

Interesting to read the updated messages that have occurred since my last post..
It does seem , It is only certain offers one can use for CPA from the egs given in the posts...


Anyone Know about promoting CPA offers on mobile phones ?

HairyPoppins

There are a lot of people making a lot of money on Facebook using CPA offers.

Any talk of banning CPA is purely hearsay and speculation.

I can't believe a "guru" would spread such misinformation to paying students.

sith005

CPA on Facebook is still very very much alive. As with anything times change. There is a lot of good advice in this thread. One thing I would like to point out is, treat this as you would any B&M type business. That's what it is. If you look at it as a means for getting some quick cash, you are bound to do something that is going to get you in trouble.

Yes Facebook is finicky, in fact many would say downright frustrating, annoying, and some descriptions that start with four letter words. But...

If you approach this as a long-term business and treat your campaigns with care, you will be fine. What I mean by this are, forget the latest little exploit or who knows what. There are things that work, and that involves grabbing attention and getting the click.

Where you take that click after is going to determine how you structure your campaigns and ads. Fan pages work well as do external landing pages. Direct linking works too, you just have to be careful. I've only run a handful of campaigns that did better direct-linking than with a landing page, and they didn't last very long.

Avoid things like e-mail/zip submits, contests, etc. Avoid images that have big blantant click me here arrows and stuff that is offensive.

A little creativity goes a LONG way here.

Danny

Andrew Zapp

If done right, you can direct link with any offer. You just need to know how to go about it.

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MakeMoneyJames

What do you mean by done right? In the other thread you said it was against TOS to direct link on facebook.

dowsp

Hopefully every one has a Happy Christmas...!

I think that It does seem that there is a good chance that you can get away promoting
CPA or other offers that may be concerns to facebook with various strategies if you get the right guidence as many on this thread say that they are doing so...which I am pleased to read ...but I suspect the direct linking method would carry more risk of being discovered if its something that they were more against.

tubes00

The so called 'Gurus' always say those type of things. They also say affiliate marketing is dead every year.