What Am I Doing Wrong?

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Facebook is driving me crazy and is doing a lot to persuade me to quit before I even get started with CPA marketing.

Okay, so I created an ad campaign on Facebook and all the ads got rejected with the reason being "The content advertised by this ad is prohibited." Alright, no big deal, the girl on the homepage of the dating site I was redirecting to could have had more clothes on. I can see where they're coming from.

I then contacted Facebook explaining that I was new to all of this and would like a bit of guidance, but the support seems to be worse than Google's. I instantly received this message "
"Thanks for contacting the Facebook Ads team. Unfortunately,
we are unable to directly respond to every inquiry at this time."

So I then decided to choose another dating offer to promote which isn't suggestible in the slightest. Turns out that Facebook has banned the domain I was using or something, as I keep getting a (#2606) error and nothing comes up when I fill in the Headline, Text and Image boxes.

I'm now forced to use another domain, so I purchase a .info domain from Godaddy as they're cheap. However, facebook doesn't seem to like this domain either, as clicking on "Place Order" certainly doesn't place the order and the same (#2606) error comes up. This happens even though the domain is completely new and Facebook has no idea where it leads to - yet, anyway.

I'm fairly sure that my account hasn't been banned, as I can type in a random domain and no (#2606) error appears.

Can anyone help me? I've got no idea where I'm meant to go from here (seems like contacting support is pointless). I know that I can start advertising on POF but I would prefer not to for the time being, especially as I've spent money on a couple of domains, a translation service and a Facebook Ad Coupon, but more importantly I've spent a lot of time and want to get to the bottom of this.
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  • Profile picture of the author Greedy
    Facebook is extremely rough for beginners.

    Don't use GoDaddy use Namecheap.

    Keep making new ads keep, playing around with it, this how facebook advertising goes, don't let it frustrate you.
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  • Profile picture of the author Mahmoud Selman
    It's a bit hard to run dating offers on facebook, but not impossible. Check the words in your domain name or your redirects. There is words that you can't use on facebook even if they are on the landing page of the offer and not in the domain name.
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  • Profile picture of the author clickrover
    Dating can be tough on facebook for sure. If they are not responding then make sure that you are meeting all of their guidelines and targeting requirements. I posted the two links below for you in case you have not seen these. Good luck!

    https://www.facebook.com/ad_guidelines.php

    https://www.facebook.com/help/143949649021372/
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  • Profile picture of the author dreamtoreality
    I can't understand the domain issue and haven't seen the error code I'm getting anyway on the internet, which seems somewhat strange. You would have thought that at least one other person would've ran into this issue. Anyway, I've emailed Facebook's support again. Time to read as much as I can about POF, I guess.
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    • Profile picture of the author Greedy
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      • Profile picture of the author dreamtoreality
        Originally Posted by Greedy View Post

        Check out this post I just made on POF...

        How I Made $1,000 off Plenty of Fish | GreedReports

        PM if you have questions. Stick with it, you'll crack it!
        Just signed up to your waiting list, Greedy.

        I've given up on Facebook for the time being and have just started my first campaign on POF. Let's see how it goes.
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  • Profile picture of the author Somathut
    I'm suggest you that if you can open new account facebook.com,Do that and use you .info domain again. It will save time and may be more effective than past.
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  • Profile picture of the author ChrisBa
    Don't run dating on Facebook, it's extremely difficult, you would be better off using pof if you're that interested in running dating offers
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  • Profile picture of the author williamrs
    Read their ad guidelines and make some research on this forum to find out what people are running there. Contacting your AM can be a good idea, too.

    My studenst and I run dating offers there with no problems, but we avoid anything that's too focused on casual dating or has sexual emphasis. Also, you nice domains and avoid anything that's too spicy.

    Instead of simple domain redirection, try to use a script that will solve the geo-redirection problem and make sure that everybody can see the offer's page regardless of their location.

    If you don't have a script that can do it, PM me your email and I'll send mine to you.


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  • Profile picture of the author Evolved
    I also keep getting the (#2606) error in place of the image/text. In your first post, you said it was because they banned that website? Are you sure that is what the error means?

    I have multiple re-directs on the same domain. For some reason the one I was trying to do gave me the error #2606. Others did to. But there was actually 1 that did not cause an error and showed the images/texts. This is on the same domain just using a different URL/re-direct.

    Does anyone know what exactly that (#2606) error is and how to get around it??
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