Ridiculous Facebook ad approval issues

[James Harrison]

Here's the issue, I submitted 5 ads to facebook, the only difference between them is the image. They approved them all, then disapproved all of them but 1 and claimed that the destination URL is against their policy even though it is EXACTLY the same as the one that is approved and running.

Help me out, this is extremely frustrating.

Thanks,

James H

[sbucciarel]

lol. Does sound ridiculous. I don't do any Facebook ads, so don't have any experience there.

[Bill_Z]

Just keep submitting them, hopefully at some point you'll get someone who isnt a complete idiot to look at them. Just make sure you read all the terms and make sure you are not blatantly breaking any of their terms. And then just continue to submit until someone approves it.

[try_hard_samurai]

I haven't messed with FB ads (yet).

But, I heard from someone that uses them, that FB uses interns and other low ranking personnel to authorize FB Ads. Each of them interpret the rules differently, and may not understand advertising at all.

If that is the case, you might want to try different submission times as well. Just some thoughts.

[savvybizbuilder]

Just pursue on submitting your ads til they finally review it properly. Do your works as well in reading their terms and conditions so you will know what to say if they still declined on your ads.

[SirBacon]

IMHO Facebook ads are already going the way of Adwords. Personally, I've taken to searching out "underground" PPC providers with less name recognition and it certainly looks more promising.

[JeffMitchell]

Start submitting all your ads late at night. U.S time. Just like any other business the third shifters seem to be slackers and you are more likely to get stuff through them.


Hope that helps.

Jeff Mitchell

[James Harrison]

Thanks for the tip Jeff.

@SirBacon, don't underground ppc networks (like 7search) generally send crap traffic?

Thanks to everyone else for the advice as well.

[Ace Of Shirts]

Maybe you got lucky and you slipped one ad by the interns.

Does your URL violate any of their TOS? Just because you got one approved doesn't mean it should have been.

[JJOrana]

Here's a thing...

After I felt that they're inconsistent, I did a test to prove facebook themselves are confused on what's to approve and what's not.

After one my ad was disapproved, I resubmit EXACTLY the same ad and guess what?

It was approved. lol.

What's the solution? Keep tweaking and submitting. They won't tell you exactly what's wrong with your ads and landing page.

Complaining about facebook advertising will not bring you any good.

To make it easier to resubmit ads is by using adsage. They're time saver and it's FREE.

CRITICAL: Once you got an ad approved, never ever change that. If you want to make some changes on your targeting or ad, just create another one. Make the approved one as your back up. This way you still have ad/campaign running.

[James Harrison]

JJ, thank you so much for the mention of AdSage, I downloaded it and it is amazing!

[answersedge]

This happens to me whenever I submit to facebook. I just have to keep trying. I submitted an ad and it was rejected. So a few days later I submitted the exact same ad again, and it was approved. It's all luck.

[webapex]

Ad reviews are rather subjective, results particular for images van vary each time.

The time of day that an ad is reviewed can influence that actual country your reviewer resides in, submitting in the early AM hours in the U.S. might ger the Indian crew to review it (checking IP of first landing page visitors can be revealing)

One tutorial advises you initially have the contents of the landing page be generic unoffensive stuff, switching over to more hard code sales techniques after it's approved. Actually changing the target URL is a bad thing, change the content ir redirect instead.

[cherylwaller]

Originally Posted by Bill_Z

Just keep submitting them, hopefully at some point you'll get someone who isnt a complete idiot to look at them. Just make sure you read all the terms and make sure you are not blatantly breaking any of their terms. And then just continue to submit until someone approves it.

Originally Posted by JJOrana

Here's a thing...

After I felt that they're inconsistent, I did a test to prove facebook themselves are confused on what's to approve and what's not.

After one my ad was disapproved, I resubmit EXACTLY the same ad and guess what?

It was approved. lol.

What's the solution? Keep tweaking and submitting. They won't tell you exactly what's wrong with your ads and landing page.

Complaining about facebook advertising will not bring you any good.

To make it easier to resubmit ads is by using adsage. They're time saver and it's FREE.

CRITICAL: Once you got an ad approved, never ever change that. If you want to make some changes on your targeting or ad, just create another one. Make the approved one as your back up. This way you still have ad/campaign running.

I agree completely with both of you. Facebook really can be hit or miss when it comes to reviewers. The biggest thing that I have noticed is being careful with caps. for example:

You Can Cap Each Word In Heading
You should make this a normal sentence
without caps on anything but the first word.
Even writing one word in all CAPS for emphasis
can get your ad disapproved.

As for destination URLs.. make sure you don't have any 'wait don't leave this page' pop-ups... or any kind of redirects.

That's my 'two cents' and facebook has gotten way more out of me than that... lol..

-cheryl

[James Harrison]

My landing page is simply this: a nice teal background with a white, grey-bordered container in the middle with a picture that I created that is linked to my affiliate offer and lastly, a call to action sentence underneath that says click the picture to get your _____ today.

How is that against facebooks TOS? I can't find anything that is conflicting. And no, the offer is not an adult offer or an offer type that is against their TOS. And remember, I have some ads that are approved and running pointing to the SAME URL.

[Targeted Traffic]

there have been a number of weird moves from facebook lately...they are right..re submit them once again and make sure you read there TOS

[costasp]

i finally had with with facebook ,

i uploaded my last campaign , i get a felling it will not be approved however...

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[thekaver]

its like a mine field trying to get ads approved on facebook sometimes!

they reject them over things that shouldnt matter.

I think it just down to what dope you get thats looking at your ad!

i think they toss a coin.

heads your appoved, tails you not!!!! lol

[costasp]

i think the whole building could hear me laughing right now...

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I can't believe they actually approved it...

What's going on there...?

[alchemical]

lol great ad

[TBInternetMarketing]

Originally Posted by James Harrison

Here's the issue, I submitted 5 ads to facebook, the only difference between them is the image. They approved them all, then disapproved all of them but 1 and claimed that the destination URL is against their policy even though it is EXACTLY the same as the one that is approved and running.

Help me out, this is extremely frustrating.

Thanks,

James H

Yea I hear you. I had the same issue last week. All I can think is that two different reviewers approved and disapproved the different ads. They were identical though so you would think they would see that the same ad had already been approved.
Odd though.