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Facebook Deems Teespring Link As "Malicious"?

by Bryan Is Young
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Hello everyone.

This has had me scratching my head for the past 2 weeks. When clicking on my own Teespring links (from a fanpage), there is a popup where Facebook says to "Please be careful", and "This link may be malicious. Please follow it with care."

This only happens when I click on my own link through mobile (iPhone). On desktop it does not at all. I also assume if I put an ad up on Facebook for mobile devices the same thing may happen, although when I click on other people's this does not happen. I tried using bit.ly too. Any thoughts on this? I'm losing out on a lot of potential prospects if it's deem "malicious" by Facebook...
#deems #facebook #link #malicious #teespring
  • Profile picture of the author Alpha981
    Hello Bryan

    I see this quite a lot on facebook, I see it when I click a link that takes me out of facebook and from what I know its only a warning on Facebooks side
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  • Profile picture of the author jasondinner
    I saw this coming.

    It's because so many people are pushing teespring campaigns using the teespring domain.
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  • Profile picture of the author PPC-Coach
    Do you have a screenshot?
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  • Profile picture of the author RobinInTexas
    Facebook has various algorithms that they don't publicize for obvious reasons, there's not much you can do about it, but experiment or perhaps get feedback from customers/clickers.

    No way to tell if you are losing anything or how much. If you want to play in Mark's sandbox, you are stuck with his rules.
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  • Profile picture of the author tismi
    it's the same when clicking on fabrily link.
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  • Profile picture of the author Jeannie Crabtree
    It happens if you use a redirect link, as well. I was using pretty link to redirect fb links, but stopped because of this.
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    Bryan, Facebook hates much of what I do lol....I cannot even post to my private team training group because FB bans me from posting to it, unless I am doing so through Hootsuite. I take things in stride on the network and let go after running into so much resistance over the past 4 years.
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  • Profile picture of the author Bryan Jiang
    So there's no way around it? Then how the heck do other people seem to be able to direct link/use link shorteners with no issue at all?

    As for the screenshot, here it is:

    http://postimg.org/image/lgd9e8y7j/
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  • Profile picture of the author ppcmanager
    I saw this on one of my campaigns as well, I was using an Android Handset so it's not specific to iPhones only. Should surely hurt sales.
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    • Profile picture of the author banwork
      If you want to work around this, one step you can take is to use TrendMicro. Facebook trusts TrendMicro to help managed URL safety. I had problems with my own URL and after spending a lot of times reporting it as a "safe business URL", I finally got the URL fixed with TrendMicro which also fixed it with Facebook. The link to the form to check is here:

      Trend Micro Site Safety Center

      There *may* potentially be a different company managing safety on iPhones specifically.

      If your URL is reporting as safe but still flagging malicious, send Facebook a support request in the support dashboard which you can get to through Facebook ads.

      A URL flagging malicious is a critical problem which can crush your traffic. Push hard to get it fixed and pause or reduce ad campaigns while there is a problem. Get your friends to test your URL if possible!
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    • Profile picture of the author Genaviemcc
      Hello. I tried using your link to fraudbuster to learn about the cloaking system but it is asking for an invite to sign up. Could you help me with this please?
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  • Profile picture of the author stingoperations
    I see this quite a lot on facebook, I see it when I click a link that takes me out of facebook and from what I know its only a warning on Facebooks side
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  • Profile picture of the author Mike Hill
    It's not about the links guys... FaceBook gets their information from WOT Reputation as to whether a website is malicious or not and it's based solely off other people's feedback.
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  • Profile picture of the author HyperVyper
    I used Teespring 2 years ago but I wasn't facing this issue. I might run a campaign again. I hope it doesn't happen to me.
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