Facebook Ad Policies Are A Mystery!

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I tried to boost a post on Facebook where I had a link to my website article about a Jaaxy Review shown below:

I applied to boost this post spending $10 over 5 days as my budget. I got a reply that Facebook rejected my request.

They gave three reasons:

  1. The landing page didn't allow a visitor to exit
  2. I was promoting a MLM program
  3. This was a get-rich-quick program

Landing Page

The only landing page in my article was the one going to the Jaaxy order page as shown below:

Do you agree this is a problem? What does it matter to Facebook how the landing page works? It's prime intention is to help make a sale. After all, I posted this on my Facebook Business Page.

Isn't that's what business is about?

MLM Program!

This was a first. Facebook concluded that Jaaxy and Wealthy Affiliate were MLM programs. How lame.

I wonder how their algorithms came to that conclusion?

Even if I was promoting an MLM program why should that be a problem? As long as it was legal they should not ban it.

When did Facebook have a clause that promoting MLM was a violation of their policies? I checked and it was clear. They do not allow any promotion of MLM programs.

Get Rich Quick Program

Facebook also states they are against get-rich-quick programs. I agree with that.

But Jaaxy and Wealthy Affiliate have nothing to do with get-rich-quick programs, I did mention affiliate marketing in my article, As Keyword Research is a big part of writing content in affiliate marketing. I wonder if that fell foul of their algorithm.

Option Provided To Contest Decision

Facebook provides an option to contest their decision. Or make changes to the ad for compliance.

This is insane. I have a Facebook Business page. It is an oxymoron that Facebook appears to be anti business to those who have a business page. Even when I am paying Facebook for the privilege to advertise on their platform!

Whoever wrote their software to create algorithms to check out ad requests clearly are out of sync with the business world.

Conclusion

I am not going to take action on this. I am grateful that they even let my post remain. In the future, I will not consider using Facebook as a place to place ads,

If anyone else has had a similar experience I would like to hear it.

And if you have found a way to get around these restrictions I would like to hear that too.

I have too many articles to write to worry about Facebook anyway. I use it purely to help me with the Bootcamp training where we are asked to use the search engines in the exercises provided.

Cheers!

Edwin

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My experienced are different from yours.

I shut down mine to know that every click I pay .25 cent. I never realized that before hand. When I woke up the next morning I had three different payments to pay. I can't complaint since it's my mistake. I didn't read and understand the whole process. So, the
351 people click my digital pages I payed. Glad, I know how to return back and cancelled everything.

Right now, Facebook keep reminding me to boost the business pages I created. Today 3 people check that pages. That, Facebook can't charge me so far.

Charge to experience to learn from what the mistake I was done.

Just posted this for someone else whose ad was rejected for no legitimate reason. Word is that FB wants to focus on ad revenue from the major players - those who spend LOTS of money on their platform and that people like ourselves have become a nuisance. They direct you to their terms and conditions as a distraction bc they can't really say they don't want your business. It's like trying to fight city hall. Big tech has become big and powerful tech and the solution to that is simply move on and try to find another venue on which to advertise.

One of the reasons, Facebook are dog on MLM is that this sector of the industry is the source of scams and in some cases fraudulent activities. They also provide employment for folks at the FTC.

I would assume that many, members here in WA are using MLM reviews a a referral source.

Facebook can be conservative, some key words trigger red flags.

FREE;

Being top of the list.

A work around is to start clicking ads on your personal feed.

The algorithm will pick your preferences and show ads that are attuned to your business flow.

Observe how the ads are created and model from them.

It is about learning to go with the flow and not continually trying to go against the flow.

Thanks for the heads up Alex. It's all a learning experience. I'll make a note of your advice.

Cheers.

Edwin

Edwin, I had something similar happen with AdWords years ago. They didn't like the popup on the Wealthy Affiliate page. A month or two later WA put out a similar page without the popup, but the damage for me was already done.

I still haven't signed up again, but I probably really should do so. I got enough people to sign up for WA that my monthly fees (at that time--I do yearly now) were paid for.

Anyway, I wish you well as you continue on.

Randy

Hi Randy,

One of my friends here suggested that Wealthy Affiliate focuses more on developing organic traffic and doesn't go into the strategies necessary to comply with the arcane rules of Facebook.

If I decide to advertise on Facebook again, I will read more elsewhere before writing an article that will comply with Facebook's policies.

For the moment I am relieved that Facebook did not ban my article from my Facebook business page. Only the ad that I wanted to run to boost it.

Thanks for commenting.

Edwin

I also faced a similar situation twice few months back. Even Facebook didn't allow my WA review to their marketplace (though managed later by request).

For this particular Affiliate Bootcamp niche website, I don't rely on Facebook Ads anymore. Rather I focus on SEO and content.

But one thing I can tell you, there are other strategies to run make-money-online ads smoothly on Facebook; every day you can see many such sponsored posts on your timeline.

Wealthy Affiliate training courses actually skipped the deep study in this area. WA training is mainly focused on content SEO for free traffic, not for paid strategies. And for my affiliate Bootcamp niche website, I do the same, it's all about free traffic generation.

You have to learn Facebook Ad strategies elsewhere if you want to run Facebook Ads on any niche. Indeed, it's a big area, running and optimizing Facebook Ads are not so easy. Even, there are high chances to experience 0 profit from the first 5-10 Facebook Ads while draining a lot of money.

Finally, one thing I'd like to ask... did you pay $10 for 5 days or $10 for each day (means $50 for 5 days)?

Thanks for presenting great information in your response. Faccebook is so large it is always tempting to pay for ads there.

My budget was $2 a day for a total of $10 for 5 days. I have used this approach before and got thousands of additional views. No sales yet. But I felt it was worth the investment.

I need to learn how to use the Facebook filters more effectively to target the right audience. Otherwise most of the viewers will be random members Facebook send my ad to.

I may check out focused training for Facebook elsewhere if I decide to use advertising there again.

Cheers.

Edwin

Yes, you may get many viewers, but getting sales is different. It needs to reach your ad to the target audience.

I asked you about payment because, Facebook loves to play game with entrepreneurs.

It seems like, more you invest more your Ads will reach the right audience.

To the best of my knowledge, unless you spend at least $5/day (preferably $10), it's a waste of money. However, it doesn't mean you'll get conversion in this way in your first effort. But you may get a better idea about your targeted audience. The next Ad you may run in a more selective way.

Sometimes, I personally run Facebook Ads for physical products, but stopped it for digital products because of their faulty attitude.

Best wishes.

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