A few days back Facebook banned my Website URL, and I successfully unblocked the same website via a few simple steps. So, I am going to share my personal experience about How to Unblock the Blocked website on Facebook.
When my website was banned by Facebook, I was really frustrated. I asked question in Wealthy Affiliate community, "how to unblock". Though I didn't get a concrete answer, I received a great support from the community which lead me to the right direction, especially from Triblu.
Initially, I didn't understand the main reasons for blocking the website. I did deep research and found I did exactly the same things which nobody should do in a Facebook Page (check the last page). Then after I figure it out and did all the needful to unblock the blocked website.
What Happens When Your Website get Blocked by Facebook?
One day I was traveling by train, and thought let's do some work and utilize the time. I continuously shared a massive amount of posts in several groups in the next 3 hours.
In the next morning, I opened Facebook to share more and received the news that my website has been banned on the social giant.
If you face a similar experience you cannot share any post from your website on Facebook. Whenever you try to share a link from your website you'll receive a message like, "This post goes against our community standard, so no one else can see it".
The massege I received when I tried to share links from blocked website
How to Unblock A Blocked Website in Facebook?
You need to follow just a few steps to unblock your website. Let's do the job in a sequential manner.
Step 1:
- Open Facebook sharing debugger.
- Insert your URL.
- Try to run this - click on 'Debug'
Probably this will not work for you if Facebook already blocked your website URL.
Step 2:
Check your website whether it is really spam-free of not. Scan your website URL in the following scanning authorities.
- Trend Micro
- McAfee
Step 3:
Now try to post your website URL on Facebook. It'll not work and you get a message, "This post goes against our community standard, so no one else can see it" (looks like the above image).
Step 4:
- On the box, you'll see the phrase "It's not spam". Click on it.
- This may work or may not (sometimes the box get freeze).
Step 5:
- Go to the Facebook notification bar at the top right and click on it.
- There you'll see a new message - "Your post goes against our community standards so you can see it. See options".
- Click on the message.
Step 6:
- Upon clicking on the message, you'll get the options.
- Click on request review.
Click on request review here.
Message after you requested review
Step 7:
- Do the same process 4-5 times more; must keep some gap between each request.
- Request your friends to do the same from their accounts (IP must be different). If a community say that, your website is not spam, Facebook will believe.
Step 8:
- If you shared the same website URL from your Facebook page to your own timeline, you can see the error message for all the posts.
- Request review for all those from your timeline.
After doing the above steps you wait for 24 hours. I hope they will unlock your website within next 24-48 hours. In my case I had wait for 12 hours, Facebook unblocked my website URL.
That's all! I hope this will work for you too.
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Have a nice day.
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Please elaborate:
1. What may be the probable reason for getting blocked by Facebook?
2. What steps did you follow to unblock?
3. What's the present status?
Probably, I added too many links to my posts as comments to a question in one of the groups. I think it was all good and relevant, but maybe someone decided to report.
Now my website can't be shared by anyone.
Tried reporting to FB in multiple forms, but in vain.
I need to find a way to get to some real support person,
But FB is playing hard to get, especially now.
I don't have the buttons you have.
Also tried some options from this post:
https://johnfowler.co/facebook-blocked-my-website
Still nothing. Don't have "Get started" or Chat buttons. They are not available to every user.
I'm getting frustrated..
I know it's very frustrating to get blocked on Facebook, because it's really difficult to recover once it gets blocked.
Facebook takes action in 2 ways,
1. Facebook block you by themselves due to not obeying their rules.
2. When someone reports against you.
In the former one, they are a bit kind and reviews your request to unblock, but the later one is not fully dependent on Facebook.
In the later case actually deal harshly because when someone or many people report against your page is been treated as spam.
My page was blocked by Facebook as I shared my post to many groups within an hour (because I was traveling and I had no other work). But, no one complained. That's the reason the method worked for me.
My suggestions,
1. Continue your request to recover the page.
2. Side-by-side starts a new page.
3. Avoid posting direct affiliate links to Facebook, they don't like it.
You can check the discussion with Shaynne below. This may help you.
I reported this many times and nobody ever tried to help me in any Facebook Team (Community, for Developers, Help Support, name it!) I also did what you have instructed from the webmaster tools, debug still it says ”against Community Standart” but no option to click ”Report” or ”Appeal”. Please help me report this.
I got no views for weeks no I can't share articles from my website to Facebook and Instagram even just to display on my timeline and profile. Please somebody help me. I already asked for help from WA SUPPORT, but they said that this problem is on Facebook.
1. What is the exact reason Facebook banned your profile?
2. Did you shared make-money-online related or any unusual content rapidly?
3. Did you sent friend request or shared content massively in a day?
4. Did you shared your content to a group which is not related to your niche?
5. How many days did you wait after sending your request to them?
Q#1:I don't know because like what I've said, I have never received any notification, I just noticed this issue when I was about to share a blog post to my Facebook Page. (I have attached the screenshot)
Q#5: I cannot count the days because I have never received a notification like your example in your Lesson. And if I have received a notice from them, I would answer them as soon as possible and immediately fix the issue.
Kindly help me if you know how to fix this. Thank you.
I have not listed this particular issue in this training because probably Facebook takes direct complaint issues more seriously.
I can see there is not even an option to get rid of it.
I'd suggest you get in touch with their help center because you don't have an option to send them a revision request.
https://www.facebook.com/help/
It is still good news that you can log in to your account. If people report against a particular profile, Facebook often blocks the account permanently. It's good news you didn't experience something like that.
Besides, you may start a new account in the meantime, a start building it. Facebook help center is one of the laziest places, it's uncertain how long will it take to resolve.
I did a little bit of work. I have created a tumblr account for my brand then from there I tried to share the post from Tumblr to Facebook then when the audience click the link, they will be redirected to Tumblr going to my website.
For now, this is a good fix. Good thing there are other platforms to use in sharing our work.
Thank you.
It's bad news that Facebook blocked you, but there is an inspiring video for you. Littlemama's Road To Vegas Training Series - No.1 - Intro This lady became super affiliate without any Facebook Ads as Facebook banned her.
You get a series of training presented by this lady, you may chem them all.
You don't need any social media further, because to be honest social media don't convert unless you place paid advertisements there. Even it's not easy to optimize a perfect Ad, because you have to try your product with different audiences to check where it hits.
The process sucks a lot of money because. I know because I have to place ads for my e-commerce store.
Rather, keep writing and rank in Google, it's 1000 times better if you want to stay on affiliate marketing.
He first asked if I am doing illegal hacking, or publishing spammy post. I said, "No".
He said, " Or maybe you posted about Coronavirus - Facebook usually flagged Pages that shares irrelevant facts about it."
He just made sure that I wasn't doing illegal or deceiving people through my post.
Here's the link to his Facebook Page ---> https://www.facebook.com/warengonzagaofficial/
BTW, I didn't ask if he was part of Facebook or anything, I just desperately wanted to unblock my website at that point in time so I paid via PayPal (PayPal is secure so I didn't think twice) so I don't know how to answer that question.
Yes it came back after a week. He said somebody actually reported my Page and perhaps that someone knew me personally, then he/she does this intentionally or mistakenly.
”Either way, I'll just unblock it again.”
Then I didn't pay for the 2nd time because it was the same website. He's a good guy.
It's unfortunate that someone is blocking your website intentionally. I suggest you, try guessing who might be he/she and take action before it happens another time.
And yes, don't share your post to a group/ profile which is not well matched to your niche. Even try avoiding post a comment if anyone else is promoting his/her products. These may harm.
I have seen many are suffering from the same problem, and getting frustrated when they are unable to resolve.
I am happy to share my very own experience here.
