This Is Why You’re Losing Money With Facebook Ad Account Restrictions
Trevor W Goodchild
?? Brand Strategist | Facebook Ad Policy Specialist | Speaker | Aspiring Thought Leader
Are you an advertiser seeking to remove Ad Account Restrictions on Facebook?
But, get frustrated when Facebook ad support hides the answer or takes a long time getting back to you?
And their delay in answering is angering your clients and you, as all you want is a straight answer.
Why won’t Facebook just tell you what you did wrong and how to fix it?
1. Outsourcing labor for Facebook ad support.
2. Overload of spammers with fake accounts.
Meta is busy removing fake accounts from China trying to manipulate the next US Election so your ad bans won’t get a attention right away or a straight answer.
I’ve worked in ads at Facebook and will help you get answers on avoiding ad account restrictions.?
Just like I provided solutions for Boomerang, a marketing research firm, you’ll learn how to avoid the land mines that shut down millions of businesses a year on Facebook.
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Your Facebook Advertising Got Restricted…Now What?
If you’ve been restricted from advertising on Facebook all your active ads will be paused and you won’t be able to create new ads. Often you’ll see “ad error” next to the ads that?used to be live.
If you’ve been restricted from advertising on Facebook all your active ads will be paused and you won’t be able to create new ads.
Often you’ll see “ad error” next to the ads that?used to be live.
Maybe you’re using the bully method with high manual bidding as Michael A. Stelzner talks about when scaling ads in Social Media Examiner.
If one ad gets flagged, but 20 more have the same flag, you’ll be hit for 21 times and with no gun salute.
After reading my Facebook Ad Policies Checklist you may have started to see which ad policy applied to your Campaigns.
Now, the reason why you got shut down will be one of many. Each scenario is different. Why is that?
Well, there are different types of Facebook ads and Facebook’s ad policies apply differently to each industry. And I’m not even talking about Special Ad Categories (real estate, social issues, employment, loans etc).
How Facebook’s machines apply their striking automation really does depend on a number of factors which I’ll get into next.
As Liana Lang, CEO of Power Up Strategy Inc. said, “Please meet Trevor, my ‘secret weapon’ for all things Facebook compliance. I highly recommend hiring him to help you out especially if you plan to be running ads.”
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Ad Account Restrictions: How did I get myself restricted from advertising on Facebook?
You’d be surprised how many businesses are running ads based on what worked?5 years ago.
Just like advances in technology rapidly change the social landscape, so do changes in Facebook’s ad policies.
What was allowed last year may not be compliant this year.
And if you’re still running ads that?used to be compliant, Facebook will show no mercy in shutting you down ASAP.
And even retroactively punishing your ad account by flagging old ads that aren’t even active, if they violate new current ad policies.
Also a good roadmap: What to Do After Violating Facebook’s Ad Policies
Now, for those who are fatalists and doomscrollers – it’s still worth it to invest in Facebook ads despite the red tape BS.
You can get your ads rejected for violating the spam flags, the Personal Attributes policies, or Facebook could have flagged you as an MLM.
Your eyes would pop out if you knew the list of banned words Facebook has that associate you with a pyramid scheme.
If you accidentally used one of these words, even 1 word would be enough to get you shut down. Ideally, you’d have your ads prescreened for Facebook ad policy compliance?before going live.
How can I tell if my ad account was restricted?
While Facebook is supposed to send you an email, you may not always get an email telling you that your account is restricted. But, going to Ads Manager, or Business Manager you’ll see this warning when your account is restricted:
And obviously, not being able to run ads and having all your live ads shut down is a pretty clear indicator your account is restricted on Facebook.
If you haven’t read it, check out:Navigating Facebook’s Advertising Policies as a Business
I know sometimes it feels like there is too much to read about Facebook bans, so I created an easy-to-read infographic on resolving ad account restrictions:
What does having my ad account restricted mean?
If you have a restricted Facebook account, you are banned from using Facebook Ads, Facebook Pixel, Facebook Business Manager, and more. BUT there are many factors for why you may be banned.
This Is Why You’re Losing Money With Facebook Ad Account Restrictions:
The severity of your account restriction depends on:
? Your Type of Business
? The Ad Account History
? The Type of Ban
? The Number of Bans in the Past 3 months
? The Amount of Approved Ads And a few other factors.
Not all bans are the same, and not all Facebook restricted accounts have the same recovery process – or relaunching method.
Are mofos from Bangladesh promising you they can recover your restricted ad account?
Don’t fall for it!
If you’ve been shutdown a lot but never got answers, you’re like one of my clients, Steve Martinez, Vice President of Apollidon Learning.
“Trevor took us through the process of getting one of our University of Texas ad accounts reinstated (within minutes). He offered some critical insights to why our Facebook Ad Account was disabled and shared options to reduce our chances of future issues. We have a better understand of how the algorithm works and know exactly what to do and say if our account gets disabled again.”
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Ad Account Restrictions: Next Steps
If your ad account restrictions have just started, make sure to do this one thing before taking the next step:
What do I do if my Facebook account is restricted from advertising?
STOP!!! The 1st thing you need to do is STOP taking further actions on Business Manager and Ads Manager.
So many of my clients before they were clients dug themselves into a?much deeper hole scrambling around with last ditch efforts to save their ad accounts.
Which in reality, only made things worse. Yeah – you need to stop and assess your funnel FIRST.
Also – do not believe Facebook ad support, they can get you in worse shape because their advice is ignorant. None of them have recovered from a Facebook ban or even run ads with skin in the game.
They never made real profit from Facebook ads and only read textbook replies – I wrote some of these replies authoring internal documents for process flows at Facebook when I worked there in ads.
ALSO: Be careful whose advice you take when reading articles online. I’ve seen some pretty dumbass shit online, giving the?wrong advice?from hacks just GUESSING on what to do.
Or worse, regurgitating bad advice they read on Reddit or in YouTube comments.
If you google “How to Remove Restriction on Facebook Ad Account,” The 1st result Google selected for the Google Snippet is wrong!
What the f*%! is this?!
You are googling “how to remove restriction on Facebook ad account,” and the 1st result tells you to publish a damn Facebook Page????!!!!
Soooo irrelevant. Shit is irritating af because it isn’t the correct answer. At all.
Another prime example, SocialSurge Marketing gives bad advice about how to remove restriction on facebook ad account.
This is bad advice. SocialSurge Marketing says that if you lost your rights to advertise unnecessarily they will reinstate you.
Incorrect.
Banning is done 99% of the time by machines – they have no moral base or conscience about what is fair or unfair.
SocialSurge Marketing also says above to “just try…to wait it out and see if your restriction is only temporary.”
Incorrect.
Talk to some people who have been banned – some wait over 6 months with any reply. Waiting doesn’t solve shit.
It’s dumb trust – Facebook makes money in the billions they have little to no investment in caring if you speedily get back up advertising or never run ads again.
Meta has got money to burn and hands out ad account restrictions left and right.
Also SocialSurge Marketing saying you should Request Review is a big mistake. Because if you click on “Request Review” you’ll get ONE machine to review
ANOTHER machine’s decision. That’s like asking the fox to guard the hen house.
You think a Facebook bot is going to side with a human over another Facebook bot?
WRONG.
I’ll tell you what to do next that is a?much better option:
Ad Account Restrictions: Request a review
More contradictory advice from Facebook:
“If your account is restricted due to a policy violation, you may be able to request a review.”
That’s like asking the original evil Terminator to review John Connor as he is hunting Connor.
Now – I’m not saying that it won’t?ever work.
About 1 % of people who request review, DO get their accounts back after ad account restrictions.
But, I’ve worked with 10s of 1000s of advertisers and the stats show requesting review just locks you into a permanently restricted status.
Speaking of machines, the coming AI wave will also bring new changes with Facebook’s use of AI content, so keep on the look out for new Facebook AI ad policies on ad account restrictions.
Speaking of machines, the coming AI wave will also bring new changes with Facebook’s use of AI content, so keep on the look out for new Facebook AI ad policies on ad account restrictions.
Ad Account Restrictions: Learn more
Are you ready to stop second guessing Facebook bans and stop sitting on the edge of your seat worrying about shut downs?
Even if you spent a week reading Facebook’s Ad Policies you’d still be at risk of a shut down simply because there are a 1000 more flags than you are actually told about.
Yet the machines still scan your ads according to these invisible Facebook ad policies. BUT – don’t miss out on an opportunity to never have to get flagged again.
I’ve worked in ads, tech and project management at Facebook and can help. What if you had a guarantee that your ads were compliant?before they went live on Facebook?
What if you knew 100% without guessing?why your ad account was disabled?
What if you knew why your Facebook ads were blocked and had a path to get ads live again? Keep reading for these answers and more:?
Ad Account Restrictions: New Solution
Ad agencies: tired of getting the silent treatment from Facebook when all you want to do is get your Facebook ads live and revenue in the door?
I’m a Facebook ad policy specialist who worked deep at Facebook and I’m trusted by high level brands that take accuracy and results seriously:
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