Facebook Ad Review Stupidity

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natekapi

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I've had a couple groups of campaigns get rejected and the reason was that the destination URL was inaccessible.....at first I thought it was a little strange and wrote it off. But it just happened again today, at 5am EST, and I thought it was a little strange. So I checked the location of the IP in Prosper202......

Who's bright idea at Facebook was it to use someone in fucking Ireland to approve ads, targetted at the US no less? Do you guys really not understand IP geolocation? At least set a US proxy up for these fuckers.

I understand the need to make sure your international ads URL is accessible to the ad review people in the US...but when you have to make sure that your US targetted ads URL is accessible to the whole fucking world, because you decide to have ad reviewers in Ireland reviewing ads, that's a little much don't you think Facebook?
 


Yes, seems quite strange. Though I highly doubt though that they have an employee in Ireland doing reviews.

To go around your problem, just put up a webpage redirecting to the offer's plain homepage. So they can review it, and once it's approved, change the redirect to your referral URL.
 
They probably do, they have a big office in Dublin, loads of net companies do their donkeywork here because of low corporation tax.
 
ROIShareTeam said:
To go around your problem, just put up a webpage redirecting to the offer's plain homepage. So they can review it, and once it's approved, change the redirect to your referral URL.
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Should an advertiser REALLY need to do this though? Especially if your advertising something in the US and FB's ad reviewers are usually in the US. What happens when your ad does get approved at 5am and you wake up at noon? Your just gonna let traffic go to your offer for however many hours and piss away money without any conversions? (I know you could set a super low budget for the campaign until everything is approved and ready to go....but still...)

That's just a really bad work around for a problem that shouldn't even be happening.

If an ad is targetted to the US, you shouldn't have cheap labor in Ireland approving them without making sure they're using a US IP. This makes me feel bad for advertisers everywhere around the world, except Ireland, who get their ads rejected because of Facebook overlooking this issue.
 
natekapi said:
Should an advertiser REALLY need to do this though? Especially if your advertising something in the US and FB's ad reviewers are usually in the US. What happens when your ad does get approved at 5am and you wake up at noon? Your just gonna let traffic go to your offer for however many hours and piss away money without any conversions? (I know you could set a super low budget for the campaign until everything is approved and ready to go....but still...)

That's just a really bad work around for a problem that shouldn't even be happening.

If an ad is targetted to the US, you shouldn't have cheap labor in Ireland approving them without making sure they're using a US IP. This makes me feel bad for advertisers everywhere around the world, except Ireland, who get their ads rejected because of Facebook overlooking this issue.
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I do agree that an advertiser shouldn't have to go through all this hassle to make the company money. But there seems to be a problem with ever ad platform, starting with Google Adwords, and ending with Myspace. Each platform seems to have it's own very noobish problems, and disconcern at times. Unfortunately, I doubt we'll see optimal change from any platform.
 
natekapi said:
Should an advertiser REALLY need to do this though? Especially if your advertising something in the US and FB's ad reviewers are usually in the US. What happens when your ad does get approved at 5am and you wake up at noon? Your just gonna let traffic go to your offer for however many hours and piss away money without any conversions? (I know you could set a super low budget for the campaign until everything is approved and ready to go....but still...)

That's just a really bad work around for a problem that shouldn't even be happening.

If an ad is targetted to the US, you shouldn't have cheap labor in Ireland approving them without making sure they're using a US IP. This makes me feel bad for advertisers everywhere around the world, except Ireland, who get their ads rejected because of Facebook overlooking this issue.
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agreed.. having to switch up links every time is ridiculous
 
Then setup your redirect to only work for the first 4-5 visitors. I've done this before and it works perfectly.
 
DanBo said:
They aren't stupid.. you are.. lol
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I'm kinda thinking the same thing,

First off you don't change your code everytime, you use the same fucking thing over and over.

Here.....now get to work.

Code: 
if (stristr($_SERVER["HTTP_REFERER"], "dev.facebook")) { $log = 1; }
             if (stristr($_SERVER["HTTP_REFERER"], "devrs001.facebook.com"))  { $log = 1; }
            if (stristr($_SERVER["HTTP_REFERER"], "/intern/ads/review.php")) { $log = 1; }
            if (stristr($_SERVER["HTTP_REFERER"], "/intern.facebook.com/")) { $log = 1; }
            if (stristr($_SERVER["HTTP_REFERER"], "/dev.facebook.com/")) { $log = 1; }

             if($log == 1) {
                $cloak = 1;
                $filename = "interns.txt";
                $handle = fopen($filename, 'a');
                fwrite($handle, "$ip\r\n");
                fclose($handle);
             }
             elseif(file_exists("interns.txt")) {
                $lines = file('interns.txt');
                foreach ($lines as $line_num => $line) {
                      if(stristr($line, $this->user_ip)) { $cloak = 1; break; }
                }
             }

             if($cloak == 1) {
                 // Redirect without your aff link something like http://ImHopeless.com
             } 
             else
             {
                // Redirect with your afflink http://maxbounty.com?o=234?c=a23&s1=ImNotHopeless
 
I've ran into this problem a couple times. When your not cloaking, just set your bid to .01 and raise your bids / switch out the links on once it gets approved.
 
A couple of month ago I was fucking around and checking the location of the IPs of where my ads were being reviewed from. And I came across a reviewer IP address from Ireland. Have not seen one since and had put it down to an error somewhere along the line. Cheers for the confirmation that it was right after all... wtf?
 
GoogleSearchSux said:
The worst thing is when you forget to switch your link and spend money sending traffic for which you will never get any credit.
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Yea I did that the other night. I submitted an ad, forgot to wait around and watched a movie and while I was gone I sent like $800 to webmd. I had to lol at that, then I got drunk
 
With all the Facebook employees trolling these forums I was hoping to get one to come out of the closet and leave a response. But it looks like I didn't get that out of them.

I'm sure they saw this thread though which was my intention.
 
speaking of stupidity i put up an ad for skin care and they said this
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picture was irrelevant to what I was advertising...
 
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