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HELP! FB Gaming Offers + GEO redirect to Blank Page (9)

06-22-2014 07:04 AM #1 cosmeivan ()
HELP! FB Gaming Offers + GEO redirect to Blank Page

Hi Strackers!, hope you are all on 100% ROI today

I'm gonna start with FB again after 6 years and I have some simple questions. (mods feel free to move this thread if it belongs to the Noobs Q&A).

The thing is I've decided to try FB with a safe vertical, and Gaming seems to fits me well.

I have an account with KingMb and they have some good gaming offers, but I was trying to access these offer using a VPN and User-agent switcher, even with my Android+VPN and the merchant seems to redirect to a blank page.

I don't want my FB ads rejected every time or have my account banned because of that redirect. So, how are you guys bypassing this issue? I know FB reviewers come from US, Ireland and India, so they will get to the blank page instead of going to Google Play or iTune store

A buddy of mine that runs FB told me I would need a cloaker, even for safe offers, just to overcome this GEO redirect issue, is this how everyone is doing it?

Thanks in advance for any tips you can share!

06-22-2014 07:26 AM #2 zeno (Administrator)

You don't need a cloaker to deal with geo-redirects, that's absolute rubbish.

Any tracking system worth it's salt can deal with this.

However, I would find out why you're getting redirected to a blank page first. This is not normal, especially if testing offers through a VPN and even a UA switcher. (Are you using noscript?).

I take it they are mobile offers? Talk to your AM, figure it out. The geo-redirects generally happen at the network end.

If the advertiser is also doing something annoying, your AM is your point of contact for conveying your irritations. If the advertiser cant even get something simple like redirection working, don't even bother working with them. Android (Play store) offer links should go to the play store page regardless of your UA or country IP. Anything else is a pain in the ass for affiliates and warrants you walking away.

06-22-2014 07:58 AM #3 cosmeivan ()

Hey Zeno, thanks for the rapid reply.

Yeah, these are mobile gaming offers, I have had not problem when testing mobile adult offers with VPN+Android Phone or UA-switcher.

I talked to my AM at Kingmb and he told me they set the offers to just accept certain GEOs. So I recommended him to not redirect to a "blank" page but this sounds kinda fishy, any decent network would know this.

I guess I will just start with other networks

06-23-2014 05:29 PM #4 caurmen (Administrator)

Hmm - King have a rep on here. Any comments, KingMobi guys?

06-25-2014 07:31 PM #5 cosmeivan ()

Hey caurmen, I just handled everything on my end with the tracker as Zeno said.

I just don't know why FB reviewers don't take into account the device and GEO targeting, they just come from US,Ireland using a PC. So this will happen with any other offer.

Thanks for the help!

06-26-2014 02:05 AM #6 zeno (Administrator)

Quote Originally Posted by cosmeivan View Post
Hey caurmen, I just handled everything on my end with the tracker as Zeno said.

I just don't know why FB reviewers don't take into account the device and GEO targeting, they just come from US,Ireland using a PC. So this will happen with any other offer.

Thanks for the help!
Don't expect any traffic source to go out of the way for you like this.

The fact is, as the advertiser, the responsibility is on your to send all users to the product you are advertising.

If they check with non-mobile devices or non-X country IPs redirect to a quiz page, that's your failure, not theirs.

06-26-2014 01:25 PM #7 cosmeivan ()

Ok, but that reinforce my point that the OP. that what you say is also considered cloaking

Despite you are not sending users to a prohibited niche, though.

06-26-2014 10:11 PM #8 zeno (Administrator)

I consider cloaking to be when you send reviewers to a page that is different from your live lander/offer pages for the purposes of getting a non-compliant campaign through.

You can of course use a cloaker for more benign things but this doesn't change what they were made for.

Geo-redirecting to circumvent the annoying crap networks do is good practice and is almost by definition the opposite of cloaking.

If you put redirects in place so that dekstop users don't get bounced to mobile-only links, this is a similar thing.

If it's a mobile offer the safest bet is to send desktop users specifically to the play store links that desktops can load just fine, and mobile users to the affiliate URLs that also go to the play store but trigger an install.

To reiterate, I don't think this is cloaking, and you can do it without a cloaker - tracking systems can do this redirection too. If someone tells you that you need a cloaker, even to run compliant offers on Facebook, they are wrong.

06-27-2014 04:46 PM #9 cosmeivan ()

I agree with you, it is just that the "Redirect" and "Cloaking" definition will vary, depending on the context.

Don't get me wrong, I'm tech savvy and I know how to redirect based on almost any factor, manually or with a tracker. Most tracker have these abilities nowadays.

By now I know FB ad reviewers are as retarded as POF's reviewers. I'll keep trying to make some "legit" niches work, if they ban me for some dumb reason I'll just take the shady path

Thanks for your comments.

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