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Does FB blacklist URL's? (5)

07-17-2014 08:01 PM #1 jason a (Senior Member)
Does FB blacklist URL's?

So I recently moved from black hat muscle / diet and skin re-bills to some white hat arbitrage stuff. It does well for me but I am still running into issues with account bans. I am doing nothing wrong my ads are completely compliant and my website is a blog just like www.buzzfeed.com ANYWAY when I was running rebills I would do a separate domain for every account as to not link them together and then when they would get banned I would create all new domains. It seems as if I might be answering my own question but my whitehat URL might have been black listed so no matter what I run im going to get banned.

07-17-2014 08:40 PM #2 am1sumon (Member)

yes it does...

07-17-2014 10:08 PM #3 zeno (Administrator)

They will blacklist specific tracking system URLs (e.g. the campaign unique IDs) when you have redirects to non-compliant destinations, though this can be remedied by making a new campaign that gives a new unique ID.

In this case are you talking about blacklisting a domain specifically?

I have no experience with it but it's quite likely that they do.

07-18-2014 04:19 AM #4 jason a (Senior Member)

Are you saying something like stmforum.com/prospertracking1234 would be blocked but making stmforum.com/prospertracking4321 would not? I was always under the impression that if stmforum.com/prospertracking1234 was blocked then ANYTHING and EVERYTHING that was stmforum.com would be black listed and banned if tried to run. I always did brand new URLS's with each account for my black hat stuff but did not think I would have this issue with my whitehat stuff.

Quote Originally Posted by zeno View Post
They will blacklist specific tracking system URLs (e.g. the campaign unique IDs) when you have redirects to non-compliant destinations, though this can be remedied by making a new campaign that gives a new unique ID.

In this case are you talking about blacklisting a domain specifically?

I have no experience with it but it's quite likely that they do.

07-18-2014 06:53 AM #5 zeno (Administrator)

Quote Originally Posted by jason a View Post
Are you saying something like stmforum.com/prospertracking1234 would be blocked but making stmforum.com/prospertracking4321 would not? I was always under the impression that if stmforum.com/prospertracking1234 was blocked then ANYTHING and EVERYTHING that was stmforum.com would be black listed and banned if tried to run. I always did brand new URLS's with each account for my black hat stuff but did not think I would have this issue with my whitehat stuff.
I haven't had any experience with an entire domain (e.g. stmforum.com) being blacklisted - I presume they will do this if you repeatedly use it for non-compliant stuff.


My experience however has been that, if I use a Voluum campaign link and Facebook's bots get redirected to e.g. a MyWoT red-rated offer wall, this URL:

hxxp://abcde.trackvoluum.com/8d4ce603-a4ea-4508-a45e-4132680b55c6?camp=campaign1&ad=adname


Changing query strings to e.g.

hxxp://abcde.trackvoluum.com/8d4ce603-a4ea-4508-a45e-4132680b55c6?camp=campaign2&ad=adname3


Doesn't help.

However, making a new campaign and using the following URL:

hxxp://abcde.trackvoluum.com/2smd292-d2df-2311-v4s3-43459dfnm23md?camp=campaign1&ad=adname


Works fine. So, I think they have automated systems in place that will blacklist very specific page URLs and/or campaign tracking links. If you got your p202 tracking URL blacklisted you would be in shit because the campaigns only have different t202id's in the query string, rather than a different page/destination as with Voluum and other systems.

This blacklisting will happen in the power editor and normal FB when you even put a URL in and it parses the destination - i.e. before you have even submitted ads it can/will blacklist the URL if it hits a dodgy destination.

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