Quick question about facebook traffic and cpa network ban (5)

dear money makers

quick question, i was talking to one of my AMs today and i was asking him to suggest a catch-all kind of offer for my non qualifying traffic, meaning for the random clicks i might get in FB when you post something on your fan page. And the conversation kept going and he started saying to be careful i dont get banned because they are a quality network and they only want paid traffic etc...
can someone clarify this? is it against the rules to post something on your fan page as a post and then promote that post to give it traffic? he was implying that if i get FREE clicks from my fan page those clicks would be non qualifying and might get me banned.

Confused <------

I think he's implying that this type of traffic - viral FB post clicks and stuff from click-baity articles, niche FB pages with posts littered with CPA offers, etc., are generally of low quality for advertisers and will get you kicked from offers.

I doubt you will get kicked from the network for it but just don't expect to stay on legitimate offers that want high-quality traffic with high intent.

It will depend on the specific scenario but your AM may have experience with the average performance for that type of traffic. They may also have no idea and be wrong.

Originally Posted by zeno

I think he's implying that this type of traffic - viral FB post clicks and stuff from click-baity articles, niche FB pages with posts littered with CPA offers, etc., are generally of low quality for advertisers and will get you kicked from offers.

I doubt you will get kicked from the network for it but just don't expect to stay on legitimate offers that want high-quality traffic with high intent.

It will depend on the specific scenario but your AM may have experience with the average performance for that type of traffic. They may also have no idea and be wrong.

There may be some confusion here.

Your AM may be thinking you are talking about organic FB traffic.

But you are talking about paid FB traffic.

They are different things. The paid traffic is reasonably geo-targeted so needing a catch all is not really a problem. If you post to your page and then promote those posts you will indeed get more link clicks from outside your intended geos due to the social sharing and the fact the post is live on your page. Bear in mind that 99% of the ads affiliates run on FB do not appear in the page timelines.

This is fine and shouldn't endanger your campaign because, frankly, you won't pay for those clicks.

I think the way you put it may have confused your AM. Just say you run paid traffic on Facebook but due to the social nature of the platform there will always be a % of clicks from organic traffic, and you'd like to monetise those.

However, I must stress, this can be a very bad idea if that secondary offer is not kosher, and you can get ads disapproved if the destination FB reviewers are sent to is not congruent with your ad. This is quite possible if you choose the wrong catch-all for a campaign.

Originally Posted by zeno

There may be some confusion here.

Your AM may be thinking you are talking about organic FB traffic.

But you are talking about paid FB traffic.

They are different things. The paid traffic is reasonably geo-targeted so needing a catch all is not really a problem. If you post to your page and then promote those posts you will indeed get more link clicks from outside your intended geos due to the social sharing and the fact the post is live on your page. Bear in mind that 99% of the ads affiliates run on FB do not appear in the page timelines.

This is fine and shouldn't endanger your campaign because, frankly, you won't pay for those clicks.

I think the way you put it may have confused your AM. Just say you run paid traffic on Facebook but due to the social nature of the platform there will always be a % of clicks from organic traffic, and you'd like to monetise those.

However, I must stress, this can be a very bad idea if that secondary offer is not kosher, and you can get ads disapproved if the destination FB reviewers are sent to is not congruent with your ad. This is quite possible if you choose the wrong catch-all for a campaign.