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The 2 Reasons Your FB Account got Banned (17)

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The 2 most common messages are "Policy Violation" and "Unusual Activity".

Policy Violation
You got caught - period. Your creative was too aggressive, your cloaker didn't work as expected, your safe site doesn't look like a real site and didn't contain the necessary pages, etc. Fix all that before testing out with a new account.

Unusual Activity
This is triggered by a bot ban, which probably means the account you're using was flagged in the first place. It could be used in too many devices before, too little devices before, or your proxy/VPN wasn't connected when you accessed the account. There's nothing to fix here, stop crying, and move on with the next account.

Hope this clears some confusion. If you have any more other common ban messages, please share them in this thread.

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Rarely have I gotten a policy violation. I get Unusual Activity almost every time, and I'm talking about 50+ banned accounts.
I've been wondering if someone has a list of things that flag your account. Not policy wise, but Unusual Activity.

A list that tells you things like: Don't post more than 4 ads at a time. Don't start your account with a budget over $20. Don't advertise on a page less than 2 weeks old. Do this don't to that....
Stuff like that, that would trigger their review bot to flag you. I am working on this list, but I don't have all the data. If someone is interested, and already has a lot of accounts available, shoot me a PM. We can make this list together. I'm sure it'll save a LOT of account bans and unnecessary sorrows.

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I noticed that when I raise the budget real agressively the account dies due unusual activity.

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Spending too much too quickly would definately raise red flags.

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For Policy Violation

I also suggest looking at Negative/Postive feedback columns of your ad reports.

High Negative/Medium Postive will get you banned faster than High Negative/High Postive!

Facebook doesn't allow breakdown report on ad feedback, so it's quite tedious to figure out in which part of the world your ad is generating negative/positive feedback.

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How do you usually scale your camps to prevent them from getting flagged for unusual activity if I might ask?

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There is a post on iamattila's blog that mentions this.

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Quick question for a new FB campaign, how much a week can I spend to not raise flag? If I'm doing Week1: 200$spent; Week2: 800$spent; Week3: 3000$spent; Week4: 10000$spent; Will it work? Is it too quick?

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Have you tested this?

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What's the point of accessing years of affiliate experience to still have to idle through unnecessary testing?

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Yes agreed.

Testing is much too much work.

Affiliate marketing should involve zero work whatsoever :P

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When it involves facebook, their methods are always changing, so years of experience play little role.

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To the guys asking about budget, don't increase it by more than 100% in 1 day.

Something like this: $150 > $280 > $500 > $900 > $1600/day...

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how much of a role does time of day play when raising budgets?

will raising budgets when the servers reset (12AM pacific) be the most optimal? or should I only be raising budgets during working hours of the ad account? (9-5)?

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Increase budget based on your targeted geo location.

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I've gotten accounts back that had Unusual Activity flags. It's rare, but it does happen

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Hi,

Do you have a link for that one? I can only find the scaling ones, not scaling with little negative feedback

Thank you

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