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Error! Ad operation failed (7)

11-04-2016 05:00 PM #1 hmedia (Member)
Error! Ad operation failed

Hi guys,

as of today i'm getting this error when uploading new ads in Facebook. Ad operation failed: This ad contains or refers to content that has been blocked by our security systems. (fbtrace_id: GdSw6/2AcQm)
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Does anyone know what this means?

I don't get this error when launching new like campaigns on Facebook.

11-04-2016 05:10 PM #2 il3n1n (Member)

https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug/sharing/

Your domain has been flagged by FB. Check domain status before you create the campaign

11-04-2016 05:20 PM #3 hmedia (Member)

but i'm getting this error when uploading the image and select it from the library. so there is no domain in the setup.

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11-04-2016 05:59 PM #4 mihalis09 (Member)

Quote Originally Posted by il3n1n View Post
Your domain has been flagged by FB. Check domain status before you create the campaign
No, that is not right.

@hmedia You will get this when not having properly setup your links through the tracker. The moment you enter or edit a new url on an ad on PEditor, before you even upload the edited ad, actually immediately, Facebook bots travel through the link and its redirections down to the final destination page. If any of those links on the way are flagged by fbook, aka red marked on the WOT system, Facebook will show you this error. Even if your domain and final destination are whitelisted with them.

To fix, before entering ANY link on ther PEditor, simply edit the path to your destination to contain only clean links, aka remove the affiliate redirection and connect to finalofferpage.com directly from yourdomain.com. You can do so through geo and ISP rules from your tracker or edit links on the backend after ads are approved.

11-04-2016 07:07 PM #5 hmedia (Member)

Quote Originally Posted by mihalis09 View Post
No, that is not right.

@hmedia You will get this when not having properly setup your links through the tracker. The moment you enter or edit a new url on an ad on PEditor, before you even upload the edited ad, actually immediately, Facebook bots travel through the link and its redirections down to the final destination page. If any of those links on the way are flagged by fbook, aka red marked on the WOT system, Facebook will show you this error. Even if your domain and final destination are whitelisted with them.

To fix, before entering ANY link on ther PEditor, simply edit the path to your destination to contain only clean links, aka remove the affiliate redirection and connect to finalofferpage.com directly from yourdomain.com. You can do so through geo and ISP rules from your tracker or edit links on the backend after ads are approved.
But the whole problem is there is no link in the ad. check screenshot in the above post. you'll see that i get this error by only selecting an image from the library.

11-04-2016 07:28 PM #6 mihalis09 (Member)

Have you EVER inserted a link in that campaign that contained a contaminated path to the destination? Or duplicated that ad from another one in the same or other campaign that contained such path? I'm willing to bet Yes.

There's no reason y Facebook would show you that message if you just edited an image on a brand new campaign with no or totally clean link history.

11-04-2016 08:42 PM #7 hmedia (Member)

i'm 100% sure that i did not inserted a link before in this campaign and even in this ad account because it's a new one. this problem started when i uploaded my first image for my ad which is a dating related image and i think this caused the whole problem in the first place. if you read the first part of this error carefully: (This ad contains or refers.) so this means that facebook has some kind of detection system and can scan images (not links) and automatically recognizes banned images.

another thing that comes in my mind that may caused this problem is, my personal account got disabled today by facebook because of some kind of violation on one of my posts. this account is added in my business manager and same goes for the new ad account that gives me these errors. i'm the admin of both accounts so maybe the bot that checks content and links, recognizes the page with a post that got flagged. however this new ad account uses a totally different fan page to post ads. so i doubt that this has something to do with the other account.

Update: it look like it was an temporarily bug in power editor. i can now ad ads again without getting errors popping up for no reason.

Thanks a lot guys for your feedback.

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