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01-09-2020 09:44 AM #1 matuloo (Legendary Moderator)

Looks like your domain has been flagged so you need a new one.

Could be due to an offer or landing page style or some features that you used. Some of these services have become quite strict, so you never know what they flag you for.

It's part of the game, once your domain get's flagged, just drop it and get a new one.

01-09-2020 09:47 AM #2 manchester (Member)

What's the easiest way to check if your domain has been flagged?

Gav

01-09-2020 09:52 AM #3 matuloo (Legendary Moderator)

Quote Originally Posted by manchester View Post
What's the easiest way to check if your domain has been flagged?

Gav
Let me tag @erikgyepes here, he has dealt with this a lot so he should be able to give you a solid list of sites to check on

01-09-2020 10:42 AM #4 erikgyepes (Moderator)

Quote Originally Posted by manchester View Post
What's the easiest way to check if your domain has been flagged?

Gav
I usually check both with Google Safe Browsing:

https://transparencyreport.google.co...g/search?hl=en

and VirusTotal:

https://www.virustotal.com/gui/home/url

The latter should catch the most of the flags.

In case you already checked this domain before do not forget to click on the small refresh button (reanalyze URL) on the top right corner to check for fresh data.

01-09-2020 10:58 AM #5 manchester (Member)

@erikgyepes thanks for the tip ☺️

01-09-2020 01:33 PM #6 dominium ()

Based on thread title, thought that this will be super "think big" thought-provoking content post. But no...

Haha, good luck anyway! I've had issues with Geoedge on MGID. After switching my custom tracking domains (I use Voluum) *and* asking the advertiser who's offer I run to switch domain, it went thru. But its annoying to say the least.

01-09-2020 05:23 PM #7 twinaxe (Senior Moderator)

Quote Originally Posted by erikgyepes View Post
I usually check both with Google Safe Browsing:

https://transparencyreport.google.co...g/search?hl=en

and VirusTotal:

https://www.virustotal.com/gui/home/url

The latter should catch the most of the flags.

In case you already checked this domain before do not forget to click on the small refresh button (reanalyze URL) on the top right corner to check for fresh data.
From my experience checking Virustotal often doesn´t help much.

Domains can be flagged by several AVs there but still run without any issues on many sources.

Really important is that your domain is not flagged on Google Safe Browsing.

About Geoedge or Empello I also can´t tell by what criteria they judge sites.

01-09-2020 06:22 PM #8 jaybot (Veteran Member)

I'm gonna add Succuri to the list: https://sitecheck.sucuri.net/

It's what ExoClick uses as well. Checks a bunch of stuff.

Even a shitty flag by Norton can affect your camps.

Far easier to switch to a new domain than appeal to the powers that be.

01-09-2020 06:43 PM #9 twinaxe (Senior Moderator)

Quote Originally Posted by jaybot View Post
I'm gonna add Succuri to the list: https://sitecheck.sucuri.net/

It's what ExoClick uses as well. Checks a bunch of stuff.

Even a shitty flag by Norton can affect your camps.

Far easier to switch to a new domain than appeal to the powers that be.
Exactly, it can affect.
Exo for example is also one of the stricter sources (from the ones I work with).

On other sources you can have campaigns running with AV flags with no issues as long as GSB is ok.

But thanks for the Succuri link, didn´t know it.

01-10-2020 07:13 AM #10 fjk87 (Veteran Member)

Geoedge is a pain in the a... They flag just based on their internal system, I had pages flagged as missleading which were saying 'Download the new Alibaba App'. There is no real way around it, I know some guys took legal action against them as they started to really hurt their business with so called false positives - flagging sites where there is nothing to flag.

With geoedge and other services, you can define what you want to get alerts for - so getting into issues with these providers is also depending on how strict the source is and how they set their filters in geoedge.

Other than that, consider getting a cloaker to get rid of them.

01-10-2020 01:55 PM #11 twinaxe (Senior Moderator)

Sometimes these flagging stuff can also seem pretty random.

Some time ago I had massive problems with a lander that I was using in several different Geos.

Never had problems with the lander but each time I ran it in ZA my domain got flagged very fast.

It was just a normal questionnaire lander.

01-10-2020 02:04 PM #12 fjk87 (Veteran Member)

Quote Originally Posted by twinaxe View Post
Sometimes these flagging stuff can also seem pretty random.

Some time ago I had massive problems with a lander that I was using in several different Geos.

Never had problems with the lander but each time I ran it in ZA my domain got flagged very fast.

It was just a normal questionnaire lander.
Could be due to Empello being the go-to service for 3g compliance in ZA, not sure if Empello and geoedge are connected, but nowadays every VAS provider is required to subscribe to compliance checks by WASPA in ZA.

01-10-2020 04:00 PM #13 vtredskins (Member)

yeah, seems like theres no easy way around this. but glad to know i am not the only one dealing with this BS. talked to another affiliate buddy. he said a combination of landing page protection script and adscore did the trick for him. haven't tried myself. will give it a go, i'll keep you posted.

01-10-2020 04:05 PM #14 vtredskins (Member)

Quote Originally Posted by matuloo View Post
Looks like your domain has been flagged so you need a new one.

Could be due to an offer or landing page style or some features that you used. Some of these services have become quite strict, so you never know what they flag you for.

It's part of the game, once your domain get's flagged, just drop it and get a new one.
yeah definitely. but unless the traffic source is super strict and will kick you off after too many flags.

04-23-2020 05:41 PM #15 jeremie (Moderator)

I found out that the Google Safe Browsing API works well for Firefox and Chrome.
Yet IE / Edge uses Smart Screen by Microsoft, and I have not found any API to check if the domain is flagged with them?

Is one of the services abovementioned detect it?

Thanks!

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