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How are these weight loss advertisers surviving aka how are they doing this? (15)

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Hey guys,

so I logged into some other fb accounts today to surf around and look at ads.

I got banned from fb last thanksgiving and haven't tried getting back on (except, by, you know going the legit route and emailing my rep, etc)

Anyways, saw some weight loss ads today.

Correct me if I'm wrong but I'm not supposed to out actual ads/campaigns right?

So I'll just give you the gist:

1. ad says the usual "Dr. Oz" or "Rachel Ray" (aka the same crap used to sling acai berries int he past) "lost XXlbs week/month"

2. STRANGELY it has 25K likes!

3. Click the ad and it goes to a facebook "page" which when looking at the URL is an app it doesn't load -- then reloads redirecting me to a typical FARTICLE news lander with the typical rebill pitch.

How are they doing that?

Second thing I saw:

1. advertiser in another niche

2. ad points to first a self hosted prosper202 domain of the afiliate

3. redirects to a clickbank offer.

4. I checked BOTH the clickbank offer AND the self-hosted tracking domain of the affiliate on mywot.com and they have the red/untrustworthy rankings.

BUT ...

when I was advertising on there last year, when I got a poor mywot score -- when you clicked an ad of mine -- it warned you saying you were leaving facebook to go to a potentially unsafe site. This guys ad just went on through????

What's up with all this?

How are they getting away with all this?

Any ideas anyone? Has something changed since they went public?

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cloaking

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Those who know don't speak. Those who don't know speak.

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I like how your response goes with your name "darkforces" haha.

(p.s. I'll pay you. tell me )

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Yep that would be cloaking.



Mehdi

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Best line of the month.

@Caleb, nobody is gonna tell you that. Who would want their $xx,xxx/day campaign being out to newbies?

They are all printing money there.

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Of course I know this, I was asking tongue in cheek.

Anyways, I was asking about how they were doing it because of two things:

1. I've seen regular cloaking on FB, but these went to app fb pages then redirected. Never saw that before

2. the other advertiser who has the p202 on his own tracking server (with bad MYWOT score) and also the final destination offer (CB offer with bad MYWOT score) -- had traffic going to it fine with no warning.

Just wasn't aware these things were possible on FB

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Anything is possible on FB if their spiders & review team doesn't see what is happening

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Can you get in trouble for cloaking? like legally?

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It's the same 5-8 guys running the same campaigns. They have it down to a science.

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I have this feeling you know of what you speaketh

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^^ That's your answer. You gave up, they stayed persistent and innovated.

As a result:
They are making $xx,xxx per day
You are asking questions

get crackin'

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Nice. I feel like relying on facebook/google is like building your house on sand .... but its always good while it lasts ... I'mma explore it some more -- too much great traffic on FB lol

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This is the magic word.

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magic

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