can I just redirect URL in FB ads

aussiejack · Jan 31, 2016

I have a fb ad running. Now I want to redirect my leads to another site which would not be approved by facebook. Can I just make a redirect?

So at the moment:

Facebook ad ----> User clicks on Site A

My goal

Facebook ad ----> User clicks on Site A ----> gets redirected to Site B

Technically that is easy but I am just wondering if google has bots / crawlers etc who check for little scammers like me

444444 · Jan 31, 2016

My experience with Facebook is that they will ban you at the second they smell something fishy and then you pretty much lost your ads account which is quite hard to recover.

aussiejack · Jan 31, 2016

ok but how do they smell it?

dammo · Jan 31, 2016

Not sure it would be worth the risk.

Awavekid · Jan 31, 2016

444444 said:
My experience with Facebook is that they will ban you at the second they smell something fishy and then you pretty much lost your ads account which is quite hard to recover.

This.

SIKE. Don't listen to 4444444 or whatever, he does Facebook ads himself and he basically over exaggerate's everything about Facebook.

You can use a meta refresh redirect after they approve a clean link, afterwards you can switch the redirect to whatever.

aussiejack · Jan 31, 2016

Awavekid said:
This.

SIKE. Don't listen to 4444444 or whatever, he does Facebook ads himself and he basically over exaggerate's everything about Facebook.

You can use a meta refresh redirect after they approve a clean link, afterwards you can switch the redirect to whatever.

cool

but is that a meta refresh redirect?

Code:

[FONT=Verdana][SIZE=3] <!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<!-- HTML meta refresh URL redirection -->
<meta http-equiv="refresh"
content="0; url=http://www.mydomain.com/new-page.html">;
</head>
<body>
<p>The page has moved to:
<a href="http://www.mydomain.com/new-page.html">this page</a></p>
</body>
</html>[/SIZE][/FONT]

I mean this code

ChanzGrande · Jan 31, 2016

Yes that is a meta-refresh. While it is true you can do it this way - if you are doing really blackhat stuff your best bet would be cloaking. For example, if/when Facebook re-crawls your ad link they can identify anything fishy/spammy, and they can and do disable abusive accounts, so a lot of people with some money go straight to cloaking.

Personally, I wouldn't risk my personal FB ad account in this manner(meta-refresh) unless my final landing pages are pretty clean laced. But, this meta-refresh is definitely a short-term solution while you build up some cash for cloaking. If you have the money now - it's a good way to go to gain some longevity with any given FB ads account.

aussiejack said:

cool

but is that a meta refresh redirect?

Code:

[FONT=Verdana][SIZE=3] <!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<!-- HTML meta refresh URL redirection -->
<meta http-equiv="refresh"
content="0; url=http://www.mydomain.com/new-page.html">;
</head>
<body>
<p>The page has moved to:
<a href="http://www.mydomain.com/new-page.html">this page</a></p>
</body>
</html>[/SIZE][/FONT]

I mean this code

aussiejack · Jan 31, 2016

davers said:
Yes that is a meta-refresh. While it is true you can do it this way - if you are doing really blackhat stuff your best bet would be cloaking. For example, if/when Facebook re-crawls your ad link they can identify anything fishy/spammy, and they can and do disable abusive accounts, so a lot of people with some money go straight to cloaking.

Personally, I wouldn't risk my personal FB ad account in this manner(meta-refresh) unless my final landing pages are pretty clean laced. But, this meta-refresh is definitely a short-term solution while you build up some cash for cloaking. If you have the money now - it's a good way to go to gain some longevity with any given FB ads account.

I have the money. Is there a good tutorial for cloaking?

ChanzGrande · Jan 31, 2016

Well there are providers here, and also a lot of other well-known services. Most of the major ones are pretty solid and secure. In a nutshell though the cloaking service will show one set of content to search engines, manual reviewers, etc... while it will show your highly monetized actual landing page to real people. It can be expensive, but if you have a solid BH campaign - it's the best goto solution to quickly start getting the money rolling in.

I do like Blackjack's JustCloakIt service which I have utilized in a bit of a review capacity, but like I said there are a lot of different providers. This can be done on one's own, but it is a lot of work.

Wilson Grant Fisk · Jan 31, 2016

Agree with davers this is a situation for cloaking.

Just stay away from Ralph Urner and Cedric Heyward

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