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lol.
You programmers must also know that facebook could be alot more savvy about this.
Let's please stop talking about this topic as it's in everyone's best interest (except facebook's).
They absolutely could be more savvy but the fact of the matter is no matter how savvy and no matter how smart there programmers are there will always be the average person which can exploit there work.
haha I mean shit you honestly think Mark didn't take the original idea/source code from ConnectU, of course he did.....just an example of what the average person can do with a little bit of work and insight.
Very true.
I fixed my problem, just used another card (sensible option) and it worked, awaiting approval now ...
Day Four, 7:14 am: I logged in and saw my first conversion! Ka-Ching! It's an education offer that paid $4.75. Total spent: $13.24. Not very lucrative, but forge ahead I must.
I have been reading this entire thread, and up to page 20. So far, I haven't seen an important tip mentioned: When creating an ad you get 25 characters in the headline. When editing an approved ad, you can add 10 (I think) characters to the headline. This gives you a bit more leeway when writing your ads. Try it, and you'll see what I mean.
I have been reading this entire thread, and up to page 20. So far, I haven't seen an important tip mentioned: When creating an ad you get 25 characters in the headline. When editing an approved ad, you can add 10 (I think) characters to the headline. This gives you a bit more leeway when writing your ads. Try it, and you'll see what I mean.
I've been getting a shitload of repeat traffic from about 12 IP addresses from India to each of my FB ads. Then it hit me... I will never have any use for any traffic from India. Time to send them to pictures they will appreciate.
Here's some of the biggest offending IPs if you wish to block them
iptables -I INPUT -s 61.247.243.22 -j DROP
iptables -I INPUT -s 122.164.218.110 -j DROP
iptables -I INPUT -s 58.68.65.194 -j DROP
iptables -I INPUT -s 221.135.46.100 -j DROP
Here's some of the biggest offending IPs if you wish to block them
iptables -I INPUT -s 61.247.243.22 -j DROP
iptables -I INPUT -s 122.164.218.110 -j DROP
iptables -I INPUT -s 58.68.65.194 -j DROP
iptables -I INPUT -s 221.135.46.100 -j DROP
Prepay in advance more than you owe, and they'll credit the difference to your account. I did this when I had a home improvement project, and my credit limit was $3,000. I was trying to rack up Amazon.com shopping points while doing improvements, and not go over the limit. This worked fine for me.
I notice that FB will automatically approve an ad when you clone a previous ad and don't mess with too much of it. Adding keywords is ok, but you have problems when you change copy and graphics and will need reapproval from Nanny Facebook.
Heh thanks. Since that post I've gotten the CC situation under control though
Weird to think that was a year ago.Yes autocopy has been around for a while. They disabled it Friday night but it should have been back and working by Sat. It allows you to change the demos without re-submitting.
My FB results so far are driving me batty. Since Thursday, I have a consistent CTR of .13 to .19 going to a sports niche EPN site that is targeted to teens. So far the traffic to this site has made me no money (aside from a couple of Adsense clicks).
I have been working 16 hours a day, grinding out ads and variations of them, with one conversion. My strongest campaign thus far has a CTR of .05, and the rest of them died down to .03 or .01 CTR.
I am trying campaigns in a variety of niches, and writing multiple ads for all of them. Each campaign has a small budget, the largest being a $20 a day dating campaign.
Tomorrow I may try a different tactic: foreign traffic. What do you make of these results?
I have been working 16 hours a day, grinding out ads and variations of them, with one conversion. My strongest campaign thus far has a CTR of .05, and the rest of them died down to .03 or .01 CTR.
I am trying campaigns in a variety of niches, and writing multiple ads for all of them. Each campaign has a small budget, the largest being a $20 a day dating campaign.
Tomorrow I may try a different tactic: foreign traffic. What do you make of these results?
Getting facebook users, especially teens, to buy anything is tough. Foreign traffic can be much cheaper and less saturated.
I started working on foreign traffic offers today, and realized that Nanny Facebook can't see the affiliate landing page because it redirects to a US email submit offer. I expect that first ad to be disapproved.
So I used Karl's linker program and set up a 301 redirect to the affiliate's landing page example. Once I get the ad approved I'll swap the example link for the affiliate link. (Karl's program offers geo-targeting, but I haven't started using this.)
There has to be a better way of doing this. I would have to act fast to change the destination link in order to not lose payment tracking, watching every second, awaiting the approval.
Do you recommend a foreign traffic proxy server?
One big enhancement Nanny Facebook could provide to us peons is allowing changes after the ad has been submitted for approval. How many times have you submitted an ad, wishing you could change a single word?
erm why don't you set your bids to 0.01 and raise it only after your ad is approved and you've swapped your affiliate link back?
I know, but I asked because it seems like a very inefficient way to run a foreign campaign. I have resorted to using campaigns targeted to US & Canada, and had to pass up a lot of interesting offers.
You pause your ad, you don't do this unless you want to destroy your ad a large amount of times.
What I find happens if you lower your bid too much is FB kills it, you'll loose all impressions, and sometimes if you increase your bid after they still won't give you any impressions, the ad because dead and stale.
P.S. BlueYonder - Look one page back from this one for the re-direct script I posted........your problem is solved.
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