Links in Video: http://www.nickycakes.com/new-facebook-ads-guidelines/

Summary

This video contains two main tips. The first one is that if you choose to promote offers that fit into the facebook environments you will have a much easier time getting them approved and you will also probably see better conversions. The second is that in order to keep keywords and target market details in your ad text  iFrame your offer and put a title above the iFrame that related your ad to the offer.

Alright Time for the first tip! This one may be a little obvious so I hope it does not put you off for the rest of this mini series but I wanted to share it on day one because it is very important to keep in mind and will effect all the other tips I give.

Video Summary:

The Tip: Keep going, and going, and going, and going and going…. Ya just keep trying!

Probably not what you were expecting huh? Hoping I was going to give away some magical trick to get your ads approved? Well the fact of the matter is while there are some tricks you can use to increase approval rate they will not always work! For example the tip I’m going to share tomorrow will help you get something approved 5-15% of the time that would get disapproved 100% of the time otherwise. Since the tips I’m going to be giving are not going to give you a 100% success rate I just wanted to remind everyone that the first step to beating the facebook admins is very simple, just keep trying.

So as a proceed with this series it is important to keep this tip in mind. If what are are submitting is not 100% against their guidelines then chances are you will be able to get the ad through if you just keep trying by submitting the exact same ads, or changing minor things to the ad.

Alright guys I wanted to test out the webcam on my aspire one so I made a quick video that simply introduces what I’m going to be blogging about over the next couple days. The quality is pretty bad but hey it works! anyway here is a quick video for ya:

Video Summary:

It is kind of ironic how a week after Facebook offered advertising coupons and thus encouraging lots of new affiliates to give their system a try they became extremely strict about what we can and can’t promote. The biggest thing they clamped down on was obviously our ads. This seemed to leave the blogasphere with an abundance of posts about how Facebook wont approve their ads. Alan at AffiliateConfession.com has written a few and the most recent one I cam across was over at affiliatemarketingwithryan.com.

The thing that surprises me most as that most people consider it a “failure” just because they can’t get their ads through. On one hand this is extremely good for me! While 75% of people are giving up before they even get started it leaves us established Facebook marketers with less competition and cheaper clicks. Obviously this is good for me and why you wont find me complaining about the recent change. On the other hand I feel kind of bad because to many people are missing out on some easy income once they figure things outs. Like anything their is a learning curve (though not nearly as large as adwords) and what I plan to do for the rest of the week is write a mini series on tricks I use to get my ads approved.

So if you having trouble getting stuff approved on Facebook don’t give up! Just Check back to my blog at the end of the week, or ad me to you RSS and you’ll have some great tips to get your ads approved without sacrificing CTR!

Besides the one slap I got this

Sunday is finally here and I’m down about $3000. First I booked my hotel For ASE in Boston. The room came to $208 per night and it is walking distance from the conference. I will be arriving a day early on the 8th and leaving the 13th. I’m staying at The Westin Boston. If anyone is staying there let me know

The next thing I put on my visa was the trip I am going to be taking with my girlfriend and 2 other friends in late aguest. We are going to disney for two days, then a cruise through the Bahamas for 5days and then back to disney for 2days. Total cost: Just under $1000. I think this is a great price considering it includes airfare. The only thing it does not include is food when we are at disney. My girlfriend and her friend are great bargin hunters! It’s actually kind of ridiculous that this fantastic 9 day trip cost less then my hotel 5 nights in Boston!

The last thing a baught this weekend was an Acer Aspire One:

It’s a pretty cool little computer and is great considering how much traveling I will be doing in Augest (also going to Niagara Falls for a wedding). The only thing I am having trouble with is figuring out how to add new application as it is running on Linux. Once I get a text editor and an FTP client on here it will be great!

I also cleaned my work area today and thought you might like to see where I get all my money making on!

After logging into my Facebook account the other day I noticed I was hit hard by the first of probably many Facebook “slaps”. Several of my ads went from green arrows to disapproved red explanation marks. Needless to say I was not very happy.

After closely examining my campaigns and analyzing what happened it became evident that Facebook is trying to cut down on ads that directly specify what you are targeting. For example, a great way to increase CTR is to put the users age in your title. Unfortunately Facebook does not seem to like this anymore and all my ads of this nature were disapproved:

Later on in that day I tried submitting some more ads with ages in the title they all got rejected for the most idiotic reasons:

What do they mean it does not accurately represent the product? It clearly stated it will reduce wrinkles! I figured they didn’t like the 63.5% thing so I resubmitted it with that adjustment but nope… rejected for the same reason.

On the other hand it appears you can still keep keywords in your ad text. So if you are targeting people who like yoga they will let you write “Do you like yoga”. I also noticed an increase in traffic to all my ads that were not disapproved. One campaign that was starting to die actually got a 50% boost in clicks.