5 Reasons Why Your Facebook Ad Account Restricted

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Often Facebook makes understanding Facebook ad policy confusing. With geopolitical events pushing big tech and social media companies to make rapid changes, the regular business owner is left to pick up the pieces.

I worked at Facebook or Meta if you want to call it that, with the Creator Monetization Program as well as ads, and at one point even tech for Facebook’s servers.

In this blog, I’ll share my expert advice on how to navigate the Facebook ad policy strategically instead of just guessing and hoping you don’t get shut down. You’re in safe hands today.

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Just like my client Amazon reality TV show star Juanita Ingram found out, you can get banned in a heartbeat, lose your 10K+ Page and revenue it generated. Luckily, she found me and I helped get her Facebook Page back.


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How did I get myself restricted from advertising on Facebook? 

One of the most common things clients bring up in meetings is they’ll tell me, “Trevor, how can my competitor run these ads that are totally breaking Facebook policies? Why don’t they have a Facebook ad account restricted?”

Well, my reply is always, “Give it time,” as you can only escape Facebook’s automations for so long until a noncompliant ad or ads that slipped through the cracks now trigger a funnel-wide ban. And you don’t want to get shut down because then you’ll miss out on the current wave of shortform video marketing that’s taking the world by storm.

You got a Facebook ad account restricted through either a major ban, where certain words can trigger an entire Business Manager shut down. Or, a series of smaller infractions that Facebook didn’t tell you about, were adding up on the back end, for how your ad assets are scored on Meta’s side.

As a result, you end up getting your Facebook ad account restricted, often without any explanation at all. Given the coming re-targeting cookie apocalypse as Facebook expert John Loomer reports, you’ll want to have all platforms available to run ads on to make up for what’s coming.

(Also a good roadmap: What to Do After Violating Facebook’s Ad Policies)

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Facebook Ad Account Restricted Ad Policy Checklist

I want to make sure you’re well taken care of because ad agencies and businesses getting banned on facebook are frequently left without any help at all. If you want just the quick and dirty, here’s a checklist that can help with some tips at-a-glance:

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How can I tell if my account was restricted?

When you login to Facebook and navigate to Ad Manager, typically there are menacing red letters at the top that tell you that you are banned. That’s where you’ll see that your Facebook ad account restricted warning.

Or you may see in your Facebook Business Manager a warning in the settings by your ad accounts that your Facebook ad account restricted.

You won’t be able to run ads and you may or may not have an option to appeal. Now, appealing a Facebook ad account restricted is tough and if you don’t know the right technique you’ll end up staying in Facebook jail.

If you keep in mind that even one word can get you banned then it helps to consider compliance elements as well as conversion when penning Facebook ad copy.

(Check out my article Facebook ad account disabled next steps).

5 Reasons Why Your Facebook ad account restricted

1.Too many rejected ads within a 90 day period

2.Ban-level flag inside your ad copy 

3.Automations flagged you for Special Ad Categories

4.Re-running previously rejected Facebook ads without any changes

5. Moving too quickly online and geographically

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What does having my account restricted mean?

In this type of situation, your options will vary. Typically you will have a few chances to get your Facebook ads live again depending on the severity of the flag.

For lighter flags you may get off easy and be able to continue running ads. BUT if you were not told accurately WHAT you got flagged for and CONTINUE to have the same material in your creative or ad copy, then eventually this leads to harsher bans down the line.

Let’s say you have an ad that is kinda on-the-line but isn’t overtly against Facebook ad policies. BUT you recently had a shit ton of rejected ads. What will happen is the ad that is mostly ok, will get rejected.

And then this can trigger a full review of your ad account, and in turn lead to a shutdown if your funnel isn’t fully compliant with Facebook ad policies. That’s another way a smaller flag can lead to a bigger Facebook ad account restricted issue.

Navigating Facebook’s Advertising Policies as a Business is a good read too if you’re looking to go from ignorance on Facebook ad policy to having some clarity.

 What do I do if my Facebook account is restricted from advertising?

If you have a Facebook ad account restricted your first step is to stop everything you’re doing, and notify everyone on the Facebook Business Manager about what’s going on.

The next thing to do if you have a Facebook ad account restricted is review the most recent Facebook ads that you submitted for approval. Take a look through Facebook’s eyes and see what potential flags are in the creative or copy.

Then, audit your marketing funnel and ensure that you have removed all the potential flags before making any attempt at an appeal of a Facebook restricted ad account.

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If you’ve been shutdown a lot but never got answers, you’re like one of my clients, Steve Martinez, Vice President of Apollidon Learning.

“Trevor took us through the process of getting one of our University of Texas ad accounts reinstated (within minutes).We have a better understand of how the algorithm works and know exactly what to do and say if our account gets disabled again.”

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Used to, recovering when you have a Facebook ad account restricted was easy. In Facebook’s Business Manager you could simply create new ad accounts and run more ads. BUT the clickbait farms have been hurting all of us in social media and marketing worlds.
Facebook has cracked down and made stricter policies, reducing the amount of ad accounts you could create from 1000 to 3, a couple of years ago to now…

Literally ONE ad account per new Facebook Business Manager ( the “Meta Business Suite” < bleh >) is all ya get unless you have a legacy BM. As a result many are stuck with a Facebook ad account restricted for life.

What if you had a guarantee that your ads were compliant before they went live on Facebook? Do you want to prevent getting your Facebook ad account restricted?

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