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How to avoid ad account restrictions:

Your advertising access is restricted facebook ad account

“Your advertising access is restricted,” is hard to deal with when Facebook won’t give you any answers. Are you looking for a solution and want to stop losing money stuck in Facebook jail?

You may be surprised to learn I worked at Meta, and Facebook before it was called Meta and you may be even further surprised to learn even engineers who created the ban automations have asked me for help when they got hit with their own bans.

That’s how bad ad account restrictions are getting due to it being automated.

The ugly truth is that most articles online are just guessing on how to solve the “Your advertising access is restricted” ban as people search everywhere even on Quora & Reddit, or YouTube for answers. But, since I’ve worked at Facebook – now called Meta – I will give you the best advice on what to do, like I have successfully done many times before.

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Your advertising access is restricted – About

About advertising restrictions

What you may not know is there are many seriously bad actors active on Facebook 24/7, actively working to scam regular Facebook users.

So, while it may be a pain in the @#$, the Facebook ad policies and Community Standards remove a lot of scammers you never hear about, that could be jeopardizing your business presence on Facebook.

Sometimes, those getting the “Your advertising access is restricted,” ban have been mistaken for the actual bad actors making advertising challenging for the rest of us.

Your advertising access is restricted: Policy Violations

Advertising restrictions for policy violations

There’s a lot of similarities between a credit bureau and Facebook automations. Both keep track of infractions over time that add or subtract from your total score. Getting the Facebook ban, “Your advertising access is restricted,” is kind of like a bad credit report.

Another set of automations keeps track of how frequently your ad account is getting ad restrictions. If you get too many ads rejected in too short of a time, it could risk other ad assets.

Some businesses have gotten in hot water with Facebook’s ban bots enough that seeing “Your advertising access is restricted,” isn’t as big of a surprise. But, it’s still a brick wall when it comes to the next step for getting Facebook ads live again.

Maybe you’ve even run this exact ad before without an ad restriction! But, due to current automations, you’re now banned, unexpectedly, and seeing “Your advertising access is restricted.”

Why does this happen?

Your advertising access is restricted: Unusual Activity

Advertising restrictions for unusual activity

One of the themes I’ve seen recently is folks logging into Facebook while traveling and if you’re doing this, you’re increasing the chance of a ban due to unusual activity. DO NOT log into business tools on Facebook while you’re traveling. Schedule out your ads ahead of time, and organic posts, and talk to an assistant located where the ads are usually run from.

During my years working at Facebook I helped thousands of advertisers from SMBs to Fortune 500s solve Facebook ad issues (make sure to read Common Ad Policies Explained).

I know it’s kind of silly to think, I’m spending tons of money every month on Facebook ads, and all it takes is one vacation to Cuba, logging into Facebook business tools, and now everything is shut down.

Really, it’s for your own protection because there are a lot of hackers out there right now. Also, it points out just how granular Facebook restrictions can get – so it’s good to know when and how you can get restricted to ensure your entire funnel is squeaky clean.

Your advertising access is restricted: Background

Your advertising access is restricted – what does it mean?

What to do if your Facebook Ad Account is disabled and everything you can do to reinstate including how to resolve payment issues, rejected ads, and get support.

Some of the background behind Your advertising access is restricted flags comes from a systemic history check on your activity. Every is recorded on Facebook. Near misses, actual bans, ad rejections.

Just like my clients in cosmetic surgery discovered, there are micro flags in ad copy and landing pages that have to be removed first before attempting to appeal or relaunch a brand with Facebook after a permanent ban after getting a Your advertising access is restricted rejection.

Even software engineers working with Elon Musk at Twitter have reached out to me, asking for help with their restricted ad accounts. That’s how bad the automation restrictions have gotten.

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Your advertising access is restricted: Why

Why does Facebook say my advertising access is restricted?

Often Facebook may use header flags, like Circumventing Systems, to identify that something is wrong with your funnel. But, the machines have yet to get a definite flag from your ads or lander or forms. All the bots know is that something isn’t adding up and is non compliant.

Facebook might say your advertising access is restricted because all appeals are exhausted and you didn’t do anything specifically to show Facebook that you aim to follow the policies.

Or, you might have encountered a complete ban-level flag that if even said once, can get it all shut down.

If your Facebook account has been restricted from advertising, this guide will show you how to appeal your account ban and create ads again in no time

Here’s a quick guide on solving getting your advertising access restricted:

Restricted Facebook Ad Account Recovery Guide

It’s very easy to get banned, especially when you’re joined at the hip with spammy sounding conversion copy and your entire brand on Facebook. Your Facebook Page usually isn’t banned first, typically you’ll get some ad rejections first. This may then trickle down to higher CPAs.

If you haven’t course-corrected in a Facebook-approved way by now, Facebook will make the determination that these Facebook ad policy missteps are intentional, leading to a Your advertising access is restricted ban.

In an ideal world you’d get a notification in emails from Facebook, or from the bell icon in the Meta Business Suite, or the Business Manager settings that notifies you of current ad restrictions when you get the Your advertising access is restricted ban.

Back in 2016, Facebook used to do things like this and give you more chances to course-correct your ads, policy-wise.

But, I think, given the amount of spammers in 3rd worlds, now the leash is a bit shorter. Most likely you got restricted by either an established pattern of ad violations, or a new Facebook ad policy just got rolled out that led to seeing the Your advertising access is restricted flag.

Your advertising access is restricted: First Steps

How do I unrestrict my Facebook ads?

A big mistake I see businesses make – even 8 figure businesses – is to immediately click Request Review before diagnosing why they were banned, and the severity of the flags that led up to seeing: Your advertising access is restricted.

The first step you want to take is a thorough audit of the ads that may have those flags inside them. And determine what Facebook actually wanted to see instead of the copy or creative you used, or your ad agency used.

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To troubleshoot your restricted account

What should you do first? Well, start with the audit, determine a theme amongst flags, and specifically look at how the Facebook ad policy automations apply to your type of business.

Facebook’s automations don’t act the exact same way with every business. Some niches are at higher risk than others. And, if you’re in a special ad category, you have limited targeting abilities. The ad policies come down on your brand in a different way.

You’d think Meta wants your money instead of forcing folks to google stuff like, “your advertising access is restricted facebook how to fix,” but after the Great Tech Layoffs, Facebook’s reliance on automations just got supersized.

Sheryl Sandberg –who I’ve interacted with while working in tech at Facebook – is moving on to greener pastures. The focus is not on supporting Facebook advertisers right now – but this is where I can help, having done so much at Meta and working with established organizations like even my alma mater, the University of Texas.

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). He offered some critical insights to why our Facebook Ad Account was disabled and shared options to reduce our chances of future issues. 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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How to appeal advertising restrictions

It’s that time again! Let’s debunk more incorrect info about Facebook ad policy. Wordstream’s blog incorrectly tells you this about appealing a rejected Facebook ad:

Requesting review does not send your ad to a human. It merely gives your ad’s rejection case to another machine who then says, “Oh, the 1st machine was right,” – 2nd machine.

The entire line of thinking here is wrong.

I think it stems from the urge to become a victim and feel helpless, instead of using logic and critical thinking to discover why your ad is under fire.

Basically, what you want to do with an appeal to give yourself the best shot is to identify all the microflags in your funnel, and the major flags. This includes your website as well as Facebook Page.

After doing this, gauge how severe each flag is, because the severity will determine what options you have for appeals. Then, remove those flags, by replacing the offending copy with compliant copy Facebook does approve.

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Only THEN, do you chat in and try to appeal. I’ve got this down to a science, if you do have a chance (the best appeals are within 48 hours of the ban hammer dropping), the process above will get you the best shot at recovering.

Facebook Ad Policy FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions

1. How to fix ad account disabled on facebook

Your first step should always be to stop active ads running with the same copy as the rejected ad, then audit your funnel for flags, and appeal using the strategy outlined in the appeal section of the FAQs

2. How to enable my disabled facebook ad account

If you have a spare ad account in your Facebook Business Manager that you can run ads from, feel free to. BUT, identify the micro and major flags FIRST, so as not to repeat the same mistake.

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3. How to appeal a disabled facebook ad account

As far as how to appeal a disabled Facebook ad account, you’ll get 48 hours to make your appeal. The best strategy is to communicate to Meta | Facebook that:

A. You understand WHY you were banned.
B. You are committed to following the policies from here on out.
C. You have identified and REMOVED the offending content from your funnel.

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4. how to get disabled ad account up and running

Depending on how long your ad account was disabled, sometimes, if your appeal is written correctly, the appeal itself CAN potentially get you reactivated, if you understand to communicate with Facebook ad support correctly.

5. How Many Policy Violations Before Account is Shut Down?

Typically, it’s a 1 to 10 ratio. For every single rejected ad that you get, you’ll want 10 Facebook ads that are approved. After a pattern of behavior is established by machine learning, from Meta’s automations, you may spiral rapidly into Facebook jail if your ratios aren’t correct. 3 consecutive ads getting rejected risks your ad account getting disabled. But, it also depends on how severe the ban is.

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6. How to remove restriction on facebook ad account

As far as removing a restriction on a Facebook ad account, if we’re talking about a disabled ad account, well, you can rehabilitate your funnel and then appeal, possibly getting it reactivated if you do this SMART (I have methods that work if you’re in the appeal window). But as far as removing a restriction from Facebook ads, see the previous FAQ answer: you need to get in a positive approval-cycle ratio.

7. how long does facebook take to review restricted ad account

Now, ask yourself, is it an election year? Have there been over 20,000 Meta employees laid off? Did you word your appeal using specific language Facebook ad support can and will respond better to? These are the factors in play. Typically, you get an answer within a week. If you have a more severe ban or are in the special ad categories, you may get an answer faster but it won’t be one you like. Severe bans end up as permanent restrictions and they deliver that ban hammer faster than other lighter Facebook ad policy restrictions.

8. how to fix your access can’t be reinstated because too much time has passed since we restricted your account

In a situation like this, your recovery options depend on what is banned:

a) Facebook Ad Account
b) Facebook Business Page
c) Facebook Business Manager
d) Facebook profile

So, each one may have a different recovery option, depending on your situation, and type of ban it is, as well as your particular niche or business’s vertical, and the health of the accounts before the ban. Want to get a pathway to get Facebook ads live? Schedule your complimentary discovery call here.

9. How To Get Your Disabled Facebook Ad Account Back

First, let me also address the elephant in the room: personal and emotional attachments to disabled ad accounts. I’ve worked with tons of Fortune 500 level companies, and the amount of hair pulling and FML-ing over ONE ad account being disabled, is incredible. Sometimes, it’s faster, and cheaper, to just start a new ad account, and relaunch, rather than recover a tainted asset.

That being said, the same answer applies here to the instructions above, for appeals

10. How to unblock your Facebook ad account

Now, unblocking an ad account, may be possible if you get in fast enough with the right kind of messaging to Facebook ad support. While they are the gatekeepers, and don’t have any real power, they CAN talk to the right folks who, if you word your appeal right, can unblock your Facebook ad account. And of course, if you need next-level assistance, I’m always available to chat and see if it’s a good fit here.

Still looking for solutions to the ban, your advertising access is restricted? Keep reading:

Your Advertising Access is Restricted Fix

Solutions to Your Advertising Access is Restricted

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How to Solve a Disabled Facebook Ad Account

Scared of losing access to Facebook ads forever due to a disabled facebook ad account? I’ve worked at Facebook and in this article will help with some top tips on this, even if Facebook won’t reply.

Make your ad account active in Meta Business Manager

Facebook says to make your ad account active all you have to do is:

Make a closed ad account active

Go to Business settings.
Click on Accounts.
Click on Ad accounts.
Click on the Filter by… dropdown, and select Owned by self.
Click the toggle to Hide closed ad accounts and to show closed ad accounts.
Click on the closed ad account you want to make active again. …
Click Make active.

Here’s what Facebook has left out: how to diagnose the disabled Facebook ad account jeopardizing your ability to make money & survive.

Many times when advertisers like yourself review your Facebook ads, you can’t find the reason why they are banned. And your instinct, following Meta’s instructions is to rando button mash on that Request Review button. However, this doesn’t work if you didn’t figure out what led to the shut down FIRST. So, ya hit Request Review. A little bit later, logging into Ad Manager within seconds see:

What happens now? You rack your brain to try to find out how to get your ad account reactivated. You start googling, see some sketchy af people online from Pakistan promising to restore your ad account. Maybe you pay them, but then nothing happens.

So you keep googling and find this blog where you see someone who actually worked AT Facebook writing about your exact situation (now it’s getting really Meta).

Part of your frustration also stems from the fact that you’ve run this same ad many times before without an ad restriction! (read my blog on ad account restrictions here).

You’d think if the customer is always right Facebook would try a little harder to help, but Facebook gives you the cold shoulder. And to put the cherry on top, Facebook ad support has no power to help at all, making you hope you can reach someone in charge like:

But, the reality is, you won’t.

During my time at Facebook I helped 1000s of SMBs to Fortune 500s solve Facebook ad policy issues (make sure to read How to Remove a Restriction on a Facebook Ad Account Updated).

Half the time Facebook ad support workers are guessing, never having paid bills with money earned from paid media advertising. I used to run an ad agency which gives me a bit more clarity on the customer life cycle, deal flow and how to see through the BS Facebook sometimes throws at you, having worked there as well as run an ad agency.

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Disabled Facebook Ad Account Guide

What to do if your Facebook Ad Account is disabled and everything you can do to reinstate including how to resolve payment issues, rejected ads, and get support.

Today I’ll share insights on what to do if your Facebook ad account gets disabled.

Just like my clients in cosmetic beauty have discovered, there are micro flags in ad copy and landing pages that have to be removed first before attempting to appeal or relaunch a brand with Facebook.

Even software engineers AT Facebook AND Twitter have reached out to me, asking for help with their disabled facebook ad accounts. That’s how bad the automation banning has gotten.

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Disabled Facebook Ad Account First Steps

Before you begin

There is no Alt-Z reversal for your ad account’s history, so if you ran into a lot of ad rejections, or had a disabled facebook ad account before, all this will count against you when the bots Facebook uses to police advertisers review you before making a decision.

But I can help here and find new options you may not have known were there.

Speaking of history, remember Cambridge Analytica? I was working at Facebook when that happened.

Sarasota County Sheriff’s Office turns off comments on Facebook

The trolls and hackers are out in force, causing facebook to get even stricter for the good actors like you who just want to run ads and make a profit.

The sheriff’s office in Sarasota, Florida announcedannounced this week they will no longer allow comments on social media posts.

SCSO says this change is due to the increasing logistical difficulty of monitoring for prohibited comments that contain obscenity, defamation, libel, threats, remarks that disparage or discriminate against anyone based on their sex, race, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, disability, etc. It is not the intent of the sheriff’s office for these posts to constitute a public forum.

I mention this just to make you aware that there are periphery issues Facebook has to deal with, when it comes to bad actors trolling Facebook, which ultimately leads to stricter ad policies that affect everyone who runs ads.

That said, if you’re looking at trusted sources like Sprout Social for Facebook ad tips like ad sizes, just remember – they won’t teach you Facebook ad policy. And won’t provide insights I do from working at Facebook.

The Reason Why Your Facebook Ad Account’s Disabled

Why does Facebook disable ad accounts? You’d think Meta would want your money instead of forcing folks to google Why is my Facebook ad account is disabled?

The short answer is that there are a lot of clickbait farms that use unethical practices which ruin it for everyone else. The way Facebook is relying on outsourced labor for non-English speaking contract workers to run things, they are not that different than the clickbait farms that make it harder for all of us to run ads.

Facebook lost several notable leaders in 2022, from to John Carmack, with more changes likely to come. Amid some of the biggest changes in Facebook’s history, some high-profile leaders left the company. Sheryl Sandberg’s departure preceded that of executives leading AR and VR and acquisitions. So now, it’s a bit of a shit show.

Facebook Disabled Ad Account Explanation

The long answer is that Facebook creates specific automations their algorithm delivers that can’t distinguish an innocent mistake from those actually circumventing their systems. So, you end up with a disabled facebook ad account.

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Recognize the signs of a disabled Facebook ad account

You aren’t trying to cheat the system you’re just running ads for your clients right?

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How Facebook Automations Flag Disabled Facebook Ad Account

If every ad went under human review instead of robots, you’d have a lot less ad accounts disabled.

But the reality is, machines are making most of these decisions based on SQL logic and the Facebook Ad Policies here

(Which are different from the Community Standards that control what appears on personal profiles on the Newsfeed. There are some overlaps but they aren’t identical).

Disabled Facebook Ad Account: Payments

When choosing a payment method, make sure:

There is a new issue affecting advertisers everywhere: Banks are rejecting preauth charges from Facebook ads. So before choosing a payment method, make sure to review the advertising history of that particular debit or credit card.

The impact of a disabled Facebook ad account

Facebook uses a series of automations to review ad policy violations in your Facebook ads and landing pages, and often to review Facebook ad appeals. Facebook has 3.030 billion monthly active users, so Meta has to use machines to automate some of the flagging.

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As much as we want to play the victim of Facebook F$^*%ng up the reality is you probably did violate the ad policies.

Maybe your ad copy made promises that sounded unrealistic in Facebook’s eyes (again, don’t take it personal this is a freakin bot that is flagging not a human).

Now you have an MLM flag or Unrealistic Claims flag (also known as Misleading Business Practices).

Disabled Facebook Ad Account BM:

Business Manager

An important thing to note: Once your Facebook Business Manager is disabled, any Facebook Business Page still inside it is permanently restricted from advertising.

The reason is because once a BM is banned, you won’t be able to edit it. This means you can’t remove people, or FB Pages from it – FYI.

Disabled Facebook Ad Account and PAS Formulas

That’s not to say Facebook doesn’t bug out – oh it does. There are glitches. Recently many of my clients came to me after getting the “Discriminating business practices” flags.

Yet their Facebook ads were innocent af and didn’t break any rules. I guided them to appeal in the correct way and everything got up and running again.

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But realistically? This happens about 5% of the time. The other 95% you’re getting flagged because you did violate the ad policies that just may not be explained very well.

Why was your Facebook ad account disabled?

There’s like 10,000 ad policies not really told to the public that Facebook wants advertisers to follow.

More on the deets on the newish facebook ad policies in California read here.

So you go and google: “facebook account disabled for no reason” or maybe you’re searching for “facebook account disabled locked.” I’ve even seen some searches for “disabled facebook ad account how long,” but you can’t find any solid answers.

Immediate Steps to Take After Your Ad Account is Disabled

Now you think, maybe it wasn’t an ads issue at all. Perhaps it was something else – and you search for “facebook account disabled community standards.” These are the policies that govern everyday usage of Facebook.

But, still you don’t get any closer to the finish line searching for “facebook ad account disabled for policy violation” or “facebook ad account disabled 2024.” What about ad account recovery? Is it possible to get your old account back?

You google “facebook ad account disabled appeal,” and “why is my facebook ad account disabled.” Still nothing. What gives?? I’ll answer that but first, let’s discuss the digital real estate you’re running ads on.

Facebook expert and influencer Jon Loomer admits Facebook’s automations are wrecking havoc on ads. Even Facebook’s own Advantage+ automation meant to help you get more reach often glitches and just shows your ads to clickbait farms, optimizing for cheap 3rd world country clicks.

Immediate steps to take after your facebook ad account’s disabled: don’t appeal, audit your ads because you need to both identify WHAT got you on Meta’s radar AND the severity of the flag before taking action.

It’s super key to determine why you got on the radar before appealing a disabled facebook ad account.

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Navigating through Facebook ad complications

Anything can go wrong when you have a website with billions of users every day and millions of advertisers running ads on it. Pattern-recognition-protocol is a unique system I’ve created that helps decode how and why the automations ban you, based on years of working at Meta and working with thousands of advertisers in every imaginable field of business.

While you don’t have access to the PRP yet, as it isn’t public, you can gleam a few tips from it:

Always review the pattern of bans for your industry before creating a marketing plan
Make sure your social media managers know what NOT to post
Balance conversions with compliance for ROI and keeping Facebook ads active

Machine-learning and neurolinguistic programming are what decide 99% of the Facebook bans, not people. You have to learn how to think like a machine to be successful here.

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Disabled Facebook Ad Account: Intellectual Property

An Important Fact On Facebook’s IP

I’ve noticed many feel like they have a right to post on Facebook and run ads, as if Meta is a public school or government property.

Something important to note:

Facebook is a private website. Acting like it’s a public entity ups the risk of a disabled facebook ad account.

By using Facebook – as a Profile or FB Biz Page you implicitly agree to Facebook’s Terms of Service – which means they can do whatever the hell they want on their website.

It’s private property just like someone’s lawn or land.

In Texas, you have a right to shoot someone trespassing on your property – think about that in terms of what Facebook is allowed to do on their own platform.

Disabled Facebook Ad Account: Appeals

Submitting an Appeal to Facebook

New Policies Affecting Disabled Facebook Ad Accounts

Moving too fast can not only cause car accidents, but also get Facebook bots to flag you as either a machine or clickbait farm. So, when you are starting to see some ad rejections, instead of immediately ignoring them or submitting new ads, do your best to diagnose why they were rejected.

Once you have a good idea, locate where those flags may be in other parts of your funnel. Also, make sure you have a privacy policy Facebook’s machines will approve of. Don’t know how to do this? Schedule a discovery call with me now right here.

Disabled Facebook Ad Account: Road Map

From Disabled Facebook Ad Account to Appeal

For whatever reason, breaking ad policy rules, glitches, aliens – you are now stuck with a disabled ad account and Facebook rejected your appeal. Even if you went to Social Media Marketing World they couldn’t tell you how to fix this.

Why is that?

Facebook rejects your appeals because you clicked on a button inside Business Manager to appeal it and never talked or chatted with a live human being.

“My facebook ad account was disabled!” you scream at the ceiling. Your web browser history shows searches for:

“Ad Account restricted”
“your access can’t be reinstated because too much time has passed since we restricted. Your Access Can’t Be Reinstated: Confirm your identity.”
“facebook ad account disabled for unusual activity”
“my facebook ad account disabled”
“facebook account disabled how to recover”

But you’re still stuck.

What happens now?

Automations are reviewing your Facebook ads instead of Facebook ad support, and when you appeal with a button instead of a person, the automation reviews that too and rejects it instantly.

When you have a disabled facebook ad account, it’s 95% chance a machine not a human flagged you.

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How to Recover a Disabled Facebook Ad Account Part 1

Outdated articles like this one will gloss over what to do without going into more detail – so I’m going to give you more insight on Facebook ad accounts disabled and what to do.

How to Recover Disabled Facebook Ad Accounts part 2

…and what NOT to do when appealing ad accounts.

Many websites will tell you to just click “Recover Account” (like this one) but that’s incorrect!

The advice in that article tells you to fill out a form and wait to see if you get assigned a Facebook rep – that is rolling the dice and likely to make your disabled ad account unrecoverable.

Also this article gives incorrect advice as well telling you to verify your Business Manager after getting an ad account disabled.

That’s the dumbest advice ever (sorry not sorry Emily).

– That’s like going 120 MPH yelling out the window at the cop:

“I promise I won’t break the speed limit again officer!” while speeding.

When your ad account is disabled – you are asking Facebook to trust you that your business is legit, even after you’ve set the precedent that you can’t follow their rules.

You think Facebook is going to act in your favor? Prolly not.

You’ll get stuck in a cycle of the spinning wheel of death for Facebook trying to both verify a Business Manager with a disabled ad account and review your appeal to that disabled ad account. Your facebook ad manager account disabled, no ads live – what to do?

If you want to verify your Business Manager after your ad account is reactivated, or on a fresh new Business Manager – sure, that can help.

But don’t do that while you’re appealing a disabled ad account – be smart. Clicking Request Review is a big mistake.

You’ll enter the never ending loop where either you’ll wait forever without a response from Facebook.

OR

Maybe Facebook will ask you to verify your Business Manager, then accept your credentials but never reply.Now you’re stuck with a Facebook Business Manager not verified, and an ad account disabled.

Your clients are screaming “Why aren’t my ads running?? I’m losing money every second Facebook ads aren’t live selling my products!!”

Diagnose The Problem

You’re want answers to why you got banned, when everything hangs in the balance of a billion dollar social media company’s decisions who isn’t replying or telling you what you did wrong or how to fix it.

Maybe you found the article I linked above and hit “Request Review.” Don’t do that until you audit your funnel.

That has a slim chance of recovering a disabled facebook ad account. While it may work, if you don’t know why your ad account was restricted, then you will get the Facebook ban hammer again.

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Preventing Future Ad Account Disabling

Regularly prescreen your ads for ad policy, and marry conversions with compliance. Never request review without a contact at Facebook. You’re leaving the fate of your ad account in the hands of a machine, a bot that will automatically make a decision based on its programming logic without any human context. (Also read: Facebook Disabled My Account Next Steps)

On a rare chance, sometimes the machine will instantly reactivate your ad account but most of the time you have 99% higher chance contacting a rep at Facebook Ad Support via the Facebook Business Help Center.

So don’t click on “Recover Account,” without first doing a damage assessment.

Make a closed ad account active

The success in getting a disabled ad account to become active again is determined by how quickly you cleaned your funnel from the flags that existed within it, at the time your ad account was disabled. Typically, within 48 hours is the best chance you have. (Read my Common Ad Policies article Larry Kim linked to here)

There are wheels within wheels for how you get flagged and one of the most important ways to NOT get banned, I’ll reveal next.

Determine Why You Were Flagged BEFORE Appealing

Let me RE-EMPHASIZE:

If you don’t determine why you were flagged first BEFORE contacting Facebook ad support, you’re going to repeat history like GroundHog’s Day.

HERE’S WHY:

If FB reactivates your ad account, and you have the same flags still in your funnel the automations will continue to scan your ads and flag you.

This time maybe disabling your Business Manager too. That’s another loop you can get caught in. Your friend told you that his “facebook account disabled suspicious payment activity” message just showed up in his Business Settings.

There has been a recent payment method glitch that has been giving many ad agencies a disabled facebook ad account or two – so that’s a whole other can of worms there. Now, your Facebook Business Manager is disabled too and you’re starting to lose it.

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And you’re really freaking out that his facebook ad account was disabled for no reason. You’re hoping the warning saying “your fb ad account permanently disabled” will go away.

This is what you do instead when handling a disabled facebook ad account:

Step 1. – Navigate to Facebook’s Business Help Page here:

Step 2. – Select your ad account from the drop down menu:

Step 3. – Select the issue:

Step 4. – Click on Contact Support:

A lot of people can’t figure out how to even get this far – owners of businesses that spend $100K a month and up have told me they can’t find this page when their facebook ad account keeps getting disabled. For my essential guide to Facebook ad policies click here.

You want to make sure you’re logged in to the right account – you may need to use an active ad account in the same Business Manager to contact support.

Also bookmark this link that as of 2024 is a direct route to contacting support.

If you try and still can’t get a person in Facebook ad support to open up a chat with you, then you can try out this Facebook Ad Account Disabled form here.

But keep in mind, the Facebook Ad Support reps are working at Facebook and have a more effective internal form they submit to the Facebook ad policy department who actually makes the decisions.

Disabled Facebook Ad Account Request Review Tactic

So contact Facebook Ad Support FIRST.

For an in depth look at the top reasons why Facebook disables ad accounts click here.

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So you got on a chat with Facebook Ad Support – sweet! But keep in mind you are not talking to decision makers. Maybe your facebook account disabled due to copyright infringement or your facebook ad account disabled payment method triggered this.

You’re googling “facebook ad account disabled reddit” when you get hit with a new flag: “facebook ad account disabled circumventing systems.”
Damn it!

You’re all heated chatting with Facebook ad support but they can’t help. Remember:

These are gatekeepers that often don’t speak English fluently (if you’re coming from America, or the UK). They won’t understand a lot of what you’re saying.

And at best, these are entry level workers that can understand maybe, 40% of what you’re talking about on a good day when you ask them how to fix facebook ad account disabled.

If you get lucky, you may talk to someone who gets 70% of what you say when chatting, “facebook disabled my ad account for no reason!”

– but they’ve never run ads that have actual ROI –

Facebook Ad Support agents aren’t in the business world, they aren’t entrepreneurs and don’t have a vested interest in whether or not your ad account is active or disabled. Or your facebook account disabled upon creation issues or your facebook account disabled login problems.

How nice you are to them, how simple you make your explanations will play a role in how receptive Facebook is to your appeal.

Their goal is to close as many cases as possible – quantity over quality. So be respectful, polite, and also realistic when it comes to disabled facebook ad account review time.

But, if you manage to say the right words and prep Facebook ad support, on rare occasions they can help you recover from a disabled facebook ad account.

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Make an ad account active

Anyone who says they can instantly recover your ad account is lying. I have an emergency service for this that only works if you’re within the first 48 hours or less of getting your ad account disabled.

If you are within that window, reach out to me and state this in the form

How Do I Recover My Disabled Facebook Ads Account?

Recovery is what most are googling when trying to figure out how to solve a disabled Facebook ad account. The hard truth is that prevention is a lot easier than recovery. From a business perspective, Facebook doesn’t have a lot to gain by reactivating a disabled facebook ad account that the automations flagged correctly.

Now, it’s frustrating that Facebook won’t reveal to you WHAT was flagged and why, but that’s something I can help with. Schedule your complimentary discovery call here.

What Happens After Appealing Disabled Accounts

Pause yelling “My facebook ad account got disabled!” and take a seat.

Your ad account could either be:

• Reactivated within 24 hours because it was a Facebook glitch

• Reactivated incorrectly because Facebook Ad Support missed the flags you do have

• Or it’s “your ads are violating ad policy” or “this business model isn’t supported” and you stay disabled

What To Do If Your Ad Account Appeal Gets Rejected

Realistically you have about a 50/50 chance appealing any ad account that’s disabled. Here are some factors that play into why your disabled ad account will be reactivated or permanently disabled:

♦ How many previous rejected ads you’ve had

♦ What your ad account’s hidden score is (a ratio of rejected vs approved ads)

♦ If you conveyed your situation correctly to Facebook ad support who are gatekeepers not DMs

♦ If you determined first exactly which ad policy you’re flagged for (this helps FB ad support reps make a case for you)

♦ Did you clean your funnel (landing pages etc) of the ad policy violations before contacting Facebook? Do this first if your ad account disabled for policy violation.

♦ Your business model – certain business models are under more scrutiny than others (how to make money online, special ad categories etc).

♦ Did you circumvent systems and immediately try to run ads after being rejected?

I could go on – the important thing to consider is how do you move on if your appeal is rejected and you don’t have an ad account to advertise with. You’ll want to try a couple of different things.

Now if your ad account disabled payment method issue is happening…that’s a whole other bag of worms. If your ad account was disabled for something minor…

(You’d have to know what you got flagged for, specifically, which ad copy triggered this flag and the weight of each ad policy flag).

– You could possibly start advertising from another ad account within the same Business Manager – but you need to warm up the new ad account with specific ads that achieve this before going into conversion ads.

But, in the event that either your Facebook ad account was disabled for a bigger issue (like mentioning covid) or you just don’t freakin know because you’re not a Facebook ad policy expert – you’ll want to create a new Facebook Business Manager.

If your ad account’s disabled, facebook may give you leeway. If you’re looking for the scoop on the top reasons that Facebook ads get rejected click here.

But if your instagram ad account disabled for unusual activity, you may have a security leak.

Keep in mind – if you don’t identify what triggered the automations to flag you the first time, it won’t matter how many new Business Managers or ad accounts you create – you’ll get shut down again and again.

You’ve got to identify the triggers the automations are acting on before appealing, remove them from your funnel, then appeal.

If that doesn’t work out, start fresh, warming up new ad accounts (possibly in a new Biz Manager) that are free of the same flags you got shut down for in the first place.

Again, an ad account disabled payment method issue is different than the type of disabled facebook ad account issues you face with 2024 flags. Facebook has changed a lot since even just 2021.

Some common flags you may have heard other advertisers get caught with are something like, “facebook ad account disabled circumventing systems.” That’s why you need to find the flags first before appealing or even that appeal will be viewed as circumventing.

I see a lot of bad advice when folks just google, “facebook ad account disabled reddit” or “facebook ad account disabled for no reason” because it becomes just a cig break at work to complain, rather than solve the issue.

While FB and IG are owned by Meta, in fact Instagram has it’s own separate process for how automations flag you with an ad account disabled instagram issue. Are your Facebook ads blocked? Click here for expert guidance.

Once you do identify the specific flags that got you in trouble you can advertise again:

✅ In a new ad account in the same Business Manager if you had a minor flag cause the ad account to get disabled, or

✅ A new Business Manager and new ad account in the new Business Manager (don’t use your personal ad account attached to your profile – create new ones in Business Manager) or

✅ fresh start with a coworker’s account you want to learn from your mistakes here and not repeat them to exit the loop and advertise again.

If your facebook ad accounts disabled how to enable it really comes from knowing the ad policies. And a disabled Facebook ad account in 2024 faces its own challenges from the i0S update in Apple, to election years.

Conclusion

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If you’re ok with waiting a bit longer, and entering the waitlist to see if you’re eligible – Schedule a call or contact me via email.

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Ad Account Restricted Facebook FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions

1. How to fix ad account disabled on facebook

2. How to enable my disabled facebook ad account

If you have a spare ad account in your Facebook Business Manager that you can run ads from, feel free to. BUT, identify the micro and major flags FIRST, so as not to repeat the same mistake.

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3. How to appeal a disabled facebook ad account

You can also get some top tips on facebook ad policy in this complimentary eBook: Top 5 Reasons Agencies Fail at Facebook

4. how to get disabled ad account up and running

5. How Many Policy Violations Before Account is Shut Down?

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6. How to remove restriction on facebook ad account

7. how long does facebook take to review restricted ad account

8. how to fix your access can’t be reinstated because too much time has passed since we restricted your account

In a situation like this, your recovery options depend on what is banned:

a) Facebook Ad Account
b) Facebook Business Page
c) Facebook Business Manager
d) Facebook profile

9. How To Get Your Disabled Facebook Ad Account Back

10. How to unblock your Facebook ad account

How to Remove a Restriction on a Facebook Ad Account Updated

Would you like to know why Facebook restricts ad accounts?

You want to make your clients happy and heck you’re paying Facebook!

So what’s the problem?

And why are advertisers trying to remove a restriction on a Facebook Ad Account?

I figured it would be better now.

But, the reality is more accounts are banned now than ever.

Now let me explain…When Facebook opened up beyond the college market, they had a great ratio of humans to ads reviewed.

But, as Facebook scaled bigger they replaced employees with bots.

If you’re looking to find out how to remove a restriction on a Facebook ad account – I worked in advertising at Facebook and will use my expertise there to guide you to a solution without guesswork, but answers from the source even when Facebook goes silent.

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It’s tough when you want answers but Meta, or Facebook won’t give them. Even worse when you can’t even get into contact with anyone.

An underrated trick to remove a restriction on a Facebook ad account is to find out just how Facebook flags your funnel which I’ll be revealing further in this article.

You may feel like you’d have better luck uncovering the mystery of where Amelia Airheart went than getting a straight answer from Facebook, if you’re trying to remove a restriction on a Facebook ad account.

There are tons of flags your ad account could get hit with.

So many that it’s challenging to quickly determine the reason for Facebook bans. Also, take a look at my blog, How to Recover A Facebook Ad Account That’s Been Disabled.

Either way, waiting ON Facebook to answer you – that is NOT a good marketing tactic to get your ads live again. Want to know what is? Set up a discovery call with me.

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How to Remove a Restriction on a Facebook Ad Account Tips

A lot of ad agencies are asking, “How do I recover Facebook ad accounts?” Or “How can I reactivate my disabled Business Manager?” And “Why is my Facebook ad rejected?”

What does Facebook say?

Nothing.

Or they link you to a Help Center article outdated by 5 years. Or ask you to use their AI tools that shove you into the infinite loop.

The wall of silence from Facebook, the parent company now called Meta, frustrates business owners and advertisers alike. Money coming in from Facebook ads is suddenly stopped, and clients won’t stop screaming because their products aren’t selling.

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You’re left holding the bag, without answers and just a nasty deadline before your clients drop you and hire another marketing firm who knows how to remove a restriction on a Facebook ad account. Or your deadline for a product launch is making you sweat bullets while Facebook keeps you in limbo.

You’re waiting on Facebook to reply as you’re waiting on an ad asset that’s permanently restricted to get fully appealed. Fortunately, you’ve found this blog – I’ve worked at Facebook for years and can help you sort things out.

Just like my client, Amazon Reality Show star Juanita Ingram of The Expats International Ingrams you’ll discover there are micro flags in ad copy and landing pages that have to be removed first before attempting to appeal or relaunch a brand with Facebook.

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Whether you’re using Facebook ad expert Tim Burd’s Surfing Method of Scaling Ads or another tactic, Facebook ad policies will still need to be top of mind, or you’ll lose money with Facebook bans.

Facebook right now, if you read their article about the next 20 years of Facebook, Meta says: “As we think about the next 20 years, we’re focused on two big things: building the next generation of social media for young adults and leaning into new product capabilities enabled by AI.”

And yet, do you see anything about stopping the harmful effects of AI on small businesses who lose half their fiscal revenue from bans on Facebook due to one word being misinterpreted by Facebook’s AI? Naw.

But, that’s what I’m here for, to help you get clarity when Facebook won’t answer.

Remove a Restriction on a Facebook Ad Account Guide

The ugly truth of Facebook ad account restrictions is very few have relevant experience to guide you to a solution. Here’s my 5 Step System to master Facebook bans and tips to remove a restriction on a Facebook ad account:

how to remove restriction on facebook ad account guide

Now, clearly the devil is in the details – while this 5 Step System is great, you’ll want to get more in the weeds for exactly How to apply these concepts to your funnel if you’re serious about learning how to remove a restriction on a Facebook ad account.

You can start by getting your funnel bulletproof from the Facebook ban bots I can protect you from and prevent them from taking your money when ad accounts get disabled. Simply schedule a free discovery call if you’re looking to get Facebook ads live again, my calendar is here

Remove a Restriction on a Facebook Ad Account Pro Tip

You may be asking why each scenario is different. Well, there are many types of Facebook ads and Facebook’s ad policies apply differently to each industry which is important to know before you try to remove a restriction on a Facebook ad account.

And I’m not even talking about Special Ad Categories (real estate, social issues, employment, loans etc).

How Facebook’s machines apply their striking automation really does depend on a number of factors which I’ll get into next.

You may not know this, but, being less compliant affects your CPC, CPL (cost-per-lead), and Cost of Acquisition.

Yup

Those ad rejections raise your cost of running ads so even if you were like F#$%&! it, who care about Facebook ad policies – your ROI is reduced if you don’t prioritize Facebook policy compliance with your ads.

The less compliant you are – even if you’re not banned…yet – the more Facebook will charge you for distributing your ads, because they’ll feel it’s content Facebook users won’t want to see, if it isn’t fully compliant.
And, ad costs have been going up. On average, 91% of industries saw increases in CPL in 2023.

And now, you don’t have to guess on compliance anymore, as I can help you diagnose and recover from Facebook ad account restrictions.

But don’t take my word for it, listen to the words of long time clients sharing how they feel about working with me.

As Liana Lang, CEO of Power Up Strategy Inc. said, “Please meet Trevor, my ‘secret weapon’ for all things Facebook compliance. I highly recommend hiring him to help you out especially if you plan to be running ads.”

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How did I get myself restricted from advertising on Facebook?

You’d be surprised how many businesses are running ads based on what worked 5 years ago.

Yes, really Jerry.

Just like advances in technology rapidly change the social landscape, so do changes in Facebook’s ad policies.

Even if you went to the Social Media Strategies Summit, David Velez, Head of Social at Amazon, wouldn’t be able to explain to you how you got banned – none of the experts could, because they haven’t worked side-by-side with the software engineers who operate the automations that ban you.

I happened to have this experience, from my work at Meta, and one common theme was how fast facebook ad policies change, the and effect this has on businesses like yours.

What was allowed last year may not be compliant this year.

And if you’re still running ads that used to be compliant, Facebook will show no mercy in shutting you down ASAP.

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

Remove a Restriction on a Facebook Ad Account Flag Type

You can get your ads rejected for violating the spam flags, the Personal Attributes policies, or Facebook could have flagged you as an MLM.

Your eyes would pop out if you knew the list of banned words Facebook has that associate you with a pyramid scheme. If you accidentally used one of these words, even 1 word would be enough to get you shut down.

Ideally, you’d have your ads prescreened for Facebook ad policy compliance before going live. Then, you’d never have to try to learn how to remove a restriction on a Facebook ad account.

This can be problematic for many advertisers because you can read all the books on Facebook ads, read all of facebook ad policies and still not get answers.

That being said, if you want to skip the rest of the article, and get a solution today just book a complimentary discovery call, and if you’re eligible, I’ll guide you every step of the way to get Facebook ads live again and money coming into your bank account from ads safe from the automations.

Just click my calendar link here and book your call now.

How can I tell if my account was restricted?

While Facebook is supposed to send you an email, you may not always get an email telling you that your account is restricted. But, going to Ads Manager, or Business Manager you’ll see this warning when your account is restricted:

And obviously, not being able to run ads and having all your live ads shut down is a pretty clear indicator your account is restricted on Facebook.

Part of the ninja skill involved when successfully trying to remove a restriction on a Facebook ad account comes down to accurately diagnosing what got you in Facebook jail – before FB bots have a chance to permanently restrict your ad account or Page.

If you haven’t read it, check out: How to Recover a Permanently Disabled Ad Account

What does having my account restricted mean?

If you have a restricted Facebook account, you are banned from using Facebook Ads, Facebook Pixel, Facebook Business Manager, and more. BUT…

The severity of your account restriction depends on:

• Your vertical | Type of Business
• The ad account history
• The type of ban
• The number of bans in the past 3 months
• The amount of approved ads

And a few other factors. Not all bans are the same, and not all Facebook restricted accounts have the same recovery process – or relaunching method when learning how to remove a restriction on a Facebook ad account.

A Facebook purge just in time for Independence Day

Street Talk: Our government went before the Supreme Court last week to argue they should be free to pressure social media companies to limit what information we the people can see with our own eyes.

There are so many nuances to how Facebook ad policies are formed, including Supreme Court rulings, government interference, and Facebook’s attempt to appease their stock holders.

On top of that, hackers are out in full force, and they are impersonating legit IG and FB accounts.

Simi Valley woman says scammers hijacked her Facebook account, trying to dupe friends out of money

Shauna Murphy’s Facebook page is full of posts about getting rich quick by investing in crypto.

“My daughter called me, and she said, ‘Mom, are you doing crypto?’ And I said, ‘No, of course not!’” she said.

Scammers had taken over Ms. Murphy’s account and locked her out. Posing as Ms. Murphy, they hoped her friends and followers would hand over money.

Ms. Murphy said she reached out to Facebook repeatedly and asked them to return the account back to her or simply delete it. But she said Facebook ignored her requests.

“It’s super frustrating. I’m very frustrated. I feel like they don’t care about us. Clearly they don’t care,” said Ms. Murphy.

And Ms. Murphy is not alone. California’s attorney general Rob Bonta, along with the attorneys general in 39 states, recently sent a letter to Meta, Facebook’s parent company, calling on it to take “immediate action” against account takeovers. They said users are complaining to them, too, and it’s causing a “substantial drain” on their resources.

If you learn anything from these horror stories it’s that:

A: Facebook doesn’t care and won’t help you
B: Hire a cybersecurity firm to protect your website

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Remove a Restriction on a Facebook Ad Account WARNING

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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). He offered some critical insights to why our Facebook Ad Account was disabled and shared options to reduce our chances of future issues. 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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New Fees for Boosted Posts on FB & Instagram on Apple IOS

Meta said Thursday that it will start charging a 30 percent fee when advertisers pay to boost the visibility of their posts in Facebook’s and Instagram’s iOS apps.

The change, which goes into effect later this month, stems from a 2022 App Store update where Apple extended its typical 30 percent cut of digital purchases to boosted posts, which are essentially ads.

The change particularly targeted Meta and other social apps that let people pay in app to increase the reach of their content. Meta notes in a statement shared with The Verge that small business owners and influencers who want to purchase a boost on iOS will now be billed through Apple, “which retains a 30% service charge on the total ad payment, before any applicable taxes.”

It’s like when gas prices went up, and every food delivery restaurant just charged you more, same as Uber & Lyft. Given that Facebook ad policy violations DO drive up your ad costs, that’s why now, more than ever you need to be compliant, because it’s more expensive when you’re not.

ALSO: Be careful whose advice you take when reading articles online. I’ve seen many marketing blogs online, giving the wrong advice from hacks just GUESSING on what to do. Or worse, regurgitating bad advice they read on Reddit or in YouTube comments.
If you google “How to Remove Restriction on Facebook Ad Account,” more than one social media magazine is posting inaccurate advice that will jeopardize your brand even more. For example:

What the @#$%&! is this?! You are googling “how to remove restriction on Facebook ad account,” and the result tells you to publish a damn Facebook Page????!!!! Soooo irrelevant. This is irritating af to businesses because it isn’t the correct answer. At all.

Another prime example, SocialSurge Marketing gives bad advice about how to remove restriction on facebook ad account:

This is bad advice. SocialSurge Marketing says that if you lost your rights to advertise unnecessarily they will reinstate you. Incorrect. Banning is done 99% of the time by machines – they have no moral base or conscience about what is fair or unfair.

SocialSurge Marketing also says above to “just try…to wait it out and see if your restriction is only temporary.” Incorrect. Talk to some people who have been banned – some wait over 6 months with any reply. Waiting doesn’t solve shit when you’re trying to remove a restriction on a Facebook ad account.

It’s dumb trust – Facebook makes money in the billions they have little to no investment in caring if you speedily get back up advertising or never run ads again. Meta has got money to burn.

Also SocialSurge Marketing saying you should Request Review is a big mistake. Because if you click on “Request Review” you’ll get ONE machine to review ANOTHER machine’s decision. That’s like asking the fox to guard the hen house.

You think a Facebook bot is going to side with a human over another Facebook bot and remove a restriction on a Facebook ad account? WRONG. I’ll tell you what to do next that is a much better option.

Or you can also watch my YouTube video that went semi-viral organically on the BS of suggesting Request Review here:

Remove a Restriction on a Facebook Ad Account Troubleshoot

To troubleshoot your restricted account:

The first step is to audit your funnel and identify the biggest risks when it comes to Facebook ad policy compliance. If you don’t know why you got flagged you won’t have very much to go on when attempting to appeal or remove a restriction on a Facebook ad account.

Review the Facebook ad policies that apply to your business specifically and determine which one the automations caught and flagged you for.

Still a little lost? I’ve created many Ad Guides on Facebook ad policy you can check out.

When you appeal, you gotta know WHY you were shut down FIRST. Most ad agencies have it BACKWARDS. They go in angry, demanding to be told why their accounts were restricted. And asking that their accounts get restored.

You really have to find out for yourself FIRST before appealing, because that will be the heart of your appeal: “I know what I may have done wrong and I’ve learned from it.” This will help when trying to remove a restriction on a Facebook ad account.

On Appealing: Chat in with Facebook Ad Support and get the agent you contact to submit the appeal for you instead of clicking Request Review. This will up your chances by a factor of 100.

Already completely banned?

If you are running ads and spending $100K a year or more on ads, I can help with that.

Confirm your identity

I have one word for you: DON’T. Well at least, not before taken certain steps first.

You may be one of the lucky 2% that actually start confirming your identity and slip through the cracks. But most people?

Once you hit that button it’s game over. Facebook will never confirm your identity because their form is broken and doesn’t transfer the data (like your driver’s license) to Facebook itself. And that definitely isn’t a reliable method to remove a restriction on a Facebook ad account.

There are other ways to get your ads live – all white hat – which are much better than trying to Confirm Your Identity. Well, at least, don’t try to confirm your identity without help from someone who knows how this system works, or you’ll end up in the endless loop.

Are you hacked or recovering from a cybersecurity hack from one of those bastards in Pakistan, Vietnam, Indonesia, or the Philippines? Sadly, it is a HUGE epidemic right now from those specific locations, including Malaysia. Read my full guide on what to do if your Facebook account is restricted from being hacked here.

Complete verification

Facebook’s ad policies will tell you to complete verification but like I said above, and admiral Ackbar reiterates:

Simply verifying a Facebook Business Manager will not remove a restriction on a Facebook ad account.

Remove a Restriction on a Facebook Ad Account Security

Secure your account

This is a new thing: If you’re a user of a Business Manager account that’s over 90 days old, you may need to enable two-factor authentication to meet Facebook’s security requirements. If you don’t, Meta may restrict your access to Business Manager tools for security purposes.

To reinstate your account, you’ll need to enable two-factor authentication.

If you haven’t submitted your IDs for the verify identity trap, enabling 2FA can sometimes restore your account. I’ve seen it happen – it isn’t reliable as the only solution, but it can help. As long as you don’t put a device, or email that you no longer have access to on your account! !

That’s another trap. Advertisers try to enable 2FA to get their ad accounts back but don’t realize they have an old email associated with their Personal Profile that they don’t have access to. Or an old phone number from a smartphone they no longer have.

You are royally @#$%&! if you do this because Facebook will show no mercy if you tell them, “I don’t have access to this email/device anymore.” Definitely not a solution to remove a restriction on a Facebook ad account.

It’s another good reason for you to make sure that your info is up to date before advertising, before appealing and before enabling 2FA.

Remove a Restriction on a Facebook Ad Account Content

Violating content

Facebook’s Violating Content Policies are a joke. You have no guidance here, it just says:

Advertisers can’t:

Severely violate our advertising policies
Repeatedly violate our advertising policies

You will have a lot more guidance from the articles I’ve written on specific steps to follow Facebook ad policy rather than these generic-ass statements. I love Jon Loomer’s content – and he’s great for learning Facebook tips – well John’s expert advice on why Facebook restricts your ad spending is also relevant to ad policies. If you’re on the radar, Facebook ups CPC costs and limits ad spend too.

So, what specific policies apply to your business? You better find out if you want to remove a restriction on a Facebook ad account.

When it comes to account authenticity Facebook wants to make sure the government name on your ID or Driver’s License is the same as the Facebook profile. Matching this does help, as a small step towards trying to remove a restriction on a Facebook ad account.

Ever had someone on your Business Manager get shut down elsewhere, on another Business Manager, and have the Facebook bots follow that one person back to your Business Manager and shut it down?

Even if your Business Manager WAS compliant?

Ouch. Facebook started tracking / stalking advertisers who got shut down on 1 Business Manager and then assuming guilt by association.

Violating networks or associations is Facebook’s policy to automatically assume if someone has a Facebook ban, anyone they are connected to on Facebook is by default, also a bad actor. It’s BS, I know, but that’s their policy and it affects how easy it is to remove a restriction on a Facebook ad account or not.

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If you haven’t had a chance yet, read my break down of Common Facebook Ad Policy Violations [Explained]

But, beyond that, let me just say, don’t lose hope in Facebook ads. Yes, the Apple I0S update was a fiasco for Facebook advertisers, and the removal of 3rd party cookies from Chrome in the near future will require some pivots to continue to be successful.

Even so, in 2023, the potential total audience that could be reached by Facebook ads was 1.98 billion and is only increasing this year.

So, it really becomes a matter of just fine tuning your Facebook compliance skills to continue raking in that dough from ad profits without having to remove a restriction on a Facebook ad account. If you do have a restricted ad account, you’ll want to look into appeals – which can be hit or miss without my guidance – so here are some tips.

How to appeal advertising restrictions

So, the dumbasses like SocialSurge Marketing that just copy and paste Facebook’s verbatim copy on their policies page are copying this text from Meta:

“If you believe your Business Account, ad account, Page or user account was incorrectly restricted, you may be able to request a review of the decision in Account Quality.”

Your best bet to appeal advertising restrictions if your ad account is restricted, is to audit your funnel first. Identify why you were shut down, which part of your funnel triggered it, then appeal to a person on Facebook ad support chat, not request review.

Speaking of which:

Remove a Restriction on a Facebook Ad Account Request a review

Request a review

More idiotic advice from Facebook:

“If your account is restricted due to a policy violation, you may be able to request a review.”

That’s like asking the original evil Terminator to review John Connor as he is hunting Connor.

Now – I’m not saying that it won’t ever work. About 1 percent of people who request review, DO get their accounts back. But, the odds are not in your favor given Facebook’s reliance on automations that don’t get human context.

Learn more

Are you ready to stop second guessing Facebook bans and stop sitting on the edge of your seat worrying about shut downs? You definitely won’t find those answers from Facebook or taking a Coursera marketing course.

Even if you spent a week reading Facebook’s Ad Policies you’d still be at risk of a shut down simply because there are a 1000 more flags than you are actually told about.

Yet the machines still scan your ads according to these invisible Facebook ad policies.

BUT – don’t miss out on an opportunity to never have to get flagged again. I’ve worked in ads, tech and project management at Facebook and can help.

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Ad Account Restricted Facebook FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions

1. How to fix ad account disabled on facebook

2. How to enable my disabled facebook ad account

If you have a spare ad account in your Facebook Business Manager that you can run ads from, feel free to. BUT, identify the micro and major flags FIRST, so as not to repeat the same mistake.

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3. How to appeal a disabled facebook ad account

You can also get some top tips on facebook ad policy in this complimentary eBook: Top 5 Reasons Agencies Fail at Facebook

4. how to get disabled ad account up and running

5. How Many Policy Violations Before Account is Shut Down?

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6. How to remove restriction on facebook ad account

7. how long does facebook take to review restricted ad account

8. how to fix your access can’t be reinstated because too much time has passed since we restricted your account

In a situation like this, your recovery options depend on what is banned:

a) Facebook Ad Account
b) Facebook Business Page
c) Facebook Business Manager
d) Facebook profile

9. How To Get Your Disabled Facebook Ad Account Back

10. How to unblock your Facebook ad account

How to get out of Facebook jail for a Facebook ad account restricted

Feels like getting a Facebook ad account restriction is increasing these days right? And then when you reach out to Meta they give you a wall of silence or misinformation or they are not able to answer your questions. Pretty helpful isn’t it?

I confess, Facebook will punish you for ad policies you can’t even read on their transparency center online because the automations are programmed to flag for much smaller policy violations than you’re prolly aware of.

It’s a shock seeing things like “Your account is restricted ” and the truth about Facebook restricted ads is that it is not a human making the final decision restricting your ad account.

Even as you’re reading this blog your phone already has notifications for Instagram or Facebook but I guarantee 9 out of 10 times those notifications won’t tell you that you have a restricted account or why it happened.
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About advertising restrictions

Often a Facebook ban happens because Facebook already had their eye on you. Getting an ad account restriction on Facebook happens when FB ad policy automations build a character profile of your ad account based on ad approval vs ad rejection basis. Get too far in one direction for rejections, and the red alert goes out to the bots to shut you down.

Your advertising access is restricted – what does it mean? Facebook account restricted what to do
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Want to know the secret to escaping Facebook jail?

Thought so.

Now let me explain…

I’ve seen folks banned for how they phrased their shipping and handling policies. It was a skincare company, so they had to watch out for getting hit with the Personal Attributes flag.

And yet, that wasn’t even what got them under fire when they found me and asked for my help. It was the small print in their S&H policy that violated a big policy they had no idea Facebook was punishing them for.

When you get your advertising access restricted it means the Facebook bots found something big or small somewhere in your funnel against policy.

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I’ve worked side-by-side with the software engineers at Meta, and offer better answers on this topic than many blogs you’ll find after googling facebook ad account restricted. All white hat.

It’s 2049, and you’re jumping rooftop to rooftop, you’re running from the evil Facebook replicants attempting to shut down your Facebook ads and steal your ad profits with unnecessary bans, what should you do?

It’s important to remember Meta is a big company, and there’s a lot of focus on policy and social responsibility. For example:

European Union accuses Facebook owner Meta of breaking digital rules with paid ad-free option

FILE – European Commissioner for Europe fit for the Digital Age, Margrethe Vestager speaks during a media conference regarding the Digital Markets Act at EU headquarters in Brussels, on March 25, 2024. European Union regulators accused social media company Meta Platforms on Monday, July 1, 2024 of breaching the bloc’s new digital competition rulebook by forcing Facebook and Instagram users to choose between seeing ads or paying to avoid them. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)

European Union regulators accused social media company Meta Platforms on Monday of breaching the bloc’s new digital competition rulebook by forcing Facebook and Instagram users to choose between seeing ads or paying to avoid them.

Meta began giving European users the option in November of paying for ad-free versions of Facebook and Instagram as a way to comply with the continent’s strict data privacy rules.

Users can pay at least 10 euros ($10.75) a month to avoid being targeted by ads based on their personal data. The U.S. tech giant rolled out the option after the European Union’s top court ruled Meta must first get consent before showing ads to users, in a decision that threatened its business model of tailoring ads based on individual users’ online interests and digital activity.

The European Commission, the EU’s executive arm, said preliminary findings of its investigation show that Meta’s “pay or consent” advertising model was in breach of the 27-nation bloc’s Digital Markets Act.

Meta’s model doesn’t allow users to exercise their right to “freely consent” to allowing their personal data from its various services, including Facebook, Instagram, Marketplace, WhatsApp, and Messenger, to be combined to target them with personalized online ads, the commission said.

Meta’s model also doesn’t give users the option of a service that’s less personalized but still equivalent to its social networks, it said.

“Subscription for no ads follows the direction of the highest court in Europe and complies with the DMA,” Meta said in a statement. “We look forward to further constructive dialogue with the European Commission to bring this investigation to a close.”

The commission had opened its investigation shortly after the rulebook, also known as the DMA, took effect in March. It’s a sweeping set of regulations aimed at preventing tech “gatekeepers” from cornering digital markets under threat of heavy financial penalties.

I bring this up to remind you that Meta faces other pressing issues aside from helping you restore your restricted ad account. And with this pressure, Facebook typically responds by increasing their reliance on Facebook ad policy automations to enforce facebook ad policies – which means it’s getting more dangerous to run ads. There’s a higher risk of restrictions now more than ever. So, it’s vital to understand how the Facebook bots flag ads and ad accounts.
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Why does Facebook say my advertising access is restricted?

Facebook typically says your advertising access is restricted because it tracked a sequence of actions violating Facebook ad policies. It can be one thing that gets you a facebook ad account restricted after it’s removed you’re good, or it could be a series of smaller actions over time Facebook’s automations have logged and determined, overall, you are deliberately choosing not to follow policy.

Other times it could be a log in issue, a bank issue, or a business model conflict if the automations flag your ads as belonging to a banned business model (like MLMs). Make sure to read my blog on removing ad account restrictions here.

Facebook ad account restricted – what does it mean?

What does it mean to have a Facebook ad account restricted? Well, it’s like having a bullseye on your back – and the machines Facebook uses will attempt to reinforce their initial judgement that you are against their rules.

When you get a Facebook ad account restricted, Facebook offers you a chance to appeal first. But, if instead of appealing you rush to resubmit the same ad with the same violations in it, it can lead to disabling your Facebook Business Manager too.

If someone else on your BM is in hot water with FB that can roll over on you too, because Meta will hold you responsible for another person’s facebook account restricted if you share the same BM. It’s tough, but there is a path to ban-free ads here.

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Advertising restrictions for policy violations

If your Facebook account is restricted from advertising, it may hurt your ability to earn money in the future, so you’ll want to make sure your overall track record is in the black not the red. That means more approved ads than rejected. If your facebook account’s restricted it was done by bots.

Given how automated Facebook’s policy bots are, to be successful not getting thrown in FB jail, you’ll want to understand how and why these policy automations flag to avoid being on their radar. There’s some nuance to this you’ll want to know to side step getting a facebook ad account restricted.

Advertising restrictions for unusual activity

If you buy a new smartphone, and are in a new location, download the Facebook app and log in, you could get hit with the unusual activity flag.

With a Facebook account restricted from advertising you may get the flag for unusual activity. Now, this can be frustratingly vague. Which activity was unusual? Why? How does this relate to getting a facebook ad account restricted?

Meta thinks you are a hacker when it sees new log ins, especially if you’re traveling out of state, out of country, when logging in. I’d suggest avoiding logging in to Facebook business tools while traveling to avoid this flag.

Read the ultimate guide on what to do if you’re hacked while running Facebook ads or want to prevent this from happening here.

How Serious is a Rejected Facebook Ad?

Your Facebook ad gets rejected, you appeal or try to run it again, then your ad account gets disabled. You try to appeal this (probably incorrectly) and then that appeal gets rejected and your Business Manager gets disabled.

It all starts with the Facebook ad and whether it follows ad policies or paints you as a bad actor to Facebook trying to circumvent systems if you try to run the same ad already rejected, multiple times leading to a Facebook ad account restricted from advertising.

If you’ve read How to Unrestrict My Ad Account you get how vital your appeal strategy is and has to be when it comes to appealing a facebook ad account restricted. The problem with getting hit with a Circumventing Systems flag is that Facebook’s bots are not specific about WHAT you are circumventing, and HOW to fix this. I have a short little guide to add a bit of help here.

Circumventing Systems Guide 2.0

What does a restricted Facebook ad account mean?

When your ad account is restricted, you cannot run Facebook ads at all. It means that your other assets like your Facebook Business Page and your Facebook Business Manager may be at risk too after getting a facebook ad account restricted.

Bad habits. Everyone has habits and the habits you have when creating ads can get you in trouble if your habits don’t include a compliance check up or sometimes you can get banned for simply acting too quickly. I’ve seen a series of quick thoughtless actions lead to a facebook ad account restricted before.

Facebook is supposed to send emails to your email account associated with your personal Facebook profile every time you have an ad approved and rejected. BUT, they end up in spam sometimes. You may not see these emails if your gmail has filtered these out to the promotions tab or social tab.

Logging into Meta Business Suite or Facebook Business Manager and going to the ad accounts you own on the Ads Manager page, you’ll typically see red letters detailing the warning you have gotten or ban.

How do I unrestrict my Facebook ads? Facebook ad account restricted tips

A good practice for preventing a facebook ad account restricted is to audit your funnel for potential flags and remove them, making everything compliant BEFORE submitting ads to Facebook to review.

And you don’t want a facebook account restricted because the ad account creation limit for new Facebook Business Managers is only 1 or 2 ad accounts most of the time. This means being aware of what may get banned and avoiding it is a full time job you can’t slack on if you want to avoid getting a facebook ad account restricted

It pays to be informed of what Facebook is doing as it effects industries at large, like Facebook’s recent ad policies on selling CBD on Facebook. You need to stay current to avoid Facebook accounts restricted from advertising.

Why is my Facebook ad account restricted?

Now, it is not your fault that you don’t understand the policies – Facebook is clear as the vision of a serious scotch drinker after the 4th glass. But, most likely your Facebook ad account is restricted because of a few words in your ad copy, privacy policy or the creative you chose.

Given my history of working with thousands of ad agencies both while I was working AT Facebook and in my own practice, I have stats on which ad policies are triggered the most in specific niches. Like personal attributes flags being higher in weight loss niches, or MLM flags being higher in the start-a-biz online vertical.

Understanding how YOUR specific niche interacts with Facebook ad policy automations is KEY to staying out of Facebook jail and avoiding a facebook account restricted.

Facebook ad account restricted: Ad rejections

Your ad account was banned for too many rejected ads

When you step over a certain ratio of rejected ads, Facebook has a separate automation that determines the health of your ad account. If you are not paying attention to this as you run ads throughout the quarter, you could end up on the wrong side of the ban bots. So, as the meme below states, you’ll need to study your ad account history a little more carefully to avoid this type of ban.

Now, resolving a facebook account restricted can be a lot easier to prevent than recover from.

If you’ve read my Common Mistakes to Avoid When Advertising on Facebook you found out the hidden clues in FB warnings – that you may need an expert to decode into everyday language.

Just like my clients, the social media marketing agency for Wu-Tang ClanWu-Tang Clan discovered, there are micro flags in ad copy and landing pages that have to be removed first before attempting to appeal or relaunch a brand with Facebook.

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Facebook ad account restricted: disabled accounts

What Disabled Facebook Ad Account Means

If you see that, “You are restricted from running ads” this means you missed the canary in the coal mine beforehand. SOME element in your ads attracted the attention of Facebook ban bots and there were warning signs. Probably not obvious because Facebook isn’t that transparent.

Now, depending on what type of Business Manager you have you may be able to create a new ad account as long as the new ads have 0 flags in them that the old ads have.

When reading the Facebook ad policies on Facebook ad rejections you may feel frustrated, because they won’t talk about your specific situation in any detail, if at all.

Facebook ad account restricted: Trust the right answers

A big hurdle to overcome with dealing with a Facebook ad account restricted is who to trust online. Most articles you’ll read come from outsiders, who have not worked at Meta and are shaking a Magic 8 ball to come up with best guesses.

Even worse, chatting in to Facebook ad support, you talk to people who don’t seem to understand your questions. I’ve heard stories from clients who got in a worst ban after talking to Facebook ad support before finding my blog.

And Facebook has a spotty track record for providing reliable advice on how to solve a facebook account restricted.

I’ve heard some people say that Facebook ads aren’t worth using anymore and don’t turn a profit – every week my calendar is booked with calls from businesses running high converting ads on Facebook making hundreds of thousands to millions of dollars. So, while Nas may have rapped that Hip Hop is Dead (with the recent beef with Kendrick Lamar and Drake you know hip hop is alive and kicking) Facebook certainly isn’t dead either.

Per Sprout Social,Per Sprout Social, Facebook is the third most visited website following Google and YouTube, respectively. This puts it ahead of other leading platforms like Twitter and Instagram.
The platform boasts 3.065 billion active users on a monthly basis. This makes it the most used social media platform worldwide.
In 2023, Facebook’s total ad revenue amounted to $135 billion, up from $116 billion the previous year.

Don’t leave money on the table just because you don’t understand the way the bots flag for policy, I can help you there.

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Facebook ad account restricted: Business Manager

What is a Disabled Facebook Business Manager?

If you are restricted from running ads, when your Facebook Business Manager is disabled within the Facebook Business Suite as they (annoyingly) renamed it, then you may need to relaunch your brand depending on how severe this ban is.

Sometimes Business Manager bans if they are appealed fast enough with the right language can be overturned.

But out of lets say 100 disabled Facebook Business Managers I’ve seen, 1% gets recovered.

Facebook account restricted from advertising? KNOW THIS: What you want to keep in mind is the Facebook Business Pages – as they are your digital storefront for your brand name – and take them out before your Facebook Business Manager gets disabled!

That being said, when you have a disabled Facebook Business Manager that means every asset inside is jeopardized.

Ad Accounts
Facebook Business Pages
People connected to this BM

Facebook ad account restricted: Causes

Here’s why:

When you have a disabled Facebook Business Manager, Facebook keeps track of who is in the Business Manager and the other BMs they are connected to.

So, everyone in a disabled Facebook Business Manager is at risk of having everything else they are working on getting shut down too. If you FORGOT a lurker in your BM who has a facebook account restricted it WILL come back to bite ya a$$ so BE AWARE.

A disabled Facebook Business Manager is the next to the worst ban you can get on Facebook.

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Facebook ad account restricted: Pages

What Does it Mean When Your Facebook Page is Restricted?

We saw many Pages go down in 2020 – when the pandemic first hit America with e-comm businesses that had shipping delays in China due to covid-19 shut downs. These e-commerce businesses saw their customers giving them bad reviews that took their Page quality score beneath a 1.

Then, just by automation alone, their FB Business Pages got restricted. And they didn’t even have a facebook account restricted-just the Page got shut down.

This is challenging because if you try to relaunch a new Facebook Business Page with the same brand name you may get blocked by Facebook right away for circumventing systems. You’ll need a better strategy more finely tuned for relaunching.

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Facebook ad account restricted: Reasons

Why is my Facebook advertising account restricted?

Still asking what to do when seeing, “You are restricted from running ads”? If you want to get to the bottom of why your Facebook advertising account is restricted, you’ll want to audit your funnel. This is to identify what was the biggest risk that got you on the radar and eventually shut down.

Have your Facebook ads been blocked? Read this blog here.

Here’s the deal, even if you read all of the Transparency Center policies on ads, you still wouldn’t know how to prevent a ban.

In reality, there are 1000s more that you are policed on by the automations but never told about.

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How to appeal advertising restrictions

There is a right way and a wrong way to appeal getting a Facebook ad account restricted. The wrong way is to mash buttons, click request review, and wait for the Facebook gods to grant you clemency. With staffing shortages, and reliance on automations, the first approach won’t get you far. But identifying what got you flagged, and what is the hierarchy of risks in your funnel and replacing the offending content with compliant copy is a much better place to start before appealing.

Facebook ad account restricted: Fixes

How do I fix my restricted Facebook account?

No one wants to see: “You are restricted from running ads.”

If you googled disabled facebook ad account or Facebook ad rejections you’ll find a number of bullshit articles out there – even by major brands – that will just tell you to “Request Review.”

That CAN help if you have already removed ALL the flags from your funnel. But if you have not…Full stop, no pass go, don’t click it.

What you’re doing here is saying to the automations that shut you down: “Hey bot, I know you are machine, but can you decipher human empathy and context? Even better can you send this Appeal to ANOTHER robot? And put my fate in the next bot’s hands?”

Really the best chance you have is to appeal within 48 hours of getting shut down AFTER identifying the EXACT source of the Facebook automation flag.

Anything less than that, and your chances diminish by A LOT. Now, if you’ve found me within that time period, I can possibly help you, depending on your type of business and other factors. Click here to schedule your call and avoid a further shut down and avoid a permanent restriction.

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Learn more

Learn more about the appeal process: when appealing keep in mind you’re chatting wit outsourced workers who have a goal of getting more chats per day than increasing real resolution rate.

They will try to shut you down every step of the way. I can help you navigate these hurdles, and get the best chances you can have for making an appeal if you have contacted me fast enough after a ban.

Beyond that window, the chances get slimmer. But you do have other options if your goal is to get Facebook ads live again and not just trying to recover old disabled ad accounts.

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Ad Account Restricted Facebook FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions

1. How to fix ad account disabled on facebook

2. How to enable my disabled facebook ad account

If you have a spare ad account in your Facebook Business Manager that you can run ads from, feel free to. BUT, identify the micro and major flags FIRST, so as not to repeat the same mistake.

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3. How to appeal a disabled facebook ad account

You can also get some top tips on facebook ad policy in this complimentary eBook: Top 5 Reasons Agencies Fail at Facebook

4. how to get disabled ad account up and running

5. How Many Policy Violations Before Account is Shut Down?

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6. How to remove restriction on facebook ad account

7. how long does facebook take to review restricted ad account

8. how to fix your access can’t be reinstated because too much time has passed since we restricted your account

In a situation like this, your recovery options depend on what is banned:

a) Facebook Ad Account
b) Facebook Business Page
c) Facebook Business Manager
d) Facebook profile

9. How To Get Your Disabled Facebook Ad Account Back

10. How to unblock your Facebook ad account

Facebook Ad Policy [Explained] Why Some Accounts Are Banned & Others Are Not

Asking how Facebook ad policy works dealing with a restricted ad account? You’ve come to the right place – I’ve worked at Meta in multiple departments from ad to tech and will help you make sense of Facebook ad policy to avoid bans. Want to just get a restricted FB ad account fixed and don’t want to spend the time reading this article? Schedule a discovery call here, free for a limited time.

Overview

When Facebook was first established it was just for college kids, and soon it ballooned into a billion dollar empire. Similar to a city that grows too fast for its own infrastructure to support the traffic, city codes, building violations, and so on – Facebook has too much traffic to handle the ads from a human level. (don’t miss out on this ad account restriction guide)

So, they hired engineers I’ve worked with to design the automations to replace the humans reviewing your ads for Facebook ad policy compliance. And as a result, a lot of advertisers and businesses get banned without warning or explanation. Why is that?

Facebook ad policy

Facebook ad policy is designed to stop bad actors from scamming innocent Facebook users – and I’ve oversaw the outsourced workers who review your content, moderating it to ensure compliance.

You may not know this but there are a TON of bad actors out there skimming and scamming every DAY – in fact it’s gotten so bad I wrote an indepth guide on how to prevent getting hacked on Facebook and what to do if you HAVE been hacked while running ads on Facebook you can access it here.

Meta advertising policy principles

The more eyes are on content, the more chance ads will be displayed to FB users, so high engagement is prioritized.

The ad review process

Facebook rarely puts human eyes on ads, the decision to approve or reject a Facebook ad is done by machines 90% of the time. And typically they have, maximum, 24 hours to approve or reject a FB ad. If it goes longer than that “in review” you’ll want to reach out to Facebook ad support.

What to do if your ad is rejected or if your business asset is restricted

The first step is to stop taking actions on Facebook with Ads Manager, Facebook Business Manager, and your Page. Often the biggest fail comes from acting too quickly without examining your entire funnel and assessing the damage before acting.

Community standards

Typically, there’s no cross over from facebook ad policies that govern all ads you run on Facebook and the Community Standards which regulate the organic content. Facebook has workers in sweatshops overseas monitoring the organic content and removing porn, violence, drugs and more. You won’t see Community Standards violations in Ads Manager, they’ll be in the Support Inbox, visible from your Profile (not FB Business Page)’s privacy settings.

Anytime you report a fake profile on Facebook you’ll see the Support Inbox filled with automated messages, and sometimes you can reach a person – but this is for non-advertising issues.

Facebook Ad Policy Content

Unacceptable content

When you look at Facebook ad policy on unacceptable content, you’ll see things like, don’t sell illegal items, or exploit people but what this manifests as in your real, every day experience running ads for profit is the part where Meta talks about Misinformation.

If you cut out all the BS and fluff what Facebook is saying for Facebook ad policy here is TLDR: “Don’t look like spam or an MLM.”

Facebook Ad Policy: Deceptive Ads

Deceptive content

Let me decode this for you, as it isn’t clear from reading this section on Facebook ad policy what Facebook means when you break it down to nuts and bolts. Meta here is saying don’t make exaggerated claims that don’t sound realistic in their opinion for what an average person’s results may be using your product or service. So, tone down your ad copy from anything that sounds like a tabloid or over sensational.

Facebook Ad Policy Restricted Products

Restricted goods and services

You may be blissfully unaware of certain banned business models on Facebook and specific types of products you can’t sell on Facebook which include:

Animals
Crypto Currency
Tobacco

One of the reasons why people who sell CBD have such a hard time ever getting it live on Facebook is because the bots will flag anything smoke-related as selling cigarettes. I have an article about selling CBD on Facebook you may find helpful here.

Facebook Ad Policy: Objection

Objectionable content

What Facebook means by “Objectionable content” for Facebook ad policy is:

No nudity (seems obv)
No cursing in ads (don’t try to be cute here)
No Graphic Content

What that typically looks like in ads is if you try to go too extreme or shocking with kicking the pain points when writing ad copy. Want to stop reading an encyclopedia of Facebook ad policy and just ensure your ads get approved?

Or recover from a restricted ad account? Then you’re like my client Cubatica who ran ads for Tony Robbins that I prescreened for his Knowledge Broker Blueprint (KBB) launch. Schedule your Facebook ad policy discovery call today right here.Facebook ad policy discovery call today right here.

Facebook Ad Policy IP

Intellectual property infringement

It’s crazy how obvious this is – yet every year I still see many of my clients come to me with IP flags. You cannot borrow authority from a celebrity or name brand of an established company to sell your products, without paying your dues. If you attempt to use a major brand name – including Facebook’s – without a licensing agreement, Facebook will flag you for copyright infringement.

Facebook Ad Policy Political Ads

Social issue, electoral or political advertising

If Facebook’s bots perceive your ad as something political or addressing a social issue you’ll have to mark your ad as a special ad category ad – if you don’t Facebook will ban you.

Facebook Ad Policy: Drugs et al

Product and format-specific policies

This is a fancy way of saying even if your ad is a video ad not a static image ad you still have to obey Facebook ad policy and not have any:

Drugs and alcohol use
Adult content
Profanity
Violence and gore

Facebook Ad Policy: Cybersecurity

Advertising policies affecting business assets

Wow, another vague af Facebook ad policy title! What does it mean? It means don’t run ads that Facebook thinks sound real spammy, and don’t try to hack people. This also means don’t SOUND like you are. What do I mean by that? Well, if FB says don’t hack people, check your copy to make sure there are no phrases that could be misinterpreted that way.

POLICIES

What you should know by now is that Facebook doesn’t f@#$! around when it comes to enforcing Facebook ad policy because there are genuinely bad actors out there breaking all the rules to harm others, so they have a better safe than sorry approach. After the Big Tech Layoffs, now Facebook is even more short staffed and relying on automations to make most of their Facebook ad policy decisions. Keep that in mind – machines are reviewing your ads not people.

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Facebook Ad Policy Enforcing Policy

ENFORCEMENT

The way Facebook automations enforce Facebook ad policy is by building a profile of your actions on Facebook Business Manager, Ads Manager, Facebook Business Page and running ads. After a specific period of time (lets say 60-90 days or sooner) the Facebook ad policy automations may make a conclusion, after seeing a pattern, that you are deliberately breaking Facebook ad policy if you have repeat violations.

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Now, you may have noticed Facebook changes their ad policies A LOT!

Who are the Facebook changes really for?

I’m sure we’ve all seen the awkward testimonial from Mark Zuckerberg when he faced Congress. Anytime there is a PR fire – like Cambridge Analytica (I was working at Facebook when this happened), Facebook has to get out and do damage control.

Facebook’s policy is to change Facebook’s policy to show they are doing something about an issue. Even if those changes wreak havoc on advertisers just like you.

Facebook creates new ad automations to police Facebook ads more to please their stakeholders, and show the board they are doing something. What they don’t do is look at the big picture for how these new automations integrate with the existing Facebook bots.

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What are Facebook ad policies?

Facebook ad policies operate on 3 levels:

One level is the Community Standards for NON ads but if your Page or Profile is breaking them it can affect your ads.

The 2nd level is the common sense ad policies like no guns or drugs, that every social media website has.

The 3rd level are the ad policies specific to your industry. Different ad policies apply for ads about weightloss versus ads about how to make money online. While many blogs get it wrong guessing, I’ve worked with the engineers at Facebook and help business prevent or recover from a Facebook ban, learn more here.

Advertising Standards

In 2023 if you googled new facebook ad policies 2023 this is what you’d see:

You can see beginning in February 2023, advertisers will only be able to use age and location to reach teens. Facebook is removing gender as a targeting option – thats another update to the Facebook advertising guidelines.

Already completely banned?

If you are running ads and spending $100K a year or more on ads, I can help with that.

Also check out: Top Reasons Why Facebook Disables Ad Accounts

So why do some accounts get banned while others are not? Simply said, it depends on a few things, for instance your track record for ad rejections or Facebook ad policy violations, within a specific amount of time. If you have had a lot of near misses, you are more likely to be shut down for a smaller flag in the future.

And, you may hate to hear this, but there are some agency accounts who have simply not made changes to their previously approved ads for years, and get into a holding pattern where the automations don’t rescan them. So, they’ve gotten away with noncompliant ads for years.

Eventually, the bots will catch up to them, and they’ll be calling me, to help them get Facebook ads live again after a ban or ad account restriction. But, just because you see noncompliant ads live on Facebook doesn’t mean it’s safe for you to do so.

Even if you spent a week reading Facebook’s Ad Policies you’d still be at risk of a shut down for Personal Attributes simply because there are ways Facebook’s bots flag you that Facebook isn’t open about. But that’s what I help businesses and ad agencies with: actual transparency for how Facebook ad policy automations flag and what to do to avoid Facebook jail.

Learn more

Don’t miss out on an opportunity to never have to get flagged again:

Facebook Ad Policy Violations New Solution

If you’re ok with waiting a bit longer, and entering the waitlist to see if you’re eligible – Schedule a call or contact me via email.

Free eBook: Top 5 Reasons Agencies Fail at Facebook

Ad Account Restricted Facebook FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions

1. How to fix ad account disabled on facebook

2. How to enable my disabled facebook ad account

If you have a spare ad account in your Facebook Business Manager that you can run ads from, feel free to. BUT, identify the micro and major flags FIRST, so as not to repeat the same mistake.

Ready to Finally Make the Money You Need in the Hours That Work for You & Your Family? Don’t miss out,Learn More here.

3. How to appeal a disabled facebook ad account

You can also get some top tips on facebook ad policy in this complimentary eBook: Top 5 Reasons Agencies Fail at Facebook

4. how to get disabled ad account up and running

5. How Many Policy Violations Before Account is Shut Down?

And, if this still all seems too confusing, your clients are yelling at you to get ads live to bring in money, simply schedule a complimentary Facebook discovery call here

6. How to remove restriction on facebook ad account

7. how long does facebook take to review restricted ad account

8. how to fix your access can’t be reinstated because too much time has passed since we restricted your account

In a situation like this, your recovery options depend on what is banned:

a) Facebook Ad Account
b) Facebook Business Page
c) Facebook Business Manager
d) Facebook profile

9. How To Get Your Disabled Facebook Ad Account Back

10. How to unblock your Facebook ad account

How to fix a disabled Facebook ad account

A disabled facebook ad account can be a pain in the @$s especially when money is on the line and you’re running out of time before a launch.

I’ve worked at Meta aka Facebook in ads, and tech and today this article will go into detail for why Facebook bans ad accounts and what to do about it.

Make your ad account active in Meta Business Manager

While your name may not be John Conner you are still battling machines. The manner in which the Facebook automations flag your ads and determine if they are ban-worthy is based on a series of automated systems which aren’t made clear to the public.

This is one reason why you may find it challenging dealing with a disabled Facebook ad account is because your ads seem to be fine to flesh and blood. But the bots have a different opinion.

Logging into Ads Manager you are tempted to click Request Review but if you do this without identifying the source of the ban you may get hit with:

What makes this even more troubling is that you may have run this same ad many times before without an ad restriction!

You’re checking your metrics to make sure that everything is converting, and see those red letters saying you’ve been restricted and feel like:

While working at Meta and Instagram I helped thousands of advertisers from SMBs to Fortune 500s solve Facebook ad issues (make sure to read My Facebook ad account restricted and I’m unable to review the account fix).

Disabled Facebook Ad Account Guide

What to do if your Facebook Ad Account is disabled and everything you can do to reinstate including how to resolve payment issues, rejected ads, and get support.

Today I’ll share insights on what to do if your Facebook ad account gets disabled.

Just like cosmetic surgeon clients of mine have discovered, there are micro flags in ad copy and landing pages that have to be removed first before attempting to appeal or relaunch a brand with Facebook.

Even software engineers AT Facebook AND Twitter have reached out to me, asking for help with their disabled facebook ad accounts. That’s how bad the automation banning has gotten.

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Disabled Facebook Ad Account First Steps

Before you begin

Ensure you have looked at your entire funnel and located potential flags, ranked in levels of risk.

And, it’s good to keep in mind, running ads on Facebook isn’t the same as running ads on Google, banner ads, or newspaper ads. Facebook is its own ecosystem.

So if you’re looking to trusted sources on Facebook marketing like Hootsuite for Facebook ad tips, just remember – they won’t teach you Facebook ad policy. And won’t provide insights I do from working at Facebook.

The Reason Why Your Facebook Ad Account’s Disabled

How Much Do Facebook Ads Cost in 2024?

There are two ways to classify the costclassify the cost of advertising on Facebook:

Overall cost: The total you spend on a Facebook ad campaign and/or over a specific time period.
Individual ad cost: The cost of each result (e.g. impression, click, lead, etc).

There are three ways to buy Facebook ads:

Auction. The most popular option. You specify a maximum spend and Facebook attempts to get you the most results for the lowest cost. Your ad is displayed when you win the “bidding war” against other advertisers for a placement.
Reservation. Currently only available for awareness and engagement goal campaigns, reservation ad buying allows you to reliably reach large audiences (e.g. over 200,000 people) for a consistent spend. It is not the most economical option per action, and requires a high overall ads budget.
Target rating points. Uses Nielsen target rating points to buy video ad placements, similar to TV campaigns. Currently this option is only available to select advertisers.

Average Facebook CPM

Cost-per-mille (CPM) means your cost for each 1,000 views or impressions.

In 2024, Databox calculates the average Facebook ads CPM is $5.61. Facebook ads have a slightly lower average CPM cost than social media ads in general, which was $6.06 in Q4 2023.

As you can see in Statista’s study from 2023, there’s a lot of variability in CPM based on industry, with tech ads having the highest average CPM of $9.98.

What you may not know is that Facebook ad compliance issues WILL raise the cost of your CPMs, CPAs and COAs because if Facebook feels you are not following the policies consistently they’ll restrict your reach and raise your ad cost (that’s part of why ads are expensive now).

Facebook Disabled Ad Account Explanation

The long answer is that Facebook creates specific automations their algorithm delivers that can’t distinguish an innocent mistake from those actually circumventing their systems.

So, you end up with a disabled facebook ad account.

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Recognize the signs of a disabled Facebook ad account

How Facebook Automations Flag Disabled Facebook Ad Account

Disabled Facebook Ad Account: Payments

When choosing a payment method, make sure:

The impact of a disabled Facebook ad account

Disabled Facebook Ad Account BM:

Business Manager

That’s not to say Facebook doesn’t glitch out – oh it does. There are bugs. Recently many of my clients came to me after getting the “Discriminating business practices” flags.

Yet their Facebook ads were innocent af and didn’t break any rules. I guided them to appeal in the correct way and everything got up and running again.

Schedule a discovery call here

But realistically? This happens about 5% of the time. The other 95% you’re getting flagged because you did violate the ad policies that just may not be explained very well.

Why was your Facebook ad account disabled?

Immediate Steps to Take After Your Ad Account is Disabled

A disabled facebook ad account causes another issue for business owners and ad agencies: what should you do after getting banned?

You look at the ads in Ads Manager and try to piece together what happened.

Now you think, maybe it wasn’t an ads issue at all. Perhaps it was something else – and you search for “facebook account disabled community standards.” These are the policies that govern everyday usage of Facebook.

But, still you don’t get any closer to the finish line searching for “facebook ad account disabled for policy violation” or “facebook ad account disabled 2024.”

What about ad account recovery? Is it possible to get your old account back?

You google “facebook ad account disabled appeal,” and “why is my facebook ad account disabled.” Still nothing. What gives?? I’ll answer that but first, let’s discuss the digital real estate you’re running ads on.

Facebook experts and influencers have debated for years why you get banned on Facebook, but they never know the real reason because they haven’t worked at Meta like I have. Even Facebook’s own Advantage+ automation meant to help you get more reach often glitches and just shows your ads to clickbait farms, optimizing for cheap 3rd world country clicks.

Facebook is no help either as they saythey say, you’ve been banned for not following the rules – without going into detail.

Immediate steps to take after your facebook ad account’s disabled: don’t appeal, audit your ads because you need to both identify WHAT got you on Meta’s radar AND the severity of the flag before taking action.

It’s super key to determine why you got on the radar before appealing a disabled facebook ad account.

Free eBook: Top 5 Reasons Agencies Fail at Facebook

Navigating through Facebook ad complications

Disabled Facebook Ad Account: Appeals

Submitting an Appeal to Facebook

New Policies Affecting Disabled Facebook Ad Accounts

Moving too fast can not only cause car accidents, but also get Facebook bots to flag you as either a machine or clickbait farm.

So, when you are starting to see some ad rejections, instead of immediately ignoring them or submitting new ads, do your best to diagnose why they were rejected.

Once you have a good idea, locate where those flags may be in other parts of your funnel. Also, make sure you have a privacy policy Facebook’s machines will approve of. Don’t know how to do this? Schedule a discovery call with me now right here.

Disabled Facebook Ad Account: Road Map

From Disabled Facebook Ad Account to Appeal

How to Recover a Disabled Facebook Ad Account Part 1

Outdated articles like this one will gloss over what to do without going into more detail – so I’m going to give you more insight on Facebook ad accounts disabled and what to do. PART 1 of recovering a disabled facebook ad account is to make sure you are not following bad advice online, and to stop any actions on Ads Manager and Business Manager – full stop, no more buttons pressed.

How to Recover Disabled Facebook Ad Accounts part 2

The next step is to take a hard look at your ads through Facebook’s POV and locate the biggest risk flags.

…and what NOT to do when appealing ad accounts.

Many websites will tell you to just click “Recover Account” (like this one) but that’s incorrect!

The advice in that article tells you to fill out a form and wait to see if you get assigned a Facebook rep – that is rolling the dice and likely to make your disabled ad account unrecoverable.

Also this article gives incorrect advice as well telling you to verify your Business Manager after getting an ad account disabled.

That’s bad advice (sorry not sorry Emily).

– That’s like going 120 MPH yelling out the window at the cop:

“I promise I won’t break the speed limit again officer!” while speeding.

When your ad account is disabled – you are asking Facebook to trust you that your business is legit, even after you’ve set the precedent that you can’t follow their rules.

You think Facebook is going to act in your favor? NO.

You’ll get stuck in a cycle of the spinning wheel of death for Facebook trying to both verify a Business Manager with a disabled ad account and review your appeal to that disabled ad account. Your facebook ad manager account disabled, no ads live – what to do?

If you want to verify your Business Manager after your ad account is reactivated, or on a fresh new Business Manager – sure, that can help.

But don’t do that while you’re appealing a disabled ad account – be smart. Clicking Request Review is a big mistake.

Diagnose The Problem

You’re want answers to why you got banned, when everything hangs in the balance of a billion dollar social media company’s decisions who isn’t replying or telling you what you did wrong or how to fix it.

Maybe you found the article I linked above and hit “Request Review.”

Don’t do that until you audit your funnel.

That has a slim chance of recovering a disabled facebook ad account. While it may work, if you don’t know why your ad account was restricted, then you will get the Facebook ban hammer again.

Free eBook: Top 5 Reasons Agencies Fail at Facebook

Preventing Future Ad Account Disabling

Make a closed ad account active

Part of why I’ve been so successful helping my clients get Facebook ads live again, is I don’t use the spray the wall with bullets approach. Shoot first, ask questions later, just go go go!! Yes, clients are screaming, “Why aren’t my ads live! I’m losing money!” Sure. I get it.

But, not failing here, means shifting your strategy from checkers to chess. There are wheels within wheels for how you get flagged and one of the most important ways to NOT get banned, I’ll reveal next.

Determine Why You Were Flagged BEFORE Appealing

Let me RE-EMPHASIZE:

If you don’t determine why you were flagged first BEFORE contacting Facebook ad support, you’re going to repeat history like being stuck in a time loop repeating the same day over again:

Step 1. – Navigate to Facebook’s Business Help Page here:

Step 2. – Select your ad account from the drop down menu:

Step 3. – Select the issue:

Step 4. – Click on Contact Support:

Disabled Facebook Ad Account Request Review Tactic

So you got on a chat with Facebook Ad Support – sweet! But keep in mind you are not talking to decision makers. Maybe your facebook account disabled due to copyright infringement or your facebook ad account disabled payment method triggered this.

You’re googling “facebook ad account disabled reddit” when you get hit with a new flag: “facebook ad account disabled circumventing systems.”
Damn it!

You’re all heated chatting with Facebook ad support but they can’t help. Remember:

These are gatekeepers that often don’t speak English fluently (if you’re coming from America, or the UK). They won’t understand a lot of what you’re saying.

If you get lucky, you may talk to someone who gets 70% of what you say when chatting, “facebook disabled my ad account for no reason!”

– but they’ve never run ads that have actual ROI –

Facebook Ad Support agents aren’t in the business world, they aren’t entrepreneurs and don’t have a vested interest in whether or not your ad account is active or disabled. Or your facebook account disabled upon creation issues or your facebook account disabled login problems.

How nice you are to them, how simple you make your explanations will play a role in how receptive Facebook is to your appeal.

Their goal is to close as many cases as possible – quantity over quality. So be respectful, polite, and also realistic when it comes to disabled facebook ad account review time.

But, if you manage to say the right words and prep Facebook ad support, on rare occasions they can help you recover from a disabled facebook ad account.

Free eBook: Top 5 Reasons Agencies Fail at Facebook

Make an ad account active

What Happens After Appealing Disabled Accounts

Pause yelling “My facebook ad account got disabled!” and take a seat.

Your ad account could either be:

• Reactivated within 24 hours because it was a Facebook glitch

• Reactivated incorrectly because Facebook Ad Support missed the flags you do have

• Or it’s “your ads are violating ad policy” or “this business model isn’t supported” and you stay disabled

What To Do If Your Ad Account Appeal Gets Rejected

Realistically you have about a 50/50 chance appealing any ad account that’s disabled. Here are some factors that play into why your disabled ad account will be reactivated or permanently disabled:

♦ How many previous rejected ads you’ve had

♦ What your ad account’s hidden score is (a ratio of rejected vs approved ads)

♦ If you conveyed your situation correctly to Facebook ad support who are gatekeepers not DMs

♦ If you determined first exactly which ad policy you’re flagged for (this helps FB ad support reps make a case for you)

♦ Did you clean your funnel (landing pages etc) of the ad policy violations before contacting Facebook? Do this first if your ad account disabled for policy violation.

♦ Your business model – certain business models are under more scrutiny than others (how to make money online, special ad categories etc).

✅ In a new ad account in the same Business Manager if you had a minor flag cause the ad account to get disabled, or

✅ A new Business Manager and new ad account in the new Business Manager (don’t use your personal ad account attached to your profile – create new ones in Business Manager) or

Learn More

Facebook Disabled Ad Account Solution

If you’re ok with waiting a bit longer, and entering the waitlist to see if you’re eligible – Schedule a call or contact me via email.

Free eBook: Top 5 Reasons Agencies Fail at Facebook

Ad Account Restricted Facebook FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions

1. How to fix ad account disabled on facebook

2. How to enable my disabled facebook ad account

If you have a spare ad account in your Facebook Business Manager that you can run ads from, feel free to. BUT, identify the micro and major flags FIRST, so as not to repeat the same mistake.

Ready to Finally Make the Money You Need in the Hours That Work for You & Your Family? Don’t miss out,Learn More here.

3. How to appeal a disabled facebook ad account

You can also get some top tips on facebook ad policy in this complimentary eBook: Top 5 Reasons Agencies Fail at Facebook

4. how to get disabled ad account up and running

5. How Many Policy Violations Before Account is Shut Down?

And, if this still all seems too confusing, your clients are yelling at you to get ads live to bring in money, simply schedule a complimentary Facebook discovery call here

6. How to remove restriction on facebook ad account

7. how long does facebook take to review restricted ad account

8. how to fix your access can’t be reinstated because too much time has passed since we restricted your account

In a situation like this, your recovery options depend on what is banned:

a) Facebook Ad Account
b) Facebook Business Page
c) Facebook Business Manager
d) Facebook profile

9. How To Get Your Disabled Facebook Ad Account Back

10. How to unblock your Facebook ad account

How to reactivate a disabled Facebook ad account after ban

Struggling with a disabled facebook ad account while Facebook won’t give you answers? You’ve lucked out finding this blog, as I’ve worked at Facebook in ads and will provide help in this article on what to do if you have a disabled facebook ad account.

Make your ad account active in Meta Business Manager

One reason why you may find it challenging dealing with a disabled Facebook ad account is because your ads seem to be fine to human eyes.

To YOUR eyes, your ads look great. You’re convinced you haven’t done anything wrong (but a shred of doubt lingers that just maybe you did). Logging into Ads Manager you click Request Review but literally within seconds see:

Part of your frustration also stems from the fact that you’ve run this same ad many times before without an ad restriction!

So what gives?!

During my years working at Facebook I helped thousands of advertisers from SMBs to Fortune 500s solve Facebook ad issues (make sure to read My Facebook ad account restricted and I’m unable to review the account fixMy Facebook ad account restricted and I’m unable to review the account fix).

Disabled Facebook Ad Account Guide

What to do if your Facebook Ad Account is disabled and everything you can do to reinstate including how to resolve payment issues, rejected ads, and get support.

Disabled Facebook Ad Account First Steps

Before you begin

I don’t work with businesses who are new, or haven’t figured out how to run high-converting ads – you need to establish your value proposition, target audience and compelling ad copy first.

Secondly, it’s good to keep in mind, running ads on Facebook isn’t the same as running ads on Google, banner ads, or newspaper ads. Facebook is its own ecosystem. So if you’re looking to trusted sources like Sprout Social for Facebook ad tips, just remember – they won’t teach you Facebook ad policy. And won’t provide insights I do from working at Facebook.

The Reason Why Your Facebook Ad Account’s Disabled

How Much Do Facebook Ads Cost in 2024?

There are two ways to classify the costclassify the cost of advertising on Facebook:

Overall cost: The total you spend on a Facebook ad campaign and/or over a specific time period.
Individual ad cost: The cost of each result (e.g. impression, click, lead, etc).

There are three ways to buy Facebook ads:

Auction. The most popular option. You specify a maximum spend and Facebook attempts to get you the most results for the lowest cost. Your ad is displayed when you win the “bidding war” against other advertisers for a placement.
Reservation. Currently only available for awareness and engagement goal campaigns, reservation ad buying allows you to reliably reach large audiences (e.g. over 200,000 people) for a consistent spend. It is not the most economical option per action, and requires a high overall ads budget.
Target rating points. Uses Nielsen target rating points to buy video ad placements, similar to TV campaigns. Currently this option is only available to select advertisers.

Average Facebook CPM

Cost-per-mille (CPM) means your cost for each 1,000 views or impressions.

In 2024, Databox calculates the average Facebook ads CPM is $5.61. Facebook ads have a slightly lower average CPM cost than social media ads in general, which was $6.06 in Q4 2023.

As you can see in Statista’s study from 2023, there’s a lot of variability in CPM based on industry, with tech ads having the highest average CPM of $9.98.

Facebook Disabled Ad Account Explanation

Recognize the signs of a disabled Facebook ad account

How Facebook Automations Flag Disabled Facebook Ad Account

Disabled Facebook Ad Account: Payments

When choosing a payment method, make sure:

The impact of a disabled Facebook ad account

Disabled Facebook Ad Account BM:

Business Manager

Disabled Facebook Ad Account and PAS Formulas

Why was your Facebook ad account disabled?

Immediate Steps to Take After Your Ad Account is Disabled

Another pain point for businesses and ad agencies is trying to figure out what to do after getting banned.

Navigating through Facebook ad complications

Disabled Facebook Ad Account: Intellectual Property

An Important Fact On Facebook’s IP

Disabled Facebook Ad Account: Appeals

Submitting an Appeal to Facebook

New Policies Affecting Disabled Facebook Ad Accounts

Disabled Facebook Ad Account: Road Map

From Disabled Facebook Ad Account to Appeal

How to Recover a Disabled Facebook Ad Account Part 1

Outdated articles like this one will gloss over what to do without going into more detail – so I’m going to give you more insight on Facebook ad accounts disabled and what to do.

How to Recover Disabled Facebook Ad Accounts part 2

…and what NOT to do when appealing ad accounts.

Many websites will tell you to just click “Recover Account” (like this one) but that’s incorrect!

The advice in that article tells you to fill out a form and wait to see if you get assigned a Facebook rep – that is rolling the dice and likely to make your disabled ad account unrecoverable.

Also this article gives incorrect advice as well telling you to verify your Business Manager after getting an ad account disabled.

That’s the dumbest advice ever (sorry not sorry Emily).

– That’s like going 120 MPH yelling out the window at the cop:

“I promise I won’t break the speed limit again officer!” while speeding.

When your ad account is disabled – you are asking Facebook to trust you that your business is legit, even after you’ve set the precedent that you can’t follow their rules.

You think Facebook is going to act in your favor? NO.

You’ll get stuck in a cycle of the spinning wheel of death for Facebook trying to both verify a Business Manager with a disabled ad account and review your appeal to that disabled ad account. Your facebook ad manager account disabled, no ads live – what to do?

If you want to verify your Business Manager after your ad account is reactivated, or on a fresh new Business Manager – sure, that can help.

But don’t do that while you’re appealing a disabled ad account – be smart. Clicking Request Review is a big mistake.

Diagnose The Problem

Preventing Future Ad Account Disabling

Make a closed ad account active

Determine Why You Were Flagged BEFORE Appealing

Let me RE-EMPHASIZE:

If you don’t determine why you were flagged first BEFORE contacting Facebook ad support, you’re going to repeat history like being stuck in a:

Step 1. – Navigate to Facebook’s Business Help Page here:

Step 2. – Select your ad account from the drop down menu:

Step 3. – Select the issue:

Step 4. – Click on Contact Support:

Disabled Facebook Ad Account Request Review Tactic

So you got on a chat with Facebook Ad Support – sweet! But keep in mind you are not talking to decision makers. Maybe your facebook account disabled due to copyright infringement or your facebook ad account disabled payment method triggered this.

You’re googling “facebook ad account disabled reddit” when you get hit with a new flag: “facebook ad account disabled circumventing systems.”
Damn it!

You’re all heated chatting with Facebook ad support but they can’t help. Remember:

These are gatekeepers that often don’t speak English fluently (if you’re coming from America, or the UK). They won’t understand a lot of what you’re saying.

They are essentially like bartenders – they have to hear a lot of crap from advertisers who chat in using all caps like “HELLO ARE U THERE.”

And at best, these are entry level workers that can understand maybe, 40% of what you’re talking about on a good day when you ask them how to fix facebook ad account disabled.

If you get lucky, you may talk to someone who gets 70% of what you say when chatting, “facebook disabled my ad account for no reason!”

– but they’ve never run ads that have actual ROI –

Facebook Ad Support agents aren’t in the business world, they aren’t entrepreneurs and don’t have a vested interest in whether or not your ad account is active or disabled. Or your facebook account disabled upon creation issues or your facebook account disabled login problems.

How nice you are to them, how simple you make your explanations will play a role in how receptive Facebook is to your appeal.

Their goal is to close as many cases as possible – quantity over quality. So be respectful, polite, and also realistic when it comes to disabled facebook ad account review time.

But, if you manage to say the right words and prep Facebook ad support, on rare occasions they can help you recover from a disabled facebook ad account.

Free eBook: Top 5 Reasons Agencies Fail at Facebook

Make an ad account active

What Happens After Appealing Disabled Accounts

Pause yelling “My facebook ad account got disabled!” and take a seat.

Your ad account could either be:

• Reactivated within 24 hours because it was a Facebook glitch

• Reactivated incorrectly because Facebook Ad Support missed the flags you do have

• Or it’s “your ads are violating ad policy” or “this business model isn’t supported” and you stay disabled

What To Do If Your Ad Account Appeal Gets Rejected

Realistically you have about a 50/50 chance appealing any ad account that’s disabled. Here are some factors that play into why your disabled ad account will be reactivated or permanently disabled:

♦ How many previous rejected ads you’ve had

♦ What your ad account’s hidden score is (a ratio of rejected vs approved ads)

♦ If you conveyed your situation correctly to Facebook ad support who are gatekeepers not DMs

♦ If you determined first exactly which ad policy you’re flagged for (this helps FB ad support reps make a case for you)

♦ Did you clean your funnel (landing pages etc) of the ad policy violations before contacting Facebook? Do this first if your ad account disabled for policy violation.

♦ Your business model – certain business models are under more scrutiny than others (how to make money online, special ad categories etc).

✅ In a new ad account in the same Business Manager if you had a minor flag cause the ad account to get disabled, or

✅ A new Business Manager and new ad account in the new Business Manager (don’t use your personal ad account attached to your profile – create new ones in Business Manager) or

Conclusion

What if I told you there was a disabled facebook ad account solution? You’d never have to worry about guessing the reasons for facebook ad account disabled.

We all know what a 10th level of hell it is waiting on the facebook ad account disabled review time when your ad account is disabled facebook doesn’t care how long you wait.

It’s time to stop taking shots in the dark if your facebook ad account’s disabled, what to do is first figure out all the flags. But you’re still asking what to do if ad account is disabled and googling “why ad account is disabled” or “why is my facebook ad account disabled on instagram.”

I can help with that. I’ve been a project manager at Facebook and worked in ads at Meta. I know you’re wondering, “If my facebook ad account is disabled can i create a new one?”

Especially if you’ve seen the disabled facebook ad account final decision warning in Ads Manager.

Or you’ve got a disabled facebook ad account in business manager issue as well with those ominous red letters seen in the Business settings. I’ll be happy to assist in how to solve disabled facebook ad account issues. You can stop searching for “my facebook ad account is disabled how to enable it” as there are better solutions below.

Facebook Disabled Ad Account Solution

If you’re ok with waiting a bit longer, and entering the waitlist to see if you’re eligible – Schedule a call or contact me via email.

Free eBook: Top 5 Reasons Agencies Fail at Facebook

Ad Account Restricted Facebook FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions

1. How to fix ad account disabled on facebook

2. How to enable my disabled facebook ad account

If you have a spare ad account in your Facebook Business Manager that you can run ads from, feel free to. BUT, identify the micro and major flags FIRST, so as not to repeat the same mistake.

Ready to Finally Make the Money You Need in the Hours That Work for You & Your Family? Don’t miss out,Learn More here.

3. How to appeal a disabled facebook ad account

You can also get some top tips on facebook ad policy in this complimentary eBook: Top 5 Reasons Agencies Fail at Facebook

4. how to get disabled ad account up and running

5. How Many Policy Violations Before Account is Shut Down?

And, if this still all seems too confusing, your clients are yelling at you to get ads live to bring in money, simply schedule a complimentary Facebook discovery call here

6. How to remove restriction on facebook ad account

7. how long does facebook take to review restricted ad account

8. how to fix your access can’t be reinstated because too much time has passed since we restricted your account

In a situation like this, your recovery options depend on what is banned:

a) Facebook Ad Account
b) Facebook Business Page
c) Facebook Business Manager
d) Facebook profile

9. How To Get Your Disabled Facebook Ad Account Back

10. How to unblock your Facebook ad account

My Facebook ad account restricted and I’m unable to review the account fix

Head spinning from a facebook ad account restricted? Looking for a solution to How do I get my Facebook ad account unrestricted? There are so many ways to get stuck in Facebook jail and so few trustworthy answers online, it’s hard to know who to trust. I’ve worked at Meta and will help you solve this issue.

If you’re googling things like, “Your account is restricted ” or “Facebook restricted ads,” or “Nonfunctional Landing Page” and terms like “I need help getting my account unrestricted” or even “How do I get my Facebook ad account unrestricted” you don’t want filler but answers to how to get ads running again and turning a profit for your business.

One of the tough choices a business has to make is how close to a ban do you want your ad copy to get? The most outrageous claims will get the highest clicks but will be the riskiest for what is allowed on Facebook. A good first step to take is to learn more about the advertising restrictions, so you don’t get caught on the bat radar of Facebook’s bots.

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About advertising restrictions

Many times when you get an ad account restriction on Facebook it’s because you were already on the radar of the policy automations, which build a character profile of your ad account based on ad approval vs ad rejection basis. Get too far in one direction for rejections, and the bat signal goes out for the bots to shut you down.

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I’ve seen folks banned for how they phrased their shipping and handling policies. It was a skincare company, so they had to watch out for getting hit with the Personal Attributes flag. And yet, that wasn’t even what got them under fire when they found me and asked for my help. It was the small print in their S&H policy that violated a big policy they had no idea Facebook was punishing them for. When you get your advertising access restricted it means the Facebook bots found something big or small somewhere in your funnel against policy.

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I’ve worked directly with the engineers at Meta, and offer better answers on this topic than many blogs you’ll find after googling facebook ad account restricted. All white hat.

So you’re running from the evil Facebook robots attempting to steal your ad profits with unnecessary bans, what should you keep in mind?

It’s important to remember Meta is a big company, and there’s a lot of focus on policy and social responsibility. For example:

Australian mining magnate Andrew Forrest can sue Meta over Facebook scam ads, US court rules

The Guardian reports that the Australian mining magnate can try to prove that Meta was negligent in allowing scam ads on Facebook, judge says. Andrew Forrest says the Facebook scam ads decision is the first where a social media company has been unable to invoke Section 230 immunity in a US civil case over its advertising business.

The external pressures Facebook has to endure lead to stricter ad policies for you, and higher risk of bans.

I mention this because a lot of businesses and advertisers think Facebook targets bans to them personally when getting a facebook ad account restricted. To be honest, Facebook is spread so thin across so many different things, from AI, to the Metaverse that Facebook ad support really isn’t a priority. Meaning, both you won’t get personally targeted for shut downs, and you also won’t get special treatment or empathy for all the money an unneeded ban causes your business.

If you’re like my client Jack Randall, President of Social Flight, you’re tired of beating your head against the wall trying to guess why Facebook has shut you down, and want answers faster.

“Trevor helped me successfully diagnose exactly why my ad account was disabled, and helped me frame out a plan to move forward.” 👍🏻

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Why does Facebook say my advertising access is restricted?

It can be one thing that gets you a facebook ad account restricted after it’s removed you’re good, or it could be a series of smaller actions over time Facebook’s automations have logged and determined, overall, you are deliberately choosing not to follow policy.

Other times it could be a log in issue, a bank issue, or a business model conflict if the automations flag your ads as belonging to a banned business model (like MLMs). Make sure to read my blog on removing ad account restrictions here.

Facebook ad account restricted – what does it mean?

Typically when you get a Facebook ad account restricted, Facebook offers you a chance to appeal first. But, if instead of appealing you rush to resubmit the same ad with the same violations in it, it can lead to disabling your Facebook Business Manager too.

If someone else on your BM is in hot water with FB that can roll over on you too, because Meta will hold you responsible for another person’s facebook account restricted if you share the same BM.

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Facebook ad account restricted: FTC claims Facebook withheld information when buying Instagram and WhatsApp

The newest issues Facebook or Meta is facing newest issues Facebook or Meta is facing isn’t related to a lot of your daily struggles running ads and understanding compliance. Meta Platforms Inc. withheld information from federal regulators during their original reviews of the Instagram and WhatsApp acquisitions, the US Federal Trade Commission said in a court filing as part of a lawsuit seeking to break up the social networking giant.

Why does this matter? Well, if Meta gets broken up, that could crash ads globally, or cause more disruptions in getting the same conversions. Not that I’m advocating for giant behemoths to control everything – we have enough mergers of giant corps doing that already, cornering the market, and reducing choice in the free market leading to higher costs globally. I just want you to be prepared for what may be coming, if the anti-trust law suit does succeed.

The company formerly known as Facebook bought photo-sharing app Instagram in 2012 and the messaging app WhatsApp in 2014. Both transactions were scrutinized by the FTC at the time before they closed – Instagram as part of an in-depth review and WhatsApp with a simple 30-day one. In the years since, the agency has faced significant criticism for allowing the deals to move forward.

In 2020, the antitrust agency sued Meta alleging that it monopolized the personal social networking market by buying up emerging rivals.

Instagram’s popularity has been key to Meta’s continued success. Instagram produced $16.5 billion in the first six months of 2022, bringing in almost 30% of the company’s overall revenue, according to court filings in the case. Meta has also degraded its platform for users most reliant on their apps, significantly increasing the ad load on first Instagram and then its flagship product Facebook, the agency said in the filing. It also “chronically deprived Instagram of resources to innovate and improve features,” the FTC said.

If you’re not paying attention to these things, you may be caught with your pants down if FTC’s antitrust hammer comes down on Meta and then Instagram changes the ad volume. have been keeping updated on the latest from Facebook, you’ll see the updates on Facebook Marketplace. When it comes to getting a facebook ad account restricted, this is the big picture view serious advertisers need to take looking forward (and consider diversifying your ad streams, if anything across different types of Facebook and IG ads).

When getting a facebook ad account restricted, you want to think more chess, less like checkers.

I bring this up because you should know the focus right now for Meta is not on making sure you, the honest business owner or marketing agency is being taken care of when it comes to avoiding unnecessarily dishing out a facebook ban or Facebook ad account restricted.

When you prepare before impulsively appealing Facebook accounts restricted from advertising, then you have a much better chance of recovery.

Advertising restrictions for policy violations

Advertising restrictions for unusual activity

This flag is a pain in the a#$! If you buy a new smartphone, and are in a new location, download the Facebook app and log in, you could get hit with the unusual activity flag. With a Facebook account restricted from advertising you may get the flag for unusual activity. Now, this can be frustratingly vague. Which activity was unusual? Why? How does this relate to getting a facebook ad account restricted?

Meta thinks you are a hacker when it sees new log ins, especially if you’re traveling out of state, out of country, when logging in. I’d suggest avoiding logging in to Facebook business tools while traveling to avoid this flag.

Read the ultimate guide on what to do if you’re hacked while running Facebook ads or want to prevent this from happening herehere.

How Serious is a Rejected Facebook Ad?

Circumventing Systems Guide 2.0

What does a restricted Facebook ad account mean?

How do I unrestrict my Facebook ads? Facebook ad account restricted tips

Why is my Facebook ad account restricted?

Because you f#$%!’d up. That may seem a little harsh, but it’s the truth. Somewhere along the way you crossed the line for policies and Facebook decided you are more of a threat than a benefit. Now, it is not your fault that you don’t understand the policies – Facebook is clear as the vision of a serious scotch drinker after the 4th glass.

Given my history of working with thousands of ad agencies both while I was working AT Facebook and in my own practice, I have stats on which ad policies are triggered the most in specific niches. Like personal attributes flags being higher in weight loss niches, or MLM flags being higher in the start-a-biz online nich.

Understanding how YOUR specific niche interacts with Facebook ad policy automations is KEY to staying out of Facebook jail and avoiding a facebook account restricted.

Facebook ad account restricted: Ad rejections

Your ad account was banned for too many rejected ads

Facebook ad account restricted: disabled accounts

What Disabled Facebook Ad Account Means

If you see that, “You are restricted from running ads” this means you missed the canary in the coal mine beforehand. SOMETHING in your ads was pissing off Facebook and there were warning signs – probably not obvious because Facebook isn’t that transparent.

Now, depending on what type of Business Manager you have you may be able to create a new ad account as long as the new ads have 0 flags in them that the old ads have.

When reading the Facebook ad policies on Facebook ad rejections you may feel frustrated, because they won’t talk about your specific situation in any detail, if at all.

Facebook ad account restricted: Trust the right answers

Facebook ad account restricted: Business Manager

What is a Disabled Facebook Business Manager?

Ad Accounts
Facebook Business Pages
People connected to this BM

Facebook ad account restricted: Causes

Facebook ad account restricted: Pages

What Does it Mean When Your Facebook Page is Restricted?

Facebook ad account restricted: Reasons

Why is my Facebook advertising account restricted?

How to appeal advertising restrictions

Facebook ad account restricted: Fixes

How do I fix my restricted Facebook account?

Learn more

Facebook Ad Account Restriction Solution

If you’re ok with waiting a bit longer, and entering the waitlist to see if you’re eligible – Schedule a call or contact me via email.

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Ad Account Restricted Facebook FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions

1. How to fix ad account disabled on facebook

2. How to enable my disabled facebook ad account

If you have a spare ad account in your Facebook Business Manager that you can run ads from, feel free to. BUT, identify the micro and major flags FIRST, so as not to repeat the same mistake.

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3. How to appeal a disabled facebook ad account

You can also get some top tips on facebook ad policy in this complimentary eBook: Top 5 Reasons Agencies Fail at Facebook

4. how to get disabled ad account up and running

5. How Many Policy Violations Before Account is Shut Down?

And, if this still all seems too confusing, your clients are yelling at you to get ads live to bring in money, simply schedule a complimentary Facebook discovery call here

6. How to remove restriction on facebook ad account

7. how long does facebook take to review restricted ad account

8. how to fix your access can’t be reinstated because too much time has passed since we restricted your account

In a situation like this, your recovery options depend on what is banned:

a) Facebook Ad Account
b) Facebook Business Page
c) Facebook Business Manager
d) Facebook profile

9. How To Get Your Disabled Facebook Ad Account Back

10. How to unblock your Facebook ad account

your advertising access is restricted solution

How to solve advertising access is restricted on Facebook

Running ads on Facebook but suddenly see that your advertising access is restricted? I’ve worked at Meta and will assist you in finding a solution. Try this if you struggle with getting advertising access is restricted: learn the flags and their severity level that got you banned and remove them from your funnel.

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An underrated trick to solving getting advertising access is restricted is to understand just how Facebook flags your funnel which I’ll be revealing further in this article.

You may feel like you’d have better luck uncovering the mystery of The Great Pyramid of Giza or the Hanging Gardens of Babylon than getting a straight answer from Facebook, if you’re trying to remove a restriction on a Facebook ad account.

There are so many flags your ad account can get hit with that it’s challenging to quickly determine the reason for Facebook bans. Also, take a look at my blog, How to Recover A Facebook Ad Account That’s Been Disabled.

Advertising Access is Restricted: Facebook Ad Account Tips

A lot of ad agencies are asking, “How do I recover Facebook ad accounts?” Or “How can I reactivate my disabled Business Manager?” And “Why is my Facebook ad rejected?”

The wall of silence from Facebook, now called Meta, frustrates business owners and advertisers alike. Money coming in from Facebook ads is suddenly stopped, and clients won’t stop screaming because their products aren’t selling.

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You’re left holding the bag, without answers and just a nasty deadline before your clients drop you and hire another marketing firm who knows how to remove a restriction on a Facebook ad account. Or your deadline for a product launch is making you sweat bullets while Facebook keeps you in limbo.

You’re waiting on Facebook to reply as you’re waiting on an ad asset that’s permanently restricted to get fully appealed. Fortunately, you’ve found this blog – I’ve worked at Facebook for years and can help you sort things out.

Whether you’re using Facebook ad expert Tim Burd’s Surfing Method of Scaling Ads or another tactic, Facebook ad policies will still need to be top of mind, or you’ll lose money with Facebook bans.

Just like I provided solutions for Boomerang, a marketing research firm, you’ll learn how to avoid the land mines that shut down millions of businesses a year on Facebook. Click here for a free discovery call.

If I decide you’re a good fit, we can work together and I’ll reveal why FB shut you down and how to get compliant again. (In a rush? Skip the line with prepaid funnel audits with VIP Access). You won’t have to guess again at learning how to remove a restriction on a Facebook ad account.

Advertising Access is Restricted: Facebook Ad Account Guide

how to remove restriction on facebook ad account guide

Now, clearly the devil is in the details – while this 5 Step System is great, you’ll want to get more in the weeds for exactly How to apply these concepts to your funnel if you’re serious about learning how to fix getting a Advertising Access is Restricted ban.

You can start by getting your funnel bulletproof from the Facebook ban bots I can protect you from and prevent them from taking your money when ad accounts get disabled. Simply schedule a free discovery call if you’re looking to get Facebook ads live again, see if you’re eligible – my calendar is here

Advertising Access is Restricted: Next Steps

Your Facebook Advertising Got Restricted…Now What?

If you’ve got hit with a Advertising Access is Restricted ban on Facebook all your active ads will be paused and you won’t be able to create new ads. Often you’ll see “ad error” next to the ads that used to be live.

After reading my Facebook Ad Policies Checklist you may have started to see which ad policy applied to your Campaigns.

Now, the reason why you got shut down will be one of many. Each scenario is different.

Advertising Access is Restricted Tricks
Remove a Restriction on a Facebook Ad Account Pro Tip

You may be asking why each scenario is different. Well, there are many types of Facebook ads and Facebook’s ad policies apply differently to each industry which is important to know before you try to fix getting an Advertising Access is Restricted ban on a Facebook ad account.

And I’m not even talking about Special Ad Categories (real estate, social issues, employment, loans etc).

How Facebook’s machines apply their striking automation really does depend on a number of factors which I’ll get into next.

You may not know this, but, being more or less compliant affects your CPC, CPL (cost-per-lead), and Cost of Acquisition. The less compliant you are – even if you’re not banned…yet – the more Facebook will charge you for distributing your ads, because they’ll feel it’s content Facebook users won’t want to see, if it isn’t fully compliant.

And, ad costs have been going up. On average, 91% of industries saw increases in CPL in 2023.

But, you don’t have to guess on compliance anymore, as I can help you diagnose and recover from Advertising Access is Restricted issues on Facebook.

If you’re dealing with restrictions and looking for help, you’re my client Liana Lang, CEO of Power Up Strategy Inc. who said, “Please meet Trevor, my ‘secret weapon’ for all things Facebook compliance. I highly recommend hiring him to help you out especially if you plan to be running ads.”

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Advertising Access is Restricted: How

How did I get myself restricted from advertising on Facebook?

You’d be surprised how many businesses are running ads based on what worked 5 years ago. Just like advances in technology rapidly change the social landscape, so do changes in Facebook’s ad policies. These changes lead to more ad agencies getting hit with those menacing red letters saying: Your Advertising Access is Restricted.

Even if you went to the Social Media Strategies Summit, David Velez, Head of Social at Amazon, wouldn’t be able to explain to you how you got banned – none of the experts could, because they haven’t worked side-by-side with the software engineers who operate the automations that ban you. I happened to have this experience, from my work at Meta, and one common theme was how fast facebook ad policies change, the and effect this has on businesses like yours.

What was allowed last year may not be compliant this year. And if you’re still running ads that used to be compliant, Facebook will show no mercy in shutting you down ASAP. And even retroactively punishing your ad account by flagging old ads that aren’t even active, if they violate new current ad policies. This is what leads to ad bans marketers get, who then try to solve getting an Advertising Access is Restricted flag on a Facebook ad account.

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

Remove a Restriction on a Facebook Ad Account Flag Type

You can get your ads rejected for violating the spam flags, the Personal Attributes policies, or Facebook could have flagged you as an MLM.

Your eyes would pop out if you knew the list of banned words Facebook has that associate you with a pyramid scheme. If you accidentally used one of these words, even 1 word would be enough to get you shut down. (read more info on disabled ad accounts here)

Ideally, you’d have your ads prescreened for Facebook ad policy compliance before going live. Then, you’d never have to try to learn how to fix a Advertising Access is Restricted issue on a Facebook ad account.

This can be problematic for many advertisers because you can read all the books on Facebook ads, read all of facebook ad policies and still not get answers.

You can study the top Facebook experts like Mari Smith (one of my clients), or events like Social Media Marketing World but even then, you won’t find anyone there who has worked with thousands of businesses recovering from getting a your Advertising Access is Restricted flag or who has worked at Meta with the engineers maintaining these ban bot automations like I have.

That being said, if you want to skip the rest of the article, and get a solution today just book a free discovery call, and if you’re eligible, I’ll guide you every step of the way to get Facebook ads live again and money coming into your bank account from ads safe from the automations.

Just click my calendar link here and book your call now.

Advertising Access is Restricted: Looking closer

How can I tell if my account was restricted?

While Facebook is supposed to send you an email, you may not always get an email telling you that your Advertising Access is Restricted. But, going to Ads Manager, or Business Manager you’ll see this warning when your advertising access is restricted:

And obviously, not being able to run ads and having all your live ads shut down is a pretty clear indicator your account is restricted on Facebook. Part of the ninja skill involved when successfully trying to solve a your advertising access is restricted ban comes down to accurately diagnosing what got you in Facebook jail – before FB bots have a chance to permanently restrict your ad account or Page.

If you haven’t read it, check out: How to Recover a Permanently Disabled Ad Account

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What does having my account restricted mean?

If you have a restricted Facebook account, and got the message that your advertising access is restricted, you are banned from using Facebook Ads, Facebook Pixel, Facebook Business Manager, and more. BUT…

The severity of your account restriction depends on:

• Your vertical | Type of Business
• The ad account history
• The type of ban
• The number of bans in the past 3 months
• The amount of approved ads

And a few other factors. Not all bans are the same, and not all Facebook restricted accounts have the same recovery process – or relaunching method when learning how to fix getting your your advertising access is restricted.

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Remove a Restriction on a Facebook Ad Account WARNING

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

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How To Use (Meta) Facebook Ads Manager: A Comprehensive Guide

Really, you can go over Shopify’s guide on how to use Facebook Ads Manager,Shopify’s guide on how to use Facebook Ads Manager, and learn every detail but unless you pair compliance with conversions on equal levels, and learn both, you’ll be losing money from Facebook bans in the long run.

ALSO: Be careful whose advice you take when reading articles online. I’ve seen many marketing blogs online, giving the wrong advice from hacks just GUESSING on what to do. Or worse, regurgitating bad advice they read on Reddit or in YouTube comments.
If you google “How to Remove Restriction on Facebook Ad Account,” more than one social media magazine is posting inaccurate advice that will jeopardize your brand even more. For example:

your advertising access is restricted Troubleshooting

To troubleshoot your restricted account:

Confirm your identity

Complete verification

Facebook’s ad policies will tell you to complete verification but like I said above, and admiral Ackbar reiterates:

Simply verifying a Facebook Business Manager will not remove a restriction on a Facebook ad account.

your advertising access is restricted Security

Secure your account

your advertising access is restricted Content

Violating content

Facebook’s Violating Content Policies are a joke. You have no guidance here, it just says:

Advertisers can’t:

Severely violate our advertising policies
Repeatedly violate our advertising policies

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your advertising access is restricted unusual activity

Almost 100% of the time this is because you logged into Facebook, either your personal Profile or Business Manager or the Facebook Business Page from a location different from your regular house and local haunts.

And if you have a credit card number banned.

Solution: get a new credit card that’s fresh and clean, and also only login to Facebook from one location (or 1 city rather).

If you haven’t had a chance yet, read my break down of Common Facebook Ad Policy Violations [Explained]

But, beyond that, let me just say, don’t lose hope in Facebook ads. Yes, the Apple I0S update was a fiasco for Facebook advertisers, and the removal of 3rd party cookies from Chrome in the near future will require some pivots to continue to be successful.

Even so, in 2023, the potential total audience that could be reached by Facebook ads was 1.98 billion and is only increasing this year.

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How to appeal advertising restrictions

your advertising access is restricted Request a review

Request a review

More idiotic advice from Facebook:

“If your account is restricted due to a policy violation, you may be able to request a review.”

That’s like asking the original evil Terminator to review John Connor as he is hunting Connor.

Now – I’m not saying that it won’t ever work. About 1 percent of people who request review, DO get their accounts back. But, I’ve worked with 10s of 1000s of advertisers and the stats show requesting review just locks you into a permanently restricted status unless you know how to do it strategically in a way that gets real results.

Learn more

Your your advertising access is restricted Solution

If you’re ok with waiting a bit longer, and entering the waitlist to see if you’re eligible – Schedule a call or contact me via email.

Free eBook: Top 5 Reasons Agencies Fail at Facebook

Disabled Facebook Ad Account Recovery Steps

Searching for a solution to getting a disabled facebook ad account? I’ve worked at Meta and even if Facebook won’t reply, bills pile up and clients demand answers, I can help guide you to a solution.

Make your ad account active in Meta Business Manager

Facebook ads have treated you well, and everything seems to be turning a profit when the ban bots suddenly hit you with a disabled Facebook ad account jeopardizing your ability to survive and make money. Damn!

To your eyes, the ads look great. You’re convinced you haven’t done anything wrong. Logging into Ad Manager you click Request Review but literally within seconds see:

Part of your frustration also stems from the fact that you’ve run this same ad many times before without an ad restriction! (read my last blog on ad account restrictions here).

So what gives?! You’d think if the customer is always right Facebook would try a little harder to help, but Facebook’s attitude about customer service may be a little different.

During my years working at Facebook I helped thousands of advertisers from SMBs to Fortune 500s solve Facebook ad issues (make sure to read How to Solve Facebook Ad Account Restriction As A Business).

What makes this a bit challenging is that Facebook doesn’t train the outsourced workers who answer your chats at Facebook ad support very well. Half the time they are guessing, and literally come from a sweatshop type call center, never having paid bills with money earned from paid media advertising.

Want to stop putting your money in the hands of idiots who just repeat your questions back to you? Schedule your complimentary discovery call here, and see how I can help.

Disabled Facebook Ad Account Guide

What to do if your Facebook Ad Account is disabled and everything you can do to reinstate including how to resolve payment issues, rejected ads, and get support.

Disabled Facebook Ad Account First Steps

Before you begin

There is no grand “UN DO” button at the center of the universe to reverse the past – the reputation you have with Facebook based on your prior ads, and how often they went against policy isn’t something that can just be shaken and erased like a giant etcha-sketch. The past history will reflect on the options you have today – but I can help navigate here and find new options you may not have known existed.

Speaking of history, remember Cambridge Analytica? I was working at Facebook when that happened.

Supreme Court to hear Facebook appeal tied to Cambridge Analytica breach

The Supreme Court agreed to hear an appeal from FacebookThe Supreme Court agreed to hear an appeal from Facebook that is tied to how the social media platform disclosed the Cambridge Analytica data breach to investors.

Long after the breach became known to leadership, the suit alleges, Facebook continued to mention the possible harm from a major data breach in hypothetical terms. The court’s decision in the case, expected next year, could determine how much disclosure of damaging information on Securities and Exchange Commission forms is enough.

In 2019, Facebook agreed to pay $5.1 billion in civil penalties to settle charges by the Federal Trade Commission and SEC over the scandal.

The legal fight began following an international outcry from the company’s disclosure that the private information of millions of Facebook users was obtained by Cambridge Analytica, a data analytics firm that worked with Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign.

The 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals sided with the investors, allowing their lawsuit to proceed.

I mention this to just remind you to stay up to date with the latest news from changes at Facebook. If this decision is reversed, it could have a trickle down effect on Facebook ad policies – or indicate that Facebook is about to roll out new Facebook ad policies to prepare for the upcoming election November 2024.
So if you’re looking at trusted sources like Sprout Social for Facebook ad tips like ad sizes, just remember – they won’t teach you Facebook ad policy. And won’t provide insights I do from working at Facebook.

The Reason Why Your Facebook Ad Account’s Disabled

Facebook Disabled Ad Account Explanation

Recognize the signs of a disabled Facebook ad account

How Facebook Automations Flag Disabled Facebook Ad Account

Disabled Facebook Ad Account: Payments

When choosing a payment method, make sure:

The impact of a disabled Facebook ad account

Disabled Facebook Ad Account BM:

Business Manager

Disabled Facebook Ad Account and PAS Formulas

Why was your Facebook ad account disabled?

Immediate Steps to Take After Your Ad Account is Disabled

Navigating through Facebook ad complications

Disabled Facebook Ad Account: Intellectual Property

An Important Fact On Facebook’s IP

Disabled Facebook Ad Account: Appeals

Submitting an Appeal to Facebook

New Policies Affecting Disabled Facebook Ad Accounts

Disabled Facebook Ad Account: Road Map

From Disabled Facebook Ad Account to Appeal

How to Recover a Disabled Facebook Ad Account Part 1

Outdated articles like this one will gloss over what to do without going into more detail – so I’m going to give you more insight on Facebook ad accounts disabled and what to do.

How to Recover Disabled Facebook Ad Accounts part 2

…and what NOT to do when appealing ad accounts.

Diagnose The Problem

Preventing Future Ad Account Disabling

Make a closed ad account active

Determine Why You Were Flagged BEFORE Appealing

Let me RE-EMPHASIZE:

If you don’t determine why you were flagged first BEFORE contacting Facebook ad support, you’re going to repeat history like GroundHog’s Day.

Step 1. – Navigate to Facebook’s Business Help Page here:

Step 2. – Select your ad account from the drop down menu:

Step 3. – Select the issue:

Step 4. – Click on Contact Support:

Disabled Facebook Ad Account Request Review Tactic

Make an ad account active

How Do I Recover My Disabled Facebook Ads Account?

What Happens After Appealing Disabled Accounts

Pause yelling “My facebook ad account got disabled!” and take a seat.

Your ad account could either be:

• Reactivated within 24 hours because it was a Facebook glitch

• Reactivated incorrectly because Facebook Ad Support missed the flags you do have

• Or it’s “your ads are violating ad policy” or “this business model isn’t supported” and you stay disabled

What To Do If Your Ad Account Appeal Gets Rejected

Realistically you have about a 50/50 chance appealing any ad account that’s disabled. Here are some factors that play into why your disabled ad account will be reactivated or permanently disabled:

♦ How many previous rejected ads you’ve had

♦ What your ad account’s hidden score is (a ratio of rejected vs approved ads)

♦ If you conveyed your situation correctly to Facebook ad support who are gatekeepers not DMs

♦ If you determined first exactly which ad policy you’re flagged for (this helps FB ad support reps make a case for you)

♦ Did you clean your funnel (landing pages etc) of the ad policy violations before contacting Facebook? Do this first if your ad account disabled for policy violation.

♦ Your business model – certain business models are under more scrutiny than others (how to make money online, special ad categories etc).

✅ In a new ad account in the same Business Manager if you had a minor flag cause the ad account to get disabled, or

✅ A new Business Manager and new ad account in the new Business Manager (don’t use your personal ad account attached to your profile – create new ones in Business Manager) or

Conclusion

Disabled Facebook Ad Account Solution

If you’re ok with waiting a bit longer, and entering the waitlist to see if you’re eligible – Schedule a call or contact me via email.

Free eBook: Top 5 Reasons Agencies Fail at Facebook

Ad Account Restricted Facebook FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions

1. How to fix ad account disabled on facebook

2. How to enable my disabled facebook ad account

If you have a spare ad account in your Facebook Business Manager that you can run ads from, feel free to. BUT, identify the micro and major flags FIRST, so as not to repeat the same mistake.

Ready to Finally Make the Money You Need in the Hours That Work for You & Your Family? Don’t miss out,Learn More here.

3. How to appeal a disabled facebook ad account

You can also get some top tips on facebook ad policy in this complimentary eBook: Top 5 Reasons Agencies Fail at Facebook

4. how to get disabled ad account up and running

5. How Many Policy Violations Before Account is Shut Down?

And, if this still all seems too confusing, your clients are yelling at you to get ads live to bring in money, simply schedule a complimentary Facebook discovery call here

6. How to remove restriction on facebook ad account

7. how long does facebook take to review restricted ad account

8. how to fix your access can’t be reinstated because too much time has passed since we restricted your account

In a situation like this, your recovery options depend on what is banned:

a) Facebook Ad Account
b) Facebook Business Page
c) Facebook Business Manager
d) Facebook profile

9. How To Get Your Disabled Facebook Ad Account Back

10. How to unblock your Facebook ad account

How do I get my Facebook ad account unrestricted guide

About advertising restrictions

It’s important to remember Meta is a big company, and has a lot of focus on increasing engagement, in millennials to baby boomers to Gen-Z – even if it looks like TikTok is dominating the former. That is if TikTok doesn’t get banned in America (and perhaps it should if you look at the personal data even more than FB TikTok steals and the social engineering of dumbing down the youth).

Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook has a plan to win over Gen Z. Don’t laugh.

I mention this because a lot of businesses and advertisers think Facebook targets bans to them personally when getting a facebook ad account restricted. To be honest, Facebook is spread so thin across so many different things, from AI, to the Metaverse that Facebook ad support really isn’t a priority. Meaning, both you won’t get personally targeted for shut downs, and you also won’t get special treatment or empathy for all the money an unneeded ban causes your business.

If you’re like my client Jack Randall, President of Social Flight, you’re tired of beating your head against the wall trying to guess why Facebook has shut you down, and want answers faster.

“Trevor helped me successfully diagnose exactly why my ad account was disabled, and helped me frame out a plan to move forward.” 👍🏻

Click here, to schedule a discovery call.

Why does Facebook say my advertising access is restricted?

Facebook ad account restricted – what does it mean?

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Advertising restrictions for policy violations

That picture above, taken from an old CNN news broadcast shows the tech vending machines we had access to at Facebook. They were pretty neat, you could get almost any Macbook accessory you wanted. I loved being able to upgrade my machines when working at Meta.

Speaking of machines, at its core, Facebook is a machine, scanning billions of ads every day. While many ad agencies disregard Facebook ad policy when determining their holiday ads, that one slip up can cost millions of dollars, beyond a single facebook ad account restricted.

If your Facebook account is restricted from advertising, it may hurt your ability to earn money in the future, so you’ll want to make sure your overall track record is in the black not the red. That means more approved ads than rejected. If your facebook account’s restricted it was done by bots.

Given how automated Facebook’s policy bots are, to be successful not getting thrown in FB jail, you’ll want to understand how and why these policy automations flag to avoid being on their radar. There’s some nuance to this you’ll want to know to side step getting a facebook ad account restricted.

Advertising restrictions for unusual activity

How Serious is a Rejected Facebook Ad?

Soooooo….Your Facebook ad gets rejected, you appeal or try to run it again, then your ad account gets disabled. You try to appeal this (probably incorrectly) and then that appeal gets rejected and your Business Manager gets disabled.

It all starts with the Facebook ad and whether it follows ad policies or paints you as a bad actor to Facebook trying to circumvent systems if you try to run the same ad already rejected, multiple times leading to a Facebook ad account restricted from advertising.

If you’ve read How to Unrestrict My Ad Account you get how vital your appeal strategy is and has to be when it comes to appealing a facebook ad account restricted. The problem with getting hit with a Circumventing Systems flag is that Facebook’s bots are not specific about WHAT you are circumventing, and HOW to fix this. I have a short little guide to add a bit of help here.

Circumventing Systems Guide 2.0

What does a restricted Facebook ad account mean?

How do I unrestrict my Facebook ads? Facebook ad account restricted tips

Clean clean clean your funnel up! This message is not sponsored by Mr Clean but, that’s the attitude you want: get my funnel squeaky clean from any big flags, small flags and if you are really careful, even content that is on-the-line (which is content that may not be caught when first scanned but later shuts you down).

This is a good practice for preventing a facebook ad account restricted.

And you don’t want a facebook account restricted because the ad account creation limit for new Facebook Business Managers is only 1 or 2 ad accounts most of the time. This means being aware of what may get banned and avoiding it is a full time job you can’t slack on if you want to avoid getting a facebook ad account restricted

It pays to be informed of what Facebook is doing as it effects industries at large, like Facebook’s recent ad policies on selling CBD on Facebook. You need to stay current to avoid Facebook accounts restricted from advertising.

Why is my Facebook ad account restricted?

Facebook ad account restricted: Ad rejections

Your ad account was banned for too many rejected ads

Facebook ad account restricted: disabled accounts

What Disabled Facebook Ad Account Means

Facebook ad account restricted: Trust the right answers

Facebook ad account restricted: Business Manager

What is a Disabled Facebook Business Manager?

Ad Accounts
Facebook Business Pages
People connected to this BM

Facebook ad account restricted: Causes

Facebook ad account restricted: Pages

What Does it Mean When Your Facebook Page is Restricted?

Facebook ad account restricted: Reasons

Why is my Facebook advertising account restricted?

How to appeal advertising restrictions

Facebook ad account restricted: Fixes

How do I fix my restricted Facebook account?

What you’re doing here is saying to the automations that shut you down: “Hey bot, I know you are machine, but can you decipher human empathy and context? Even better can you send this Appeal to ANOTHER robot? And put my fate in the next bot’s hands?”

Really the best chance you have is to appeal within 48 hours of getting shut down AFTER identifying the EXACT source of the Facebook automation flag.

Anything less than that, and your chances diminish by A LOT. Now, if you’ve found me within that time period, I can possibly help you, depending on your type of business and other factors. Click here to schedule your call and avoid a further shut down and avoid a permanent restriction.

There are other options to get Facebook ads live again as well if you have a product or service to sell and your main goal is getting your marketing active rather than just recovering for the sake of recovering an account hit with a flag for a Facebook ad account restricted.

Learn more

Facebook Ad Account Restriction Solution

If you’re ok with waiting a bit longer, and entering the waitlist to see if you’re eligible – Schedule a call or contact me via email.

Free eBook: Top 5 Reasons Agencies Fail at Facebook

Ad Account Restricted Facebook FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions

1. How to fix ad account disabled on facebook

2. How to enable my disabled facebook ad account

If you have a spare ad account in your Facebook Business Manager that you can run ads from, feel free to. BUT, identify the micro and major flags FIRST, so as not to repeat the same mistake.

Ready to Finally Make the Money You Need in the Hours That Work for You & Your Family? Don’t miss out,Learn More here.

3. How to appeal a disabled facebook ad account

You can also get some top tips on facebook ad policy in this complimentary eBook: Top 5 Reasons Agencies Fail at Facebook

4. how to get disabled ad account up and running

5. How Many Policy Violations Before Account is Shut Down?

And, if this still all seems too confusing, your clients are yelling at you to get ads live to bring in money, simply schedule a complimentary Facebook discovery call here

6. How to remove restriction on facebook ad account

7. how long does facebook take to review restricted ad account

8. how to fix your access can’t be reinstated because too much time has passed since we restricted your account

In a situation like this, your recovery options depend on what is banned:

a) Facebook Ad Account
b) Facebook Business Page
c) Facebook Business Manager
d) Facebook profile

9. How To Get Your Disabled Facebook Ad Account Back

10. How to unblock your Facebook ad account

How do I unrestrict my Facebook ad account answers

Dealing with the Facebook ban hammer giving you a facebook ad account restricted? Coming from working at Facebook in ads, I’ll share some top tips on how to recover from this situation and avoid getting a facebook ad account restricted.

The biggest challenge running Facebook ads isn’t always getting conversions but navigating the landmines around Facebook ad policy automations. Often you’ll get flagged and try to log into Facebook Business Manager, and look for the reason why, but either not see a notification about the flag or not have an explanation for why you got flagged with a facebook ad account restricted. That’s because of the complicated interlinking of policy bots, where the left hand doesn’t always know what the right hand is doing.

About advertising restrictions

Fun Fact: Many ads that are not compliant will run for a much longer period of time than expected, because Facebook’s automations don’t always catch the flags that lead to a facebook ad account restricted.

Your advertising access is restricted – what does it mean? Facebook account restricted what to do
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A major drawback of getting a facebook ad account restricted is that no one online or at Facebook seems to know what to do to fix it. Facebook ad support doesn’t seem to know what you’re saying and offers no answers, you begin googling and find this blog about fixing a facebook ad account restricted. Welcome to the most trusted source for Facebook ad policy tips – I worked in ads at Facebook and want to help you not get the FB ban hammer.

Ready to stop guessing and stop losing money and time? Click here for a complimentary discovery call.

I’ve worked directly with the engineers at Meta, that created and manage the automations that do the banning (and no, I didn’t ban you) but I can offer better answers on this topic than many blogs you’ll find after googling facebook ad account restricted.

A huge misconception with running ads on Facebook when it comes to Facebook jail, is to assume that just because you know marketing you know Facebook bans. But those are 2 different topics. One is advertising to get ROI with a good unique selling mechanism like Todd Brown discusses, the other is understanding how automations seek and flag content in facebook ads that result in getting a facebook ad account restricted.

If you’re like my client Jack Randall, President of Social Flight, you’re tired of beating your head against the wall trying to guess why Facebook has shut you down, and want answers faster.

“Trevor helped me successfully diagnose exactly why my ad account was disabled, and helped me frame out a plan to move forward.” 👍🏻

Click here, to schedule a discovery call.

Why does Facebook say my advertising access is restricted?

The million-dollar question: why is Facebook punishing me for paying them money to run ads? Well, there are tons of reasons you got a Facebook ad account restricted. Sometimes you just have too many rejected ads, other times you triggered a ban because of the type of flag you got was a big one (anything connected to Forex, gambling, some health issues). It can be one thing that gets you a facebook ad account restricted and after it’s removed you’re good.

Other times it could be a log in issue, a bank issue, or a business model conflict if the automations flag your ads as belonging to a banned business model (like MLMs). Make sure to read my latest blog on removing ad account restrictions here.

Facebook ad account restricted – what does it mean?

When your Facebook account’s restricted from advertising you’re already on the radar and all of your assets are under the microscope.

It’s likely that your ad account history is being reviewed, the people who are on your Facebook Business Manager are being checked out – do they have ad bans elsewhere? If their other facebook account’s restricted it could effect you too. When getting a Facebook ad account restricted, you have to look at the health of each of your ad assets.

And of course it means you are now on trial with the judges at Facebook who are robots for the most part, when reviewing a facebook ad account restricted.

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Facebook ad account restricted: Marketplace

If you have been keeping updated on the latest from Facebook, you’ll see the updates on Facebook Marketplace. Now, the ad policies for marketplace are not the same as for Facebook when it comes to getting a facebook ad account restricted. But it’s worth mentioning for something I’ll get into more detail about below.

Mark Zuckerberg is quietly sitting on a shopping empire with 4 times the customers of Amazon, as Facebook Marketplace skyrockets

Ethan Gaskill, a 29-year-old content creator, begins everyday the same way: “When I wake up in the morning—most people get on their phone and start checking Instagram—I check Facebook Marketplace.”

With his Los Angeles home furnished almost exclusively with second-hand items and a TikTok with over 220,000 followers interested in his thrifty hauls, Gaskill trusts the shopping platform to be a reliable source for hidden gems: a thousand-dollar Herman Miller light and pendant he nabbed for $400; a $5,000 bed from the same designer he bought for 20% of the original price; and, a Founders mid-century dresser worth $4,000 that Gaskill got for $800.

Facebook Marketplace has not only become a trusted source for LA’s second-hand scene. It’s made itself a real contender to go toe-to-toe with well-established e-commerce sites. Facebook has grown to 3.07 billion monthly active users (MAUs) as of the end of 2023, a 3% year-over-year increase. Of those, up to 40%, or 1.2 billion, are active users shopping on Marketplace, according to a March report from Capital One Shopping. How does this relate to getting a facebook ad account restricted?

I bring this up because you should know the focus right now for Meta is not on making sure you, the honest business owner or marketing agency is being taken care of when it comes to avoiding unnecessarily dishing out a facebook ban or Facebook ad account restricted.

When you prepare before blindly appealing Facebook accounts restricted from advertising, then you have a much better chance of recovery.

Advertising restrictions for policy violations

At its core, Facebook is a machine, scanning billions of ads every day. While many ad agencies disregard Facebook ad policy when determining their holiday ads, that one slip up can cost millions of dollars, beyond a single facebook ad account restricted.

If your Facebook account is restricted from advertising, it may hurt your ability to earn money in the future, so you’ll want to make sure your overall track record is in the black not the red. That means more approved ads than rejected. If your facebook account’s restricted it was done by bots.

Given how automated Facebook’s policy bots are, to be successful not getting thrown in FB jail, you’ll want to understand how and why these policy automations flag to avoid being on their radar. There’s some nuance to this you’ll want to know to side step getting a facebook ad account restricted.

Advertising restrictions for unusual activity

With a Facebook account restricted from advertising you may get the flag for unusual activity. Now, this can be frustratingly vague. Which activity was unusual? Why? How does this relate to getting a facebook ad account restricted?

What I’ve seen working at Facebook is that this flag typically is triggered by:

○ A log in on a new device, not usually signed in to your Facebook account
○ Logging into Facebook business tools while traveling – especially in Cuba
○ Your bank is rejecting Facebook pre-auth charges or ad charges but not telling you

This is hard to recover from because Facebook essentially blacklists your devices, and each case is unique.

How Serious is a Rejected Facebook Ad?

Facebook ads are what conservatives call Marijuana: a gateway drug. At least when it comes to bans – usually all bans are triggered at some point from a Facebook ad that led to a facebook account restricted.

Your Facebook ad gets rejected, you appeal or try to run it again, then your ad account gets disabled. You try to appeal this (probably incorrectly if you haven’t read my blog before) and then that appeal gets rejected and your Business Manager gets disabled.

It all starts with the Facebook ad and whether it follows ad policies or paints you as a bad actor to Facebook trying to circumvent systems in addition to being *awarded* a Facebook ad account restricted from advertising.

If you’ve read How to Unrestrict My Ad Account you get how vital your appeal strategy is and has to be when it comes to appealing a facebook ad account restricted.

What does a restricted Facebook ad account mean?

Generally speaking when your ad account is restricted, you cannot run Facebook ads at all. It also means that your other assets like your Facebook Business Page and your Facebook Business Manager may be on the chopping blog for a ban next too after getting a facebook ad account restricted.

You could have come into contact with a brand new Facebook automation that is attempting to sync with the existing automations, or sometimes you can get banned for simply acting too quickly. I’ve seen a series of quick thoughtless actions lead to a facebook ad account restricted before.

Facebook typically sends emails to your email account associated with your personal Facebook profile every time you have an ad approved and rejected. You may not see these emails if your gmail has filtered these out to the promotions tab or social tab. Or you may need to check your spam folder.

Other than that, logging into Meta Business Suite or Facebook Business Manager and going to the ad accounts you own on the Ads Manager page, you’ll typically see red letters detailing the warning you have gotten or ban.

How do I unrestrict my Facebook ads? Facebook ad account restricted tips

One of the pain points of ad agencies is that Facebook is always changing their ad policies leading to a facebook ad account restricted. Sometimes new ad policies punish old ads that WERE within policy WHEN THEY WERE PUBLISHED.

Facebook won’t take that into consideration when the bots descend on your ad account. And you don’t want a facebook account restricted. This means being aware of what may get banned and avoiding it is a full time job you can’t slack on if you want to avoid getting a facebook ad account restricted

It pays to be informed of what Facebook is doing as it effects industries at large, like Facebook’s recent NEW ad policies on selling CBD on Facebook. You need to stay current to avoid Facebook accounts restricted from advertising.

Why is my Facebook ad account restricted?

I’ve seen a thousand and one reasons why Facebook ad accounts get rejected. When Facebook accounts are restricted from advertising, what’s seldom talked about is the difference of ad policy enforcement per industry.

Given my history of working with thousands of ad agencies both while I was working AT Facebook and in my own practice, I have stats on which ad policies are triggered the most in specific niches. Like personal attributes flags being higher in weight loss niches, or MLM flags being higher in the start-a-biz online nich.

Understanding how YOUR specific niche interacts with Facebook ad policy automations is KEY to staying out of Facebook jail and avoiding a facebook account restricted.

Facebook ad account restricted: Ad rejections

Your ad account was banned for too many rejected ads

Ever been to the DMV? Facebook has a similar bureaucratic approach to scanning and flagging ads and appealing them when Facebook accounts restricted from advertising. After asking Facebook to unrestrict your ad account many sit and wait indefinitely for an answer.

Now, just like your auto insurance goes up for each new traffic violation, your ad account score on the back end is negatively effected by rejected ads.

This is ok until you cross a threshold of rejected ads. Those negative points start adding up BUT – unlike insurance companies or the DMV who you can call, Facebook is a faceless black hole without help to resolve a facebook account restricted.

If you’ve read my What to Do After Violating Facebook’s Ad Policies [Step-by-Step Guide] you found out the hidden clues in FB warnings – that you may need an expert to decode into everyday language.

Just like my clients, the social media marketing agency for Wu-Tang Clan discovered, there are micro flags in ad copy and landing pages that have to be removed first before attempting to appeal or relaunch a brand with Facebook.

Want the same white glove treatment navigating Facebook shutdowns?

Click here, to schedule a discovery call to avoid getting a disabled Facebook ad account.

Facebook ad account restricted: disabled accounts

What Disabled Facebook Ad Account Means

Facebook ad account restricted: Trust the right answers

Facebook ad account restricted: Business Manager

What is a Disabled Facebook Business Manager?

Ad Accounts
Facebook Business Pages
People connected to this BM

Facebook ad account restricted: Causes

Facebook ad account restricted: Pages

What Does it Mean When Your Facebook Page is Restricted?

We saw ALOT of this going on during 2020 – when the pandemic first hit America with e-comm businesses that had shipping delays in China due to covid-19 shut downs. These e-commerce businesses saw their customers giving them bad reviews that took their Page quality score beneath a 1.

Then, just by automation alone, their FB Business Pages got restricted. And they didn’t even have a facebook account restricted-just the Page got shut down.

This is challenging because if you try to relaunch a new Facebook Business Page with the same brand name you may get blocked by Facebook right away for circumventing systems. You’ll need a better strategy more finely tuned for relaunching.

For top tips on making a landing page compliant read this.

Facebook ad account restricted: Profiles

More About Facebook profile Restricted From Advertising

If your personal Profile on Facebook is restricted from advertising – that is the worst ban you can get. And facing this, the odds will be insurmountable for running ads again. At least without guidance from a FB policy expert.

Your personal Facebook Profile is the key to all the different doors. It is what creates your Facebook Business Page, it’s what creates your Facebook Business Manager, all the ad accounts and more.

Once that’s banned, welp! You’re up shit creek without a paddle. Don’t hold your breath on getting it restored. The chances are around .1% that you’ll ever get a permanently restricted profile restored.

But I do know a way to resolve this in addition to resolving a facebook account restricted. Now, let’s talk a little bit about why your Facebook ad account may have been restricted.

Facebook ad account restricted: Reasons

Why is my Facebook advertising account restricted?

Sexually Explicit Content. This one is a no-brainer: you can’t advertise anything sexual on Facebook. Given that Facebook’s approval is partly automated, health-based services (spas, etc.) can be flagged for body parts even if they’re not sexually suggestive it’ll get you a facebook account restricted.
Prohibited categories. Even though some items may not be illegal per se, Facebook does have restrictions about advertising the following: Drugs or tobacco, supplements, weapons, and financial products (auctions, loans, etc.).
Misinformation. False news on Facebook is a no-go.
Sensational content. No click-bait, sensationalist content either.
Bad grammar or punctuation. This is also a bad advertising practice in general.
Inflammatory content. This is any content that could be categorized as hate speech.
Unacceptable Business Practices. This generic term describes ads that “promote products, services, schemes or offers using deceptive or misleading practices, including those meant to scam people out of money or personal information.” This can be things like fake celebrity-endorsed products, subscription-based services that do not have the appropriate requirements met, or making exaggerated claims about a product.
Low-quality or deceptive content. This includes ads that are cropped so that you need to click to see the full image, or anything sexually suggestive or shocking. It’s important to note that Facebook also looks at your ad destination to make sure the content is relevant to the ad itself.
Personal attributes. This one is a bit tricky, Essentially, you cannot make it known that you know (or assume to know) any specific detail about your audience. This can be things like medical conditions, demographics, or even sexual preference. This can be statements such as “Is your weight problem getting serious?”, or, “You’re a woman over 50.”

That’s just a summarized view of the Facebook ad policies to keep in mind if your Facebook account’s restricted from advertising.

In reality, there are 1000s more that you are policed on by the automations but never told about.

Want access to a funnel audit to ensure you are compliant? Click here for a discovery call.

How to appeal advertising restrictions

Facebook ad account restricted: Fixes

How do I fix my restricted Facebook account?

You want to fix your restricted Facebook ad account right? Doesn’t everyone?! No one wants to see: “You are restricted from running ads.”

If you googled disabled facebook ad account or Facebook ad rejections you’ll find a number of bullshit articles out there – even by major brands – that will just tell you to “Request Review.”

That CAN help if you have already removed ALL the flags from your funnel. But if you have not…Full stop, no pass go, don’t click it.

What you’re doing here is saying to the automations that shut you down: “Hey bud, I know you are machine, but can you decipher human empathy and context? Even better can you send this Appeal to ANOTHER robot? And put my fate in the next bot’s hands?”

Really the best chance you have is to appeal within 48 hours of getting shut down AFTER identifying the EXACT source of the Facebook automation flag.

Anything less than that, and you are thrown to the wolves. Now, if you’ve found me within that time period, I can possibly help you, depending on your type of business and other factors. Click here to schedule your call.

Really the BEST way to handle a shut down, on any level but a profile restriction (which you don’t usually get appeals for), is to audit your funnel for violations, then remove them from your funnel and get on Facebook Ad Support Chat once you know 100% why you were shut down.

There are other options to get Facebook ads live again as well if you have a product or service to sell and your main goal is getting your marketing active rather than just recovering for the sake of recovering an account hit with a flag for a Facebook ad account restricted.

Learn more

Facebook Ad Account Restriction Solution

If you’re ok with waiting a bit longer, and entering the waitlist to see if you’re eligible – Schedule a call or contact me via email.

Free eBook: Top 5 Reasons Agencies Fail at Facebook

Ad Account Restricted Facebook FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions

1. How to fix ad account disabled on facebook

2. How to enable my disabled facebook ad account

If you have a spare ad account in your Facebook Business Manager that you can run ads from, feel free to. BUT, identify the micro and major flags FIRST, so as not to repeat the same mistake.

Ready to Finally Make the Money You Need in the Hours That Work for You & Your Family? Don’t miss out,Learn More here.

3. How to appeal a disabled facebook ad account

You can also get some top tips on facebook ad policy in this complimentary eBook: Top 5 Reasons Agencies Fail at Facebook

4. how to get disabled ad account up and running

5. How Many Policy Violations Before Account is Shut Down?

And, if this still all seems too confusing, your clients are yelling at you to get ads live to bring in money, simply schedule a complimentary Facebook discovery call here

6. How to remove restriction on facebook ad account

7. how long does facebook take to review restricted ad account

8. how to fix your access can’t be reinstated because too much time has passed since we restricted your account

In a situation like this, your recovery options depend on what is banned:

a) Facebook Ad Account
b) Facebook Business Page
c) Facebook Business Manager
d) Facebook profile

9. How To Get Your Disabled Facebook Ad Account Back

10. How to unblock your Facebook ad account

Advertising access permanently restricted this is our final decision fix

Do you spend $100,000 or more a year on Facebook ads but suddenly see the message: advertising access permanently restricted this is our final decision?

Facebook doesn’t offer a path to getting your ads live so you’ve googled that phrase and landed on my blog – well you’re in luck because I’ve worked at Facebook and will offer some tips on how to solve this issue.

Advertising access permanently restricted this is our final decision

Everything seems to be great at first. You’re running Facebook ads, have at least double ROI and your clients are happy until out of the blue you see: Your advertising access permanently restricted this is our final decision. You can no longer advertise with this business account, and its advertising assets will remain disabled. This is our final decision.

Keep reading to find out how to get Facebook ads live again even if you sent your ID and Facebook said you were permanently restricted.

Why trust me over all the other blogs online? I’ve worked at Facebook in ads, and tech, and with the engineers at Meta.

Even the engineers at Facebook have reached out and asked me for help not getting banned with their ads on Facebook – so clearly Meta’s automations for Facebook policy don’t always work as intended as I go into detail about in the video below:

I get contacted by everyone across the globe for help with Facebook jail. Elon Musk engineers have also reached out to me for help. Want the same VIP treatment? Book your complimentary discovery call here.

So why does Meta act this way, when it’s clear bans cost Meta money too, because it stops you from paying Facebook for ads? Well, it’s a staffing issue on one hand. Mark Zuckerberg had hired too many people in 2020, not expecting the world to open up as quickly after the pandemic hit America. As a result, in 2022, he fired 11,000 people – machines more than ever decide if you have a restricted ad account or have an active ad account.

When one word can get you banned, you can’t afford to guess, as I mentioned in a recent blog.

Just like my client, Amazon Reality Show star Juanita Ingram of The Expats International Ingrams you’ll discover there are micro flags in ad copy and landing pages that have to be removed first before attempting to appeal or relaunch a brand with Facebook.

Want the same white glove treatment navigating Facebook shutdowns?

Click here, to schedule a discovery call to avoid getting a disabled Facebook ad account.

Facebook ad account permanently restricted
Advertising access permanently restricted

People all over the world are talking about being permanently restricted on Facebook whether that’s on Reddit or Quora or many other sites.

Facebook will often give advertisers boiler plate warnings without anything specific stated for how you got flagged, why, or what to do about it. Sound familiar?

You are not the only one seeing, “Advertising access permanently restricted this is our final decision,” unfortunately it happens often due to machine logic for flagging.

On top of that, Facebook has been having outages as well – where Facebook.com won’t load for half the globe. These are the type of tech issues I handled when I worked at Facebook in the Stability Support department.

One of the drawbacks of the co-dependence on AI is if you’re running Facebook ads, you are judged quick and without mercy – but you’re in luck because I helped the engineers who wrote these automations. I know when you’re on the outside, it feels like an episode of Unsolved Mysteries.

Free eBook: Top 5 Reasons Agencies Fail at Facebook

One thing many forget is that Facebook is a private website – so Zuck can literally do anything he wants. Where it gets confusing is with 2.085 billion daily active users it feels like Facebook is a school or governmental entity that owes its users something, but in reality, it is one dude’s website. So, you gotta learn how the policies work to run ads.

But Facebook or Meta now doesn’t clearly explain how and why Facebook bots flag you – and this I’ll help you understand so their evil AIs don’t shut down your funnel again.

Permanent Restriction no more: A Step-by-Step Guide to Solving Facebook Advertising Access Issues

On Facebook or Meta’s side, the problem is a business model issue, where thousands of outsourced workers are used to do Facebook ad support, even if none of them have ever run ads in their life.

If you understand the WAY the bots flag it can give you first mover advantage over competitors who still get banned.

The very best solution is always a preventative one. Because if you get restricted, even appealing won’t always solve this issue.

Cleaning out your funnel (your Facebook Page, ads, website etc) and removing the flags will take the sting out of bans and reduce risk of losing money from disabled ad accounts.
Just like my client Darryl CEO of King Memory found out, and shared on LinkedIn there are specific ways to work with Facebook policies without losing conversions or getting stuck in Facebook jail:

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Facebook ad account restricted – what does it mean?

Facebook account takeovers are targeting people you know, turning friendship into fraud

With hacking on the rise, imposter accounts are popping up left and right. As a result, Facebook’s ban bots are cracking down even harder. While you always had to follow facebook ad policies, now, Facebook is even stricter due to these bad actors. Read my full guide on what to do if you have been hacked or want to prevent it here.

Why is my Facebook advertising account restricted?

If you’re seeing advertising access permanently restricted this is our final decision, that means there is something specific you did to trigger this.

Identifying the content, words, or actions that got you on the radar is the first step towards getting out of Facebook jail.

Facebook doesn’t approve your advertisements due to violating Facebook’s advertising policies

Facebook doesn’t personally care about you so it isn’t personal – with billions of ads to scan for policy on a daily basis, they are just trying to do the bare minimum to keep Facebook.com online.

Advertising access permanently restricted Explained

A lot of times you can prevent yourself from seeing that message we all love to hate, that your Advertising access permanently restricted this is our final decision

This message is the death of your ad account – I’ve rarely seen this fixed unless you’re working with me at the time it happened and we can appeal within 48 hours.

How do I fix my restricted Facebook account?

One of the best ways is to stop immediately appealing bans.

If you leap before you look, there’s a good chance you’ll end up between a rock and a hard place when it comes to Facebook ad policies.

Ideally you’re keeping tabs on the latest Facebook ad policies, and new changes to them, as well as how your funnel stacks up to new restrictions Facebook creates (like right now you cannot advertise anywhere near Russia without getting shut down because of the ban on ads in that area due to the Russia-Ukraine war).

Have a lander that got you in trouble? Read my guide on landing pageshere

There are a few ways to contact Facebook Support online if Advertising access permanently restricted

If you are a seasoned Facebook ads vet you know what a dumpster fire Facebook ad support is this year.

We used to have great service until it was outsourced. American jobs were lost and globally, support dropped for ad agencies seeing ban hammer warnings like Advertising access permanently restricted.

While I can give you the link to Facebook ad support – it’s here and correct when I published this blog, Facebook ad support will rarely have good advice.

Definitive Guide: Why Is My Advertising Access Restricted on Facebook?

It all starts wit Facebook’s business model – outsource for cheap labor who are not trained and don’t know anything – so, you are asking someone who has never had skin in the game to help you with a warning they are not trained on.

If you’ve read How to Unrestrict My Ad Account you get how vital your appeal strategy is and has to be, and not left up to guesses from sweat shops.

Facebook Restrictions: Advertising access permanently restricted

Want to know a big miss I see ad agencies make for how they THINK about Facebook jail and ad bans?

Forgetting that Facebook has a global audience and is literally ONE website dealing with billions PER DAY accessing Facebook.com – and this leads to bandwidth issues for Facebook.

Want to avoid a Advertising access permanently restricted ban?

Keep in mind that the actions you take on Facebook have a ripple effect, and the help you get from Facebook depends on your ad account history, your region, the back log Facebook currently has, and internal technical glitches that may be wide spread.

I helped fix these when I was in tech at FB.

The problem is that if you immediately appeal an ad or ad account or disabled Business Manager without understanding the ad policies YOU MISS things you may be able to do RIGHT NOW to put you in a better light with Facebook.

I remember waking up at 3am getting calls that Facebook servers were down and having to work with engineering [ENG] to get Facebook back online. When you don’t incorporate bandwidth into your advertising compliance strategy you put yourself at a higher risk because simply said:

Why Is My Facebook Advertising Account Restricted?

I’ve seen a thousand and one reasons why Facebook ad accounts get rejected. When Facebook accounts are restricted from advertising, what’s seldom talked about is the difference of ad policy enforcement per industry.

Given my history of working with thousands of ad agencies both while I was working AT Facebook and in my own practice, I have stats on which ad policies are triggered the most in specific niches. Like personal attributes flags being higher in weight loss niches.

Understanding how YOUR specific niche interacts with Facebook ad policy automations is KEY to staying out of Facebook jail and avoiding an Advertising access permanently restricted ban.

Advertising access permanently restricted: Myth Busting

Ok, I see A LOT of bullshit online by people guessing and making shit up about Facebook and Facebook ad policies, so I have to call them out if they are not providing solutions forAdvertising access permanently restricted.

This blog blatantly ripped me off, stealing my content and trying to mimic how I structure my blogs. Which ok, cool if you have to and you think I’m that legendary BUT the info ABOUT Facebook is wrong:

First of all, the best action is NOT to whine to Facebook about your problems. How has whining to Facebook worked so far?

• No answers
• Inaccurate info
• Advice that gets you banned worse

“They will help you reactivate your account,”

WOW. Total bullshit. Most of the time Facebook ad support is just throwing shots in the dark – again never having run an ad that made them money.

“Facebook has made it easier to review your account with the Account Quality page,”

FALSE

The Account Quality page in Business Manager is connected to the same or similar algorithm that governs Page Insights – which have ALWAYS been buggy and inaccurate. I’ve had ads perform at 2 cents per CPA and account quality said the ad was under performing.

So basically this entire section “Solutions to Restricted Facebook Account” offered…ZERO solutions. And it’s ignorant. And it copies my blog but provides bad info. Not a good look guys!

Definitely won’t help you solve Advertising access permanently restricted.

If you’ve read my What to Do After Violating Facebook’s Ad Policies [Step-by-Step Guide] you found out there ARE hidden clues in FB warnings – BUT you may need an expert to decode into everyday language.

If you’re like my client Jack Randall, President of Social Flight, you’re tired of beating your head against the wall trying to guess why Facebook has shut you down, and want answers faster.

“Trevor helped me successfully diagnose exactly why my ad account was disabled, and helped me frame out a plan to move forward.” 👍🏻

Click here, to schedule a discovery call.

What if you had a guarantee that your ads were compliant before they went live on Facebook?

Keep reading for these answers and more:

Advertising access permanently restricted Facebook Solution

I’ve worked at Facebook in ads, tech and project management, and my zone of genius is helping ad agencies get Facebook ads live again and preventing future shut downs.

Are you going to trust random articles online or someone like me, who has worked at Meta?

I’m trusted by high level brands that take accuracy and results seriously:

I can show you how to resolve FB bans even if Facebook won’t, and solve issues like advertising access permanently restricted.

Schedule a call with me and learn how to stop the domino effect when Facebook starts banning your entire funnel after a simple ad rejection.

Don’t take my word for it, let my clients tell you what it was like working with me.

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New Help With Avoiding A Facebook Ad Account Restriction

Want to give your ad account a fighting chance at avoiding a Facebook Ad Account Restriction? Today, we’ll cover ad account restrictions, the biggest dangers and some good strategies to keep your ad account safe.

Why Swelter Through Another Chat with Facebook?

The first thing most people do when you get a Facebook Ad Account Restriction, is panic, Google the problem or immediately try to run new ads – many times identical to the ones that got them rejected. Or chat into Facebook ad support – only to get wrong answers that further the ad account restrictions.

The most important thing to do when in Facebook jail, is assess where in your funnel Facebook has honed in on and flagged you with a Facebook Ad Account Restriction. The irony is when you go online to Meta’s website, facebook ad policies are listed in the “Transparency Center” – except they are clear as mud.

Another challenge is that each section of Facebook’s ad policies are often truncated, incomplete, and never tell you any risk assessment for the parts of your funnel and ad policy violations. I’ll help clear some of this up in this article today.

Facebook refused to take down fake account, says TikTok star

Something to watch out for is also the imposter accounts which are rising exponentially high now, as bad actors have found a career in trying to fake legit accounts, and prey upon your audience, per a recent article in The Guardian.

Facebook Ad Account Restriction: Rejected Ads

For getting ad accounts restricted due to an overwhelming amount of rejected Facebook ads I have the solution: Balance the amount of rejected ads with approved ads of any type.

What you’re looking for is an overall ratio of more approved than rejected, as this helps the machine learning view your ad assets more favorably, which can help prevent getting a Facebook Ad Account Restriction.

You are no doubt reading this blog after Googling ” I need help getting my account unrestricted” or something similar. So, why trust me over all the other blogs online? I’ve worked at Facebook in ads, and tech, and with the engineers at Meta. When one word can get you banned, you can’t afford to guess when it comes to getting a Facebook Ad Account Restriction.

Just like my client, Amazon Reality Show star Juanita Ingram of The Expats International Ingrams you’ll discover there are micro flags in ad copy and landing pages that have to be removed first before attempting to appeal or relaunch a brand with Facebook.

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Facebook Ad Account Restriction: New Approach Gives You A 2nd Chance

A huuuuuuuge problem businesses and ad agencies running ads on Meta’s platforms face is that there’s a lot of old advice out there steering people wrong.

The old school “how to start a biz” programs advise you to create a hundred ads up front, and not pay attention to policies. Kind of a spray and pray approach, that if you submit a shit ton of ads at once and hope some slip through BUT this is WRONG and won’t avoid a Facebook Ad Account Restriction.

Maybe back in 2016 you could do that. But this year, the game has changed.

A new approach that will prevent you from losing sleep and losing a lot of money is a preventative one: ensure your funnel is free of Facebook flags before running ads. Or at the least, after getting policy flags, make sure you have removed them from your main website before running new ads.

The average advertiser will not be able to read between the lines here and grok how Facebook’s philosophy applies to your funnel and your ads. I’ll help explain. For my essential guide to Facebook ad policies click here.

“We want to help ensure that the ads don’t detract from the overall experience across our technologies.”

Facebook says this but if you’ve noticed every time you log into the Meta Business Suite or Facebook Business Manager, Facebook harasses your eyes with a ton of bullshit pop ups every single time you open Ads Manager or your BM. So, yeah, the hypocrisy keeps happening. Let’s cover another common flag: Unusual Activity restrictions.

Facebook Ad Account Restriction: Advertising restrictions for unusual activity

The “Unusual Activity” flag is confusing for many people because Facebook won’t give you context. But, TLDR – it’s usually a location or device IP address mixup. You’re traveling and log into Facebook business tools – Facebook will think you have been hacked.

So, word of advice: never log in to Facebook business tools while traveling. You know when I’m about to travel I call my bank and let them know so I’m not left holding the bag at the register with a rejected card transaction. Maybe someday Facebook will allow you to advise them of your travel plans to avoid this flag? Let’s hope so.

For ad agencies spending $100K a year and up on Facebook ads:

We all know the Facebook ban bots are vicious but there IS a way to work with them and never get shut down. I know, because I’ve helped countless 7 and 8 figure ad agencies recover from Facebook bans or avoid them all together. But to do so, you have to get familiar with how Facebook automations decide to flag Facebook ads. Also, if you want a faster route to getting ads live, click here.

Facebook Ad Account Restriction: Discover New AI Policies

Facebook wants to use your posts to train AI. Here’s how to object.

PCWorld just provided some helpful info on the upcoming onslaught of forced AI tools and bots onto us.

On June 26, 2024 Facebook will change its privacy policy with regard to generative AI features such as Meta AI. From that point on, posts and photos from all users will be read by the AI to help train them and improve services such as the AI Creative Tool. Meta is currently providing information about this on Facebook.

Private messages will not be affected, only public texts and images. Nevertheless, many users may be skeptical about this new regulation due to data protection concerns or for personal reasons.

In order to prevent your data from being used by Meta, you must expressly object. This can be done using a specific form that can be found on this Facebook help page. Select the middle option:

Alright, back to avoiding a Facebook ad account restriction – I just wanted you to have this information because AI is like the hot new shit but people are not looking ahead to see how the current trajectory of artificial intelligence generative AIs will compromise privacy.

One of the mistakes advertisers make when it comes to advertising on Facebook, is to assume Facebook actually cares personally, about your ads or business, and will act or behave logically.

This is a false equivalent because of the degree all flagging and review of ad account restrictions are done by Facebook’s bots. If you don’t speak bot language, and the type of lexicon Facebook’s automations use in particular, you are essentially using a strategy of luck and guesses to ensure your money-maker – the ad account – is safe from Facebook bans.

Don’t risk your revenue with guesses. If you want an escape plan from Facebook Jail, I’m like Michael Scofield with the blueprints for a way out.

Just like my client Darryl CEO of King Memory found out, and shared on LinkedIn there are specific ways to work with Facebook policies without losing conversions or getting stuck in Facebook jail:

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Facebook Ad Account Restriction: Your advertising access is restricted – what does it mean?

Here’s a missed concept by 100% of the businesses facing ad account restrictions: Learn how Facebook perceives ads this will help you reframe your ad copy and creative to be more compliant.

No, that doesn’t mean you can’t kick pain points or be negative sometimes to inspire FOMO, or the need for a solution to a problem, but it does mean considering Facebook ad policies first and then conversion elements for high converting Facebook ads.

For example, if your ads are making Facebook users feel bad and they leave Facebook for TikTok, Facebook loses more money than you do from a disabled ad account. Are your Facebook ads blocked? Schedule your discovery call today right here.

TLDR: If your Facebook ads are perceived as too sexual, too spammy, too clickbait-y, too misleading, too negative and Facebook users decide to get off Facebook, that’s a truckload of money you just took from Facebook.

Facebook will 😡 your ad now and remove it because you just lost them thousands of dollars because every single ad that Facebook user saw was paying Facebook money.

Now, let’s check out another Facebook ad policy violation that can put you in Facebook jail.

Facebook Ad Account Restriction: Why does Facebook say my advertising access is restricted?

The lack of transparency is what makes this frustrating, so I’ll help clarify a few details. With the big tech lay offs, Facebook is relying on automations now more than ever. So you’ll need to get familiar with what type of content Meta flags. Typically if your ads sound like they are unrealistic, and over promising results, you’ll get on the radar, or get flagged.

Facebook Ad Account Restriction: How do I unrestrict my Facebook ads?

Prevention is a lot easier than recovery. I won’t bullshit you with clickbait titles without substance – there’s enough of that online already when you google Facebook ad account restriction. So, I’ll just give it to you straight. You have 48 hours to appeal a disabled ad account by clicking “request review” HOWEVER you don’t want to just hit that button LIKE MOST PEOPLE DO because it is a precious chance to present your case to Meta to reinstate your account.

Instead you’ll want to narrow down the biggest flag in your funnel first, remove it, then appeal. I go into the risks of clicking request review in this video below:

It’s a lot easier to appeal a restriction if you know why you were restricted. Facebook not answering this question? Get your call with me today right here, I can help.

Facebook Ad Account Restriction: How to appeal advertising restrictions

When you ARE appealing, you’ll want to first audit your funnel, remove the highest risk flags, and then request a manual appeal but only if you understand just how to talk to Facebook ad support.

Whatever you do, don’t do this: mash buttons resubmitting a copy of the same rejected ad to Facebook. Or impulsively click “request review” without auditing your funnel for policy violations first. And I can help with that. Want a free discovery call to see if I can help get your Facebook ads live again? Schedule your call here.

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Clickbait flags are connected (but aren’t the same thing) as Unrealistic Claims. Circumventing Systems are connected to Unrealistic Claims (but aren’t the same) in both being header flags sometimes for unrelated ad policy violations.

MLM flags usually have to do with, although not exclusively, money. Talking about how much money you can make people online is a dangerous topic to approach given these MLM flags.

Do you want to spend 200 hours researching all the ways your ads could get flagged or would you rather just have instant answers within 60 minutes for exactly why your Facebook ads are getting flagged?

I’ve worked with celebrities, influencers, written for and consulted major social media publications and can help prevent you from getting the ban hammer.

It’s kinda ironic (thank you Alanis) but engineers at Facebook have reached out and asked me for help not getting banned with their ads from the very automations they created!!! To quote Clay Davis from The Wire….

Sheeeeeeeit

Elon Musk engineers have also reached out to me for help. Want the same VIP treatment? Keep reading for more info:

Facebook Ad Account Restriction: Solution

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Facebook Ad Account Restriction Resolution

When you get a Facebook Ad Account Restriction, the money stops, the clients scream, and Facebook stays quiet. What can you do? No worries! I’ve worked at Facebook and will help with steps towards resolving a Facebook Ad Account Restriction within this article:

Your future is in danger unless you read this important notice

When you get a Facebook Ad Account Restriction, it’s important to not make it worse. Your future advertising on Facebook is in danger if you don’t know why you were banned, or what part of your funnel triggered Facebook’s bots to give you a Facebook Ad Account Restriction.

The challenge is reading between the lines when you get a Facebook ad policy violation because the reasons often seem obscure. Which ad policy did you violate? Below I’ll explain the most common ad policy violations.

Facebook Ad Account Restriction: Facebook Jail

A ton of your Facebook ads have just been rejected! What do you do? Sweating, worried, you look at your account quality score but see more mean red little letters telling you that you’re in Facebook jail with a Facebook Ad Account Restriction:

What does this even mean? Maybe it has some answers?! Except this metric won’t actually tell you which ad policy violations weigh more heavily than others when getting a Facebook Ad Account Restriction.

Was there just one ad policy violation that was the straw that broke the camel’s back? Or was it a sum total of all of them adding up?

It was a landing page issue, no wait perhaps it was controversial content (what the fuck is that?), or wait..those damn social issue flags! A Facebook Ad Account Restriction can stop your whole funnel.

Want to make sure your landing page doesn’t get flagged by Facebook? Click here.

I’ve spent years working at Facebook (even before the special ad category was invented) and today I’ll be blogging about Five Reasons Why You’re in Facebook Jail and what to do about it.

But FIRST you need to know how Facebook thinks. If you don’t know how Facebook sees your ad, that is one of the reasons you’re in Facebook jail.

Why trust me over all the other blogs online? I’ve worked at Facebook in ads, and tech, and with the engineers at Meta. When one word can get you banned, you can’t afford to guess when it comes to getting a Facebook Ad Account Restriction.

Just like my client, Amazon Reality Show star Juanita Ingram of The Expats International Ingrams you’ll discover there are micro flags in ad copy and landing pages that have to be removed first before attempting to appeal or relaunch a brand with Facebook.

Facebook Ad Account Restriction: Advertising restrictions for policy violations

When you create ads but don’t understand how the platform sees those same ads you’ll end up in Facebook jail. How can you not? It’s like never running track but entering the Hunger Games.

BUT – after you familiarize yourself with how facebook sees Facebook ads, and what they want to see, you won’t put your Business Manager in as much risk when it comes to avoiding a Facebook Ad Account Restriction.

So how does Facebook see ads?

Direct from the source, let’s start with Facebook’s positive user experience blurb:

The average advertiser will not be able to read between the lines here and grok how Facebook’s philosophy described above applies to your funnel and your ads. I’ll help explain. For my essential guide to Facebook ad policies click here.

“We want to help ensure that the ads don’t detract from the overall experience across our technologies.”

Marketers reading that often fail to connect the real meaning behind it to shape how they run ads and as a result, come off more click bait-y than intended, and end up in Facebook jail dealing with a Facebook Ad Account Restriction.

Perhaps your ad accounts in your Facebook Business Manager get disabled so now you try your personal ad account. Everything goes fine for a while then that gets disabled too. Now your profile get restricted from advertising as well.

WTF??

Reread that line above again. “We want to help ensure that the ads don’t detract from the overall experience.”

What is Facebook referring to with the overall experience?

Meta or Facebook is referring to the everyday journey of the average consumer, logging onto Facebook to check their notifications.

Catching up on relatives that live in another city, seeing the Facebook Business Pages they liked, scrolling the feed for updates from their friends and websites that post news updates – this is the overall experience.

In the middle are the sponsored posts many Facebook users barely notice or distinguish from the non-ad posts.

Now let’s step into the shoes of Facebook’s policies and review the bots that ban ya.

Facebook Ad Account Restriction: Advertising restrictions for unusual activity

The “Unusual Activity” flag is confusing for a lot of advertisers and business owners because it’s vague and doesn’t tell you why you’re being banned. Typically this is seen in new accounts Facebook is trying to suss out, and wants your ID or it’s because you’ve logged in while traveling. So don’t log into Facebook ad tools while traveling. That’s one way you can avoid this flag.

A message to all the ad agencies spending $100K a year and up on Facebook ads:

Facebook Ad Account Restriction: Policy Philosophy

Let’s dive deeper into the philosophy behind how the automations flag your ads.

Facebook Ad Policy Progressive? Automations Are 1950s

If you want a persona, let’s look at Ward, from the hit series Leave It to Beaver.

Believe it or not, the way Facebook’s automations see Facebook posts very much align with 1950s conformism. And when they scan the Newsfeed for the Facebook ads that are running, if there is shocking content it will be removed.

For an in depth look at the top reasons why Facebook disables ad accounts click here.

Can you imagine, Ward – the father figure in Leaves It to Beaver seeing an ad on Facebook that appeared too spammy or too sexual? An even sterner expression would be on his face. He’d be outraged to see this:

Admittedly the post above is pretty dated as you can see from the older build of Facebook’s platform but perhaps that fits this analogy of a 50s sitcom dad looking at your Facebook ad with scrutiny.

If your ad is too negative or too sexual it is going to get flagged and shut down, often without a specific explanation as to why. Because we are dealing with a very conservative Facebook 1950s sitcom dad automation.

So, don’t risk your revenue with guesses. If you want an escape plan from Facebook Jail, I’m like Michael Scofield with the blueprints for a way out.

Just like my client Darryl CEO of King Memory found out, and shared on LinkedIn there are specific ways to work with Facebook policies without losing conversions or getting stuck in Facebook jail:

Facebook Ad Account Restriction: Your advertising access is restricted – what does it mean?

I’ll get to the Facebook ad policies you get flagged for most often soon enough. But it’s important not to skip this part because once you get how Facebook perceives ads this will help you reframe your ad copy and creative to be more compliant.

No, that doesn’t mean you can’t kick pain points or be negative sometimes to inspire FOMO, or the need for a solution to a problem, but it does mean considering Facebook ad policies first and then conversion elements for high converting Facebook ads.

So, one last time, let’s go back to Facebook’s ad policy philosophy of wanting to:

“…ensure that the ads don’t detract from the overall experience.”

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TLDR: If your Facebook ads are perceived as too sexual, too spammy, too clickbait-y, too misleading, too negative and Facebook users decide to get off Facebook, that’s a truckload of money you just took from Facebook.

Facebook will 😡 your ad now and remove it because you just lost them thousands of dollars because every single ad that Facebook user saw was paying Facebook money.

The kicker is Facebook has already told you this but, they have disguised these intentions behind generic wording to appear more consumer friendly (following their own policies of not being too shocking or negative). Full circle.

Now, let’s check out another Facebook ad policy violation that can put you in Facebook jail.

Facebook Ad Account Restriction: Why does Facebook say my advertising access is restricted?

Is your patience running thin from random Facebook bans? You’re not alone! The lack of transparency is what makes this frustrating. But, with the big tech lay offs, Facebook is relying on automations now more than ever. So you’ll need to get familiar with what type of content Meta flags.

Facebook Ad Account Restriction: How do I unrestrict my Facebook ads?

In Facebook jail because of a flag that Facebook won’t tell you about? 10 million to one I can fix it. Facebook’s official explanation for a flag is essentially, “I pity the fool who thinks they can sneak around my policies.”

Ok ok, so the automations aren’t exactly as cool as Mr. T from the A-Team. But essentially that’s the external PR line that Facebook gives when you get ad policy flags. But is this really what it means? Let’s look at 3 realistic scenarios for Facebook ad policy flags:

• Requesting people to DM you on an ad
• Trying to run an ad again that was just rejected
• Creating a new ad or ad account after shut downs

If you are requesting folks to DM you on a Facebook (or especially an Instagram) ad Facebook will assume you are trying to get around paying for clicks and flag you for circumventing the system.

Facebook Ad Account Restriction: How to appeal advertising restrictions

You just got a Facebook ad rejected? Oh shit! Let’s just try to run it again! That kind of thinking is why you’re getting banned.

Sorry not sorry for being so in your face about it but I’ve seen this thousands of times from the thousands of ad agencies I’ve worked with over the years helping them get compliant. It’s the same story every time:

“We got our ad rejected from Facebook, didn’t know why, so we tried to run it again!”

This is one of the biggest triggers for Circumventing Systems flag!!

The logic is (and we are talking machine-logic) that Facebook assumes you are trying to get around their automations by sheer number of ads submitted even if these ads have flags you’d been previously shut down for.

Don’t get me wrong, it is a tactic that can work. Do I advise it? Hell no. Because eventually, when a new ad policy is distributed across the platform Facebook’s bots will rescan existing ads and shut you down.

Even if the ads you were running were compliant at the time they went live.

Big agencies, who run 100s of ads in an ad set will often try to just overwhelm the automations by submitting so many ads that a few slip through that are not compliant. Or a bunch slips through depending on the bandwidth of Facebook’s servers.

Even if you are a smaller SMB, Facebook will assume that by resubmitting the same ad with the same flags again, that you are trying this tactic and that’s when you get hit with the Circumventing Systems flag.

The fix? Just don’t resubmit a rejected Facebook ad before finding out WHY it was rejected FIRST. And I can help with that. Want a free discovery call to see if I can help get your Facebook ads live again? Schedule your call here.

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You’re saying, “I’ll just create it all again from scratch!” and it sounds easy right? Wrong. Facebook has extra safeguards in place now if you want to relaunch and it’s impossible to do without expert guidance most of the time.

Facebook Ad Account Restriction: Solution

I’ve worked at Facebook in ads, tech and project management, and my zone of genius is helping ad agencies get Facebook ads live again and preventing future shut downs.

A full customer life cycle and cost are critical to getting true profit from your marketing, and Facebook bans are costly.

I’ll review your funnel and FULL cost of Facebook jail, letting you see the EXACT cause of FB bans and how to fix them to IMPROVE your immediate ad & marketing results and get ads live again.

Are you going to trust random articles online or someone like me, who has worked at Meta?

I’m trusted by high level brands that take accuracy and results seriously:

If you’re ok with waiting a bit longer, and entering the waitlist to see if you’re eligible – Schedule a call or contact me via email.

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Remove Ad Account Restriction on Facebook Tips

Is your Facebook ad account restricted and are you looking to remove an ad account restriction? You’re in the right place – I’ve worked at Meta and will help you learn how to remove a restriction on Facebook ads with some good tips.

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An amazing key to remove a restriction on a Facebook ad account is to learn the way Meta flags your ad accounts, and learn what leads to an ad account restriction so you can avoid it. You’ll learn tips for that later in this article.

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Even one of my prior clients, Tony Robbins’ knew what you put on Facebook is important. Robbins’ former director of content development Amy Porterfield says “Be mindful of your ad copy.”

You want to understand the automations Facebook uses to have a chance of not getting hit with the ban hammer.

For you stats, facts and numbers geeks, this year Facebook’s expected ad revenue is $170 billion – so you don’t want to lose on potential profits just because ad policy is giving you trouble. It’s just picking up a new skill – writing for BOTH conversions AND compliance.

Some advertisers think that Facebook’s bots only flag ads but they do scan your website too. Want a quick top tip guide for landers? Click here.

Your advertising access is restricted – what does it mean?

There are different types of restrictions. When seeing your advertising access is restricted it means one of your Facebook ad assets is restricted. This could be:

Facebook Business Page
Facebook Business Manager
Ad Account
Personal Profile

Why does Facebook say my advertising access is restricted?

Typically there was some part of your funnel that put you on the radar first. Maybe a smaller flag led to a bigger shut down, but now, you’ve entered the loop and must escape, to run ads again on Facebook.

How do I unrestrict my Facebook ads?

Ah the million dollar question: how to I unrestrict my Facebook ads. Maybe you’re attending the International Social Summit and are looking to get that question answered.

Many experts at the top of their field will struggle to answer that, even if they are on the cover of Forbes like some of my clients are. But, without the experience I have working with the engineers at Facebook aka Meta, they may be at a loss for words. So here’s my take on it:

Depending on your ad ban history, this can be easy or hard. With the right appeal, and not too many black marks on your ad account, you could get your ads live again in the same week. If you have more flags in your funnel you are not aware of, you’ll need to remove these before even appealing.

How to Remove a Restriction on a Facebook Ad Account Tips

A lot of ad agencies are asking, “How do I recover Facebook ad accounts?” Or “How can I reactivate my disabled Business Manager?” And “Why is my Facebook ad rejected?”

The wall of silence from Facebook, the parent company now called Meta, frustrates business owners and advertisers alike. Money coming in from Facebook ads is suddenly stopped, and clients won’t stop screaming because their products aren’t selling.

You’re left holding the bag, without answers and just a nasty deadline before your clients drop you and hire another marketing firm who knows how to remove a restriction on a Facebook ad account. Or your deadline for a product launch is making you sweat bullets while Facebook keeps you in limbo.

You’re waiting on Facebook to reply as you’re waiting on an ad asset that’s permanently restricted to get fully appealed. Fortunately, you’ve found this blog – I’ve worked at Facebook for years and can help you sort things out.

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Just like I provided solutions for Boomerang, a marketing research firm, you’ll learn how to avoid the land mines that shut down millions of businesses a year on Facebook. Click here for a free discovery call.

If I decide you’re a good fit, we can work together and I’ll reveal why FB shut you down and how to get compliant again. (In a rush? Skip the line with prepaid funnel audits with VIP Access). You won’t have to guess again at learning how to remove a restriction on a Facebook ad account.

Remove a Restriction on a Facebook Ad Account Guide

The ugly truth of Facebook ad account restrictions is very few have relevant experience to guide you to a solution. Sometimes you may get hit with the Circumventing Systems flag. Here’s my Circumventing Systems guide:

Circumventing Systems Guide 2.0

Now, there’s a lot more flags than Circumventing Systems out there. So how do you get free of the ban bots?

You can start by getting your funnel bulletproof from the Facebook bots I can protect you from and prevent them from taking your money when ad accounts get disabled. Simply schedule a free discovery call if you’re looking to get Facebook ads live again, my calendar is here

Remove a Restriction on a Facebook Ad Account Pro Tip

You may be asking why each scenario is different. Well, there are many types of Facebook ads and Facebook’s ad policies apply differently to each industry which is important to know before you try to remove a restriction on a Facebook ad account.

And I’m not even talking about Special Ad Categories (real estate, social issues, employment, loans etc).

How Facebook’s machines apply their striking automation really does depend on a number of factors which I’ll get into next. So, do some digging and look at how Facebook ad automations specifically flag your industry. Already flagged? You don’t have to guess on compliance anymore, as I can help you diagnose and recover from Facebook ad account restrictions.

As Liana Lang, CEO of Power Up Strategy Inc. said, “Please meet Trevor, my ‘secret weapon’ for all things Facebook compliance. I highly recommend hiring him to help you out especially if you plan to be running ads.”

Want the same white glove treatment navigating Facebook shutdowns?

Click here, to schedule a discovery call.

How did I get myself restricted from advertising on Facebook?

You’d be surprised how many businesses are running ads based on what worked 5 years ago. Just like advances in technology rapidly change the social landscape, so do changes in Facebook’s ad policies.

What was allowed last year may not be compliant this year. And if you’re still running ads that used to be compliant, Facebook will show no mercy in shutting you down ASAP. And even retroactively punishing your ad account by flagging old ads that aren’t even active, if they violate new current ad policies. This is what leads to ad bans marketers get, who then try to remove a restriction on a Facebook ad account.

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

Keep in mind, there will be NEW ad policies coming out regulating AI, as AI is spamming up all the social media sites now.

Remove a Restriction on a Facebook Ad Account Flag Type

You can get your ads rejected for violating the spam flags, the Personal Attributes policies, or Facebook could have flagged you as an MLM.

Your eyes would pop out if you knew the list of banned words Facebook has that associate you with a pyramid scheme. If you accidentally used one of these words, even 1 word would be enough to get you shut down.

Ideally, you’d have your ads prescreened for Facebook ad policy compliance before going live. Then, you’d never have to try to learn how to remove a restriction on a Facebook ad account.

This can be problematic for many advertisers because you can read all the books on Facebook ads, read all of facebook ad policies and still not get answers.

You can study the top Facebook experts like Mari Smith (one of my clients), or events like Social Media Marketing World but even then, you won’t find anyone there who has worked with thousands of businesses recovering from ad account restrictions or who has worked at Meta with the engineers maintaining these ban bot automations like I have.

That being said, if you want to skip the rest of the article, and get a solution today just book a free discovery call, and if you’re eligible, I’ll guide you every step of the way to get Facebook ads live again and money coming into your bank account from ads safe from the automations.

Just click my calendar link here and book your call now.

How can I tell if my account was restricted?

While Facebook is supposed to send you an email, you may not always get an email telling you that your account is restricted. But, going to Ads Manager, or Business Manager you’ll see this warning when your account is restricted:

And obviously, not being able to run ads and having all your live ads shut down is a pretty clear indicator your account is restricted on Facebook. Part of the ninja skill involved when successfully trying to remove a restriction on a Facebook ad account comes down to accurately diagnosing what got you in Facebook jail – before FB bots have a chance to permanently restrict your ad account or Page.

If you haven’t read it, check out: How to Recover a Permanently Disabled Ad Account

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What does having my account restricted mean?

Remove a Restriction on a Facebook Ad Account WARNING

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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). He offered some critical insights to why our Facebook Ad Account was disabled and shared options to reduce our chances of future issues. 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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Troubleshoot a restricted account

Up next lets discuss some trouble shooting steps for a restricted ad account on Facebook.

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

Remove a Restriction on a Facebook Ad Account Troubleshoot

To troubleshoot your restricted account:

Confirm your identity

I have one word for you: DON’T. Well at least, not before taken certain steps first.

You may be one of the lucky 2% that actually start confirming your identity and slip through the cracks. But most people?

Once you hit that button it’s game over. Facebook will never confirm your identity because their form is broken and doesn’t transfer the data (like your driver’s license) to Facebook itself. And that definitely isn’t a reliable method to remove a restriction on a Facebook ad account.

There are other ways to get your ads live – all white hat – which are much better than trying to Confirm Your Identity. Well, at least, don’t try to confirm your identity without help from someone who knows how this system works, or you’ll end up in the endless loop.

Are you hacked or recovering from a cybersecurity hack from one of those spammers in Pakistan, Vietnam, Indonesia, or the Philippines? Sadly, it is a HUGE epidemic right now from those specific locations, including Malaysia. Read my full guide on what to do if your Facebook account is restricted from being hacked here.

Remove a Restriction on a Facebook Ad Account Security

Secure your account

Remove a Restriction on a Facebook Ad Account Content

Violating content

Facebook’s Violating Content Policies are a joke. You have no guidance here, it just says:

Advertisers can’t:

Severely violate our advertising policies
Repeatedly violate our advertising policies

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Remove a Restriction on a Facebook Ad Account Unusual Activity

Remove a Restriction on a Facebook Ad Account Request a review

Request a review

More bad advice from Facebook:

“If your account is restricted due to a policy violation, you may be able to request a review.”

That’s isn’t effective if you don’t know why you were restricted. Because you are asking one machine its opinion of another machine that did the banning. The machine won’t side with humans very often.

Now – I’m not saying that it won’t ever work. About 1 percent of people who request review, DO get their accounts back. But, I’ve worked with 10s of 1000s of advertisers and the stats show requesting review just locks you into a permanently restricted status unless you know how to do it strategically in a way that gets real results.

Learn more

Remove a Restriction on a Facebook Ad Account Solution

If you’re ok with waiting a bit longer, and entering the waitlist to see if you’re eligible – Schedule a call or contact me via email.

Free eBook: Top 5 Reasons Agencies Fail at Facebook

Ad Account Restricted Facebook FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions

1. How to fix ad account disabled on facebook

2. How to enable my disabled facebook ad account

If you have a spare ad account in your Facebook Business Manager that you can run ads from, feel free to. BUT, identify the micro and major flags FIRST, so as not to repeat the same mistake.

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3. How to appeal a disabled facebook ad account

You can also get some top tips on facebook ad policy in this complimentary eBook: Top 5 Reasons Agencies Fail at Facebook

4. how to get disabled ad account up and running

5. How Many Policy Violations Before Account is Shut Down?

And, if this still all seems too confusing, your clients are yelling at you to get ads live to bring in money, simply schedule a complimentary Facebook discovery call here

6. How to remove restriction on facebook ad account

7. how long does facebook take to review restricted ad account

8. how to fix your access can’t be reinstated because too much time has passed since we restricted your account

In a situation like this, your recovery options depend on what is banned:

a) Facebook Ad Account
b) Facebook Business Page
c) Facebook Business Manager
d) Facebook profile

9. How To Get Your Disabled Facebook Ad Account Back

10. How to unblock your Facebook ad account

Your Advertising Access Permanently Restricted Help from a Facebook Alum

Give your ad account a fighting chance: While Taylor Swift literally changes economies by visiting a city, business owners and advertisers are battling bots at Meta after seeing the dreaded: Your Advertising Access Permanently Restricted ban.

Facebook did nothing about Taylor Swift ticket hack scam according to BBC news, and are you surprised? I’ve worked at Meta before and after it Facebook got it’s new name and will help you troubleshoot your advertising access permanently Restricted Facebook restriction in this article. Check out my last blog:How to Remove a Restriction on Facebook Ads

Advertising access permanently restricted this is our final decision

Sucks when you’re running Facebook ads and see: Your advertising access permanently restricted this is our final decision. You can no longer advertise with this business account, and its advertising assets will remain disabled. This is our final decision.

Keep reading to find out how to get Facebook ads live again even if you sent your ID and Facebook said you were permanently restricted.

Why trust me over all the other blogs online? I’ve worked at Facebook in ads, and tech, and with the engineers at Meta.

Trevor W. Goodchild is for brands that need MAXIMUM accuracy.

10-20% off is a the difference of tens, hundreds or even millions. Thinking of quitting Facebook due to all the banned accounts? Well, Facebook is still highly profitable.

As of April 2024, it was found that men between the ages of 25 and 34 years made up Facebook largest audience, accounting for 18.4 percent of global users. Additionally, Facebook’s second largest audience base could be found with men aged 18 to 24 years.

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When one word can get you banned, you can’t afford to guess.

Just like my client, Amazon Reality Show star Juanita Ingram of The Expats International Ingrams you’ll discover there are micro flags in ad copy and landing pages that have to be removed first before attempting to appeal or relaunch a brand with Facebook.

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Click here, to schedule a discovery call to avoid getting a disabled Facebook ad account.

Facebook ad account permanently restricted

When your ad account generates revenue and that’s restricted, you need to act strategically to get ads live again.

Advertising access permanently restricted

People all over the world are talking about being permanently restricted on Facebook whether that’s on Reddit or Quora or many other sites.

Facebook will often give advertisers boiler plate warnings without anything specific stated for how you got flagged, why, or what to do about it. Sound familiar?

You are not the only one seeing, “Advertising access permanently restricted this is our final decision,” unfortunately it happens often due to machine logic for flagging.

One of the drawbacks of the co-dependence on AI is if you’re running Facebook ads, you are judged quick and without mercy – but you’re in luck because I helped the engineers who wrote these automations. And no matter which version of Mark Zuckerberg you go with, he won’t explain why you got banned, but I can.

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One thing advertisers I’ve worked with often forget SMB to billionaires is that Facebook IS a private website. Meaning, stop complaining about the rules and instead learn how to use them!

But Facebook or Meta now doesn’t clearly explain how and why Facebook bots flag you – and this I’ll help you understand so their evil AIs don’t shut down your funnel again.

Advertising Access Permanently Restricted Guide

Learn next, the best approach to take to ad account restrictions.

Permanent Restriction no more: A Step-by-Step Guide to Solving Facebook Advertising Access Issues

On Facebook or Meta’s side, the problem is a business model issue, where thousands of outsourced workers are used to do Facebook ad support, even if none of them have ever run ads in their life.

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If you understand the WAY the bots flag it can give you first mover advantage over competitors who still get banned.

The very best solution is always a preventative one. Not rushing to resubmit ads, sweating bullets.

Trevor W. Goodchild reveals what key metrics matter when staying out of Facebook jail. This means better more profitable decisions when ad buying and running campaigns. Schedule your discovery call now

Advertising Access Permanently Restricted: Ad Accounts

Let’s discuss how to save time and money troubleshooting a restricted ad account.

Facebook ad account restricted – what does it mean?

When your ad account on Facebook has been restricted it’s because specific actions or content triggered the automations to first score you, track you, rate you, evaluate your ad history and decide if you are a threat to the platform. You’ll lose money if you submit a previously rejected ad for review again without finding out first why it was banned. And you’ll waste time submitting a noncompliant ad back to Facebook.
The trick is to find out why the automations flagged your particular business model and fix this in your funnel.

Advertising Access Permanently Restricted: Why

Up next, let’s cover some easy steps to getting bailed out of Facebook jail.

Why is my Facebook advertising account restricted?

Facebook doesn’t approve your advertisements due to violating Facebook’s advertising policies

Advertising access permanently restricted Explained

Advertising Access Permanently Restricted: New Tip

How do I fix my restricted Facebook account?

There are a few ways to contact Facebook Support online if Advertising access permanently restricted

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Definitive Guide: Why Is My Advertising Access Restricted on Facebook?

Want to know a big miss I see ad agencies make for how they THINK about Facebook jail and ad bans?

Forgetting that Facebook has a global audience and is literally ONE website dealing with billions PER DAY accessing Facebook.com – and this leads to bandwidth issues for Facebook.

Want to avoid an Advertising access permanently restricted ban?

Keep in mind that the actions you take on Facebook have a ripple effect, and the help you get from Facebook depends on your ad account history, your region, the back log Facebook currently has, and internal technical glitches that may be wide spread.

I helped fix these when I was in tech at FB.

The problem is that if you immediately appeal an ad or ad account or disabled Business Manager without understanding the ad policies YOU MISS things you may be able to do RIGHT NOW to put you in a better light with Facebook.

I remember waking up at 3am getting calls that Facebook servers were down and having to work with engineering [ENG] to get Facebook back online. When you don’t incorporate bandwidth into your advertising compliance strategy you put yourself at a higher risk because simply said:

Why Is My Facebook Advertising Account Restricted?

I’ve seen a thousand and one reasons why Facebook ad accounts get rejected. When Facebook accounts are restricted from advertising, what’s seldom talked about is the difference of ad policy enforcement per industry.

Given my history of working with thousands of ad agencies both while I was working AT Facebook and in my own practice, I have stats on which ad policies are triggered the most in specific niches. Like personal attributes flags being higher in weight loss niches.

Understanding how YOUR specific niche interacts with Facebook ad policy automations is KEY to staying out of Facebook jail and avoiding an Advertising access permanently restricted ban.

Should we just give this to your competitors?

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Advertising access permanently restricted: Myth Busting

Remove a Restriction on a Facebook Ad Account Solution

If you’re ok with waiting a bit longer, and entering the waitlist to see if you’re eligible – Schedule a call or contact me via email.

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Ad Account Restricted Facebook FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions

1. How to fix ad account disabled on facebook

2. How to enable my disabled facebook ad account

If you have a spare ad account in your Facebook Business Manager that you can run ads from, feel free to. BUT, identify the micro and major flags FIRST, so as not to repeat the same mistake.

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3. How to appeal a disabled facebook ad account

You can also get some top tips on facebook ad policy in this complimentary eBook: Top 5 Reasons Agencies Fail at Facebook

4. how to get disabled ad account up and running

5. How Many Policy Violations Before Account is Shut Down?

And, if this still all seems too confusing, your clients are yelling at you to get ads live to bring in money, simply schedule a complimentary Facebook discovery call here

6. How to remove restriction on facebook ad account

7. how long does facebook take to review restricted ad account

8. how to fix your access can’t be reinstated because too much time has passed since we restricted your account

In a situation like this, your recovery options depend on what is banned:

a) Facebook Ad Account
b) Facebook Business Page
c) Facebook Business Manager
d) Facebook profile

9. How To Get Your Disabled Facebook Ad Account Back

10. How to unblock your Facebook ad account

How to Remove a Restriction on Facebook Ads

Searching for a solution, for how to remove a restriction on a Facebook ad account? You’ve googled a lot and can’t get good info and somehow arrived on this page – well you’re in luck. I’ve worked at Facebook and will help you with better tips on how to remove a restriction on Facebook ads.

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Want to learn the best most fabulous tactic for recovering from restricted ad accounts? The key to remove a restriction on a Facebook ad account is to understand just how Facebook flags your funnel which you’ll learn later in this article.

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Even Facebook experts like Jon Loomer have said Facebook needs to improve how they structure campaigns, not to mention Facebook ad policy. That being said, you want to understand the flagging system in order to have any chance of not getting hit with the ban hammer.

It seems so difficult to run ads on Facebook – is it even worth it? Well, this year alone, Facebook’s expected ad revenue is $170 billion – so you’ll be leaving money on the table to not include Facebook platforms in your marketing strategy. The key is to also decipher their flagging system.

There are so many flags your ad account can get hit with that it’s challenging to quickly determine the reason for Facebook bans. Also, don’t miss landing page tips in my article How To Fix Facebook Non-Functional Landing Page.

Your advertising access is restricted – what does it mean?

Why does Facebook say my advertising access is restricted?

How do I unrestrict my Facebook ads?

Ah the million dollar question: how to I unrestrict my Facebook ads. Maybe you’re attending the Midwest Digital Marketing Conference and are looking to get that question answered.

Many experts at the top of their field will struggle to answer that, even if they are on the cover of Forbes like some of my clients are. But, without the experience I have working with the engineers at Facebook aka Meta, they may be at a loss for words. So here’s my take on it:

Depending on your ad ban history, this can be easy or hard. With the right appeal, and not too many black marks on your ad account, you could get your ads live again in the same week. If you have more flags in your funnel you are not aware of, you’ll need to remove these before even appealing.

How to Remove a Restriction on a Facebook Ad Account Tips

A lot of ad agencies are asking, “How do I recover Facebook ad accounts?” Or “How can I reactivate my disabled Business Manager?” And “Why is my Facebook ad rejected?”

The wall of silence from Facebook, the parent company now called Meta, frustrates business owners and advertisers alike. Money coming in from Facebook ads is suddenly stopped, and clients won’t stop screaming because their products aren’t selling.

You’re left holding the bag, without answers and just a nasty deadline before your clients drop you and hire another marketing firm who knows how to remove a restriction on a Facebook ad account. Or your deadline for a product launch is making you sweat bullets while Facebook keeps you in limbo.

You’re waiting on Facebook to reply as you’re waiting on an ad asset that’s permanently restricted to get fully appealed. Fortunately, you’ve found this blog – I’ve worked at Facebook for years and can help you sort things out.

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Whether you’re using Facebook ad expert Tim Burd’s Surfing Method of Scaling Ads or another tactic, Facebook ad policies will still need to be top of mind, or you’ll lose money with Facebook bans.
Just like I provided solutions for Boomerang, a marketing research firm, you’ll learn how to avoid the land mines that shut down millions of businesses a year on Facebook. Click here for a free discovery call.

If I decide you’re a good fit, we can work together and I’ll reveal why FB shut you down and how to get compliant again. (In a rush? Skip the line with prepaid funnel audits with VIP Access). You won’t have to guess again at learning how to remove a restriction on a Facebook ad account.

Remove a Restriction on a Facebook Ad Account Guide

how to remove restriction on facebook ad account guide

Remove a Restriction on a Facebook Ad Account Pro Tip

You may be asking why each scenario is different. Well, there are many types of Facebook ads and Facebook’s ad policies apply differently to each industry which is important to know before you try to remove a restriction on a Facebook ad account.

And I’m not even talking about Special Ad Categories (real estate, social issues, employment, loans etc).

How Facebook’s machines apply their striking automation really does depend on a number of factors which I’ll get into next.

You may not know this, but, being more or less compliant affects your CPC, CPL (cost-per-lead), and Cost of Acquisition. The less compliant you are – even if you’re not banned…yet – the more Facebook will charge you for distributing your ads, because they’ll feel it’s content Facebook users won’t want to see, if it isn’t fully compliant.

And, ad costs have been going up. On average, 91% of industries saw increases in CPL in 2023.

But, you don’t have to guess on compliance anymore, as I can help you diagnose and recover from Facebook ad account restrictions.
As Liana Lang, CEO of Power Up Strategy Inc. said, “Please meet Trevor, my ‘secret weapon’ for all things Facebook compliance. I highly recommend hiring him to help you out especially if you plan to be running ads.”

Want the same white glove treatment navigating Facebook shutdowns?

Click here, to schedule a discovery call.

How did I get myself restricted from advertising on Facebook?

You’d be surprised how many businesses are running ads based on what worked 5 years ago. Just like advances in technology rapidly change the social landscape, so do changes in Facebook’s ad policies.

To say people are frustrated with Facebook | Meta shutting them down, and censoring content, is an understatement. Even Emma Erickson of the New York Times wrote an article titled I Love Facebook. That’s Why I’m Suing Meta.

What was allowed last year may not be compliant this year. And if you’re still running ads that used to be compliant, Facebook will show no mercy in shutting you down ASAP. And even retroactively punishing your ad account by flagging old ads that aren’t even active, if they violate new current ad policies. This is what leads to ad bans marketers get, who then try to remove a restriction on a Facebook ad account.

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

Remove a Restriction on a Facebook Ad Account Flag Type

You can get your ads rejected for violating the spam flags, the Personal Attributes policies, or Facebook could have flagged you as an MLM.

Your eyes would pop out if you knew the list of banned words Facebook has that associate you with a pyramid scheme. If you accidentally used one of these words, even 1 word would be enough to get you shut down.

Ideally, you’d have your ads prescreened for Facebook ad policy compliance before going live. Then, you’d never have to try to learn how to remove a restriction on a Facebook ad account.

This can be problematic for many advertisers because you can read all the books on Facebook ads, read all of facebook ad policies and still not get answers.

You can study the top Facebook experts like Mari Smith (one of my clients), or events like Social Media Marketing World but even then, you won’t find anyone there who has worked with thousands of businesses recovering from ad account restrictions or who has worked at Meta with the engineers maintaining these ban bot automations like I have.

That being said, if you want to skip the rest of the article, and get a solution today just book a free discovery call, and if you’re eligible, I’ll guide you every step of the way to get Facebook ads live again and money coming into your bank account from ads safe from the automations.

Just click my calendar link here and book your call now.

How can I tell if my account was restricted?

While Facebook is supposed to send you an email, you may not always get an email telling you that your account is restricted. But, going to Ads Manager, or Business Manager you’ll see this warning when your account is restricted:

And obviously, not being able to run ads and having all your live ads shut down is a pretty clear indicator your account is restricted on Facebook. Part of the ninja skill involved when successfully trying to remove a restriction on a Facebook ad account comes down to accurately diagnosing what got you in Facebook jail – before FB bots have a chance to permanently restrict your ad account or Page.

If you haven’t read it, check out: How to Recover a Permanently Disabled Ad Account

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What does having my account restricted mean?

Remove a Restriction on a Facebook Ad Account WARNING

Troubleshoot a restricted account

Up next lets discuss some trouble shooting steps for a restricted ad account on Facebook.

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

Free eBook: Top 5 Reasons Agencies Fail at Facebook

New Fees for Boosted Posts on FB & Instagram on Apple IOS

Meta said Thursday that it will start charging a 30 percent fee when advertisers pay to boost the visibility of their posts in Facebook’s and Instagram’s iOS apps.

Remove a Restriction on a Facebook Ad Account Troubleshoot

To troubleshoot your restricted account:

Confirm your identity

Complete verification

Facebook’s ad policies will tell you to complete verification but like I said above, and admiral Ackbar reiterates:

Simply verifying a Facebook Business Manager will not remove a restriction on a Facebook ad account.

Remove a Restriction on a Facebook Ad Account Security

Secure your account

Remove a Restriction on a Facebook Ad Account Content

Violating content

Facebook’s Violating Content Policies are a joke. You have no guidance here, it just says:

Advertisers can’t:

Severely violate our advertising policies
Repeatedly violate our advertising policies

Free eBook: Top 5 Reasons Agencies Fail at Facebook

Remove a Restriction on a Facebook Ad Account Unusual Activity

How to appeal advertising restrictions

Remove a Restriction on a Facebook Ad Account Request a review

Request a review

More bad advice from Facebook:

“If your account is restricted due to a policy violation, you may be able to request a review.”

That’s like asking the original evil Terminator to review John Connor as he is hunting Connor.

Now – I’m not saying that it won’t ever work. About 1 percent of people who request review, DO get their accounts back. But, I’ve worked with 10s of 1000s of advertisers and the stats show requesting review just locks you into a permanently restricted status unless you know how to do it strategically in a way that gets real results.

Learn more

Remove a Restriction on a Facebook Ad Account Solution

If you’re ok with waiting a bit longer, and entering the waitlist to see if you’re eligible – Schedule a call or contact me via email.

Free eBook: Top 5 Reasons Agencies Fail at Facebook

Ad Account Restricted Facebook FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions

1. How to fix ad account disabled on facebook

2. How to enable my disabled facebook ad account

If you have a spare ad account in your Facebook Business Manager that you can run ads from, feel free to. BUT, identify the micro and major flags FIRST, so as not to repeat the same mistake.

Ready to Finally Make the Money You Need in the Hours That Work for You & Your Family? Don’t miss out,Learn More here.

3. How to appeal a disabled facebook ad account

You can also get some top tips on facebook ad policy in this complimentary eBook: Top 5 Reasons Agencies Fail at Facebook

4. how to get disabled ad account up and running

5. How Many Policy Violations Before Account is Shut Down?

And, if this still all seems too confusing, your clients are yelling at you to get ads live to bring in money, simply schedule a complimentary Facebook discovery call here

6. How to remove restriction on facebook ad account

7. how long does facebook take to review restricted ad account

8. how to fix your access can’t be reinstated because too much time has passed since we restricted your account

In a situation like this, your recovery options depend on what is banned:

a) Facebook Ad Account
b) Facebook Business Page
c) Facebook Business Manager
d) Facebook profile

9. How To Get Your Disabled Facebook Ad Account Back

10. How to unblock your Facebook ad account

How To Fix Facebook Non-Functional Landing Page [Ad Account Restriction]

Looking for a solution to the Facebook ban, non-functional landing page? You’re in the right place – I’ve worked at Meta in ads and will be helping you solve this issue today.

Don’t miss out on new fixes for ad account restrictions here.

How to fix: Landing page not working

Frequently, Facebook will not specify exactly why they rejected your ads, but simply say, “Your ad account is disabled for promoting ads that violate Advertising Policies.”

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Account-level enforcement for policy violations

The challenging part is that you have no idea exactly why you’ve gotten this message because it didn’t tell you which ad triggered the shutdown, what part of the ad was against ad policy, or was it in fact the landing page that the Facebook automations flagged?

For an in depth look at the top reasons why Facebook disables ad accountsclick here.

Non-Functional Landing Page: CTAs

Some landing pages are a simple image on the left, opt-in or CTA buy button in a box on the right. Other squeeze pages have a full scroll with the primary offer up top, testimonials and more ad copy below for 3 pages worth of words and images.

Other times, a squeeze page actually is avoided all together and advertisers send Facebook users to an entire website with hundreds of pages connected to the main landing page through drop down menu bars.

How in the world are you going to figure out which part of your landing page triggered the automations to shut you down?

I’ve spent years working at Facebook and in this blog I’ll discuss how to fix Facebook non functional landing pages.

Non-Functional Landing Page: Facebook Flags

While there are a thousand reasons why your landing page could trigger the Facebook automations to shut your ads down, today we’ll discuss just one of those reasons – when your landing page is deemed as non-functional by Facebook.

As you can see there are a lot of reasons why Facebook might mark your lander as non-functional. For my essential guide to Facebook ad policies click here.

If you’re sending Facebook users to a landing page that is just a PDF (perhaps with an email opt-in to access it) Facebook considers that landing page to not be working.

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Below I’ll outline the most common reasons why Facebook flags your ads for a non-functional landing page – and include a few surprising reasons – with tips on how to fix this:

Non-Functional Landing Page: Popup Plugins

While some plugins can help with lead acquisition, others can lead to Facebook bans, like certain pop up boxes.

PopUp Boxes

We love and hate them – the popup boxes meant to use people’s 3 second attention span against them, to rope in more leads or sales with a pattern interrupt popup box on a website’s landing page.

They are annoying af but do help increase conversions. Neil Patel does a great breakdown of one of the newest versions of popup boxes in his article here, but let’s get back to Facebook ad policies.

Ask yourself, if your lander has popup boxes if they fall under 1 of 3 categories:

• Mid-scroll popup box
• Full page popup box
• Escape capture popup boxes

This first one is pretty common – you’re scrolling down the page, perhaps right at or below the fold you see a popup box just past halfway down the page.

Facebook is ok with these, they aren’t against ad policy.

But now, let’s look at the full page popup box – a newer style of popup that Neil Patel discusses in the article linked above. Are these ok with Facebook or will they trigger a non-functional landing page flag that shuts down your ads?

Non-Functional Landing Page: The Banned Type of Popup

Well, it depends. If there is no “X” visible to close the popup box or perhaps the popup box is so full screen it requires the Facebook user to zoom out to even see the “X” (on a Macbook for example, having to press command and the minus sign to zoom out to see it), you may get flagged.

That isn’t as common though.

BUT if you have the 3rd type of popup box, the escape capture that refuses to let you leave a landing page after you’ve clicked to close that tab or window Facebook hates these.

Non-Functional Landing Page: Popup Ban Fix

That will definitely be enough to shut your ads down and brand you with the non-functional landing page flag (or not even tell you this and just give you the generic your ads promo stuff against our ad policies flag).

So how do you fix this? Stick with mid-scroll popup boxes or full page popup boxes that have a visible “X” to close them.

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Non-Functional Landing Page: Ad Sense

Your conversions depend on Facebook users not clicking away. But if the color scheme doesn’t match the ad on your lander, it can cause people to click away and increase your bounce rate. And there are Facebook policy issues here too.

Landing Pages That Don’t Match Facebook Ad

This one can be a surprising flag to get – if you’re even told specifically that this is why your Facebook ads are shut down. I’ve rarely seen people told this exact message, either it’s the non-functional landing page flag or just the generic shut down message.

This can happen for a couple of reasons. Or rather 3 reasons, and the 3rd is enough to get your entire profile banned from advertising. If you’re looking for the scoop on the top reasons that Facebook ads get rejected click here.

Your ad copy and creative are confusing and don’t match what’s on your landing page.

As mentioned above, what affects conversion rates can affect your Facebook compliance status as well. If your Facebook ad is let’s say, blue and red but your landing page has a different image and is orange and white?

Facebook users will feel this kind of unconscious uncomfortableness because they feel like they ended up on the wrong page after clicking on your CTA. For the most common Facebook ad policies explained click here.

You want to match the same color scheme and have the same image on your landing page that your Facebook ad has for conversion purposes.

But also, for Facebook ad policy purposes. Because if the landing page is so drastically different from the Facebook ad, then Facebook’s bots will give you the side eye and possibly flag you for a non-functional landing page.

Non-Functional Landing Page: Ad Sense Fix

How to fix this: make sure your landing page’s creative and color scheme matches your Facebook ad.

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Non-Functional Landing Page: URLs

Now let’s discuss the website or URL you’ve entered into Ads Manager for the CTA button.

Display URLs Don’t Match Landing Page URLs

When you’re creating a Facebook ad, you gotta enter in the destination URL (if the Campaign Objective is “Traffic”) for where you’re sending Facebook users after they click on the CTA button.

You’ll also see an option for a display URL – this gets fucked up a lot when advertisers enter in a slightly different URL or a completely different URL.

Non-Functional Landing Page: Ugly URLs

If you have a really ugly-looking URL with lots of numbers combined with letters after your root domain .com/ you can shorten that to your homepage domain for the display URL.

BUT, if you enter an entirely different website URL for the display URL, you will get the flag for non-functional URL.

If these don’t match, you’ll definitely risk getting flagged for a non-functional URL.

How to fix: Make sure you either leave the display URL field blank, enter the same URL as your destination URL, or only put a small variation of your site’s homepage, in the URL address.

Non-Functional Landing Page: Dead Pages

Up next is how to address pages you may not even know about that are hurting you when Facebook’s ad policy bots scan your lander.

The 404 Factor

You’re feeling great, your CPCs are under a dollar, your conversion rates are super high and WHAM, Facebook shuts you down for having a non-functional URL and you’re like…FML. But…

Then you CHECK your website and everything is looking sweet. You click and go to your homepage it’s great. You go to the landing page and it’s great. So what gives?

If you have a landing page with a menu bar of links to other parts of your website – like a ton of different pages, and one of them doesn’t work or down for maintenance, you’ll get hit with this flag.

It’s just going to be a big ass trigger for the automations if one part of your website isn’t working.

Non-Functional Landing Page: Bot Triggers

The machines will see that one broken link and flag your entire ad for being fake or not legit. Because Facebook’s automations will basically look at your ad as leading to a 404 page that isn’t working, even if that page isn’t the one directly linked to your ad’s CTA.

So what should advertisers do to avoid getting hit with a non-functional landing page flag, and mistakenly labeled for having a not working website?

How to fix: make sure you check all your links on your website and fix any that give the 404 broken link warnings. A plugin many find useful is called “Link Checker” available for download for free in the WordPress plugin library.

Note: Link Checker can frequently mark active links as broken for a variety of reasons, you can go into the plugin’s menu on WordPress and mark links you know are working as active and Link Checker will un-cross them out on your site.

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A lot of people running ads on Facebook want to use social proof but they can make a misstep when using Facebook Groups and Pages to do so. More on this coming up.

Non-Functional Landing Page: IP

One of the most protected brand assets Meta has, is the IP or intellectual property of the Facebook logo and symbols. Up next you’ll find out why this can get you banned and how to avoid it when sidestepping the Non-Functional Landing Page ban on Facebook.

Directing People to a Facebook Group

It may seem like an irony, but you can’t really use a Facebook ad to advertise a Facebook Group – at least not on an external landing page.

You’re likely to get flagged for trying to use Facebook’s brand assets without written permission. Also, in a way, Facebook also views this is trying to circumvent ad policies.

Non-Functional Landing Page: Copyright Infringement

Copyright infringement, especially unique to how Facebook decides to enforce this and the method they use for both flagging and discerning what is a flag is a much more extensive conversation. That would be more appropriate on a consulting call.

Non-Functional Landing Page: IP Fix

How to fix: don’t try to run Traffic ads to a page promoting your Facebook Group.

Below, you’ll read more top level tips on fixing non-functional landing pages (or regular websites mis-flagged as such).

Non-Functional Landing Page: The Blacklist

You don’t want to end up on the blacklist at Facebook, as they can coordinate invisible quarantines around you online. Coming up, I’ll help you find a solution if your website is blacklisted.

Your Website is Blocked / Blacklisted

Not mentioned in Facebook’s HelpCenter for this flag

This is one of the hardest ad policy issues to overcome because in a way it is a ban on your entire brand – but if your website is blacklisted by Facebook’s automations on Meta’s servers, you’ll also get this flag.

Which of course, won’t make any sense to you because your website is working just fine, so how is this a nonfunctional URL?

Non-Functional Landing Page: Circumventing Systems

As you may have read in my other articles like Common Facebook Ad Policy Violations [Explained] there are many header flags where the automations may display one flag for why your ad account is shut down, when in reality the flag that shut you down is completely different.

That can happen here as well.

Sometimes you may even get hit with the Circumventing Systems flag when the real flag is Non-Functional Landing Page. This makes it hard to decipher why you were banned and what to do to fix it.

You may be seeing an external flag that you have a non-functional URL but, you could be blacklisted if your competitors flag your ad’s website as spam. Or if Facebook users flagged it as spam.

Non-Functional Landing Page: Low Quality Images

You can get hit with an ad account restriction for the Non-Functional Landing Page flag if the images you use are blurry, or not HD enough for Facebook’s standards.

Or this can happen if you have been advertising products to a low quality landing page even on Shopify if the images used on Shopify are low quality.

How to fix: before you spin out on why Facebook has flagged you about a non-functional landing page, make sure your website is in good standing with Facebook. If you don’t know how to do that, I can help schedule a discovery call here.

Also, here’s my free guide on navigating Circumventing Systems flags:

Circumventing Systems Guide 2.0

Non-Functional Landing Page: Enter the Spiderverse

Hey it’s your neighborhood webslinger – internet web that is and I’ve got a friendly reminder about being in good standing with the Web of Trust:

Web of Trust

WOT Services is the developer of MyWOT (also known as WOT and Web of Trust), an online reputation and Internet safety service which shows indicators of trust about existing websites. The confidence level is based both on user ratings and on third-party malware, phishing, scam and spam blacklists.

The service also provides crowdsourced reviews, about to what extent websites are trustworthy, and respect user privacy, vendor reliability and child safety.

If your website is failing the Web of Trust’s standards you’re a lot more at risk for Facebook slapping the non-functional landing page flag on you.

Non-Functional Landing Page: WOT Fix

How to fix:make sure your website passes WOT standards.

Don’t know what WOT is? Don’t know where to start? Here are some key factors to keep in mind to make your website trustworthy for Web of Trust standards and Facebook ad policies:

• HTTPS Not HTTP
• The Domain Resembles an Established Brand
• Website Privacy Policy with Physical Address

HTTPS Not HTTP

If the URL of a website begins with “https” not “http,” it means it has passed an “SSL Certificate” (the “s” is for “secure”) — a validation that as your data passes from your browser to the website’s server, it’s secure.

However, there are levels of validation some of which are easy to crack. Domain Validation (DV), the lowest level of validation, just confirms that an organization owns a domain, and as such, requested a certificate.

It has nothing to do with its legitimacy.

Extended Validation (EV), on the other hand, offers the highest, safest, and most extensive validation level. Here the company requesting the cert has to prove their identity and that their business is legit. There used to be a green bar with a lock icon displaying this but that’s changed as Namecheap explains here.

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Non-Functional Landing Page: Fake Brand Pages

Will the real Slim Shady please stand up, please stand up, please stand up?

No one likes an imitator when the real article is available – well neither does Facebook. If you are trying to create knock off pages mimicking bigger brands you’re in for some trouble:

The Domain Resembles an Established Brand

Cybercriminals may create phishing sites that convincingly impersonate an existing websites (say the attacker uses the domain amaz0n.com, buys a DV certificate, and designs it to look exactly like amazon.com) to trick people into logging in or buying something using a variety of methods such as phishing emails.

I see that shit all the time, often in the form of “invoice” emails with fake bills for things I never purchased. Just today I got a snail mail letter about:

Facebook ad landing page policy is one of the most important thing you should know about
WOT advises to always check the domain of a site, type the intended domain name into your browser yourself, and don’t click links in emails you receive from your bank or other online vendor.

On Facebook’s side, if they see your landing page has pretend name brand characters in it like amaz0n.com or you’re trying to misappropriate Facebook’s own brand assets they’ll hit you with the non-functional landing flag.

Or even a copyright infringement flag if the automations mistake your almost-brand name URL for the real one. Jeeze! Wouldn’t it be ironic? So, yeah, don’t do that.

Website Privacy Policy with Physical Address

I can’t count the times even major companies I’ve worked with don’t have a proper privacy policy Facebook will approve on their landing page. Your landing page has to have a Privacy Policy with a physical address or you’ll be hit with the non-functional landing page Facebook flag.

And other flags.

Think about all the Shopify sales pages with knock-offs or stolen goods – or sometimes there are even fake landing pages from clickbait farms running ads on Facebook.

They do not have privacy policies. You don’t want to be grouped in with them if you want to run Facebook ads without getting shut down.

How to fix: make sure every landing page you send traffic to from Facebook ads has a privacy policy with a physical address.

How the Facebook Ad Review Process Works

You may be wondering, “Trevor, you’ve worked at Meta, can you explain what’s going on after I submit an ad to a lander?”

Facebook has 24 hours to get back to with a rejection or approval for Facebook ads. The Facebook bots will assess each of your ad assets in your Facebook funnel (ad account, business manager, page etc) and the history of bans, or ad rejections before answering.

Given that this process is automated for 95% of the ads submitted, understanding what the machines flag for, how they flag and how to stay compliant with style of scanning the automations do is key to staying out of Facebook jail.

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Ad Account Restricted Facebook FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions

1. How to fix ad account disabled on facebook

2. How to enable my disabled facebook ad account

If you have a spare ad account in your Facebook Business Manager that you can run ads from, feel free to. BUT, identify the micro and major flags FIRST, so as not to repeat the same mistake.

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3. How to appeal a disabled facebook ad account

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4. how to get disabled ad account up and running

5. How Many Policy Violations Before Account is Shut Down?

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6. How to remove restriction on facebook ad account

7. how long does facebook take to review restricted ad account

8. how to fix your access can’t be reinstated because too much time has passed since we restricted your account

In a situation like this, your recovery options depend on what is banned:

a) Facebook Ad Account
b) Facebook Business Page
c) Facebook Business Manager
d) Facebook profile

9. How To Get Your Disabled Facebook Ad Account Back

10. How to unblock your Facebook ad account

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Ad Account Restricted Facebook: Current Status

If you look at official sources on Facebook’s website, you’ll see their advice is to check for notifications if you got an ad account restricted Facebook also says just go to business support home:

Except, that does nothing to reactivate any ad accounts restricted Facebook offers no guidance on what part of your funnel triggered the shut down.

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Ad Account Restricted Facebook Policy Violations

Let’s talk about the reality of getting an ad account restricted Facebook has a unique approach.

Advertising restrictions for policy violations

When you get an ad account restricted Facebook won’t exactly call you up with a full explanation of why, how bad the ad account restriction is, and what to do to get your Facebook ads live again.

Meta is simply too big now to offer personalized staffing solutions to give advertisers and business owners like yourself, clear and transparent answers.

Understanding 3 types of restricted accounts

Let’s go over understanding 3 types of restricted accounts. Now, once you become familiar with the flagging system the automations use to identify noncompliant content, it gets a little easier to side step the land mines.

One thing you can depend on is Facebook won’t give you the exact reason why you have an ad account restricted Facebook doesn’t always know why given their hiring practices of outsourcing labor.

Something simple and stupid that can get you banned as well as getting the unusual activity flag. But what is that flag exactly?

1. Your advertising access is restricted: Unusual Activity

Advertising restrictions for unusual activity

Advertising restrictions for unusual activity is the bane of advertisers. It is one of the fastest ways to get an entire funnel disabled and get you locked out of Facebook.

What leads to this happening?

Whenever you log into Facebook while traveling, you’re increasing the chance of a ban due to unusual activity. DO NOT log into business tools on Facebook while you’re traveling. Schedule out your ads ahead of time, and organic posts, and talk to an assistant located where the ads are usually run from.

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During my years working at Facebook I helped thousands of advertisers from SMBs to Fortune 500s solve Facebook ad issues (make sure to read Common Ad Policies Explained).

I know it’s kind of idiotic to think, I’m spending tons of money every month on Facebook ads, and all it takes is one vacation to Cuba, logging into Facebook business tools, and now everything is shut down.

Really, it’s for your own protection because there are a lot of hackers out there right now. Also, it points out just how granular Facebook restrictions can get – so it’s good to know when and how you can get restricted to ensure your entire funnel is squeaky clean.

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2. Ad Account Restricted Facebook account

Typically, your ad account doesn’t get restricted right away. Usually you’ll have other smaller flags leading up to this. Like, a consistent history of rejected ads. But, with the upcoming presidential election in America, Facebook is getting stricter.

Your ad account may get restricted from just a small mistake now. That’s due to the amount of hackers flooding America from overseas in countries like China, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Vietnam, Malaysia and more.

As a result, you’ll hit the second type of restriction, and get a Facebook ad account restricted seemingly out of nowhere

Your advertising access is restricted – what does it mean?

What to do if your Facebook Ad Account is disabled and everything you can do to reinstate including how to resolve payment issues, rejected ads, and get support.

When you get an ad account restricted facebook is basing this from your ad account’s of the background history. Everything is recorded on Facebook. Near misses, actual bans, ad rejections.

Just like my clients in cosmetic surgery discovered, there are micro flags in ad copy and landing pages that have to be removed first before attempting to appeal or relaunch a brand with Facebook after a permanent ban after getting a Your advertising access is restricted rejection.

Even software engineers AT Facebook AND Twitter have reached out to me, asking for help with their restricted ad accounts. That’s how bad the automation restrictions have gotten.

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3. Your Ad Account is Permanently Restricted

Oh geez Rick! Why did you have to go and piss off interdimensional Facebook aliens? Now my personal ad account is permanently restricted!

Sadly, a permanent restriction is no laughing matter as it usually means you are forever banned from advertising on Facebook. This is the 3rd type of account restrictions. Are you personally stuck in that position? I have a way out, like Michael Scofield escaping Facebook prison. Book a complimentary call here.

Often Facebook may use header flags, like Circumventing Systems, to flag that something is wrong with your funnel. But, the machines have yet to get a definite Facebook ad policy violation from your ads or lander. All the Facebook bots know is that something is non compliant.

Ad Account Restricted Facebook Length

A burning question many have is how long will you stay banned after getting an ad account restricted Facebook often stays silent here.

How long does a Facebook restriction last?

That’s a loaded question. Like who are you going to vote for in this coming election. The answer is: a few days, to infinity.

A few rare times, Facebook might reverse its decision within a week. Most of the time, you get locked in to that ban unless you have a jail-free card and a solid strategy on escaping Facebook policy prison.

Feel free to read my LinkedIn expose on Facebook ad bans here too

Ad Account Restricted Facebook: Why

Time to talk about other flags that contribute to getting an ad account restricted Facebook sometimes picks and chooses smaller flags and combines them together before a complete ban.

Why does Facebook say my advertising access is restricted?

Facebook says your advertising access is restricted because of a series of either smaller minor flags that have added up to a perma restriction. Or because you violated the cardinal rule of advertising on Meta and talked about religion, politics, or capital punishment. Or F#$%ing crypto.

Typically, you’re on a scoring card by the bots, based on a ratio of approved versus disapproved ads. If you’re tilted towards the restriction side more than the approved ads, then Facebook may overreact to a minor flag. Something that may have normally slipped under the radar can get you banned if you have a history of smaller violations. And now, you’re searching for answers on Google, LinkedIn, maybe even Reddit, but still come up blank.

Facebook might say your advertising access is restricted because all appeals are exhausted and you didn’t do anything specifically to show Facebook that you aim to follow the policies.

Or, you might have encountered a complete ban-level flag that if even said once, can get it all shut down.

Your advertising access is restricted: Causes

I see a lot of cases where businesses try to make big claims that are over the line for what facebook allows. Then, it is very easy to get banned, especially when you use spammy sounding copy on Facebook. Your Facebook Page usually isn’t banned first, typically you’ll get some ad rejections first. This may then trickle down to higher CPAs.

If you haven’t course-corrected in a Facebook-approved way by now, Facebook will make the determination that these Facebook ad policy missteps are intentional, leading to a Your advertising access is restricted ban.

The actions you take that lead up to an ad account restricted Facebook logs as well.

How can I tell if my account was restricted?

Here’s the weird part: Facebook changes how they notify you of an ad account being restricted almost every time. Sometimes you’ll click the bell icon in Facebook Business Manager and see the ban there.

Other times it’s in red text above your ads in Ads Manager. And rarely, you may get an email from Facebook. But, if you go to create an ad and Facebook won’t let you, that’s the fastest way to find out if you’re restricted.

What does having my account restricted mean?

It means you’re on the shit list, the no fly zone buddy, the he can enter, she can enter, he can enter, oh no, sorry bud, not you. You can’t advertise. It means you may just have an ad account restricted, but your Page may be ok and your Facebook Business Manager may be ok, but your ad account is not.

The first step you take you should be careful about if you’re dealing with an ad account restricted facebook often takes fast actions in this situation.

Your advertising access is restricted: First Steps

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

A big mistake I see businesses make – even 8 figure businesses – is to quickly click Request Review before diagnosing why they were banned, and the severity of the flags that led up to seeing: Your advertising access is restricted.

What if my ad account restriction is not lifted?

For many businesses, an ad account restricted situation isn’t resolved in a day. It can end up always being banned but, there are methods of getting Facebook ads live again even if it seems like Facebook won’t help. Schedule a discovery call today.

Ad Account Restricted Facebook

Now, moving on to the first steps to take with Facebook bans.

How do I unrestrict my Facebook ads?

Yelling at Facebook ad support and typing in all caps, probably won’t make you any friends. So, avoid that approach. If you have another ad account that is not restricted, after warming it up, you can potentially advertise again. Just don’t make the same mistake twice!

If you’re within 48 hours of the ban, I may be able to help.

Schedule your complimentary discovery call with me here, and we’ll see if you’re eligible for my services.

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Ad Account Restricted Facebook: Troubleshooting

Up next are some tips when auditing your funnel for Facebook compliance.

To troubleshoot your restricted account

What should you do first? Well, start with the audit, determine a theme amongst flags, and specifically look at how the Facebook ad policy automations apply to your type of business.

Facebook’s automations don’t act the exact same way with every business. Some niches are at higher risk than others. And, if you’re in a special ad category, you have limited targeting abilities. The ad policies come down on your brand in a different way.

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You’d think Meta wants your money instead of forcing folks to google stuff like, “your advertising access is restricted facebook how to fix,” but after the Great Tech Layoffs, Facebook’s reliance on automations just got supersized.

But this is where I can help, having done so much at Meta and working with established organizations like even my alma mater, the University of Texas.

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). He offered some critical insights to why our Facebook Ad Account was disabled and shared options to reduce our chances of future issues. 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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Ad Account Restricted Facebook Appeals

Appealing can give your ad account a second wind, but only if you understand how to appeal correctly.

How to appeal advertising restrictions

It’s that time again! Let’s debunk myths about Facebook ad account bans! Wordstream’s blog incorrectly tells you this about appealing a rejected Facebook ad:

News alert: Requesting review does not send your ad to a human. It just gives your ad’s rejection case to another machine who then says, “Oh, the 1st machine was right,” – 2nd machine.

The entire line of thinking here is wrong.

What you want to do with an appeal to give yourself the best shot is to identify all the minor flags in your funnel, and the major flags. This includes your website as well as Facebook Page.

After doing this, gauge how severe each flag is, because the severity will determine what options you have for appeals. Before doing anything else: remove those flags, by replacing the flagged copy with compliant copy Facebook does approve of.

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Only THEN, do you appeal. I’ve got this down to a science, if you do have a chance (the best appeals are within 48 hours of the ban hammer dropping), the process above will get you the best shot at recovering.

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Your ads have received a significant amount of negative feedback

If your product testing didn’t go well, or you have created low quality ads, Facebook users may use the self-service tools to report your ads to Facebook. Yes, this will get you in trouble.

The solution is more beta testing to find what your target audience does respond well to, and give it to them. An even bigger danger as far as avoiding bans goes, is taking the wrong advice online.

Another idiotic blog you may land on when googling “Ad account restriction facebook” tells you right off the bat they don’t know a damn thing about ad account restrictions on Facebook:

That “Don’t fret” shit is hilarious – and spoken like a true grunt just writing out copy without the real life lived experience of running ads on Facebook that get rejected, and domino into ad account or business managers being disabled.
Not only that, this website has copied a lot from my blog here, but only on the surface-level, mimicking my headlines but not able to give you a straight answer in the content.

Suffice to say, a lot of the info out there on the interwebs is blatantly false, spindoctoring answers based on random guesses, reappropriated answers miscommunicated, and flatout bullshit with a clickbait title but no substance.

Let me help you out more here, given my experience at Meta, and answer some frequently asked questions.

Ad Account Restricted Facebook FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions

1. How to fix ad account disabled on facebook

2. How to enable my disabled facebook ad account

If you have a spare ad account in your Facebook Business Manager that you can run ads from, feel free to. BUT, identify the micro and major flags FIRST, so as not to repeat the same mistake.

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3. How to appeal a disabled facebook ad account

You can also get some top tips on facebook ad policy in this complimentary eBook: Top 5 Reasons Agencies Fail at Facebook

4. how to get disabled ad account up and running

5. How Many Policy Violations Before Account is Shut Down?

And, if this still all seems too confusing, your clients are yelling at you to get ads live to bring in money, simply schedule a complimentary Facebook discovery call here

6. How to remove restriction on facebook ad account

7. how long does facebook take to review restricted ad account

8. how to fix your access can’t be reinstated because too much time has passed since we restricted your account

In a situation like this, your recovery options depend on what is banned:

a) Facebook Ad Account
b) Facebook Business Page
c) Facebook Business Manager
d) Facebook profile

9. How To Get Your Disabled Facebook Ad Account Back

10. How to unblock your Facebook ad account

Ad Account Restricted Facebook Fix

Wow so we’ve gone through a lot of information so far for how Facebook flags, and bans, as well as some tips for prevention and recovery. To graduate to the next level you’ll need to upgrade your Facebook advertising to the next level, balancing compliance with conversions.

Your Advertising Access is Restricted Fix

Solutions to Ad Account Restricted Facebook

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Your advertising access is restricted facebook how to fix

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Your advertising access is restricted – About

About advertising restrictions

Your advertising access is restricted: Policy Violations

Advertising restrictions for policy violations

Your advertising access is restricted: Unusual Activity

Advertising restrictions for unusual activity

During my years working at Facebook I helped thousands of advertisers from SMBs to Fortune 500s solve Facebook ad issues (make sure to read Common Ad Policies Explained).

I know it’s kind of idiotic to think, I’m spending tons of money every month on Facebook ads, and all it takes is one vacation to Cuba, logging into Facebook business tools, and now everything is shut down.

Really, it’s for your own protection because there are a lot of hackers out there right now. Also, it points out just how granular Facebook restrictions can get – so it’s good to know when and how you can get restricted to ensure your entire funnel is squeaky clean.

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Your advertising access is restricted: Background

Your advertising access is restricted – what does it mean?

What to do if your Facebook Ad Account is disabled and everything you can do to reinstate including how to resolve payment issues, rejected ads, and get support.

Some of the background behind Your advertising access is restricted flags comes from a systemic history check on your activity. Every is recorded on Facebook. Near misses, actual bans, ad rejections.

Just like my clients in cosmetic surgery discovered, there are micro flags in ad copy and landing pages that have to be removed first before attempting to appeal or relaunch a brand with Facebook after a permanent ban after getting a Your advertising access is restricted rejection.

Even software engineers AT Facebook AND Twitter have reached out to me, asking for help with their restricted ad accounts. That’s how bad the automation restrictions have gotten.

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Your advertising access is restricted: Why

Why does Facebook say my advertising access is restricted?

Your advertising access is restricted: Causes

Your advertising access is restricted: First Steps

How do I unrestrict my Facebook ads?

How to Earn the Money You Need without Sacrificing the Time You Want for Yourself & Your Family

To troubleshoot your restricted account

What should you do first? Well, start with the audit, determine a theme amongst flags, and specifically look at how the Facebook ad policy automations apply to your type of business.

Facebook’s automations don’t act the exact same way with every business. Some niches are at higher risk than others. And, if you’re in a special ad category, you have limited targeting abilities. The ad policies come down on your brand in a different way.

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You’d think Meta wants your money instead of forcing folks to google stuff like, “your advertising access is restricted facebook how to fix,” but after the Great Tech Layoffs, Facebook’s reliance on automations just got supersized.

Sheryl Sandberg -who I’ve interacted with while working in tech at Facebook – is moving on to greener pastures. The focus is not on supporting Facebook advertisers right now – but this is where I can help, having done so much at Meta and working with established organizations like even my alma mater, the University of Texas.

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). He offered some critical insights to why our Facebook Ad Account was disabled and shared options to reduce our chances of future issues. 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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How to appeal advertising restrictions

It’s that time again! Let’s debunk more incorrect info about Facebook ad policy. Wordstream’s blog incorrectly tells you this about appealing a rejected Facebook ad:

Requesting review does not send your ad to a human. It merely gives your ad’s rejection case to another machine who then says, “Oh, the 1st machine was right,” – 2nd machine.

The entire line of thinking here is wrong.

I think it stems from the urge to become a victim and feel helpless, instead of using logic and critical thinking to discover why your ad is under fire.

Facebook Ad Policy FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions

1. How to fix ad account disabled on facebook

2. How to enable my disabled facebook ad account

If you have a spare ad account in your Facebook Business Manager that you can run ads from, feel free to. BUT, identify the micro and major flags FIRST, so as not to repeat the same mistake.

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3. How to appeal a disabled facebook ad account

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4. how to get disabled ad account up and running

5. How Many Policy Violations Before Account is Shut Down?

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6. How to remove restriction on facebook ad account

7. how long does facebook take to review restricted ad account

8. how to fix your access can’t be reinstated because too much time has passed since we restricted your account

In a situation like this, your recovery options depend on what is banned:

a) Facebook Ad Account
b) Facebook Business Page
c) Facebook Business Manager
d) Facebook profile

9. How To Get Your Disabled Facebook Ad Account Back

10. How to unblock your Facebook ad account

Your Advertising Access is Restricted Fix

Solutions to Restricted Facebook Account

If you’re ok with waiting a bit longer, and entering the waitlist to see if you’re eligible – Schedule a call or contact me via email.

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Disabled Facebook Ad Account Solution for Meta

Did the ban hammer slam your Business Manager with ad restrictions and a disabled facebook ad account? I’ve worked at Meta and am a no bullshit guy. I’ll help guide you to a solution even if Facebook won’t reply.

Make your ad account active in Meta Business Manager

You have no issue turning profit from Facebook ads that give you at least 2X ROI if not more BUT it’s a headache when the ban bots suddenly hit you with a disabled Facebook ad account. Damn!

To YOUR eyes, your ads look great. You’re convinced you haven’t done anything wrong (but a shred of doubt lingers that just maybe you did). Logging into Ads Manager you click Request Review but literally within seconds see:

Part of your frustration also stems from the fact that you’ve run this same ad many times before without an ad restriction!

So what gives?!

During my years working at Facebook I helped thousands of advertisers from SMBs to Fortune 500s solve Facebook ad issues (make sure to read How to Solve Facebook Ad Account Restriction As A Business).

Disabled Facebook Ad Account Guide

What to do if your Facebook Ad Account is disabled and everything you can do to reinstate including how to resolve payment issues, rejected ads, and get support.

Disabled Facebook Ad Account First Steps

Before you begin

The Reason Why Your Facebook Ad Account’s Disabled

Facebook Disabled Ad Account Explanation

Recognize the signs of a disabled Facebook ad account

How Facebook Automations Flag Disabled Facebook Ad Account

Disabled Facebook Ad Account: Payments

When choosing a payment method, make sure:

The impact of a disabled Facebook ad account

Disabled Facebook Ad Account BM:

Business Manager

Disabled Facebook Ad Account and PAS Formulas

Why was your Facebook ad account disabled?

Immediate Steps to Take After Your Ad Account is Disabled

Navigating through Facebook ad complications

Disabled Facebook Ad Account: Intellectual Property

An Important Fact On Facebook’s IP

Disabled Facebook Ad Account: Appeals

Submitting an Appeal to Facebook

New Policies Affecting Disabled Facebook Ad Accounts

Disabled Facebook Ad Account: Road Map

From Disabled Facebook Ad Account to Appeal

How to Recover a Disabled Facebook Ad Account Part 1

Outdated articles like this one will gloss over what to do without going into more detail – so I’m going to give you more insight on Facebook ad accounts disabled and what to do.

How to Recover Disabled Facebook Ad Accounts part 2

…and what NOT to do when appealing ad accounts.

Many websites will tell you to just click “Recover Account” (like this one) but that’s incorrect!

The advice in that article tells you to fill out a form and wait to see if you get assigned a Facebook rep – that is rolling the dice and likely to make your disabled ad account unrecoverable.

Also this article gives incorrect advice as well telling you to verify your Business Manager after getting an ad account disabled.

That’s the dumbest advice ever (sorry not sorry Emily).

– That’s like going 120 MPH yelling out the window at the cop:

“I promise I won’t break the speed limit again officer!” while speeding.

When your ad account is disabled – you are asking Facebook to trust you that your business is legit, even after you’ve set the precedent that you can’t follow their rules.

You think Facebook is going to act in your favor? NO.

You’ll get stuck in a cycle of the spinning wheel of death for Facebook trying to both verify a Business Manager with a disabled ad account and review your appeal to that disabled ad account. Your facebook ad manager account disabled, no ads live – what to do?

If you want to verify your Business Manager after your ad account is reactivated, or on a fresh new Business Manager – sure, that can help.

But don’t do that while you’re appealing a disabled ad account – be smart. Clicking Request Review is a big mistake.

Diagnose The Problem

Preventing Future Ad Account Disabling

Make a closed ad account active

Determine Why You Were Flagged BEFORE Appealing

Let me RE-EMPHASIZE:

If you don’t determine why you were flagged first BEFORE contacting Facebook ad support, you’re going to repeat history like GroundHog’s Day.

Step 1. – Navigate to Facebook’s Business Help Page here:

Step 2. – Select your ad account from the drop down menu:

Step 3. – Select the issue:

Step 4. – Click on Contact Support:

Disabled Facebook Ad Account Request Review Tactic

So you got on a chat with Facebook Ad Support – sweet! But keep in mind you are not talking to decision makers. Maybe your facebook account disabled due to copyright infringement or your facebook ad account disabled payment method triggered this.

You’re googling “facebook ad account disabled reddit” when you get hit with a new flag: “facebook ad account disabled circumventing systems.”
Damn it!

You’re all heated chatting with Facebook ad support but they can’t help. Remember:

These are gatekeepers that often don’t speak English fluently (if you’re coming from America, or the UK). They won’t understand a lot of what you’re saying.

They are essentially like bartenders – they have to hear a lot of crap from advertisers who chat in using all caps like “HELLO ARE U THERE.”

And at best, these are entry level workers that can understand maybe, 40% of what you’re talking about on a good day when you ask them how to fix facebook ad account disabled.

If you get lucky, you may talk to someone who gets 70% of what you say when chatting, “facebook disabled my ad account for no reason!”

– but they’ve never run ads that have actual ROI –

Facebook Ad Support agents aren’t in the business world, they aren’t entrepreneurs and don’t have a vested interest in whether or not your ad account is active or disabled. Or your facebook account disabled upon creation issues or your facebook account disabled login problems.

How nice you are to them, how simple you make your explanations will play a role in how receptive Facebook is to your appeal.

Their goal is to close as many cases as possible – quantity over quality. So be respectful, polite, and also realistic when it comes to disabled facebook ad account review time.

But, if you manage to say the right words and prep Facebook ad support, on rare occasions they can help you recover from a disabled facebook ad account.

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Make an ad account active

What Happens After Appealing Disabled Accounts

Pause yelling “My facebook ad account got disabled!” and take a seat.

Your ad account could either be:

• Reactivated within 24 hours because it was a Facebook glitch

• Reactivated incorrectly because Facebook Ad Support missed the flags you do have

• Or it’s “your ads are violating ad policy” or “this business model isn’t supported” and you stay disabled

What To Do If Your Ad Account Appeal Gets Rejected

Realistically you have about a 50/50 chance appealing any ad account that’s disabled. Here are some factors that play into why your disabled ad account will be reactivated or permanently disabled:

♦ How many previous rejected ads you’ve had

♦ What your ad account’s hidden score is (a ratio of rejected vs approved ads)

♦ If you conveyed your situation correctly to Facebook ad support who are gatekeepers not DMs

♦ If you determined first exactly which ad policy you’re flagged for (this helps FB ad support reps make a case for you)

♦ Did you clean your funnel (landing pages etc) of the ad policy violations before contacting Facebook? Do this first if your ad account disabled for policy violation.

♦ Your business model – certain business models are under more scrutiny than others (how to make money online, special ad categories etc).

✅ In a new ad account in the same Business Manager if you had a minor flag cause the ad account to get disabled, or

✅ A new Business Manager and new ad account in the new Business Manager (don’t use your personal ad account attached to your profile – create new ones in Business Manager) or

Conclusion

Facebook Disabled Ad Account Solution

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How to Solve Facebook Ad Account Restriction As A Business

Are you looking for a solution on how to solve a Facebook ad account restriction? I’ve worked at Meta and will give you no BS help with figuring out a Facebook ad account restriction.

1. Overview Facebook Ad Account Restriction

Like the Bermuda Triangle, Facebook’s advertising policies are mysterious to businesses running Facebook ads, especially when dealing with a Facebook ad account restriction.

And navigating what happens when your Facebook ads are rejected can be a frustrating experience. Add also that Facebook Profiles have separate rules than Business Pages and you’re asking:

“How can I navigate Facebook’s advertising policies as a business?” or “How do I recover from a Facebook ad account restriction?”

And what’s troubling is the fact that the more Facebook ad account restrictions you get the higher the cost of ads is for you. On top of that, one of my former clients, Mari Smith, the Queen of Facebook just announced that boosted posts on Facebook & Instagram via mobile cost 30% more thanks to Apple. Starting soon (if not already), if you BOOST a post via the Facebook or Instagram app on iOS you will be charged an *additional* 30% service fee.

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Facebook Ad Account Restriction: Standards

Understanding Facebook Advertising Standards

Facebook’s Advertising Standards provide policy detail and guidance on the types of ad content Meta allows, and the types of ad content Meta prohibits. Breaking these rules leads to a Facebook ad account restriction.

When advertisers place an order, each ad is reviewed against Meta advertising policies. Facebook’s Advertising Standards also provide guidance on advertiser behavior that may result in advertising restrictions being placed on a Business Account or its assets (an ad account, Page, or user account).

If you think your ad was mistakenly rejected, or if you think your Business Account or its assets were mistakenly restricted, you can request a review of either decision in Account Quality or by chatting with Facebook Ad Support.

BUT…

It’s challenging to do this because Facebook outsources all their Facebook ad support reps to call centers with contractors who have zero experience running a business and don’t actually know why your ads are rejected or why you got a Facebook ad account restriction.

On top of that let’s say you pay a few thou to go to a marketing event to learn more from experts, like the Social Media Strategies Summit. Not a single speaker there has worked with the engineers at Facebook like I have, and none will give you a straight answer on avoiding and recovering from bans.

Want to know why Meta gives you a Facebook ad account restriction? It’s a combination a many confusing elements. Given I’ve spent years working at Facebook, I can help you solve a Facebook ad account restriction.

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So let’s get started! Below you’ll find tips for navigating Facebook ad policies as a business and how that differs from using Facebook as just a profile.

Facebook Ad Account Restriction: Confusion

Common Points of Confusion

To help you build a compliant and user-friendly ads experience, I’ve highlighted some common areas of confusion. Click the links below to learn more about:

What Facebook won’t tell you is that the automations don’t understand human conversation. So if you have any that could be interpreted as sexual, you may get shut down.

If your landing page seems like it’s implying that Facebook / Meta has endorsed your product you may get the ban hammer.

Or perhaps your ad copy is simply using “you” and “your” incorrectly in ads – this means you’ll get flagged.

Read about how to recover your Facebook ad account for more details on flagging.

Prevention is always going to be a lot easier than trying to recover from having a restricted Facebook ad account. The reason is, simply said, machine-learning. As Facebook’s automations tend to establish patterns after identifying your ad account as a rule-breaker, they will return and scan your Business Manager more frequently.

It’s kind of like pissing off a boss on your first day on the job. The trust that boss was going to extend to you is now obliterated. You feel like you’re walking on eggshells because now it seems like even an innocent mistake is being viewed as a deliberate attempt to circumvent the systems.

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Facebook Ad Account Restriction: Principles

2. Meta Advertising Policy Principles

Meta has some boilerplate ad policies that are enforced by machines and there is very little human review if your business is running Facebook ads. This is what leads to getting a Facebook ad account restriction.

Officially, Facebook says that advertisers contribute to the Meta community in many ways, including highlighting new products and services or drawing attention to events and issues.

In reality, Facebook advertisers pay for Mark Zuckerberg’s mansions in Hawaii but, there is little to no hands-on help from qualified Facebook reps when trying to solve a Facebook ad account restriction.

Be sure to read What to Do If Your Facebook Ad Account Is Disabled

Facebook wants to create a welcoming environment for everyone who uses Meta products and services, so they have put in place Facebook Advertising Standards to guide what is allowed across Meta technologies.

However, in practice, what ends up happening is ads get flagged for a minor detail that isn’t obvious and leads to a Facebook ad account restriction.

Now, Facebook is still profitable and making many of my clients a lot of money. But, if your grasp of compliance is lacking, you may get even lower click-through-rates. The average click-through rate on Facebook ads is 1.4%.

While it’s good to understand Facebook’s philosophy – to create a website based on connecting and community, there are a lot of things lost in translation when trying to avoid a Facebook ad account restriction. Because there are like 10,000 more facebook ad policies relating to how the machines decide to give a Facebook ad account restriction. That’s why I’m trying to help here.

Also, grok that this is ultimately designed to keep Facebook users on the platform as long as possible. This is for Facebook users to see more ads, which makes Facebook wealthier.

So, if you’re wondering why Facebook is so strict on businesses running Facebook ads – it’s because Meta wants to make sure your ads aren’t driving Facebook users off the platform to a competitor.

Who then takes that ad revenue Facebook would have had if your negative or shocking ad didn’t scare Facebook users away? Hypothetically at least, because the FB automations misunderstand human language all the time.

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Facebook Ad Account Restriction: Ad Principles

Facebook Advertising Principles

Advertisers running ads across Meta technologies must follow the Facebook profile’s Community Standards and the Facebook Advertising Standards. In addition, advertisers on Instagram must also follow Facebook’s Instagram Community Guidelines.

If you don’t follow both the ad rules and the regular FB user rules you’ll be at risk for a Facebook ad account restriction.

Here’s an important distinction: Profiles must abide by the Community Standards, not the Facebook’s advertising policies. This means that certain content that would be banned on Facebook ads, is allowed for Facebook profiles to post. That’s why getting a Facebook ad account restriction can seem like a surprise, because you don’t know which policy you violated.

But, the reverse is not true. If your Facebook ads contain content that is against the Community Standards, you will also be breaking the Facebook ad policies. Are your ad accounts fine but your Facebook ads are rejected? Read about what you can do when you find your Facebook Ads Blocked.

Meta’s policies are guided by the company’s core values and the following principles:

Facebook Ad Account Restriction: Enforcement

Enforcement of Facebook Ad Policies

Let me share what this looks like in reality not just the fluffy PR speak you see above from Facebook, so you can sidestep getting a Facebook ad account restriction. Also, be aware of new fake posts on Facebook as Facebook’s new ban on News is causing a rise in bad actors.

Protecting People From Unsafe and Discriminatory Practices

While on the surface this can be interpreted as “don’t sell drugs on Facebook” (which is true of course – don’t do that!) the part to pay attention to is “discriminatory practices,” to avoid getting a Facebook ad account restriction.

In 2023 there was a bug that would randomly flag accounts for “discriminatory practices” that were fully compliant. Yet, the automations glitched out. If you chatted in with one of their outsourced workers in Facebook ad support, 9 out of 10 times you could get your ads active again. But, you could get stuck in the loop with a Facebook ad account restriction if you didn’t say the right thing to Facebook ad support.

Discriminatory practices have a history:

In 2019 a lawsuit forced Facebook to take away real estate ads’ ability to use income and zipcodes from targeting parameters in Ads Manager. This led to a lot more bans and a lot more advertisers got hit with a Facebook ad account restriction. There was a lot more oversight for businesses running ads on Facebook because Zuck didn’t want to lose any more money in court.

So the special ad categories was established and ban bots got even more severe, hitting more marketers with a Facebook ad account restriction.

Facebook Ad Account Restriction: Scams

Protecting People From Fraud or Scams

Right now there is a wave of 3rd world country hackers from Vietnam mainly, but also Bangladesh, Mumbai, Philippines, Pakistan, and some from Malaysia. They benefit from you getting a Facebook ad account restriction, because they’ll run crazy ads while you’re locked out of your account.

They are hacking into people’s Facebook profiles, posting bad content to get your Profile taken down because they realized they can run ads and the Ads Manager will sell their shit a lot longer and you can’t shut it off with your profile disabled unless you cancel your credit cards and PayPal account.

If your Facebook Profile has been hacked, Facebook offers no support at all, as the Washington Post accurately reports.

Facebook Ad Account Restriction: Hacker Warning

What this means for businesses, is you gotta be careful about your wording, it’s so much easier to get a Facebook ad account restriction. You don’t want to sound like a scam because there are A LOT of scammers out there right now hacking into people’s Profiles.

A lot of companies that focus on teaching people how to start a business comes off as sounding like an MLM because of the wording.

Work-from-home type ad copy can get flagged as a pyramid scheme if you aren’t careful. I help folks audit funnels to be compliant to avoid getting shut down for this.

Read more on frequent Facebook ad policies if you are looking for an explanation of how and why they work the way they do.

Facebook Ad Account Restriction: User Experience

Promoting Positive User Experiences

Remember what I said earlier about Facebook not wanting your ads to drive people off Facebook because that loses them money? So that’s what “promoting positive user experiences” refers to as well.

The most frequent flags you’ll get here are for the Personal Attributes flags. That’s where Facebook feels that your ad copy is targeting a specific group of people too personally. Like weight-loss ads that sound really unflattering talking about “fat” too much in the wrong way

Read the ultimate guide on Personal Attributes, and learn things Facebook isn’t telling you here

Facebook Ad Account Restriction: Transparency

Promoting Transparency

This is basically bullshit. Facebook is the least transparent Fortune 500 company I’ve worked at. What this means is, after Cambridge Analytica, Facebook started trying to stoke the fires of a more positive public outlook. So they added the ability to hide ads from advertisers, and go to the Facebook ad library.

What does transparency mean, translated from Facebook-speak to business owner or agency owner?

As a business, when you’re running ads, just make sure you don’t sound too spammy. Don’t overpromise an unrealistic-sounding result.

Don’t miss out on reading How to Remove a Restriction on a Facebook Ad Account

Enforcement of Meta Ad Policies

Meta uses automations 99% of the time and, in some seldom moments, a manual human review to enforce their policies. But beyond reviewing individual ads, Meta also monitors and investigates advertiser behavior.

This is referencing the internal score Facebook has for your ad account that they don’t reveal to you. No, the Account Quality is not accurate – it is often buggy like Page Insights is.

If your ad account’s hidden score goes down enough, Facebook may restrict your advertiser accounts. This is if Facebook feels your ad accounts don’t follow their Advertising Standards, Community Standards, or other Meta policies and terms.

Facebook’s review process does not detect all policy violations, and ads remain subject to review and re-review and may be rejected for violating Meta’s policies at any time.

Translation: Facebook automations make a lot of mistakes, don’t understand human language, and often approve Facebook ads that should be rejected FIRST. And later, these rejected ads are likely to be rescanned, and you’ll get shut down seemingly out of the blue.

Facebook feels it is an advertiser’s responsibility to understand and comply with Meta’s ad policies outlined in Meta’s Advertising Standards, their Terms of Service, and all local laws and regulations.

The message here is, “We don’t really give a F$%k because we make billions of dollars and your 500K a month in ad spend isn’t worth us fixing our broken automations that destroy small businesses.”

The local laws and regulations are mainly for ads for gambling and political ads – most of the time you don’t have to worry about these.

Facebook ad policies’ small print here is that they outsource Facebook ad support to barely literate workers, who give advice that will get you shut down and it is up to you, the advertiser, to intuit the Facebook ad policies on your own.

Now, if you’re working with me, I can help add transparency to how Facebook ad policies work. Not theoretically but in the real business world, having run my own ad agency while I was working in the ads department at Facebook.

Facebook Ad Account Restriction: Rejected Ads

Facebook says that advertisers whose ads are rejected will typically be provided an opportunity to edit their ads in order to bring them into compliance and can request another review if they believe their ad was incorrectly rejected.

But the problem with that is if you don’t actually know why your ad was rejected, appealing is a waste of time because you’ll keep repeating the ad copy that got you flagged before in new ads. Or, because due to all the layoffs, there won’t really be a human to review your ads.

If all your business is dealing with is a rejected ad – I can audit it for you and explain why you were rejected and how to get compliant. But if you just appeal without changing your ad, you’ll get hit with circumventing systems flag.

My Underrated Trick to Appeal Rejected Ad Accounts

Make sure your entire funnel is compliant FIRST. Don’t forget to make sure your landing page/website is compliant BEFORE resubmitting the ad. You’ll want to make sure everything is compliant, identify why your ad was rejected, then appeal.

This sometimes can give you the extra edge to get a restricted ad account active.

Facebook Ad Account Restriction: Ad Review

3. The Ad Review Process

Facebook’s ad review system is a series of automations based on a specific logic – if this, then that. Meta’s ad review process starts automatically before ads begin running, and is typically completed within 24 hours. If it takes longer than 24 hours for your ad to be approved or rejected, and it’s just in limbo, feel free to reach out to Facebook ad support.

During this review, the status of the ad will be “In review.” Additionally, your ads will be reviewed again, after they are live. Typically, at least once a quarter Facebook re-scans all active ads. Although the automations often skip over many ads that should be rejected.

Facebook’s Business Help Center has some generic info good for people who know nothing about running ads.

But for ad agencies and businesses, it isn’t that helpful. You’ll do better reading some of the in-depth ad guides I’ve written on my site and also reviewing the ads that have been rejected and finding out exactly which copy triggered the automations. Facebook won’t tell you this. I can though.

If you need a more VIP level of support you can see if you can get on my calendar and benefit from my experience working at Facebook.

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What Is Reviewed

Facebook’s automations scan your ad creative, be it a still image or a video, your ad’s headline, ad copy, and the bots also travel to your website if it’s connected to the Facebook ad.

Facebook Ad Account Restriction: Assets

Business Asset Review

Many businesses navigating Facebook’s advertising policies may not know that each advertising asset connected to Facebook has its own score. That means your Business Manager has a score based on disabled ad accounts and rejected ads.

Each ad account has its own score based on the ratio of approved ads versus disapproved ads.

And if you’re running a Facebook shop you know that Facebook Business Pages have a quality score that can’t get too low or you’ll be restricted from advertising. There are ways to boost your internal score with Facebook as well.

Want to make sure your landing page doesn’t get flagged by Facebook? Click here.

If any one of the above mentioned advertising assets drops below a threshold for the internal point system Facebook attributes this is what happens:

You’ll first get put on the radar for the shut down bots. Then, unless it improves, you will eventually be shut down at the:

○ Ad level
○ Ad account level and
○ Business Manager level

And in a worst-case scenario, at the profile level. But you’re thinking – just appeal in a review right?

Facebook Ad Account Restriction: Outcome

Outcome of Review

If your ads violate Facebook’s advertising policies, your ads will be rejected, and the Business Account or its assets may be restricted. The restriction mainly comes from a threshold limitation.

After you have a large number of Facebook ads rejected, Facebook’s machines will determine you are a bad actor and automatically drop the ban hammer on your ad account(s).

Lower-quality ads which don’t directly violate Facebook’s advertising policies often will just jack up your cost per action and cost per click metrics. So any blurry images or screenshot pictures instead of JPG source files you have will trigger the automations to low-key hate without a direct shutdown.

You don’t have an endless amount of ad rejections and disabled ad accounts on deck to mess around with. There’s a limit to how many ad accounts are shut down and ads rejected.

After a certain amount of rejections, Facebook can and will decide to restrict your Profile (the personal profile that is the one key to many doors, creating your Business Page) from advertising.

Or restrict your Page itself from running ads. That’s why it’s super important to consistently run compliant ads.

Facebook Ad Account Restriction FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions

1. How to fix ad account disabled on facebook

2. How to enable my disabled facebook ad account

If you have a spare ad account in your Facebook Business Manager that you can run ads from, feel free to. BUT, identify the micro and major flags FIRST, so as not to repeat the same mistake.

3. How to appeal a disabled facebook ad account

You can also get some top tips on facebook ad policy in this complimentary eBook: Top 5 Reasons Agencies Fail at Facebook

4. how to get disabled ad account up and running

5. How Many Policy Violations Before Account is Shut Down?

And, if this still all seems too confusing, your clients are yelling at you to get ads live to bring in money, simply schedule a complimentary Facebook discovery call here

6. How to remove restriction on facebook ad account

7. how long does facebook take to review restricted ad account

8. how to fix your access can’t be reinstated because too much time has passed since we restricted your account

In a situation like this, your recovery options depend on what is banned:

a) Facebook Ad Account
b) Facebook Business Page
c) Facebook Business Manager
d) Facebook profile

9. How To Get Your Disabled Facebook Ad Account Back

10. How to unblock your Facebook ad account

Re-Review of Ads

Remember Cambridge Analytica? Or when California made additional requirements for Facebook to run ads in Cali? Or when Europe instituted its new privacy laws?

Any time there’s a big change in Facebook ad policies (which the public may not always be informed about), Facebook orders the automations to re-scan the ads again. So what used to be compliant could now be uncompliant.

For businesses navigating Facebook’s advertising policies, it seems bizarre that ads that used to be ok are now shut down. You may hear advertisers call this a glitch. It is not a bug. This is just how Facebook makes sweeping changes to ad policies and doesn’t really care if any honest business people are caught up and shut down in the process.

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Ad agencies: tired of getting the silent treatment from Facebook after Facebook bans? And all you want is your Facebook ads live making you money?

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How to Remove a Restriction on a Facebook Ad Account

Try this if you struggle with restricted ad accounts: learn the flags and their severity level that got you banned and remove them from your funnel. If you’re looking to find out how to remove a restriction on a Facebook ad account – I worked in ads at Facebook and will use my expertise there to guide you to a solution without guesswork, but answers from the source even when Facebook goes silent.

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An underrated trick to remove a restriction on a Facebook ad account is to understand just how Facebook flags your funnel which I’ll be revealing further in this article.

You may feel like you’d have better luck uncovering the mystery of The Great Pyramid of Giza or the Hanging Gardens of Babylon than getting a straight answer from Facebook, if you’re trying to remove a restriction on a Facebook ad account.

There are so many flags your ad account can get hit with that it’s challenging to quickly determine the reason for Facebook bans. Also, take a look at my blog, How to Recover A Facebook Ad Account That’s Been Disabled.

How to Remove a Restriction on a Facebook Ad Account Tips

A lot of ad agencies are asking, “How do I recover Facebook ad accounts?” Or “How can I reactivate my disabled Business Manager?” And “Why is my Facebook ad rejected?”

The wall of silence from Facebook, the parent company now called Meta, frustrates business owners and advertisers alike. Money coming in from Facebook ads is suddenly stopped, and clients won’t stop screaming because their products aren’t selling.

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You’re left holding the bag, without answers and just a nasty deadline before your clients drop you and hire another marketing firm who knows how to remove a restriction on a Facebook ad account. Or your deadline for a product launch is making you sweat bullets while Facebook keeps you in limbo.

You’re waiting on Facebook to reply as you’re waiting on an ad asset that’s permanently restricted to get fully appealed. Fortunately, you’ve found this blog – I’ve worked at Facebook for years and can help you sort things out.

Whether you’re using Facebook ad expert Tim Burd’s Surfing Method of Scaling Ads or another tactic, Facebook ad policies will still need to be top of mind, or you’ll lose money with Facebook bans.
Just like I provided solutions for Boomerang, a marketing research firm, you’ll learn how to avoid the land mines that shut down millions of businesses a year on Facebook. Click here for a free discovery call.

If I decide you’re a good fit, we can work together and I’ll reveal why FB shut you down and how to get compliant again. (In a rush? Skip the line with prepaid funnel audits with VIP Access). You won’t have to guess again at learning how to remove a restriction on a Facebook ad account.

Remove a Restriction on a Facebook Ad Account Guide

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Remove a Restriction on a Facebook Ad Account Pro Tip

You may be asking why each scenario is different. Well, there are many types of Facebook ads and Facebook’s ad policies apply differently to each industry which is important to know before you try to remove a restriction on a Facebook ad account.

And I’m not even talking about Special Ad Categories (real estate, social issues, employment, loans etc).

How Facebook’s machines apply their striking automation really does depend on a number of factors which I’ll get into next.

You may not know this, but, being more or less compliant affects your CPC, CPL (cost-per-lead), and Cost of Acquisition. The less compliant you are – even if you’re not banned…yet – the more Facebook will charge you for distributing your ads, because they’ll feel it’s content Facebook users won’t want to see, if it isn’t fully compliant.

And, ad costs have been going up. On average, 91% of industries saw increases in CPL in 2023.

How did I get myself restricted from advertising on Facebook?

You’d be surprised how many businesses are running ads based on what worked 5 years ago. Just like advances in technology rapidly change the social landscape, so do changes in Facebook’s ad policies.

Even if you went to the Social Media Strategies Summit, David Velez, Head of Social at Amazon, wouldn’t be able to explain to you how you got banned – none of the experts could, because they haven’t worked side-by-side with the software engineers who operate the automations that ban you. I happened to have this experience, from my work at Meta, and one common theme was how fast facebook ad policies change, the and effect this has on businesses like yours.

What was allowed last year may not be compliant this year. And if you’re still running ads that used to be compliant, Facebook will show no mercy in shutting you down ASAP. And even retroactively punishing your ad account by flagging old ads that aren’t even active, if they violate new current ad policies. This is what leads to ad bans marketers get, who then try to remove a restriction on a Facebook ad account.

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

Remove a Restriction on a Facebook Ad Account Flag Type

You can get your ads rejected for violating the spam flags, the Personal Attributes policies, or Facebook could have flagged you as an MLM.

Your eyes would pop out if you knew the list of banned words Facebook has that associate you with a pyramid scheme. If you accidentally used one of these words, even 1 word would be enough to get you shut down.

Ideally, you’d have your ads prescreened for Facebook ad policy compliance before going live. Then, you’d never have to try to learn how to remove a restriction on a Facebook ad account.

This can be problematic for many advertisers because you can read all the books on Facebook ads, read all of facebook ad policies and still not get answers.

You can study the top Facebook experts like Mari Smith (one of my clients), or events like Social Media Marketing World but even then, you won’t find anyone there who has worked with thousands of businesses recovering from ad account restrictions or who has worked at Meta with the engineers maintaining these ban bot automations like I have.

That being said, if you want to skip the rest of the article, and get a solution today just book a free discovery call, and if you’re eligible, I’ll guide you every step of the way to get Facebook ads live again and money coming into your bank account from ads safe from the automations.

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How can I tell if my account was restricted?

While Facebook is supposed to send you an email, you may not always get an email telling you that your account is restricted. But, going to Ads Manager, or Business Manager you’ll see this warning when your account is restricted:

And obviously, not being able to run ads and having all your live ads shut down is a pretty clear indicator your account is restricted on Facebook. Part of the ninja skill involved when successfully trying to remove a restriction on a Facebook ad account comes down to accurately diagnosing what got you in Facebook jail – before FB bots have a chance to permanently restrict your ad account or Page.

If you haven’t read it, check out: How to Recover a Permanently Disabled Ad Account

What does having my account restricted mean?

Remove a Restriction on a Facebook Ad Account WARNING

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

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New Fees for Boosted Posts on FB & Instagram on Apple IOS

Meta said Thursday that it will start charging a 30 percent fee when advertisers pay to boost the visibility of their posts in Facebook’s and Instagram’s iOS apps.

Remove a Restriction on a Facebook Ad Account Troubleshoot

To troubleshoot your restricted account:

Confirm your identity

Complete verification

Facebook’s ad policies will tell you to complete verification but like I said above, and admiral Ackbar reiterates:

Simply verifying a Facebook Business Manager will not remove a restriction on a Facebook ad account.

Remove a Restriction on a Facebook Ad Account Security

Secure your account

Remove a Restriction on a Facebook Ad Account Content

Violating content

Facebook’s Violating Content Policies are a joke. You have no guidance here, it just says:

Advertisers can’t:

Severely violate our advertising policies
Repeatedly violate our advertising policies

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Remove a Restriction on a Facebook Ad Account Unusual Activity

How to appeal advertising restrictions

Remove a Restriction on a Facebook Ad Account Request a review

Request a review

More idiotic advice from Facebook:

“If your account is restricted due to a policy violation, you may be able to request a review.”

That’s like asking the original evil Terminator to review John Connor as he is hunting Connor.

Now – I’m not saying that it won’t ever work. About 1 percent of people who request review, DO get their accounts back. But, I’ve worked with 10s of 1000s of advertisers and the stats show requesting review just locks you into a permanently restricted status unless you know how to do it strategically in a way that gets real results.

Learn more

Remove a Restriction on a Facebook Ad Account Solution

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Recover Facebook ad account disabled

Are you seeking to recover from seeing your Facebook ad account disabled? You’ve come to the right place.

Stuck trying to recover a disabled facebook account? Facebook aka Meta not helping? You’ve come to the right place for solutions to a Facebook ad account disabled.

After working high up at Facebook in ads, tech and the creator monetization program I help advertisers get out of Facebook jail – the smart way, not the hard way, and teach you what to do when you get the notification: Facebook ad account disabled.

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Reactivate your Facebook account

One of the quickest ways to get scammed is to believe randos online that say, “Just give me your PayPal info and FB Login info and I’ll recover and reactivate your Facebook account.” These are probably THE SAME ONES who would hack you later if you didn’t voluntarily give away sensitive security data.

The first step is to assess how severe the flag is, what led to getting on the radar with Facebook’s bots in the first place, and all the places you have this same flag in your funnel. Ideally, removing them and swapping out with compliant copy.

I’ve worked with celebrities, to SMBs, and even Facebook engineers and Twitter software engineers working for Elon Musk have asked me for help. I don’t work with everyone, but to see if you qualify, schedule a complimentary discovery call here.

Facebook ad account disabled: Chain Effect

Working inside of Facebook, I saw a lot of marketers banned & get shut down for just one word or honest mistakes. But, failing to identify the flags right away, they tried to run new ads. Facebook’s bots interpretation of that was to drop ANOTHER ban hammer down for trying to circumvent Facebook’s systems. When you have an ad account get disabled it stops the money from ad sales from hitting your bank account. While you can’t get that money back, you CAN prevent yourself from getting a Facebook ad account disabled.

Getting a disabled Facebook ad account also hurts your track record with Facebook on both the front end and the back end.

To have a chance at reactivating your disabled Facebook ad account you’ll need to correctly identify what piece of your funnel triggered the automations to lay down the ban hammer. And you may be surprised to learn it’s a flag you never thought of that triggered a Facebook ad account disabled

Another pattern I saw while working in ads, then later tech was marketing agencies would accumulate micro-flags, that by themselves were not enough to get, say a Business Manager disabled. But, they DO add up. And, after enough smaller flags, everything gets shut down.While appealing can help, appealing without auditing your funnel first missed out on the chance to actually get the appeal approved and recover from getting a Facebook ad account disabled. There is a better way to ensure you get your ad account back.

Creating New [Disabled] Accounts

Back in the day, you could easily make a new ad account in your Facebook Business Manager and advertise pretty quickly. Hell, when I began working at Facebook the ad account creation limit was A THOUSAND ad accounts! But after January 2022 Facebook started limiting the ad account creation limit for Facebook Business Managers, which made restarting after a shut down a little more challenging after getting hit with a Facebook ad account disabled.

When you have a disabled facebook ad account, don’t panic. Because acting too quickly may lead Facebook to treat you more suspiciously. You really gotta start with a risk assessment before devising a winning strategy.

Now, if you’re in the Ecommerce space you may remember when 2020 shipping delays from China hurt your Facebook Business Page quality score, even though it wasn’t your fault. Because…literally a global pandemic was under way. If you don’t know someone like me, getting permanently restricted, is, full stop, gonna prevent you from running ads again, after you’re notified you have a Facebook ad account disabled.

These are smart questions to ask before trying to appeal and recover a disabled Facebook ad account (Check out my article Facebook ad account disabled next steps).

Facebook ad account disabled: The Truth About Ad Support

Now, what is also confusing, is that Facebook ad support is ALSO guessing at how to solve your Facebook ad policy issues. They have no clue what to say or do, and are paid by the hour to get AS MANY calls as possible. Uh…what was that you said about Quality Control?

Meantime, you’re typing fast into the chat box, screaming, “Help! I was told I have a Facebook ad account disabled!”

But, if have NOT correctly identified the flag, then you WON’T have this knowledge to use in your appeal to show Facebook that you’ve learned your lesson and won’t repeat the same mistakes with facebook ad policies.

As Liana Lang, CEO of Power Up Strategy Inc. said, “Please meet Trevor, my ‘secret weapon’ for all things Facebook compliance. I highly recommend hiring him to help you out especially if you plan to be running ads.”

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When Facebook is Fuzzy Here’s Some Clarity

I think a lot of the mistakes advertisers make when trying to talk to Facebook is feeling like their case is significant to Meta. It is not. They have 3 billion daily active users now, and have more money than they know what to do with especially after firing a bunch of people in the great tech layoffs.

You’re better off reading articles like: You Won’t Believe How Facebook Bans Advertisers for Ad Account Restriction, or watching one of my videos on what to do in these situations, than hear the copy and paste responses pasted into Facebook ad support chat to you when you’re chatting in about a Facebook ad account disabled.

What to do if you get a Facebook ad account disabled

A helpful tip is to think about what your goals are with Facebook ads, and trying to recover a disabled ad account. If you are sentimental about an old profile, or ad account, just remember, these are merely vehicles towards the end goal: Conversion sales, and brand awareness.

If you got an email saying you now have a Facebook ad account disabled, before freaking out, think about your end goal. Is it to recover an ad account or is it to get 4X ROI on ad spend?

Recognize the signs of a disabled Facebook ad account

The first sign you’re dealing with a Facebook ad account disabled situation, is of course, the notification Facebook or Meta gives you. But, you may start to see your reach and spend get throttled way before you get shut down.

The impact of a Facebook ad account disabled

Each rejection you get, no matter what kind, will be a black mark on your Facebook credibility. Just like poor customer feedback in reviews on Facebook Business Pages can lead to a dip in the quality score, and eventually advertising restricted, so can a disabled ad account. What I mean is, no matter how bad it gets, there is always something new Facebook à la Meta can take away.

The real impact of getting a Facebook ad account disabled is in the UNaffected assets that are now on the line to get banned before a total shut down. It’s about machines, having less faith in humans, as crazy as that sounds, it’s how the automations work.

So call me mofuckin John Connor here, as I can help when Facebook bots put you on the radar and try to launch Skynet into your ad account. Get a discovery call here, complimentary.

Why did you get a Facebook ad account disabled?

Waking up at 3:00am, refreshing Ads Manager, looking for some sign of hope, you keep asking “Why did I get a Facebook ad account disabled?!!”

Machines man, I tell you. Way before the lay offs began, when my coworkers at Meta, product marketing managers and PMs were sent packing, Facebook had begun relying on automations for policy flagging. The issue is, the bots don’t get human context.

And, after a period of time, if your rejections outnumbered your approvals, instead of being tried before a jury of your peers, this Kangaroo Court was chaperoned by ANOTHER machine that monitored the OTHER machines…it became a game of simply statistics.

Understanding how that works, is one of the keys to staying out of Facebook jail.

Facebook ad account disabled: Understanding Facebook’s Ad Policies

When avoiding getting a Facebook ad account disabled, it’s important to consider Facebook’s policies. Facebook wants you to advertising, but they DON’T want you to be too offensive to their customer base. And on Facebook, the customer IS the product.

If you grok that, you get how valuable each Facebook user is to Facebook. Filter your POV about Facebook ad policies through that understanding and you may start to grasp how this works.

Immediate Steps to Take after hit with a Facebook ad account disabled

The immediate steps to take after getting hit with a Facebook ad account disabled, is to first, stop what you’re doing. Don’t try to edit the ad immediately – it’s a dumb mistake born out of panic most people make. The 2nd thing to do is make sure there are not any bad actors in your Facebook Business Manager who are dealing with Facebook issues ELSEWHERE. And of course make sure you haven’t been hacked.

Facebook ad account disabled: Submitting an Appeal to Facebook

So, once you have confirmed you DO have a Facebook ad account disabled, you’ll want to devise a strategy to appeal the ban. That strategy, by the way, doesn’t mean cursing out Facebook ad support. Or yelling at them on the phone or typing in the chat, WHY YOU LIKE THIS.

Trust me, as cathartic as that may feel, it won’t win you any friends and you will lose more money the longer that ad account stays in the danger zone.

You essentially have 2 main strategies for a successful appeal: telling Facebook ad support WHY you got shut down, and 2. Making them, through specific language, use what limited tools they have, to submit an appeal for you.

How to Recover a Disabled Facebook Account

An additional challenge as a business owner you’ll have to overcome is when googling “how to recover disabled facebook account” you’ll get tons of articles like this one or..

How to Recover a Disabled Facebook Account or this one, or FB’s article here, which is only aimed at the soccer moms and average joes whose personal profile – not Facebook ad account – is disabled.

Most of the folks who read those articles have forgotten their passwords or gotten hacked. It’s time for some myth-busting about a Facebook ad account disabled.

Take a look at this BS, the headline describing this section says: “What to do if your Facebook Ad Account is disabled and everything you can do to reinstate including how to resolve payment issues, rejected ads, and get support.”

And look at the text below it, literally answers NOTHING they promised you:

Definitely not anything helpful to you, if you are an ad agency or a business running Facebook ads. So, I’ll help to add some knowledge you can use to get out of this rut. Is your Facebook ad account disabled already?

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As far as how to ACTUALLY recover a disabled Facebook ad account, you have 48 hours to make your appeal, and use an effective tactic to communicate to Meta that:

A. You understand WHY you were banned.
B. You are committed to following the policies from here on out.
C. You have identified and REMOVED the offending content from your funnel.

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). He offered some critical insights to why our Facebook Ad Account was disabled and shared options to reduce our chances of future issues. 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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FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions

1. How to fix ad account disabled on facebook

2. How to enable my disabled facebook ad account

If you have a spare ad account in your Facebook Business Manager that you can run ads from, feel free to. BUT, identify the micro and major flags FIRST, so as not to repeat the same mistake.

3. How to appeal a disabled facebook ad account

You can also get some top tips on facebook ad policy in this complimentary eBook: Top 5 Reasons Agencies Fail at Facebook

4. how to get disabled ad account up and running

5. How Many Policy Violations Before Account is Shut Down?

And, if this still all seems too confusing, your clients are yelling at you to get ads live to bring in money, simply schedule a complimentary Facebook discovery call here

6. How to remove restriction on facebook ad account

7. how long does facebook take to review restricted ad account

8. how to fix your access can’t be reinstated because too much time has passed since we restricted your account

In a situation like this, your recovery options depend on what is banned:

a) Facebook Ad Account
b) Facebook Business Page
c) Facebook Business Manager
d) Facebook profile

9. How To Get Your Disabled Facebook Ad Account Back

10. How to unblock your Facebook ad account

Recover Disabled Facebook Account Learn More

I’ll give you another protip – anyone who promises they can recover disabled facebook accounts is lying. Spammers will say things like paypal me $60 and I’ll get your ad account back. That’s a lie. You’ll be ripped off if you think these hackers can help you recover from issues with a Facebook ad account disabled.

Account Managers at Facebook are the only ones who can actually recover your disabled ad account. Now, if you’re contacting me within 24 to at the max 48 hours after getting shut down (a week at the longest for a slim chance), I may be able to write an appeal for you, depending on why you were shut down.

Outside those 2 options, appealing is harder than relaunching. Even if you spent a week reading Facebook’s Ad Policies you’d still be at risk of a shut down because there are 10,000 more Facebook ad policies Facebook’s bots flag you that Facebook isn’t transparent about.

What if you had a guarantee that your ads were compliant before they went live on Facebook? What if you knew 100% without guessing why your ad account was disabled? What if you knew why your Facebook ads were blocked and had a path to get ads live again?

Keep reading for these answers and more:

New Solution to Facebook ad account disabled

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What to Do If You Get A Facebook Ad Account Disabled [UPDATED]

In this article today, you will learn the best practices for solving restricted ads and what to do when you get a Facebook ad account disabled.

Disabled Facebook Ad Account: Myth Busting

Most ad agencies suck at Facebook ad policy & solving restricted ad accounts because Facebook isn’t clear on why you got flagged. AND to top it all off, most results you get online are wrong, and just guessing. So, later in this article, I’ll do some myth busting to save you the trouble of heading in the wrong direction, and help you course correct.

I’ve worked with celebrities, to SMBs, and even Facebook engineers and Twitter software engineers working for Elon Musk have asked me for help. I don’t work with everyone, but to see if you qualify, schedule a complimentary discovery call here.

The ugly truth about getting a Facebook ad account disabled is that everyone you contact at Meta will either have a different answer or no answer at all. Then, sweating bullets, you starting googling: “Facebook ad account disabled” and find out the awful truth: everyone online is just as lost as you are.

You can get support – or try to – at this link here for Facebook Ad Support.

What you need to do to reinstate your account if your Facebook ad account disabled unexpectedly is identify why you were shut down, contact your bank to resolve payment issues (more on this later) and develop a strategy before making your next move.

Why Most Social Media Experts Are Wrong about A Facebook Ad Account Disabled

Most blogs, social media websites and magazines, are ALSO guessing, just like people on Reddit, Quora or LinkedIn. The difference is, I’ve worked with the very departments that drop the ban hammer, so I’m not guessing and won’t lead you down the wrong path.

Often, the advice (bad) you’ll get is to “trust the process” just reach out and ask Facebook ad support to fix it. There are so many things wrong with that.

Facebook Ad Account Disabled: Facebook Ad Support

First, Facebook ad support has been known to give the wrong steps out that may get you in even more hot water with the ban bots.

Second, if YOU don’t know why you got a Facebook ad account disabled, don’t expect Facebook ad support to know – they are outsourced workers, with little to no training on ad policy.

Lastly, the self-service tools advertisers and businesses are given often make you just face a wall of silence, and endless delays, and definitely don’t provide specific answers as to what you did wrong and how to fix it.

Facebook Ad Account Disabled: Who to Trust

So, don’t listen to these other people, who are looking in from the outside, trying to shake a magic 8 ball for answers when your clients and ad accounts are on the line. Trust someone who comes from the source: Facebook. Working in tech at Meta, I’ve helped restore Facebook after bad code shut it down for the entire world.

Also, check out my previous blog: Facebook Ad Account Hacked Fix

Typically you’ll see the signs of a disabled Facebook ad account in the menacing red letters on ads manager, or in Facebook Business Manager that tell you that you’ve been banned.

Of course, you’ll also get a notification: “Facebook ad account disabled” in your Facebook Business Manager notification section. If you don’t see it there – and Facebook is spotty on delivering notifications – check in the Business Settings of your BM.

Facebook Ad Account Disabled: Business Manager

On the left hand side you’ll see a panel with a list of the People in your Business Manager, the Pages and the Ad Accounts. You can see a preview of your ad account and it’s status as disabled there.

Let’s talk about the impact of a getting a Facebook ad account disabled next.

The impact of a disabled Facebook ad account

So, the impact of a getting a Facebook ad account disabled is more than just not being able to run ads on Facebook. It’s also about the future of your ability to advertise on Facebook at all.

The connected assets that you have when you get a Facebook ad account disabled include your personal Profile, Facebook Business Page, as well as your Facebook Business Manager, that houses the Pages, People and Ad Accounts.

Facebook Ad Account Disabled: The Falling Dominoes

If getting a Facebook ad account disabled is a new experience for you, then let me share that it can lead to a falling domino effect, where suddenly your Page is restricted as well.

Or worse, if your Facebook Business Manager falls next, and gets disabled, it’ll lock in any Facebook Business Pages inside of it forever and you’ll never be able to use those Pages to advertise on again. It’s important to pay attention to the details when you receive a notification: “Facebook ad account disabled” – because more things are at stake

Why was your Facebook ad account disabled?

If you’re dealing with the aftermath of a disabled Facebook ad account, one of the most frustrating things is not having full transparency as to why you got a disabled Facebook ad account in the first place! Let me share below the two main ways you get the ban hammer.

Facebook Ad Account Disabled: 2 Main Ways

There are two main ways you get ad disabled Facebook ad account:

1. You have used a banned word or element at a severe ban level
2. A series of smaller flags have added up

The way Facebook tracks your behavior online to advertise to you mirrors how the ban bots monitor your compliance with facebook ad policies. A series of smaller actions creations a conclusion through SQL logic on whether you’re a bad actor or not.

After enough smaller flags, you’ll get a restricted ad account and be left wondering why you got a disabled Facebook ad account. When, all along, you were crossing the line in micro flags – Facebook just didn’t tell you!

One of the services I offer clients is identifying these micro flags and removing them from your funnel before Facebook shuts you down. Want the level of premium service I offer cast members of CSI and Harv Eker’s marketing team? Click here for a complimentary discovery call.

What NOT to do in the aftermath of a Facebook Ad Account Disabled

When getting hit with that pesky notification: disabled Facebook ad account, your first instinct might be to immediately appeal it. Or even create a new ad account in the same Facebook Business Manager – if you have the ability to do this.

You may want to rail and scream at Facebook ad support, and demand answers, or google: disabled Facebook ad account for answers. And, nothing wrong with googling to find a solution.

Facebook Ad Account Disabled: What Not to Do Pt 2

BUT – if you try to create a new ad account without the diagnosing why you’ve been shut down, that will just create another nightmare scenario. If you didn’t remove what got you shut down from your funnel first both your appeal and your new ads will be jeopardized.

Facebook Disabled Facebook Ad Account: Appeals

If you want to appeal, sure, you can try to do that, but if you can’t tell the sweatshop-level workers at Facebook ad support why you got banned, and promise you won’t do it again, they won’t be able to help you. Because, Facebook ad support won’t be able give you answers, because they don’t know either, being poorly trained and inexperienced.

You’ll only want to appeal once you have correctly identified the flags, and removed them, and you’ll want to do this within the first two days of getting shut down. If not, your chances are slim-to-none. Want professional appeal help and you’re within the first week of a ban? Schedule a complimentary Facebook discovery call here.

How to recover a disabled Facebook ad account

If you want to recover a disabled Facebook ad account, you’ll need to look at the ads and find out the biggest flags in them, and create compliant versions of these ads. And make sure your entire funnel is free of all facebook ad policy violations and flags.

You’ll also want to learn the precise way to speak with Facebook ad support, as they have specific metrics they have to meet and these outweigh the desire to help you. And I mean, let’s be honest, 99% of the time, they don’t know what they are talking about.

Even on Reddit, I have called out Meta Marketing Pros trying to do AMAs, who didn’t know anything about what they were talking about, having never run ads to pay the bills, or unlike me, never working with the engineers who created the FB ban automations.

The best way to recover a disabled Facebook ad account is to understand what rules you’ve broken, why, the severity of the flags, the state of each one of your ad assets, and present a thorough, strategically written appeal to Facebook ad support, within a specific time window.

Your best chance at recovering a Facebook Ad Account Disabled

Your best chance at recovering a disabled Facebook ad account is as mentioned above, to fully audit all of your advertising assets on Facebook, find what got you on the radar, and define the exact word, creative, or lander element that caused Facebook to shut you down.

Having done this, you must appeal within 24 hours ideally, 48 hours at the latest (possibly within a week if you do it right), beyond that, it’s a lot harder to recover a disabled Facebook ad account like years later.

How to prevent your Facebook ad account from getting disabled

It’s always easier to prevent a disabled Facebook ad account from happening than it is to try to undo the past. The best ways to prevent getting a disabled Facebook ad account is to do regular audits of your funnel for compliance.

Facebook Ad Account Disabled vs Traditional Advertising

While Eugene Schwartz’ Break Through Advertising may be amazing, from an historical ad perspective, that doesn’t apply to Facebook’s ecosystem. Because, damn it, Meta or Facebook is a private website. Not a public school where you have certain guaranteed rights for your children.

It’s one dude, Zuck’s website, you are a guest on, not a property owner who has purchased land rights and are owed some sort of inalienable rights.

That being said, when you pair compliance best practices (which I teach and consult on with established businesses, such as the University of Texas, or articles in Social Media Examiner and more) with conversion strategies. It’s that sweet spot, of both having high-converting ads, and staying out of Facebook jail.

Generally speaking, don’t sound spammy, or make insane promises that don’t sound realistic, and be careful how you use specific words and idioms.

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). He offered some critical insights to why our Facebook Ad Account was disabled and shared options to reduce our chances of future issues. 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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Conclusion: Navigating through Facebook ad complications

The best practices for handling Facebook ad rejections and preventing getting a disabled Facebook ad account is to learn why your ads were rejected. Not the current common practice of just creating new ads and rolling the dice. Maybe you got lucky and weren’t shut down for shit that you should have been.

But, luck isn’t a business strategy. It’s a recipe for disaster. One your luck will run out. Instead, include a routine compliance check on your ads before submitting them to Facebook. That will help you clear out many misconceptions for Facebook ad policy.

Facebook Ad Account Disabled: Ad Account Resources 📚

Speaking of common misconceptions – people often don’t realize facebook scans the website you attach to traffic ads. But the bots do scan it. And every thing connected to it, so you have to make sure that it is entirely compliant, not just the optin or sales page or you’ll get an ad account restriction.

Here are top 3 articles to give you guidance when Facebook goes silent:

Facebook Ad Account Hacked Fix
How to remove ad account restriction on facebook
What to Do If You Have A Disabled Facebook Ad Account – Everything You Need To Know [2024 Updated]

Even if you went to a Go High Level event, you’d never find this type of insight there, as most marketers don’t have a contact at Facebook who can provide the level of support I can. Don’t want to read even more articles and just want solutions to Facebook bans? Schedule a discovery call today, for at no cost.

Facebook Ad Account Disabled: Ad content

It’s good to have a basic checklist for your ads. Like something to review before you create ads, or after you are about to submit for review. Following this can help reduce getting an ad account restriction.

Facebook Ad Account Disabled Prevention Checklist

Ensure your ads:

Include improper grammar or punctuation.
Don’t include sexual content, nudity or allusions to sexual activity.
Don’t reference or imply a user’s personal characteristics, including but not limited to race, ethnicity, religion, beliefs and sexual orientation.
Don’t discriminate or promote discrimination.
Do not promote misleading or deceptive practices or products in any capacity.
Don’t run ads that contain images that portray non-existent functionality (for example, a “play” button that doesn’t play actual content).
Avoid making potentially misleading claims or set unrealistic expectations.
Do Not include low quality content (for example, using sensationalized or exaggerated language or withholding key information to entice someone to click on the ad).

Facebook Ad Account Disabled: Prohibited products in ads

Facebook doesn’t allow you to:

Promote the sale or use of adult products/services.
Promote tobacco, unsafe supplements, prescription drugs, recreational drugs or illegal drugs.
Promote the sale or use of weapons, ammunition, weapon modification accessories or explosives.

Seems obvious I know but where ad agencies get in trouble is when Facebook interprets something you’ve said wrong and then gives you an ad account restriction.

Facebook Ad Account Disabled: Learn more

I hope you’ve found this article on how to navigate a Facebook ad account restriction helpful.

I’ve created a lot of helpful guides on my blog, but nothing beats hands on guidance for avoiding shut downs from someone whose worked at Facebook for years.

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Facebook Ad Account Hacked Fix

Looking for solutions if you’ve had a Facebook ad account hacked?

I’ve worked at Facebook for many years and help businesses and ad agencies avoid and recover from restricted ad accounts. And today you’ll learn what to do when you have a Facebook ad account hacked, and and ways to prevent getting a Facebook ad account hacked.

Facebook Ad Account Hacked: A New Epidemic

It’s crazy folks, at this point in time, there are thousands of hackers trying to take your ad account for a ride and spend a ton of your hard-earned dollars on junk and spam ads. But haven’t there always been hackers? Sure, but now AI is powering the massive increase in hacking incidents worldwide.

For example, Check Point Research’s 2023 Mid-Year Cyber Security Report found there was an 8% spike in global cyberattacks in the second quarter of the year – the most significant increase in two years – and the analysts blame the surge on the misuse of generative AI tools like ChatGPT.

What this means for you, the business or ad agency running ads on Facebook is that you are more at risk than ever before, and if you’re not careful you can lose your money-making machine, and get ad accounts restricted and business managers disabled, even if it isn’t your fault.

(Missed my guide to navigating Circumventing Systems? Check it out for tips avoiding Facebook ad bans)

Cyber crooks are making almost 1,000 attempts to hack account passwords every single second in new cyberattacks– and they’re more determined that ever, with the number of attacks on the rise. Whether you’re reading Check Point Research’s Report or Microsoft’s Digital Defense Report 2022 – the evidence shows you need to make cybersecurity and preventing getting a Facebook ad account hacked a top priority this year or suffer the consequences.

I’m going to share some tips on what to do when you have a Facebook ad account hacked and how to prevent it, but let me also share, that if you have been on Facebook’s radar for other Facebook ad policy flags, you’re in the right place.

Like my client, Amazon Reality TV Star and Ms. Universe winner Juanita Ingram found out, there are micro flags in ad copy and landing pages that have to be removed first before attempting to appeal or relaunch a brand with Facebook, or recover an unpublished Facebook Business Page.

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Facebook Ad Account Hacked: Payments

The first place to look is in your billing to locate any suspicious payments for Facebook ads.

If you suspect you may have been hacked or have a Facebook ad account hacked, you’ll want to check on the billing history to locate unauthorized charges.

The billing section is where you can find the billing information of your ad account. There, you can view your payment history and get receipts for payments you’ve made for your ads.

To learn more about a specific charge, go to the list of transactions in the Billing section. Then, click the Transaction ID of the charge you want to know more about. These steps bring you to your receipt for that charge. Your ads receipt shows the information like how much you paid, when you paid, which payment method was charged and which ads you spent money on.

This is where you want to view the transactions – or Facebook ad charges – to see if your Facebook ad account suddenly started spending a ton of money, which may be a sign that you have a Facebook ad account hacked.

But there’s another way you can see if you have a Facebook ad account hacked and are bleeding money: the payment threshold.

See if you reached your payment threshold or monthly bill date

Once you have your ads receipt, you can review the Billing reason that’s listed on it to find out why you were charged. It lets you know if a charge happened because you reached your payment threshold or monthly bill date.

Remember that it’s normal to be charged for ads multiple times a month or even after you’ve stopped running them. This is because when you create ads on Facebook (like boosting posts from your Page), you don’t pay for them right away. Instead, as they run and people see them, they accrue ad costs that you’re charged for later.

Facebook Ad Account Hacked: Charges

I mention this because just because you see a bunch of charges you weren’t expecting, doesn’t always mean you have a hacked Facebook ad account. It could be larger charges for legit Facebook ads you ran, are just being broken up into smaller more frequent charges depending on your billing threshold. When I was working at Facebook in ads, more than one advertiser didn’t understand how those worked.

There are 2 ways you’re charged for Facebook ads:

1. Whenever your ad costs reach your payment threshold.

2. On your monthly bill date

A payment threshold is an amount that you can spend on ads before Meta aka Facebook charges you for them. Whenever your ad costs reach your payment threshold, Facebook charges you that amount. Your monthly bill date is when Meta charges you each month for ad costs that don’t quite reach your payment threshold.

So, you may be charged multiple times or just once in a given month, depending on how much money you’re spending on ads.

I’d suggest checking this out first, just make sure you are not mistaking multiple charges for genuine ads you ran as being hacked. After doing so, if everything matches up with your normal billing history for Facebook ad marketing, next take a look at your daily budget or lifetime budget to see how frequently your ads are spending money before you assume you have a Facebook ad account hacked.

Not dealing with a Facebook ad account hacked, but still need to recover from a restricted ad account to get your Facebook ads live again?

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Facebook Ad Account Vs Budget Settings

You have 2 types of budgets:

Daily budget: The average amount you’re willing to spend on a specific ad set or campaign every day. If you have more than one active ad set in your account, remember that each ad set has a separate budget.

Lifetime budget: The amount you’re willing to spend over the entire run-time of your ad set or campaign. Facebook’s system automatically tries to evenly spread the amount you spend across the period that you’ve selected. If you’ve mixed these 2 up, and are confused at getting billed for instance, daily, instead of lifetime (like you set a $300 lifetime budget, and are billed when you spend $300), that isn’t a hacked Facebook ad account.

Facebook Ad Account Hacked: Payment Checks

Something you do want to check is if there are other spenders on your Facebook ad account. If you share your payment method or ad account with others, check with them when you don’t recognize charges on your account. It’s likely that another person has run separate ads using your payment method or ad account.

In that case, go to your Account settings. In the Ad account roles section, you can see who has access to your account. Contact anyone you know who may have placed an order for ads with your payment method.

You can also review your account history to see recent activity on your ad account to see if there is evidence of having a Facebook ad account hacked.

That being said, let’s say you checked all of the above, and realize you may be hacked. If you got a Facebook ad account hacked then you need to take immediate steps to protect yourself and your marketing funnel.

Facebook Ad Account Hacked: Don’ts

One of the things you DON’T want to do if you think you’ve been hacked, is wait for things to get better. Or open spammy emails that promise to get you unhacked, because most of those – if not all – are the people hacking you, looking to get even more info.

I’ve heard “My Facebook ads account got hacked” from multiple clients over the past 6 months as the hackapocalypse has been snowballing globally at huge numbers. Typically hackers are from Russia, Vietnam, Malaysia, the Philippines, Bangladesh, and Pakistan.

Now, thanks to spending limits if you have them set, there is no way a hacker can spend ALL of your money in just a few minutes (if you have spending limits set up that is, if not, think about doing this). BUT, often hackers use a daily budget, and let’s say your spending limit is $10,000 a month or something, hackers could blow through that in a day. So how do you stop Facebook from spending all that money FAST?

You have to think even quicker, and pause the BS campaigns the hackers have created. Make sure to screenshot them as well, for Facebook – or if you’re working with someone like me who worked at Meta. We need to see that data to help you.

What may end up happening is after turning off an ad, ad set or Campaign, 2 minutes later, the campaigns may be enabled again, and you get into a “click war” between yourself and the hacker, as the hacker keeps turning on the Campaigns or ads you’ve turned off, that are running spammy ads.

How do you fix this?

You’ll want to immediately navigate to the activity history in one of the ad sets, and find out whose Facebook ad account keeps re-enabling the campaigns:

That will open up the side panel on the right, and from there you can identify both the ad set ID and the “Changed By” field person taking the actions on your ad account. This lets you identify if you’re making the changes or if you are dealing with a Facebook ad account hacked:

If the “Changed By” field has names or people you don’t know – especially names that sound like they are from Pakistan, India, Bangladesh and other countries in that area – then you have definitely confirmed you have to face a Facebook ad account hacked.

Facebook Ad Account Hacked: Changed By

Check for other spenders on your account

By now, if you’ve done your due diligence, you should have a definite answer using the above steps on if you are actually hacked. You’ll see the name of the hacker in the “Changed by” fields in the Account Activity section. I’d suggest also using the Ad Set ID there to search your Campaigns so that everything comes up that’s being hacked into for that account.

You can do this by using the “Search and Filter” field at the Campaign level of Ads Manager, and entering in the Ad Set ID you found on the Account Activity section:

Being hacked isn’t the only issue ad agencies face, many times it’s just silence from Facebook when trying to get clear on what exactly has broken Facebook’s rules and how to get it compliant.

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Facebook Ad Account Hacked: Reporting

The next logical step is to reach out to the company itself and explain your situation and report what happened.

Reporting a hacked ad account to Facebook

When you attempt to reach Facebook, prepare for another bill: your therapist.

That’s because Meta makes it super hard to reach a real person, and when you do, you have to ask, based on their dumb repetition of every thing you say back in the chat, “How did you discern your ass from a hole in the ground?” #facts

Facebook Ad Account Hacked: Reality of FB Ad Support

Now, there is a specific way you can improve the ability to get a human, based on pre-selection fields, and how you talk to them. But keep in mind, these are barely above sweat shop workers who have never paid any bill using revenue from successful ads.

To speak to someone at Facebook would be very helpful.

I have to break it to you, the solution isn’t going to just be getting ahold of a human at Facebook, due to the level of incompetence you’ll experience. At the same time, depending on how severely you’ve been hacked – like your computer was hacked? Or just your ad account? Or was your website hacked too? Or damn, all 3??! – you MAY be able to get some of the funds spent refunded from Facebook.

How long did Facebook take to reply?

On average it takes a business week, Monday-Friday for Facebook to get back to you if you’ve emailed them. On Facebook Ad Support chat you’ll speaking in real time with someone. You just don’t know if you can trust anything they say, as 99% of what they tell you is literally a random guess, by someone paid as much as a McDonald’s burger flipper. And tbh, sometimes you won’t hear back for a month, or longer, or never.

How Facebook responded to my hacked ad account

Surveying clients I’ve worked with, who came to me after being hacked, on average, if Facebook DOES reply, about 60% of the time, sometimes 70% depending on Facebook’s backlog, you’ll get a refund. But you need to continue checking your ad account for any outstanding balances, as one hand at Facebook doesn’t know what the other does.

I remember working in ads at Facebook and an engineer wrote a piece of code that accidentally shut Facebook down. We literally sat in the dark – because the AC also wasn’t working and it was summertime – and did nothing for hours until ENG fixed the error.

I say that to say this: often Facebook ad support agents will tell you ONE thing and DO another, or not do ANYTHING, being outsourced without benefits. And most are poorly trained. So CHECK your outstanding balance and keep emailing them until it goes away.

Facebook Ad Account Hacked: Next Steps

Before even contacting Facebook Ad Support on chat or email, you have something you need to do first for the ad account and Pages and Business Managers.

Facebook Ad Account Hacked: Take Immediate Action

After locating in the activity history the name of the hacker, go into your Ad Account roles, and remove them. Go into your Facebook Business Manager, under the Business Settings People tab and remove the hacker(s). Go to your Facebook Business Page settings and remove the hackers there too if you see them there.

Facebook Ad Account Hacked: Do’s

Report the Incident

While Facebook ad support may be as pleasant as a Greek Tragedy, they CAN help, marginally, but if you never contact them, or are never successful reaching a person, and ONLY use email, instead of chat as well, then your chances are even slimmer. So make sure to cover all ways to contact Facebook, through email, chat and not leaving their comments unreplied to.

It’s for your records, legally as well, depending on the amount of money lost, you may have legal options to contest their lack of action – but if you never tried to report the incident then you are @#$%&!ed. At the very least report it and document, and screenshot your conversations with Facebook.

Facebook Ad Account Hacked: Protection

Let’s talk about a few ways to protect yourself once you have been hacked.

Facebook Ad Account Hacked: Steps to Protect Yourself

The first thing I would do if I were in your shoes – and I got hacked a few years ago – is change your email passwords that are associated with your Facebook profile that created the Facebook Business Manager and Facebook Business Page.

Next up – audit who is on your Facebook Business Page and Facebook Business Manager, and remove anyone you don’t know ASAP. Contact your bank, remove the credit cards associated with your ad accounts.

Now – you don’t want to BLOCK the charges from Facebook, even if they are from spammers. This will piss Meta off. Instead, simply remove your credit or debit cards from the Facebook Business Manager, and if you can’t, then cancel them.

But don’t fill out a dispute charges form, because if your bank kicks back either a Facebook preauth charge, or an actual ad charge – versus trying to charge a canceled card – then Facebook will assume you are trying to run ads for free and not pay for them, and come after you with a vengeance, ignoring that you are hacked.

Your options will depend on your bank, I’ve found Federal Credit Unions are usually the easiest to sync with Facebook.

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Facebook Ad Account Hacked: Figure Out Whose Account Was Hacked

May seem redundant, but if you HAVEN’T figured out WHICH ad account was hacked, you are at a much greater risk, because you could be quarantining the wrong account and if you’re not quick, you could end up with a stolen identity issue you’d need to report to local authorities, not just a Facebook ad account issue.

Facebook Ad Account Hacked: Delete the Hacked Account

As fast as possible, you want to restrict access for the hacked account. Do that by going to your business settings, clicking on “People,” and clicking the trash can next to your ad account to remove their access:

This should be enough to help put out the fire of having a hacker in your ad account, at least, it should buy you some time to continue securing your ad accounts.

Securing Your Account

After you’ve identified which ad account was hacked, changed your email password, removed the hackers as best you can from your Facebook Business Manager, Facebook Business Page, and from any role on ad accounts in the Facebook Business Manager settings for ad accounts, and chatted in to Facebook ad support and have a live email correspondence, only then would I suggest using the self-reporting tools to report your Facebook ad account as hacked.

If you, in a panic, read some bullshit online and rush to use the link: www.facebook.com/hacked

Guess what genius move you just did? You removed access from yourself to actually chat into Facebook ad support. If not right away within a short period of time, Facebook, seeing the self-snitching you did on your own ad account, will revoke access to all support links.

Because…if you’ve been hacked, then the hackers have control of your accounts – and why would Facebook allow hackers to chat into their support lines?

As common sense as that seems in hindsight, when your blood pressure is up, and some @#$%hole is spending your money like they won the dang lottery, you are desperate for a solution – but you about to shoot yourself in the foot. I just hope you found my blog before clicking that link.

Final tips on securing your facebook ads account

Here are the 3 most common ways you get hacked:

Facebook Ad Account Hacked: Pop ups

1. Pop ups

Yes, you may be surfing porn and click on a pop up, or you may have clicked a Google Search result link when looking up something and it went to an unsecured site that uses only Http instead of Https – or it has an expired security certificate.

Or, it is a fake website with a small misspelling that LOOKS similar to a legit site, but actually is a misspelled version of the same website URL.

Facebook Ad Account Hacked: Fake Emails

2. Fake emails pretending to be Meta

While this has been going on since Nigerian Princes first started email scams (I was one of the first people to get these emails and had to talk to the FBI about it), recently, the @#$%&!ing spammers have been in OVERDRIVE on the fake-from-Meta emails:

Ok, so, first of all ANYONE can edit the “send from” name on an email domain. Wendy’s fast food chain could make their “send from” name be “Burger King”@Wendys.com. Just because it SAYS “Meta Business Support” DOESN’T MEAN IT IS!!! C’mon guys! You see that junky-ass “no-reply-inbox-73v26” crap THEN the “@mindz-agency” domain?

It is soooooo obviously a spammer! Now, I will admit, these hackers were clever by using what LOOKS like a legit Facebook link. Most likely it’s like a bitly disguised site, or a PICTURE of a legit FB link URL, but the actual file is a JPG, JPEG, PNG that is HYPERLINKED on the BACKEND just like I can hyperlink you to…NBA stats here. EXCEPT – they are hyperlinking it to an image like this:

See? This is how they trick you – looks like one URL but goes to another site

I linked the above JPG image of NBA Season Leader stats to my Ad Guides page on my site. But if you see that image in an email, you think it’s an actual hyperlink, when REALLY it’s just an IMAGE of a LEGIT link, you may end up clicking on a hyperlinked image to a site that will steal your info.

Now the above link IS safe because I just linked it to my blog which you’re already reading. Just want to give you a precise example of HOW these @#$%&!ers do it.

The only legit emails actually FROM Facebook are “@facebook.com,” or “@meta.com” or even “@Facebookmail.com” – you’ll see the last one for Facebook Group update emails, like from:”[email protected].”

Now, knowing this, take a look again at the first screenshot of that fake email – can you see how easy it is to identify this as a hacker email? That scammy email address is obv NOT from Facebook / Meta. So, protect yourself and check the server after the @ sign from any email that feels off, and appears to be sent from Facebook. DO NOT CLICK ON ANY LINKS BEFORE CHECKING THE EMAIL ADDRESS!!!! Whew! I hope that helps. Now, for the last and most recent spam hack attempts:

Facebook Ad Account Hacked: Fake FB Messages

3. Fake Facebook Messages To Facebook Business Pages Inbox

This shit is annoying af, I’m not going to lie. I have over 17 Facebook Business Pages, and these fools hit me up ON THE DAILY! I’m trying to run a business here, and these hackers come at me nonstop. I just feel like Michael Scott…

Let me show you an example of one of these hacker messages on Facebook Business Page inboxes, and what they look like, pretending to be Meta:

Let me destroy this for you right now:

It is CLEARLY A HACKER: First, notice the URL preview below the image of “Meta AI.” It says “update-poliiicy-me.ta-now,” are you really going to take that shit seriously?? The URL itself below that IS SELLING TICKETS!! “support-ticketsconfirm” is not an actual website, and actual websites are WHAT IS BEHIND THE SERVER IN EMAIL ADDRESS @ SIGNS.

You have NEVER gotten an email from Meta or Facebook with an @support-ticketsconfirm email. But hey, if you didn’t look before you clicked…welp..I mean…you look before crossing the street right? This is the same for crossing the internet highways.

I’m more pissed off AT these hackers than anything else. It’s frustrating how much they inundate everyone with fake messages. Sigh. Ok. Continuing on to destroy this hacker message:

Facebook ALREADY changed it’s parent company (like Alphabet over Google) in 2021, so, this shit, sent in 2023, saying:

is TWO YEARS OUT OF DATE!!!

RED FLAG RED FLAG 🚩 🚩 🚩

If Facebook was REALLY sending you a message, this is what their signature looks like which you would have seen in EVERY ad receipt email ever sent:

So..sorry not sorry for pointing this out, but, like…you should be familiar by now with the real emails Meta / Facebook sends. The type of signature the real emails use, the email addresses they are sent from, and the fact that…Facebook does not ever ever ever ever need to copyright a damn Facebook message ON THE PLATFORM THEY OWN!!!! JEEZ!

LET ALONE the fact that ALL FACEBOOK COMMUNICATION (outside a direct Facebook Ad Support Chat that is currently live) is through the Support Inbox – not random facebook messages!

If – after the Facebook ad support chat ends – you get a random Facebook message from someone pretending to be Meta or Facebook RED FLAG 🚩 🚩 🚩 !!

This shit should be obvious. But I get it, you see the fake Meta logo, a threatening message, you’re worried about losing money from a ban and click – but now you’ve entered a world of pain because clicking on their fake links get you hacked.

And like I said folks, I’ve been hacked – clicking a website that looked legit that immediately hacked me – so it can happen to the best of us. I just hope you’re taking notes, because there isn’t ANY other article as extensive as this one on dealing with a hacked Facebook ad account.

TLDR: Stop clicking on @#$%&!ing random links in your email, on scammy websites, or to scammy websites, and stop clicking on pop ups that look fishy. Check the @ server for emails, make note of the legit Facebook emails I provided above and protect yourself.

Facebook Ad Account Hacked: Accountability

Almost lastly: Facebook is a social media site that sells ads on their private website, it is not a public school where you have rights endowed by a state or governmental authority. Facebook is not a cybersecurity company.

So getting self-righteous on how Facebook “let this happen” and “should fix this for you” – you let this happen too but not paying attention. And you jeopardized thousands of other Facebook users by not proactively protecting yourself with cybersecurity or easy-to-guess passwords.
I know I know, them are bitter sweet words to hear. But if you want a solution, keep reading. If you want to feel sorry for yourself, I mean, you don’t need me for that. I just want to point out that having unrealistic expectations like expecting a social media site to suddenly change into a cybersecurity service FOR FREE for you is just a recipe for disaster and disappointment.

Facebook Ad Account Hacked: The Truth

Truth be told, even if you’re doing every best practice I mentioned, and actually paying attention, sometimes you can just be victim of a massive cyberattack. Like when several US federal government agencies were hit in a global cyberattack by Russian cybercriminals who exploited a vulnerability in widely used software.

And even if that is what happened to you, it still doesn’t change Walmart into Target, the NFL into the NBA, or Facebook into your own personal cybersecurity company, that will unhack your website, ad account and Facebook Business Page. You need experts for that – more on this later.

Facebook Ad Account Hacked: Help Stop the Hackers

Also, if this pisses you off as much as it does me, report these fools TO Facebook for having a fake name and BLOCK them from your Page. Or simply turn off messages to your Page unless you have chatbots that have high conversions through chats – then create a if-this, then-that flow to block this type of account.

Facebook Ad Account Hacked: Cybersecurity

It should go without saying that you need cybersecurity. Hiring a cybersecurity company should be on your #1 list of things to do this year because the hackers are literally staging a hackapolypse these days.

The problem is, who do you trust? Hackers will even create fake cybersecurity sites to trick you into trusting them with log in info.

Here are couple of companies one of my clients recommended:

1. LiquidWeb and
2. Cyberunit

Now, I can’t speak for these personally. If you want my top tier reccs after we’re working together, I’ll share some info on the company I use and trust. The hackers attack my blog on the daily and try to put spam links on every article, and I have to block them, so I’m not revealing this info publicly. But, if you become a client I’ll help you out there too.

Facebook Ad Account Hacked: Get Facebook Ads Live

You made it this far in the article? Congratulations. It was a beast to put together, I’ve been working on it for over 7 hours to provide a legit resource for you, since I haven’t found anything this in-depth online yet, and definitely not from Facebook or someone like me who worked at Meta. You want to get your Facebook ads live again? Keep reading:

Facebook Ad Account Hacked: Need more help?

So, the hard reality that Meta and Facebook ad support won’t tell you and no other article online will share (unless they’ve copied this article after it’s published) is that Facebook does and will quarantine hacked accounts for the safety of everyone else on the platform.

If you have a Facebook ad account hacked, the odds are not in your favor of recovering it, because it’s a tainted asset. Facebook will shadow ban you, and suppress reach even if they restore your hacked ad account.

Because, why should they allow a compromised account jeopardize literally everyone else on their website?

If the hacker STILL has a backdoor into YOUR website (and ad account), and you HAVEN’T hired a cybersecurity firm to REMOVE THE THREAT, and protect your site on a regular basis, you’re telling Facebook, “I don’t give a damn about my own security or any Facebook users on the platform.”

Do you think Zuck wants to go before Congress AGAIN and explain “what a Face Book” is? All the bad PR Meta would get for allowing security threats to proliferate ANOTHER Cambridge Analytica is insane in scope.

It’s big picture time folks: think about the risks that a hacked account puts not just individual users on the platform but the value of Facebook’s stock, and public image. But, no worries, I got you. If you need to get Facebook ads live again, I do have a solution.

Learn more

I hope you’ve found this article helpful on how to navigate the stormy waters of having a Facebook ad account hacked.

I’ve created a lot of helpful guides on my blog, but nothing beats hands on guidance for avoiding shut downs from someone whose worked at Facebook for years.

Note: If you do not run ads on Facebook and are just trying to recover a personal profile for NON-advertising purposes, you will need to look elsewhere for help.

BUT if your goal is to get Facebook ads live again after getting a restricted ad account or a restricted Facebook Business Manager, then keep reading as there is a solution to this.

Facebook Ad Account Hacked Solution

Ad agencies: tired of getting the silent treatment from Facebook when all you want to do is get your Facebook ads live and revenue in the door?

If have been hacked, and your goal is to get Facebook ads live again selling your product or service and Facebook won’t help – I can get you results when Facebook won’t say a word.

I’m a Facebook ad policy specialist who worked at Facebook and I’m trusted by high level brands that take accuracy and results seriously.

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How to remove ad account restriction on facebook

Looking for answers on how to remove an ad account restriction on facebook?

I’ve worked at Meta and provide Facebook ad policy help to ad agencies and businesses running Facebook ads. And today you’ll learn about Unacceptable Business Practices and what you can do to recover from getting flagged from an ad account restriction on Facebook.

An ad account restriction typically happens from either a severe flag, that Facebook immediately shuts down your account after their bots scan it, OR after a bunch of smaller flags have added up to an ad account restriction.

With Meta firing tons of staff, it’s Q4 last year was steller. Even its much ridiculed, money-losing virtual reality unit hit a milestone, generating $1bn in revenue. Lest anyone doubt its confidence, the company declared a first-ever dividend.
That is a payout to shareholders – in this case of 50 cents per share.

What this means for you, the business or ad agency running ads on Facebook is that while the fat cats are happy, the automations that ban ad accounts are in overdrive. Meaning, with less employees, Facebook relies even more on their automations to make crucial decisions that can leave you banned at a moment’s notice.

If you didn’t miss out on my guide to navigating Circumventing Systems, then you have the latest pro tips on avoiding Facebook ad bans.

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

Just like my client, Amazon reality TV star and Ms. Universe Juanita Ingram found out, there are micro flags in ad copy and landing pages that have to be removed first before attempting to appeal or relaunch a brand with Facebook, or recover an unpublished Facebook Business Page.

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According to Facebook, the Business Manager home page, or Meta Business Suite, contains all the answers once you have an ad account restriction:

how to remove an ad account restriction

Sadly this is completely false. When you go there usually you’ll see some generic ass warning without any specification on what part of your funnel was flagged, why, or the compliant version. For this information you need to dive deeper than the automated warnings Facebook sends you.

You’d be surprised how simple thing can change the entire course of your ads, whether they tank or boom, not just for ad policy but for conversion metrics. Facebook ad expert Jon Loomer calls out ad set optimization mistakes all the time.

For example, many advertisers just choose a Campaign Objective (eg. Traffic – used to be called “clicks to website”) BUT DO NOT SPECIFY the performance goal.

Your performance goal is how Meta determines success — and the factor that drives changes to ad delivery. Let’s say you have a Traffic campaign objective to get more sales, and your performance goal is:

“Maximize number of conversions: We’ll try to show your ads to the people most likely to take a specific action on your website.”

If you optimize for a purchase, the algorithm’s primary focus will be on satisfying that goal. If you aren’t getting purchases, Meta will believe that something is wrong and changes need to be made. This is one of the reasons why your ads are NOT spending your budget.

You can fix this by changing your performance goal: Instead of optimizing for purchases, optimize for landing page views. This will be a cheap way to get purchases since you know that, historically, 5% of visitors to your landing page convert, or something like that. Now Facebook is making your CPC cheaper and actually spending your ad budget.

Advertising Restriction Unacceptable Business Practices

This is one of those flags that confuses a lot of advertisers. One of the reasons why is because back when I was working in the ads department at Facebook, (before it called itself “Meta”) this policy went by another name that was more self explanatory.

Except the real name of this policy is “unrealistic claims” which is what everyone at Facebook knew and called it, and we externally gave that verbiage to advertisers like yourself.

BUT, the problem is, “move fast and break things” Mark, or someone at the operations level or policy team decided to retitle this policy flag.

Why is this a problem?

Well, previously if you were saying some outlandish things on your ads, and you got the flag “Unrealistic claims” it at least gave you some idea that your copy was sounding spammy. Which is really, all that flag means. It means Facebook perceives your primary offer or the way you’ve worded it as a scam.

Which is different from Circumventing Systems flags, and Personal Attributes flags or flags for selling forex products or pyramid schemes. It’s all in the details folks. Want one-on-one professional guidance from someone who worked with the Facebook policy team, so you don’t have to guess anymore? And prevent bans? Schedule a discovery call with me here.

The unusual activity ad account restriction is triggered by Facebook’s automations when they suspect that you’ve been hacked. Or that you ARE a hacker and you are doing things like using someone else’s bank account to run ads. Or, that you snuck into another advertiser’s Business Manager. Banks rejecting Facebook charges often trigger that too.

I’ve seen advertisers GIVE UP on running Facebook ads just because they chose the wrong bank that blocked Facebook ad charges. Which is silly, because Meta or Facebook is still a lucrative market according to current stats:

Again, it is not a matter of all or nothing, but small changes that once made help keep your ads running smoothly and profitably.

Ad Account Restriction: Things you should know

Facebook’s bottom line is that they hold you 100% responsible for following their facebook ad policies even if Meta doesn’t communicate like 10,000 ad policies you are expected to follow to not get an ad account restriction.

But aren’t told about the policies you need to follow to avoid an ad account restriction. Great right?

If you need help rewriting ad copy to be compliant with Facebook I offer a prescreen service – book a discovery call here.

Ad Account Restriction: Facebook is still just a startup

You have to keep in mind Facebook still operates like a startup despite being founded in 2004. As a result, the automations are imperfect in how they flag you for violating Facebook advertising standards with an ad account restriction.

Sometimes you’ll get a false baseline where an ad that should have been rejected was accidentally approved. Now, you’re thinking because that ad was approved you can duplicate it.

Then later, everything shuts down out of nowhere when the bots rescan your funnel and give you an ad account restriction (thanks!).

That’s why having someone on deck who knows Facebook ad policy at a high level is crucial to your success. Otherwise you won’t know where the little hidden time bombs are in your ad copy, creative or privacy policy.

Common points of confusion

Facebook | Meta suggests these are the top flags people get running ads on Facebook:

I’ve worked with thousands of advertisers – SMBs to celebrities and I’ll share what the common points of confusion are from my experience helping folks avoid getting an ad account restriction. Both working at Facebook, and in my own private practice:

Assuming a human being is making the decisions to flag you or approve you

That’s a mistake. Facebook is 89% automated for every decision to approve or reject an ad. Maybe even 95% automated after 40K got laid off in 3 successive waves starting November 2022.

(Read my article about what it’s like getting laid off at Facebook here)

Resubmitting a rejected Facebook ad without finding the flag first

That’s one of the most common areas of confusion I’ve seen. People get an ad rejected, and assume Facebook made a mistake and don’t spend 30 seconds looking at the ad and just resubmit the same ad that has the same flag you were just shut down for in it! This is what gets you an ad account restriction.

It’s a better strategy to audit your ad for flags, remove them and then resubmit.

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Enforcement of Facebook Ads Policy

Unlike a video game – the automations only give you a limited amount of chances before they shut down your Business Manager and possibly restrict your Facebook profile (the personal one not just Business Page) from advertising.

The enforcement part is never personal – no one at Facebook cares enough to keep track of you.

The key is to understand how the machines select your ad copy, how they scan it and what this means for your ability to run ads and avoid getting an ad account restriction.

Facebook Ad Account Restriction: What is reviewed

Facebook’s review process includes specific components of an ad, such as images, video, text and targeting information, as well as an ad’s associated landing page or other destinations, among other information.

Contrary to what many think, the lander is included in the scans for an ad account restriction, not just the Facebook ads.

Facebook Ad Account Restriction: Business asset review

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Each ad asset – Page to Business Manager to Ad Account – has its own score. Each of these can become tainted separately from each other, or affect each other, based on the type of ad policy strikes you get when getting an ad account restriction.

Facebook Ad Account Restriction: Outcome of review

Often the entire conversation on whether to let you run ads or not, is a conversation between 3 different neural networks.

Rarely are humans involved unless you understand how to get the right person to look at your ads at Facebook.

Facebook Ad Account Restriction: Re-review of ads

Even if you got an ad approved – unless you are an expert at Facebook ad policy – you won’t know for certain if it is actually following Facebook’s ad policies. And assuming you do know leads to getting an ad account restriction.

Like I mentioned earlier, you can get re-scanned later for an ad that was approved, then later rejected.

As the article I wrote for Social Media Examiner discusses, you should screenshot rejected ads, then delete them. Or Facebook can and will re-open them later, and punish you a second time for an already rejected ad.

Facebook Ad Account Restriction: Create a new ad or edit your ad

What I usually suggest when facing a rejected FB ad, is audit it first, determine why it was flagged for an ad account restriction, and replace the offending copy with approved ad copy.

And duplicate the ad with the corrected copy before submitting. That’s safer than resubmitting the same ad even with the correct changes.

Additional policies that may apply to your ad

Facebook: Ads that run on Facebook must follow Facebook’s Community Standards which apply to all content on Facebook.
Instagram: Ads that run on Instagram must follow Instagram’s Community Guidelines which apply to all content on Instagram.
Commerce: Advertisers may run certain types of ads, such as ads with product tags or boosted Marketplace listings, or use catalogs to upload products for use in Commerce surfaces, which are subject to our Commerce Policies.
Pages and Events: Advertisers may promote Pages or Events, which are subject to the applicable Pages, Groups and Events policies.
Messenger: Advertisers sending sponsored messages via Messenger or starting automated conversations from ads that click to Messenger must comply with our Developer Policies.
Branded content: Ads may include branded content, which are subject to our Branded Content Policies.

A lot of times I see businesses get flagged because of IP issues with Facebook’s brand assets, which can lead an ad account restriction too, so be careful of that.

Your website

Speaking of common misconceptions – people often don’t realize facebook scans the website you attach to traffic ads. But the bots do scan it. And every thing connected to it, so you have to make sure that it is entirely compliant, not just the optin or sales page or you’ll get an ad account restriction.

Even if you went to a Go High Level event, you’d never find this type of insight there, as most marketers don’t have a contact at Facebook who can provide the level of support I can. Don’t want to read even more articles and just want solutions to Facebook bans? Schedule a discovery call today, for free.

Ad content

Include improper grammar or punctuation.
Don’t include sexual content, nudity or allusions to sexual activity.
Don’t reference or imply a user’s personal characteristics, including but not limited to race, ethnicity, religion, beliefs and sexual orientation.
Don’t discriminate or promote discrimination.
Do not promote misleading or deceptive practices or products in any capacity.
Don’t run ads that contain images that portray non-existent functionality (for example, a “play” button that doesn’t play actual content).
Avoid making potentially misleading claims or set unrealistic expectations.
Do Not include low quality content (for example, using sensationalized or exaggerated language or withholding key information to entice someone to click on the ad).

Prohibited products in ads

Facebook doesn’t allow you to:

Promote the sale or use of adult products/services.
Promote tobacco, unsafe supplements, prescription drugs, recreational drugs or illegal drugs.
Promote the sale or use of weapons, ammunition, weapon modification accessories or explosives.

Seems obvious I know but where ad agencies get in trouble is when Facebook interprets something you’ve said wrong and then gives you an ad account restriction.

Ad Account Restriction: How to appeal advertising restrictions

The art of appealing an ad account restriction is a balance between understanding exactly what in your funnel triggered the automations to shut you down (BEFORE contacting Facebook ad support), your ratio of bans versus approvals, and how you talk to the outsourced workers on chat.

It’s no easy task, I have successfully recovered a few restricted ad accounts in my time, but I generally advise a much better strategy with clients that has more nuance for long term results that don’t lose you time and money from ad account restrictions.

Learn more

Facebook Ad Account Policy Violation Solution

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What to Do If You Have A Disabled Facebook Ad Account – Everything You Need To Know [2024 Updated]

Looking for a disabled facebook ad account recovery? No worries, you’re in the right place as I’m a Facebook alum that will help guide you to a fix.

You’re running Facebook ads and suddenly out of nowhere you see a disabled Facebook ad account in your Business Manager. Dang!

You look and can’t find anything wrong, so you hit the appeal button but – you get an instant rejection.

And the kicker is you didn’t even have any Facebook ads rejected before – sound familiar?

During my years working at Facebook I helped thousands of advertisers from SMBs to Fortune 500s navigate Facebook ad issues (make sure to read 3 Things You Need to Know About Facebook Ad Policy Bans).

What to do if your Facebook Ad Account is disabled and everything you can do to reinstate including how to resolve payment issues, rejected ads, and get support.

Today I’ll share insights on what to do if your Facebook ad account gets disabled.

Just like my clients in ecommerce, marketing and health have discovered, there are micro flags in ad copy and landing pages that have to be removed first before attempting to appeal or relaunch a brand with Facebook.

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The Reason Why Your Facebook Ad Account’s Disabled

Facebook Disabled Ad Account Explanation

Recognize the signs of a disabled Facebook ad account

How Facebook Automations Flag Disabled Facebook Ad Account

The impact of a disabled Facebook ad account

Disabled Facebook Ad Account and PAS Formulas

Why was your Facebook ad account disabled?

Immediate Steps to Take After Your Ad Account is Disabled

Now you think, maybe it wasn’t an ads issue at all. Perhaps it was something else – and you search for “facebook account disabled community standards.” These are the policies that govern everyday usage of Facebook.

But, still you don’t get any closer to the finish line searching for “facebook ad account disabled for policy violation” or “facebook ad account disabled 2024.” What about ad account recovery? Is it possible to get your old account back?

You google “facebook ad account disabled appeal,” and “why is my facebook ad account disabled.” Still nothing. What gives?? I’ll answer that but first, let’s discuss the digital real estate you’re running ads on.

Facebook expert and influencer Jon Loomer admits Facebook’s automations are wrecking havoc on ads. Even Facebook’s own Advantage+ automation meant to help you get more reach often glitches and just shows your ads to clickbait farms, optimizing for cheap 3rd world country clicks.

Immediate steps to take after your facebook ad account’s disabled: don’t appeal, audit your ads because you need to both identify WHAT got you on Meta’s radar AND the severity of the flag before taking action.

It’s super key to ID why you got on the radar before appealing a disabled facebook ad account.

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An Important Fact On Facebook’s IP

Submitting an Appeal to Facebook

New Policies Affecting Disabled Facebook Ad Accounts

Also – Facebook is now limiting or stopping your ability to advertise to teens, so there’s even more red tape now. Along with new policies for CBD (still a minefield, I wouldn’t advise using FB for this), and election years – you need to stay savvy on the upcoming changes.

But I digress – let’s get back to recovering from a disabled Facebook ad account.

From Disabled Facebook Ad Account to Appeal

How to Recover a Disabled Facebook Ad Account Part 1

Outdated articles like this one will gloss over what to do without going into more detail – so I’m going to give you more insight on Facebook ad accounts disabled and what to do.

How to Recover Disabled Facebook Ad Accounts part 2

…and what NOT to do when appealing ad accounts.

Many websites will tell you to just click “Recover Account” (like this one) but that’s incorrect!

The advice in that article tells you to fill out a form and wait to see if you get assigned a Facebook rep – that is rolling the dice and likely to make your disabled ad account unrecoverable.

Also this article gives incorrect advice as well telling you to verify your Business Manager after getting an ad account disabled.

That’s the dumbest advice ever (sorry not sorry Emily).

– That’s like going 120 MPH yelling out the window at the cop:

“I promise I won’t break the speed limit again officer!” while speeding.

When your ad account is disabled – you are asking Facebook to trust you that your business is legit, even after you’ve set the precedent that you can’t follow their rules.

You think Facebook is going to act in your favor? NO.

You’ll get stuck in a cycle of the spinning wheel of death for Facebook trying to both verify a Business Manager with a disabled ad account and review your appeal to that disabled ad account. Your facebook ad manager account disabled, no ads live – what to do?

If you want to verify your Business Manager after your ad account is reactivated, or on a fresh new Business Manager – sure, that can help.

But don’t do that while you’re appealing a disabled ad account – be smart. Clicking Request Review is a big mistake.

Don’t Let A Machine Decide Your Fate

You’re trying to act like you know what you’re doing when in reality everything hangs in the balance of a billion dollar social media company’s decisions who isn’t replying or telling you what you did wrong or how to fix it.

Maybe you found the article I linked above and hit “Request Review.” Don’t do that.

That has a slim chance of recovering a disabled facebook ad account.

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Preventing Future Ad Account Disabling

Determine Why You Were Flagged BEFORE Appealing

Let me RE-EMPHASIZE:

If you don’t determine why you were flagged first BEFORE contacting Facebook ad support, you’re going to repeat history like GroundHog’s Day.

Step 1. – Navigate to Facebook’s Business Help Page here:

Step 2. – Select your ad account from the drop down menu:

Step 3. – Select the issue:

Step 4. – Click on Contact Support:

Disabled Facebook Ad Account Request Review Tactic

So you got on a chat with Facebook Ad Support – sweet! But keep in mind you are not talking to decision makers. Maybe your facebook account disabled due to copyright infringement or your facebook ad account disabled payment method triggered this.

You’re googling “facebook ad account disabled reddit” when you get hit with a new flag: “facebook ad account disabled circumventing systems.”
Damn it!

You’re all heated chatting with Facebook ad support but they can’t help. Remember:

These are gatekeepers that often don’t speak English fluently (if you’re coming from America, or the UK). They won’t understand a lot of what you’re saying.

They are essentially like bartenders – they have to hear a lot of crap from advertisers who chat in using all caps like “HELLO ARE U THERE.”

And at best, these are entry level workers that can understand maybe, 40% of what you’re talking about on a good day when you ask them how to fix facebook ad account disabled.

If you get lucky, you may talk to someone who gets 70% of what you say when chatting, “facebook disabled my ad account for no reason!”

– but they’ve never run ads that have actual ROI –

Facebook Ad Support agents aren’t in the business world, they aren’t entrepreneurs and don’t have a vested interest in whether or not your ad account is active or disabled. Or your facebook account disabled upon creation issues or your facebook account disabled login problems.

How nice you are to them, how simple you make your explanations will play a role in how receptive Facebook is to your appeal.

Their goal is to close as many cases as possible – quantity over quality. So be respectful, polite, and also realistic when it comes to disabled facebook ad account review time.

But, if you manage to say the right words and prep Facebook ad support, on rare occasions they can help you recover from a disabled facebook ad account.

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What Happens After Appealing Disabled Accounts

Pause yelling “My facebook ad account got disabled!” and take a seat.

Your ad account could either be:

• Reactivated within 24 hours because it was a Facebook glitch

• Reactivated incorrectly because Facebook Ad Support missed the flags you do have

• Or it’s “your ads are violating ad policy” or “this business model isn’t supported” and you stay disabled

What To Do If Your Ad Account Appeal Gets Rejected

Realistically you have about a 50/50 chance appealing any ad account that’s disabled. Here are some factors that play into why your disabled ad account will be reactivated or permanently disabled:

♦ How many previous rejected ads you’ve had

♦ What your ad account’s hidden score is (a ratio of rejected vs approved ads)

♦ If you conveyed your situation correctly to Facebook ad support who are gatekeepers not DMs

♦ If you determined first exactly which ad policy you’re flagged for (this helps FB ad support reps make a case for you)

♦ Did you clean your funnel (landing pages etc) of the ad policy violations before contacting Facebook? Do this first if your ad account disabled for policy violation.

♦ Your business model – certain business models are under more scrutiny than others (how to make money online, special ad categories etc).

✅ In a new ad account in the same Business Manager if you had a minor flag cause the ad account to get disabled, or

✅ A new Business Manager and new ad account in the new Business Manager (don’t use your personal ad account attached to your profile – create new ones in Business Manager) or

Conclusion

Facebook Disabled Ad Account Solution

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Facebook account restricted from advertising

Ad Account Restriction on Facebook Solution

Ad account restrictions on Facebook are complex if you’re looking for a solution, but not impossible.

One of the first things to do that will help is get familiar with why you’ve been restricted in the past and compare that to your current ad account restriction to see if there’s anything those two bans share in common.

As someone who has worked for a long time at Meta, back when it was called Facebook, I can guide you better than literally any other website or blog out there who are just guessing at solving an ad account restriction.

Whereas my knowledge comes from working at Meta and working with advertisers while in the ads department.

Selling products that are not allowed on Facebook and making sensational claims, or sounding like click-bait, can get you banned pretty fast.

Over time, the automations add up the amount of ad account restrictions your Business Manager has and make a decision on whether or not you should be allowed to continue running ads.
That was the case for my client Jack Randall. Jack is a social media marketer that kept getting shut down by Facebook until we worked together.

“Trevor helped me successfully diagnose exactly why my ad account was disabled, and helped me frame out a plan to move forward.”

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Advertising restrictions for policy violations

There are a huge variety of the kind of ad account restriction you may get flagged with. Often, online behavior is monitored along with the history of your ad account. Keeping your ratio of rejected ads much less than your approved ads can move you in the right direction.

One of the most frequent reasons I’ve seen for an ad account restriction for unusual activity is because you’ve logged into your Facebook app on your smartphone in a new location. I’d be very careful about logging into any ad tools while traveling.

POLICIES: Ad Account Restriction

Facebook ad policies are what is programmed into the Facebook automations who deliver an ad account restriction to your ad account in your Facebook Business Manager. The issue many advertisers face is that these bans, while germane to the policies, are not clearly explained.

In fact, very few ad agencies spend time reading the facebook ad policies before running their first ad, but this can help to prevent an ad account restriction.

Advertising Standards: Ad Account Restriction

Facebook’s advertising standards that regulate if the ban hammer is dropped for an ad account restriction operate on the principle that the more people stay on Facebook, the better connected the community on Facebook is. Which then leads to more ads being shown to a bigger audience – keep that in mind when kicking pain points in your ads.

When your advertising access is restricted and you have a restricted ad account, it means your Business Manager is next on the chopping block for bans. You won’t be able to run ads and your entire business will be under scrutiny.

I’d remove any and all Facebook Business Pages from your Business Manager after an ad account restriction (depending on the severity of the ad account restriction) otherwise, if you leave a Page in your BM, it won’t be able to be used ever again, if that BM gets disabled.

As far as appealing – that is a topic I’ll address later or in another article.

Facebook says your ad account is restricted because the bots it uses to scan for ad policy violations have determined that you have a pattern of breaking the rules. And as a result, Facebook or Meta, doesn’t want to risk further bans from you so they take away the ability to advertise.

Have you ever tried to cure something you’re sick with without knowing first what it is? Strangely enough, most ad agencies try this exact thing with a restricted ad account without diagnosing what went wrong.

And they’ll resubmit non-compliant ads literally minutes after it was rejected to bully their way to approval. That’s not a good look. Facebook is more than likely to punish you for this spammy behavior.

The first step in unrestricting your Facebook ads is diagnosing why you got banned in the first place, and then strategically making your next move after identifying the problem.

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Sometimes just one word can get you banned, so this question isn’t easy to answer. One thing clients will ask me is, “What are the most common reasons people get banned?”

Having worked with over 10,000 advertisers both when I was working at Facebook and in my own firm, I can share there are an endless amount of scenarios for what gets you a restricted ad account and you’ll need to talk to someone with expert knowledge in Facebook ad policies to get the right answer and get your Facebook ads live again, and bringing in revenue without losing any more money and time to FB bans.

Usually Facebook is supposed to send you an email (check your spam folder) if you have a restricted ad account. If not, you’ll want to either go to Facebook Ads Manager, or go to your Facebook Business Manager and check the notification bell.

Really some of the best advice I can give here is to look at your history of advertising and identify a common theme amongst the rejected ads – clearly there is a piece of ad copy that is raising alarm bells. Once you do this, you can remove it from your funnel and work on the appeal.

So, Two-factor auth or 2FA is a double-edged blade: On one hand, it meets the requirements both YouTube and Facebook have for professional accounts. And it’s better protection against hackers.

But on the other hand, it can be a nightmare if you forget your password and get permanently restricted or locked out. Make sure you document everything so that you don’t become so clever with your passwords that you lock yourself out too.

If you see the above message beware: you are about to enter into David Bowie’s Labyrinth without an escape plan. I see this shit all the time – idiots online keep telling ad agencies with an ad account restriction to verify their Business Manager while in the middle of a Facebook ban.

This is why that is a dumb idea that will get you deeper into Facebook jail: You are asking Facebook to extend EVEN more trust to you, while under scrutiny for a ban. It’s a recipe for getting into the never ending loop, that usually either never ends or ends with your Facebook Business Manager unverified and Facebook asking for proof of identity. It is better to audit your ads that got rejected and identify the flag before taking any further steps.

If you have other admins on your Facebook Business Manager, it may be possible to appeal a restricted ad account, if you currently don’t have access to Facebook ad support chat portals. Just make sure they don’t have bans elsewhere.

I put the above headline in to point out that there is never a “just add water” fix for a restricted ad account. Articles online that say that shit “After you successfully complete this process, your account will be reinstated.” have no fucking clue.

If Facebook made a mistake in flagging you, and you can word your appeal correctly then you MAY be able to reinstate your account. I’ve done this successfully with more than one client, but it’s a case-by-case basis. It depends on your type of business and type of ban.

FAFO seems to be the universal agency strategy for recovering a restricted ad account on Facebook. Want to stop guessing?

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). He offered some critical insights to why our Facebook Ad Account was disabled and shared options to reduce our chances of future issues. We have a better understand of how the algorithm works and know exactly what to do and say if our account gets disabled again.”

Want to see how I can help you? Schedule a free discovery call here. Or, if you’re in a rush, prepay for your consulting call and skip the line.

One of the best ways aside from 2FA to secure your account is to silo several Business Managers so if one is shut down you can still run ads from another one. And to always know who’s on your Facebook Business Manager.

Because if someone in your BM has a restricted ad account in ANOTHER BM, Facebook can AND WILL trace this back to you and punish you for things he or she did. That would suck. Secure your account by knowing who is on your BM and making sure they are free from bans.

Let me debunk some more BS on this. Requesting review for inexperienced advertisers is not advised unless it’s part of a bigger strategy. I have used it but only in a specific way, and when I have, it has been successful. But you can’t just request a review

Even established brands like Hubspot get it wrong in their outdated article about the Facebook ad review process when they say:

Ads are manually reviewed, so if more people are submitting ads for review, there can be a longer wait time. Expect to wait longer during holiday seasons.

This is only partially correct. Yes, during the holidays your ads will expect delays as that is the biggest advertising time of the year, but your ads are not manually reviewed for ad account restrictions.

This rarely happens. Facebook’s automations do 95% of the ad review process and Meta has created new automations to police the old automations. The Matrix yo. We almost here.

Typically, if you’ve got a good history of Facebook ad approvals, and are established, your ads will get approved faster than a new ad account with a blank history.

Also, read a Facebook Ad Policies Checklist.

Why Is My Facebook Ad Account Restricted?

Tell me if I’m wrong: you don’t give a damn about this dumb little pop up what you want to know is WHY your Facebook ad was rejected. #amiright?

Facebook Ad Account Restriction Sources

There are countless reasons why Meta | Facebook’s ban hammer gives out ad account restrictions, including:

Selling products not allowed on Facebook (tobacco, illegal products or services, weapons, etc …).
Making sensational claims, using click-bait, or promoting misinformation.
Ads not following Facebook’s advertising guidelines, such as branding requirements and text restrictions.
Disruptive or low quality content that negatively impacts a Facebook user’s experience

Oh and if you’re not running video ads, you’re missing out. 500 million people watch videos daily on Facebook.

Be careful about the sources you trust when it comes to facebook ad policies. Hubspot gets their information wrong again here about why Facebook ads are not approved:

The lies!!! Well, to be fair, maybe not lies, but definitely bad info for advertisers here. WE ALL KNOW FACEBOOK DOESN’T SAY SHIT ABOUT WHY YOUR AD WAS REJECTED!

It’s about scale. Facebook or Meta now, is too huge to care about telling advertisers specific reasons why their ads were rejected. Engineers at Facebook have even asked me for advice on how and why their automations flag ads and how to avoid ad account restrictions.

The TLDR of it is the Account Quality Page uses identical algorithms to the Page Insights – which has always been buggy, and never accurately reflected ad account metrics or page metrics.

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

So, for Hubspot to say, essentially, “There there, no worries, Facebook will solve it all and everything will be explained in the Account Quality Page,” is straight bullshit if you are serious about fixing ad account restrictions.

Facebook Ad Account Restriction: Look Deeper

Facebook itself is under fire from PR storms, privacy issues as well as a stupid amount of hackers and spammers creating imposter accounts on a whole new level.

Why is my Facebook account restricted from advertising for no reason?

Facebook’s automations flag based on machine logic and pattern behavior, usually if you get shut down out of nowhere it’s because you’ve done a series of smaller Facebook ad policy violations that added up to a threshold.

Are actual humans reviewing the ads?

No, most of the time, unless you’re a special ad category, machines review and decide the fate of almost all Facebook ads.

How worried should I be about Fake News?

As recently reported, Facebook or Meta has pulled out of being a source for news. Be careful what and how you say anything to do with news, medical facts and covid 19.

To be honest, you have to switch how you think of Facebook ads up. And approach things from a machine-learning perspective. Despite the mad rush to AI-everything right now, the majority of advertisers on Facebook fail to consider how machines are automated for policy flagging before running ads.

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What You Need to Know About Facebook Ad Account Restrictions

Looking for a solution to Facebook ad account restrictions?

There are many reasons why Facebook restricts ad accounts including: Selling products not allowed on Facebook (tobacco, illegal products or services, weapons, etc …). Making sensational claims, using click-bait, or promoting misinformation. Facebook relies on automations which don’t read human context.
Too many flags can lead to ad account shutdowns or rejected Facebook ads that hurt your ad account score and lead to ad account restrictions. That was the case for my client Jack Randall. Jack is a social media marketer that kept getting shut down by Facebook until we worked together.

“Trevor helped me successfully diagnose exactly why my ad account was disabled, and helped me frame out a plan to move forward.”

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Facebook Ad Account Restrictions Expert

As someone who has worked at Facebook I can share insights to guide you to a better solution than banging your head against the wall when Facebook goes silent after ads are rejected and ad account restrictions.

My article, What to Do If You Have A Disabled Facebook Ad Account – Everything You Need To Know [2024 Updated] provided the popular content ad agencies shared worldwide to help prevent ad bans.

In this blog, I’ll share why Facebook ads are not approved, what the process is behind these Facebook ad rejections, how long it takes and reveal what to do if your Facebook ad is not approved and how to fix it.

3 Best Practices for FB Ads infographic

Facebook Restrictions

Even established brands like Hubspot get it wrong in their outdated article about the Facebook ad review process when they say:

Ads are manually reviewed, so if more people are submitting ads for review, there can be a longer wait time. Expect to wait longer during holiday seasons.

Why Is My Facebook Advertising Account Restricted?

Tell me if I’m wrong: you don’t give a damn about this dumb little pop up what you want to know is WHY your Facebook ad was rejected. #amiright?

Facebook Ad Account Restrictions Sources

There are countless reasons why Meta | Facebook’s ban hammer gives out ad account restrictions, including:

Selling products not allowed on Facebook (tobacco, illegal products or services, weapons, etc …).
Making sensational claims, using click-bait, or promoting misinformation.
Ads not following Facebook’s advertising guidelines, such as branding requirements and text restrictions.
Disruptive or low quality content that negatively impacts a Facebook user’s experience

Facebook Ad Account Restrictions: Look Deeper

You have to look deeper at the specific ad policies your ad triggered review for and how that relates to your industry for industry-specific facebook ad policies flags. Whether you’re using what Facebook expert Tim Burd recommends, the The Bully Method of Scaling Ads or using another strategy, compliance needs to be there too.

As Liana Lang, CEO of Power Up Strategy Inc. said, “Please meet Trevor, my ‘secret weapon’ for all things Facebook compliance. I highly recommend hiring him to help you out especially if you plan to be running ads.”

Want the same white glove treatment navigating Facebook shutdowns?

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Facebook doesn’t approve your advertisements due to violating Facebook’s advertising policies

1. Personal Attributes

One of the most common reasons why Facebook ads are rejected, are for violating the Personal Attributes. Too often advertisers try to kick the pain points in an ad and end up making Facebook users feel singled out and leads to ad account restrictions.

You want to avoid sounding overly negative and be very careful when using “you” and “your” with physical, emotional or financial attributes.

Take a look at Navigating Facebook’s Advertising Policies as a Business if you’re looking to go from ignorance on Facebook ad policy to having some clarity.

2. Sounding like an MLM

I know I know you’re saying,”But I’m not an MLM Trevor, this is just crazy!” It’s really easy to get false-flagged as an MLM. It’s super common.

Usually, if your ad copy has a giant promise, combined with a specific period of time, this can get you flagged as a pyramid scheme. So be aware of that and do your best to sound realistic or you’ll get ad account restrictions.

It’s that time again – let’s debunk another piece of false information:

This is an old ass policy that no longer exists. The text-to-image ratio used to be that you don’t want over 20% of the image covered in text in a Facebook ad. You’d even get ads rejected for this.

Yet, that is no longer a real facebook ad policy. You may get your distribution slightly suppressed if you have too much text on your image. But, it is no longer a big enough flag to outright reject your entire ad. #liveandlearn

And remember to make sure you’re following Facebook ad policy for smartphone placements too. According to Flurry Analytics, Mobile app users spend, on average, 57 minutes per day on Facebook.

Facebook Ad Account Restrictions: Spam

3. Sounding Spammy

I know, this sounds super generic but it’s true – if your ad’s tone is too salesy you’ll endanger its chance of survival in the Facebook ad auction.

Be aware of what is already performing well on Facebook – and that some ads that are super click bait-y may still be on your newsfeed. But that doesn’t mean they are greenlit by Facebook’s automations.

It only means that for now their facebook ads are live. Just because you see a super spammy ad doesn’t mean you can create one as well – that’s false logic and leads to more ad account restrictions.

You’ll want to avoid sounding too spammy. Try to be skeptical of your own ads and look at them through the eyes of a machine whose only goal is to destroy your momentum if it thinks you sound spammy.

Then, tone down some of your ad copy, how hard you kick the pain points and how big you make your promises for results – until you get to the middle ground of having engaging copy that is also compliant with Facebook’s ad policies.

Your Facebook ad account was restricted because Facebook did not accept too many ads you put up.

1. Review the Facebook ad policies at the same time as sales

This will help reduce the Facebook ad rejection surprise, if you keep facebook ad policies in mind while creating your sales strategy. Also, don’t give up on Facebook. Facebook is still the second most-widely used online platform, behind only YouTube. (TikTok may eclipse this – we’ll see).

Did you already say something that got your Facebook ad account disabled?

Don’t get ripped off! Read How to Recover Facebook Ad Accounts now

2. Make sure your entire funnel is compliant

Facebook doesn’t just review your Facebook ad, they also look at your Facebook Business Page (your digital storefront), and your lander. You don’t want to leave ad copy that breaks policy on your LP and only make your ad itself compliant.

The whole funnel needs too follow Facebook ad policies.

Facebook Ad Account Restrictions: Audits

3. Audit your ads before appealing

One of the dumbest mistakes even veteran ad agencies make is to resubmit a rejected Facebook ad right after it’s disapproved.

That hurts your score on the back end for your ad account. Many people do this based on the false logic that “Facebook has made a mistake.” Statistically, most of the time it’s the advertiser who made a mistake and e

I can say this because I’ve worked with over 100,000 advertisers both when I worked at Facebook and in my own private practice for Facebook ad policy consulting. None of the speakers at Social Media Marketing World can go as deep on how Facebook’s bots flag and what to do to prevent them. Because they didn’t work at Meta like I did.

TLDR: assume you are in the wrong, and find out why before submitting an ad again after a Facebook ad is disapproved.

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). He offered some critical insights to why our Facebook Ad Account was disabled and shared options to reduce our chances of future issues. We have a better understand of how the algorithm works and know exactly what to do and say if our account gets disabled again.”

Want to see how I can help you? Schedule a free discovery call here. Or, if you’re in a rush, prepay for your consulting call and skip the line.

Your Facebook restricts your advertising account for security reasons.

Sometimes if you are traveling or your bank rejects Facebook charges, Meta will give you an ad account restriction just because of that, so be aware to not log in to the business suite of tools while traveling and talk to your bank before running FB ads.

How to appeal Facebook ad disapprovals

It’s that time again! Let’s debunk more incorrect info about Facebook ad policy. Wordstream’s blog incorrectly tells you this about appealing a rejected Facebook ad:

Requesting review does not send your ad to a human. It merely gives your ad’s rejection case to another machine who then says, “Oh, the 1st machine was right,” – 2nd machine.

The entire line of thinking here is wrong.

I think it stems from the urge to become a victim and feel helpless, instead of using logic and critical thinking to discover why your ad is under fire.

Facebook Ad Account Restrictions: Appeals

Here’s a controversial idea: You don’t need to appeal shit! If you discover why your ad was rejected and have 100% confidence you know why, then sure, change the ad then appeal it.

But, IMO, it’s better to create a new ad without the flags of the old ad and submit that.

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

Your ads have received a significant amount of negative feedback.

Establishing a baseline for what is allowed on Facebook and what is not allowed is vital. But, this can be one of the most challenging tasks you face.

If you recall what I mentioned earlier, about taking responsibility early on, instead of playing the victim, when it comes to Facebook ads not approved and not automatically assuming Facebook is wrong – it’s time to flip that on its head.

What do I mean? Well, Facebook’s automations can mistakenly approve ads that should be rejected. They are machines after all and machines break.

So, it’s possible that you have ads that were approved, but shouldn’t have been. Keep that in mind, when examining the ads you’ve run.

Facebook Ad Account Restrictions: Prevention

The best way to prevent your ads from being disapproved is to audit your funnel on a regular basis for compliance.

Already completely banned?

If you are running ads and spending $100K a year or more on ads, I can help with that.

Also check out: Top Reasons Why Facebook Disables Ad Accounts

Solutions to Restricted Facebook Ad Account

Cause and effect: You have a shit ton of Facebook ads rejected over a 30 day period or 90 day period and now Facebook is giving you the stank eye.

The automations create a character profile of you based on your advertising history. Which means, even if you did nothing to get a disabled Facebook ad account with one major flag a bunch of tinier flags can add up.

If you have an overly extended ratio of rejected ads to approved ads, start right away repairing your ad account with ads you know will get approved.

What to do if your Facebook advertising account is disabled

The first thing you want to do when you have a disabled facebook ad account is NOTHING. I know, sounds weird but let me explain.

Often advertisers will get themselves in worse trouble by trying to act too quickly. They appeal a disabled ad account without ever knowing why it was disabled.

This makes your facebook ad appeal weak af. If you can’t communicate to Facebook ad support why your ad account was disabled and that you’ve learned from it then, your chances of getting it reactivated are zilch.

Facebook Ad Account Restrictions

If your Facebook ad account is disabled then the 1st thing you need to do is pause. Don’t take any actions. Then look at your funnel. Find the biggest flag that could have shut you down and evaluate the state of your ad assets:

‣ Business Manager
‣ Ad Account
‣ Facebook Page
‣ Personal Profile
‣ Ad History

Then after, you can make the best decision to get your ads live again. Need more help? Just schedule a discovery call with me – Facebook ad policy is my zone of genius.

Edit or create a new ad

I only tell this to my clients whose funnel I’ve audited: once you have the exact reason why your Facebook ad was not approved – you can edit it and resubmit it for approval.

But, I usually only give this guidance once I’ve determined why an ad was rejected. The difference in my methods is I’m not guessing, since I’ve worked in ads at Facebook, I can tell without a doubt why an ad was rejected.

That, or simply create a new fresh ad without the same flags as the old one, as I mentioned earlier in this article.

Request another review of your ad

ONE of the biggest mistakes ad agencies make is to repeatedly request a review for a disabled Facebook ad account or rejected Facebook ad without ever knowing why they were shut down.

This is the equivalent of kicking your TV when the signal is shaky. Sometimes, you get lucky and this brute force approach works. But most of the time it hurts more than helps because you annoy the fuck out of Facebook and lose what remaining appeal chances you have.

Me? I’ll open up a dialogue with Facebook ad support first, before submitting an appeal, to get it on their radar.

And of course, I audit the funnel to determine the actual reason for a Facebook ban before ever contacting Facebook.

FAQ

Next up, let’s cover some frequently asked questions about ad account restrictions.

Frequently Asked Questions on Why is my Advertising Access Restricted on Facebook

As recently reported, Facebook or Meta has pulled out of being a source for news. Be careful what and how you say anything to do with news, medical facts and covid 19.

How to Get a Facebook Ad Approved

Really the best policy is to warm up new ad accounts before going into the hard-sell campaigns.

This gets Facebook a lot more friendly towards you – from an automations level – and more likely to approve more ads of yours.

Let’s put it this way – if you have a great history with Facebook without a shit ton of shut downs, then those ads which are on-the-line for getting rejected will often get a free pass.

Does this mean you can post any kind of ad regardless of Facebook ad policy? Of course not. But, you are more likely to have some leniency if you have a good ratio of approved ads over rejected ones.

Kinda like if you get pulled over by a cop, who sees you have 3 traffic violations this month, versus getting pulled over by a cop on the highway and when they check your license see you have a clean record.

Which traffic stop do you think will go more friendly for you?

Obviously the one with the clean record. Facebook operates in the same way. The fastest way to get a Facebook ad approved is to warm up accounts first and establish a history of approved Facebook ads before embarking on your main ads campaign that your clients hired you to run.

How to submit a review after Facebook Ads are rejected

I like to be 100% sure I know why Facebook put a client’s ad funnel on the radar before appealing. You’re probably tired of hearing me say this but it’s really the closest to fool proof you’re going to get.

If, by some strange miracle, your ad is completely legit without a Facebook ad policy violation, then by all means appeal the fuck out of it. But there is a method that works better than others.

Before I get into the method, let me also share, that about 1% of the 1000s of ad agencies I’ve worked with actually see their ads rejected due to a glitch. 99% of the time there is a hidden ad policy flag that just isn’t obvious.

And we all know that Facebook isn’t going to communicate what that flag is. So, the chances are slim to none that it is a Facebook bug. At least not the bug you think it is.

Here’s my method for submitting a review after a Facebook ad is rejected:

I uncover the ad copy or creative or flag on the lander that causes the ad to be rejected. Then I contact Facebook ad support and let them know specifically which flag I may have been flagged for and ask for them to appeal it for me.

This has a higher success rate than clicking on Request Review.

Learn More

Knowledge is power, yet we have a nation full of idiots who often regurgitate memes as news and don’t research jack before quoting someone famous lol. Don’t be that guy or girl or blender (if you self identify as a blender).

But the more you know the better off you are when it comes to avoiding Facebook ad rejections.

What I see happen a lot is advertisers quoting a “fact” they saw on a Slack channel, Facebook Ad Hacks Group or reddit post and basing their handling of Facebook bans from just guessing.

I’m not guessing. I worked at Meta, my info is a lot higher quality than randos online pretending to be experts. Ever seen Jerry from Rick & Morty and Rick will say made up fact, and Jerry will just agree to go along with the crowd?

Don’t be a Jerry. Be a Rick.

On the other hand, even if you memorized Facebook’s Ad Policies you’d still risk a shut down simply because Facebook’s bots flag you based on machine syntax not human. Facebook isn’t transparent about why you are flagged. I am.

Your ads have to follow a 1000 more rules than you are actually told about.

BUT – don’t miss out on an opportunity to never get flagged again.

What if you had a guarantee that your ads were compliant before they went live on Facebook? What if you knew 100% without guessing why your ad account was disabled? What if you knew why your Facebook ads were blocked and had a path to get ads live again?

Keep reading for these answers and more:

Facebook Ad Account Restrictions New Solution

If you’re ok with waiting a bit longer, and entering the waitlist to see if you’re eligible – Schedule a call or contact me via email.

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3 Things You Need to Know About Facebook Ad Policy Bans

Facebook ad policy can be frustrating when your Facebook ads get banned or you get put in Facebook jail #amiright?

All you want to do is run ads on Facebook and get ROI from your ad spend, yet it feels like a warzone with Facebook ad policy mines hidden every couple of feet.

New ad policies are created every quarter, like the policies regulating Facebook use for teens.

But, through your googling “facebook ad policy” or “ad account restrictions” you’ve landed on my blog with a crazy name and crazy good content because instead of guessing at what’s going on – I’ve worked at Meta and will share best practices for not getting banned.

Don’t forget to bookmark: Facebook Ad Policies Checklist

Just like my clients in ecommerce, marketing and health have discovered, there are micro flags in ad copy and landing pages that have to be removed first before attempting to appeal or relaunch a brand with Facebook.

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1. Facebook Ad Policy Overview:

The first thing you need to know about Facebook ad policy to avoid bans is that Meta is relying on automations more heavily than ever before.

The challenge you the business owner, or you the ad agency face is creating killer ad copy that converts but also doesn’t run afoul of the facebook ad policies. It also means that you are not being personally targeted by workers at Meta | Facebook – just their machines.

And unfortunately, you have a ton of bad advice given – both by outsourced sweatshop workers at Facebook ad support and by social media sites who only offer random guesses as facts when they are both dead wrong.

Free eBook: Top 5 Reasons Agencies Fail at Facebook

One of the common fallacies is to click “Request Review” when reviewing your Facebook ad account’s Account Quality. 89% of the time that puts you into a loop with machines reviewing decisions by machines.

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

As Liana Lang, CEO of Power Up Strategy Inc. said, “Please meet Trevor, my ‘secret weapon’ for all things Facebook compliance. I highly recommend hiring him to help you out especially if you plan to be running ads.”

Want to stop guessing on why Facebook flags you and get real answers?

Click here, to schedule a discovery call.

Facebook Ad Policy Checklist

As always I like to provide an infographic to give you Facebook ad policy tips at a glance:

Facebook Ad Checklist

2. Meta advertising policy principles

The second thing you need to know about Facebook ad policy to avoid bans is the operating principle behind bans – the whole reason Facebook drops the ban hammer is because the content flagged may be driving Facebook users OFF the platform (in Facebook’s eyes).

The engineers I worked with at Meta created the automations that shut folks down, and I can share they did not ever have products they sold on Facebook to pay the bills. So alot of the flagging is done from a virtual sandbox without anything on the line lost in bans. But I can help you understand how to frame the automation’s machine logic for flagging.

Check out this blog in video form on LinkedIn here.

Now, externally, Meta or Facebook says that it’s core guiding principles for Facebook’s philosophy are as follows:

• PROTECTING PEOPLE FROM UNSAFE AND DISCRIMINATORY PRACTICES
• PROTECTING PEOPLE FROM FRAUD OR SCAMS
• PROMOTING POSITIVE USER EXPERIENCES
• PROMOTING TRANSPARENCY

Also advertisers must follow Community Standards and Advertising Standards. In addition, advertisers on Instagram must also follow the Instagram Community Guidelines.

In reality, these vague ass bullet points don’t truly communicate what Facebook prioritizes as a business: engagement.

It’s very similar to how YouTube’s algorithm switched up in 2012. Before 2012, YouTube ranked its videos by view count – the more people watched a video, the more it would be presented to other viewers.

The problem was that people learned to game this algorithm easily. All they had to do was to give a video a clickbait title, encouraging people to open it and watch a small portion of it.

Of course, they would quickly realize that the video didn’t do what it promised, so they immediately left it and moved onto the next video in the queue.

Before long people were complaining about the numerous click-bait videos. YouTube changed its algorithm in 2012, this time favoring duration – watch time – and session time (overall time spent on the platform per Influencer Marketing Hub).

Why do I bring up YouTube in an article about Facebook?

It’s because both platforms have the same goal: Keep you on their website as long as possible. Anyone who gets in the way of that will get punished with bans.

If you keep that in mind when considering why Facebook may shut you down for a piece of ad copy or a creative image it will help guide you to compliance.

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

Facebook Ad Policy: The ad review process

Facebook’s official policy, after you submit an ad for review is that they will decide if it’s a yes or no within 24 hours.

But, what they don’t tell you is that the machines also review the total ratio of approved ads vs rejected ads in the past 90 days when you submit an ad.

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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 ads are not all compliant. And while some ad policies like avoiding sexual content may seem easy to follow, as Ad Espresso posts:

Other Facebook ad policy guidelines are more obscure, especially in high risk markets like Real Estate and Weight Loss.

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.

3. Facebook Ad Policy: What to do if your ad is rejected or if your business asset is restricted

The 3rd thing you need to know about Facebook ad policy to avoid getting banned is what to do after your ad account is restricted. Don’t immediately appeal it! This is where the shit starts to hit the fan.

Also right now an insane amount of social media accounts are getting hacked and shut down. Premier Facebook Marketing Expert Mari Smith even wrote an article on how to safeguard your account.

Facebook tells you to do 1 of 2 things:

“Create a new ad or edit your ad. You may create a new ad or edit your ad to comply with our policies. These ads will be treated as new ads and reviewed by our ad review system.”

“Request another review If you believe the ad, ad account, user account, Page or Business Account was incorrectly rejected or restricted, you can request a review of the decision in Account Quality.”

Here’s what’s wrong with that advice – if you have no clue why Facebook flagged you, how the hell are you going to edit and resubmit the ad??!

And we also see the same bad advice I mentioned above, about just clicking Request Review. The only time Request Review works is if you are already directly working with a competent person at Facebook who is manually monitoring the requests coming in (good luck with that).

The only real option you have is to work with an expert that knows exactly what the machines look for in your funnel to flag, remove those triggers and resubmit the same ad or a new ad without the same flags.

You’d be surprised to learn how small and simple some of the changes you need to make to be compliant with Facebook ad policy and avoid bans. Sometimes when I’m working with clients it’s just one word that got them banned, or HOW they phrased something. Once that’s changed corrected, Facebook lifts bans and lets your ads run live.

And don’t leave money on the table and just give up after a few ad account restrictions! Facebook’s ad reach is 1.98 billion.

If you’re advertising on Facebook in 2024, you’ve got a potential ad reach of 1.98 billion people according to Hootsuite.

Did you already say something that got your Facebook ad account disabled?

Don’t get ripped off! Read How to Recover Facebook Ad Accounts now

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.”

Want to see how I can help you? Schedule a free discovery call here. Or, if you’re in a rush, prepay for your consulting call and skip the line.

Facebook Ad Policy: Community standards

Another area of confusion for advertisers is understanding the line between Facebook feed content and advertiser content – when it comes to facebook ads policy.

Community Standards are just for non-advertisers – the Facebook users you are sending ads to. It’s simple stuff like don’t post nude photos or try to talk about al-queada.

Or don’t talk about how cocaine is a helluva drug lol…Even if…

Typically, you don’t see Community Standards violations for advertisers given these are 2 different policies, one for ads ( facebook ad policies) and 1 for reg folks – but if you are running ads about a sensitive topic, the post itself you make may get a CS flag too.

So, be aware of that.

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But you know the real way Community Standards affects advertisers? Buying or renting ad accounts and Business Managers.

“As stated in our Community Standards, you must not sell, rent, buy or exchange site privileges, such as administrative access, for assets that belong to you or that you manage. Helping anyone evade or circumvent our enforcement of our policies or terms of service is also prohibited.”

Funny how a policy regulating advertisers isn’t listed in the ad policies first, but in the Community Standards for people who don’t run ads. But there it is – Facebook forbids you from renting or buying ad assets from other advertisers.

Facebook Ad Policy: Unacceptable content

When Facebook says “Unacceptable content” they mean “fake news.”

You’ll get hit with the “Unacceptable content” flag if you talk about covid. Although as I revealed to subscribers of my newsletter, Meta is rolling back Covid-19 Misinformation Rules.

That being said, you can also get hit with this flag if your ad mentions too many Personal Attributes for a specific group of people and the automations flag that as being discriminatory.

Are you already completely banned?

If you are running ads and spending $100K a year or more on ads, I can help with that.

Also check out: Top Reasons Why Facebook Disables Ad Accounts

Facebook Ad Policy: Deceptive content

Deceptive content is a flag that mainly applies to ads Facebook’s automations think are Multilevel Marketing (MLMs) pyramid schemes.

If your promises of wealth, riches, and bikini babes seem too unrealistic, you’ll get hit with this flag.

High risk verticals for deceptive content flags include crypto, weightloss and how to start a business online. Or anything forex as this ban includes Prohibited Financial Products and Services.

Let’s say you get hit with a Circumventing Systems flag – you’ll also be hit on the backend, without your knowledge, with a Deceptive content flag.

And lastly, this automation flags you if you have pages that don’t load on your website.

For more info read How to Fix NonFunctional Landing Pages

Facebook ad policy: Dangerous content

This is one of the few times Facebook is actually transparent. Dangerous content is self explanatory, no weapons, drugs etc.

The only thing that may come as a bit of a surprise here is that cigarettes and vapes are considered just as dangerous as knives or guns.

So, if you have an ad that can be misinterpreted for someone smoking or vaping, or your ad copy uses any of those words, you’ll risk getting flagged for dangerous content. Be thoughtful in how you word your ads.

Objectionable content

You’ll be pretty astounded when you hear what this flag covers. It isn’t as obvious as you’d think. Objectionable content is inclusive of the Personal Attributes flag but also it includes price gouging.

Remember when Logic Pro price gouged their shitty $30 web cams in 2020 and raised them up to $300 just because everyone was stuck at home during the pandemic? Or hand sanitizer that was $0.30 cents getting over charged?

That’s objectionable content in Facebook’s eyes. BUT it is grouped right along with pornography, cursing, and having low quality graphics on your ad creative and landing pages.

You wouldn’t think all those things were connected but to Facebook’s bots they are all under this flag. Aaaaand that includes any typos or misspellings as grammar flags are considered objectionable content too.

The TLDR is Facebook doesn’t want Facebook users to have a negative experience, so keep it positive.

Content-specific restrictions

Every now and then you’ll see a niche that does require you to follow not just Facebook ad policies but local laws in the city and state you advertise in. These are content-specific restrictions for the following categories:

• Alcohol
• Adult Products or Services
• Dating
• Cosmetic Procedures and Wellness
• Online Pharmacies
• Over-The-Counter Drugs
• Prescription Drugs
• Drug and Alcohol Addiction Treatment
• Financial and Insurance Products and Services
• Cryptocurrency Products and Services
• Online Gambling and Gaming
• Social Casino Games
• Subscription Services
• Hemp and Related Products

Let me save you a lot of time here and tell you point blank crypto products aren’t allowed on Facebook. They are low-key banned. Meaning, you are gonna get shut down in a short amount of time even if your 1st few ads slip through the cracks.

Adult products are banned – even if you see a few spam ads in the desktop right column for dildos or penis enlargement. Those ads have a terminal life span and will be caught and shut down.

For dating you have to apply and get accepted to run those ads. Same goes for gambling because that deals with local laws.

The other point I’d like to make here – to save you some time – CBD are not allowed on Facebook. You will get banned running them. Facebook is not a platform you can advertise CBD on.

Intellectual property infringement

Facebook says:

“Ads may not contain content that infringes upon or violates the intellectual property rights of any third party, including copyright, trademark or other legal rights. This includes, but is not limited to, the promotion or sale of counterfeit goods, such as products that copy the trademark (name or logo) and/or distinctive features of another company’s products to imitate a genuine product.”

Where I see this pop up the most is ad agencies that name drop major brand names in ads without a licensing agreement established to use that brand asset. While content is king, HOW you distribute this content determines the engagement and if Facebook ads will be approved. Neil Patel has some choice words about a new updated content strategy here btw.

But let’s face it: unless your Facebook Business Page is the official brand page of the brand or celebrity you’re name dropping, Facebook is going to assume you are not legit.

Proving you are will be a hassle – if you can even do this – so, my best tip here is make sure you refer to the topic and audience and the problem you’re solving rather than alluding you are BFF with Kim Kardashian.

Facebook Ad Policy: Social issue, electoral or political advertising

This refers to ads about Social Issues, Elections or Politics – the hardest thing to run ads for. I would be super careful here. It is a quagmire – you risk every flag known to mankind for Facebook running these ads.

The special ad category was created just for this type of ad, as there are lobbying laws federally, and locally for your state that you have be clear on, separate from Facebook.

Facebook Ad Policy: Things you should know

With those 3 things in mind:

1.Meta’s reliance on automations for flagging
2.The reason why Facebook policy drops the ban hammer (to protect engagement)
3. What to do when your ad account is restricted

You should have at least a better idea of 3 things you need to know about Facebook ad policy to avoid bans. But what if you’re tired of reading articles and just want 100% guarantee all your Facebook ads will be approved?

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5 Reasons Why Your Facebook Ad Account Restricted

Looking for a solution to Facebook ad account restricted?

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.

Don’t forget to bookmark: Facebook Ad Policies Checklist

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)

If you’re tired of reading articles and just want someone’s help whose actually worked at Meta, click here, to schedule a discovery call.

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:

Facebook Ad Checklist

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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.

Has your Facebook Business Manager already been disabled?

Don’t get ripped off! Read How to Recover Facebook Ad Accounts now

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.”

Want to see how I can help you? Schedule a free discovery call here. Or, if you’re in a rush, prepay for your consulting call and skip the line.

Facebook Ad Account Restriction: Learn more

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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10 Things You Need to Know About Facebook Ad Policy

Does facebook ad policy frustrate you because of restricted ad accounts?

Facebook ad policy can change in the blink of an eye and unless you’re on the right side of the automations, you can be banned real quick. BUT you’re in luck, because today I’ll be sharing 10 things you need to know about Facebook ad policy to safeguard your account.

With new markets opening up for Meta Quest, Voicebox AI Speech Generation and the Creator Monetization Program (which I worked on at Facebook), you’ll want to stay ahead of the curve and not be left behind with new changes to Facebook ad policy.

If you didn’t miss my guide to navigating Circumventing Systems, then you have the latest pro tips on avoiding Facebook ad bans.

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

Don’t forget to bookmark: Facebook Ad Policies Checklist

Just like my client Juanita Ingram, Amazon reality TV show star found out, here are micro flags in ad copy and landing pages that have to be removed first before attempting to appeal or relaunch a brand with Facebook.

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Facebook Ad Policy Overview

The first thing you need to know about Facebook Ad Policy is that traditional PPS formulas don’t always work. With the massive layoffs Facebook has done since Nov 2022, Meta is relying on automations more heavily than ever before.

As marketing guru Neil Patel says, a lot of successful ads are using AIDA,

(A)ttention: Draw users into the ad with an attention-grabbing headline.
(I)nterest: Get the user interested in your product by briefly describing the most important benefit of using it.
(D)esire: Create immediate desire for your product with a discount, free trial, or limited-time offer.
(A)ction: End the ad with a call to action.

The challenge you the business owner, or you the ad agency face is creating killer ad copy that converts but also doesn’t run afoul of the facebook ad policies using AIDA.

And unfortunately, you have a ton of bad advice given – both by outsourced sweatshop workers at Facebook ad support and by social media sites who only offer random guesses as facts when they are both dead wrong.

One of the common fallacies is to click “Request Review” when reviewing your Facebook ad account’s Account Quality. 89% of the time that puts you into a loop with machines reviewing decisions by machines.

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

As Liana Lang, CEO of Power Up Strategy Inc. said, “Please meet Trevor, my ‘secret weapon’ for all things Facebook compliance. I highly recommend hiring him to help you out especially if you plan to be running ads.”

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Facebook Ad Policy Checklist

Facebook Ad Checklist

2. Meta advertising policy principles

The 2nd thing you need to know about Facebook ad policy is the philosophy behind banning. A lot of folks go wrong not understanding what Facebook’s goal is, and the internal reasoning behind ad flagging decisions.

The human point of view, from the policy makers who told engineers I worked with, how to frame the automation’s machine logic for flagging.

Now, externally, Meta or Facebook says that it’s core guiding principles for Facebook’s philosophy are as follows:

• PROTECTING PEOPLE FROM UNSAFE AND DISCRIMINATORY PRACTICES
• PROTECTING PEOPLE FROM FRAUD OR SCAMS
• PROMOTING POSITIVE USER EXPERIENCES
• PROMOTING TRANSPARENCY

Also advertisers must follow Community Standards and Advertising Standards. In addition, advertisers on Instagram must also follow the Instagram Community Guidelines.

In reality, these vague ass bullet points don’t truly communicate what Facebook prioritizes as a business: engagement.

It’s very similar to how YouTube’s algorithm switched up in 2012. Before 2012, YouTube ranked its videos by view count – the more people watched a video, the more it would be presented to other viewers.

The problem was that people learned to game this algorithm easily. All they had to do was to give a video a clickbait title, encouraging people to open it and watch a small portion of it.

Of course, they would quickly realize that the video didn’t do what it promised, so they immediately left it and moved onto the next video in the queue.

Before long people were complaining about the numerous click-bait videos. YouTube changed its algorithm in 2012, this time favoring duration – watch time – and session time (overall time spent on the platform per Influencer Marketing Hub).

Why do I bring up YouTube in an article about Facebook?

It’s because both platforms have the same goal: Keep people on their website as long as possible. Anyone who gets in the way of that will get punished with bans. And there’s A LOT of money made in keeping people staring at the screen, whether that’s on laptop or smartphone.

Mobile ad revenues reached a record $154.1 billion in 2022, up 14.1% year-over-year (YoY); mobile now has a 73.5% market share of total internet ad revenues (IAB, 2023)

If you keep that in mind when considering why Facebook may shut you down for a piece of ad copy or a creative image it will help guide you to compliance. If your ads drive FB users off FB, that loses FB money.

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

3. The ad review process

The 3rd thing you need to know about Facebook ad policy is how the ad review process works. Facebook’s policy, after you submit an ad for review is that they will decide if it’s a yes or no within 24 hours.

But, what they don’t tell you is that the machines also review the total ratio of approved ads vs rejected ads in the past 90 days when you submit an ad.

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 ducks aren’t in a row.

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.

4. What to do if your ad is rejected or if your business asset is restricted

The 4th thing you need to know is the bad advice fake gurus give who haven’t worked at Facebook like I have – they all tell you (and Facebook tells you to as well) to click Request Review. That is where the shit starts to hit the fan. Facebook tells you to do 1 of 2 things:

“Create a new ad or edit your ad You may create a new ad or edit your ad to comply with our policies. These ads will be treated as new ads and reviewed by our ad review system.”

“Request another review If you believe the ad, ad account, user account, Page or Business Account was incorrectly rejected or restricted, you can request a review of the decision in Account Quality.”

Here’s the fucked up part about that advice – if you have no clue why Facebook flagged you, how the hell are you going to edit and resubmit the ad??!

And we also see the same bad advice I mentioned above, about just clicking Request Review. The only time Request Review works is if you are already directly working with a competent person at Facebook who is manually monitoring the requests coming in (good luck with that).

The only real option you have is to work with an expert that knows exactly what the machines look for in your funnel to flag, remove those triggers and resubmit the same ad or a new ad without the same flags.

Even if you came to my hometown, Austin, Texas for SXSW, and attended marketing conferences, you won’t get good intel on recovering Facebook ad accounts because of how obscure Facebook ad policy is.
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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.”

Want to see how I can help you? Schedule a free discovery call here. Or, if you’re in a rush, prepay for your consulting call and skip the line.

Community standards

The 5th thing you need to know about Facebook ad policy is that you need to distinguish the ad policies from the regular Facebook user policies. Because another area of confusion for advertisers is understanding the line between Facebook feed content and advertiser content – when it comes to facebook ads policy.

Community Standards are just for non-advertisers – the Facebook users you are sending ads to. It’s simple stuff like don’t post nude photos or try to talk about terrorism.

Or don’t talk about how cocaine is a helluva drug. Even if…

Typically, you don’t see Community Standards violations for advertisers given these are 2 different policies, one for ads ( facebook ad policies) and 1 for reg folks – but if you are running ads about a sensitive topic, the post itself you make may get a CS flag too.

So, be aware of that.

But you know the real way Community Standards affects advertisers? Buying or renting ad accounts and Business Managers.

“As stated in our Community Standards, you must not sell, rent, buy or exchange site privileges, such as administrative access, for assets that belong to you or that you manage. Helping anyone evade or circumvent our enforcement of our policies or terms of service is also prohibited.”

Funny how a policy regulating advertisers isn’t listed in the ad policies first, but in the Community Standards for people who don’t run ads. But there it is – Facebook forbids you from renting or buying ad assets from other advertisers.

If you took a look inside Meta’s open source A.I. program you’d see nothing is slowing down for Facebook’s reliance on machines to make decisions that impact human lives, namely advertisers. To safeguard your ad account you really need to understand Facebook ad policy or risk losing money with Facebook bans.

Learn more

I hope you’ve found this article on how to navigate the Facebook ads policy strategically instead of just guessing helpful.

I’ve created a lot of helpful guides on my blog, but nothing beats hands on guidance for avoiding shut downs from someone whose worked at Facebook for years.

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Facebook ad bans are the worst! Your Facebook ads are running great until out of nowhere, everything is shut down. Your Facebook ad account is precious because it lets you run ads that make money but what happens if your Facebook ad account gets hit with the ban hammer? [Suspenseful music].

This can lead to your Business Manager getting disabled, your Facebook Business Page being restricted or your Facebook ad account getting disabled. Want to prevent this? Keep reading.

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Facebook Ad Ban: Add ad accounts in Meta Business Manager

Step 1 in avoiding a ban is to never use your personal Facebook ad account. What is a personal Facebook ad account? It’s the ad account that by default is assigned to your personal profile.

Remember, this is not a Facebook Business Page – which is your digital storefront. This is the personal profile that you can add friends to and it views the Newsfeed on Facebook of your friend and family’s posts. Different from Ads Manager access from a Business Page.

Because Facebook wants everyone to spend money on Facebook, everyone with a profile automatically gets a personal ad account associated with the nonbusiness personal profile. But, if you are a newb, and start running ads on your personal profile’s ad account you risk restricting your profile from advertising.

If you need some tips on running ads on FB as a business, read How to Navigate Facebook’s Advertising Policies as a Business.

Facebook Ad Ban: Let’s get started with business tools from Meta

Ok, so you want to only advertise from an ad account in Business Manager. What protections does this offer? Well, you are more likely to simply risk an ad account getting disabled instead of your whole Facebook personal profile getting banned.

That’s a much more acceptable risk because you can create more ad accounts in your Business Manager, as that is a tool Meta provides to manage your Facebook ad account. When your profile is restricted, that is one key to many doors because your profile creates your Facebook Biz Page, Business Managers and more.

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Facebook Ad Ban: Facebook Ads Setup

One of the best ways to avoid the ban hammer is to prescreen your Facebook ad account for compliance before rolling out lets say 50 or 100 new ads all at once. If you’re following the latest trends advertising on Facebook you know that:

Video advertising will remain insanely popular

But before those video ads go live ensure they follow Facebook’s rules. It’s a lot easier to make sure your Facebook ads are compliant before they go live than running around like a chicken with your head cut off once Facebook starts flagging you left and right!

Want a few pro tips before you get started? Check out: Top Reasons Why Facebook Disables Ad Accounts

When you get ready to create all your Facebook ads, leave them in draft mode in Ads Manager. Then have someone who is an expert with Facebook ad policies scan those ads before they go live. And identify what could potentially shut you down, swap that out with compliant copy.

Then, you are not risking so much after you set up your Facebook ads in your Facebook ad account.

Facebook Ad Ban: Ads Manager & Facebook Ad Accounts

Let’s chat about Ads Manager – this is the interface you create your ads in. Yes, as many newbies have discovered, a boosted post, is in fact the same damn thing as a regular ad 😂

Ads Manager has been around forever, it used to look a lot more compact – and be a lot more efficient. Then, back in the day, Facebook decided to combine this interface with a separate advertising interface called Power Editor. Now it’s changed along with the increased chance of getting a Facebook ad ban.

In the upper left hand corner, now you have a drop down menu to choose which ad account you are using to advertise on Facebook. Make sure you don’t accidentally have your personal ad account selected when you are creating new ads.

If you’ve read my What to Do After Violating Facebook’s Ad Policies [Step by Step Guide], you found out the hidden clues Facebook sometimes drop in warnings to you – that you may need an expert to decode into everyday language. Well, let’s start addressing this from a preventative standpoint.

Facebook Ad Ban: Create brand new ads

With the amount of people thrown in Facebook jail even higher recently, you may want to create new ads instead of fixing the old ones. Anytime you create brand new ads in your Facebook ad account you are inviting Facebook to scan your entire funnel. Yes, that does mean your website as well.

What can you do to avoid the ban hammer on your Facebook ad account in Ads Manager? Make sure every piece of your marketing funnel that is connected to your Facebook ads, is compliant. Don’t half ass this part. I promise you the upfront effort saves a lot more time and money then waiting til you’re in Facebook jail with a Facebook ad ban.

Next up let me address 2 myths in Facebook ad account advertising: Buying cheap clicks from 3rd world countries & risks to avoid in the entertainment industry.

Choose your audience

A common mistake I’ve seen made by thousands of marketers like yourself who went through a Facebook ads training is to get cheap likes by targeting 3rd world countries. Advertisers will target Africa, or India and small villages in islands nearby like the Philippines.

Sure, you’ll get likes on the cheap but you are training your Facebook ad account to attract a shitty audience of nonbuyers. The Facebook algorithm will seek to show your Facebook Business Page to more people like those you’ve targeted. Now, your ads only reach clickbait farms. This is not an advisable strategy if you want to avoid getting a Facebook ad ban.

In general you want to make sure your ads don’t look like cheap spam. Don’t cross out creating relatable ads – they are the better well received than the standard hard sell.

If you’re in the entertainment industry and run ads for a restaurant, bar, music venue, wedding venue, events venue etc you have to watch out with your targeting. Because if your ad is seen by minors or they comment on it, and aren’t old enough to drink alcohol, you could get flagged. So avoid that by using better targeting.

Set up and manage your ad budgets

When you’re setting up the ad budget for your Facebook ad account, remember to make sure your credit card numbers are clean. If you’d ran ads in the past but got shut down, it’s possible those CC #s are flagged now.

As I’ve written in other blogs, banks can sometimes block the charges on accident, not knowing Facebook is an approved payment processor. So, even if your credit card is good from not having been on an ad account that was shut down before, if your bank blocked charges for ads at any point, your card could be blacklisted. That also leads to a Facebook ad ban.

Facebook, Meta, Instagram all change quickly, so as they change make sure you change to not be left behind when budgeting and creating ads.

As one of my clients, Mari Smith has stated, people will be able to develop and share their own custom, meme-able Add Yours templates by pinning GIFs, text, and gallery images to a Story template. Social Media Today shared as well that Add Yours story templates gives people more ways to express their creativity in Stories and share what’s on their mind with their followers.

Yet, so many get banned from imposter accounts! There are ways to recover from this although it isn’t easy.

When my client Happi Digital, an eCommerce Agency hired me to audit their Facebook ads, I uncovered flags that if left alone could have shut down their entire ad agency.

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Adjust your campaigns

Whether you’re using mixed media or also integrating SEO with your Facebook marketing campaigns this year, you’ll want to stay abreast of the latest Facebook ad policies. And adjust your campaigns to ensure your Facebook ad account doesn’t get shut down.

Check out Essential Facebook Ad Policies to Know [Ultimate Guide] here.

Facebook Ad Ban: Test which ads perform best

One of the secrets to never getting the Facebook ban hammer dropped on your Facebook ad account is maintaining the delicate balance between marketing and compliance.

What does that mean?

Well, clearly, the most outrageous claims with the least amount of effort will often convert much higher than something that tells people they have to work to get the reward.

Your Facebook ads may get rejected in the testing process – not just split testing for the best ad copy or creative but also testing to ensure Facebook won’t block your ads or give you a Facebook ad ban.

94% of ad revenue is from mobile users in 2024, so ensure your ads are mobile-friendly too, because if it looks wonky or part of the text is cut off you may get a Facebook ad ban for that too.

Have your Facebook ads been blocked? Read this blog here.

To be successful advertising on Facebook you’ll want to create an ad that both speaks to the pain points of your audience in a high converting manner, but also follows Facebook’s ad policies to make sure your Facebook ad account is in good standing.

That includes making sure your website is fully compliant as well.

For top tips on making a landing page compliant read this.

Facebook Ad Ban: Facebook Ad Account Hidden Score

How long have you been running ads on Facebook? Do you remember the 1 to 10 Relevancy Score?

It was one of my favorite metrics because you could see real easy where you stand with Facebook: 1 your ad is in the dog house, 10 Facebook loves your ad so much they reduce the cost of your CPCs and CPAs.

Now, with the new Ad Quality metrics – you have no real clue because they are bonkers. Meaning, these are terribly inaccurate scores. You can have an amazing ad with your CPCs under 50 cents with tons of reactions and…

Facebook will say it’s a low performing ad on the Ad Quality charts. So…yeah. No thanks.

On the compliance side, to avoid getting the ban hammer dropped on your Facebook ad account you’ll want to make sure your ad account doesn’t have a negative score. What am I referring to?

Even if you went to Social Media Marketing World (a great event) you wouldn’t learn about this.

I’m referring to the score Facebook has for both your Profile (personally) and your Facebook Ad Account (professionally).

If you have a shit ton of rejected ads, there will be a threshold where eventually even a minor flag can trigger a total account shut down. Just because you have so many rejected ads. That can lead to a Facebook ad ban.

Make sure your ratio of rejected ads doesn’t out number your approved ads. That will help.

How To Create A Facebook Ad Account

One of the questions I get asked a lot is, “My facebook ad account is banned, how to I start again?”

This answer is more complicated this year than it used to be when it comes to a Facebook ad ban.

Previously, you’d be allowed to create multiple ad accounts inside your Business Manager and possibly relaunch a new facebook ad account. But, Facebook / Meta has put new limits on that.

While they won’t tell you what these limits are for ad account creation limit, we went from 3 in BM, to now…one ad account.

If you need to create a new Facebook ad account, just be careful to not run any ads with the same flags as the ones that got you shut down.

Start Managing Ads with Your Facebook Ad Account

The ads you run on your Facebook ad account have a dual purpose. They aren’t just a funnel delivering money; Facebook ads are also the pressure that tempers Meta’s compliance barometer. This all factors in when they slap down a Facebook ad ban.

You are essentially creating a digital reputation judged by the automations that filter through. The 7 odd billion people in the world see like 6,000 Facebook ads a day. That means, somewhere around forty-seven trillion, three hundred twenty-eight billion Facebook ads run every day. Or something.

Facebook has to profile some of these as bad actors to protect others from harm but innocent mistakes advertisers make just running ads, often get them banned too.

While not always, often the ads you’ve created also made a digital footprint that put you on the radar with Facebook. Stop focusing only on the money and realize the type of ads run also creates your reputation on the platform.

Facebook Business Manager: The Basics

In addition to a Facebook ad ban, I just wanted to cover a few things that even the most experienced advertisers seem to miss about Facebook’s Business Manager.

When you have a Facebook Business Page inside a Business Manager, that Business Manager owns the Facebook Business Page. Meaning, you need to have a role as admin on the Facebook Business Page AND the Facebook Business Manager to run ads on it.

Also, for Business Manager basics on not getting caught by the Facebook ban hammer:

If you feel like you are on the radar, and are at risk for getting your Facebook Business Manager disabled – take your Facebook Business Page out ASAP!!

That Page, if it’s still inside a Business Manager, after the Business Manager gets disabled, will forever be banned from advertising because it’ll be stuck inside the disabled Facebook Business Manager.

Facebook Ad Ban: Understand Facebook ad account limits

Facebook ad accounts can do a lot but they need to stay healthy. After repeatedly getting Facebook ads rejected, you could jeopardize your brand name. And Facebook is still a hot market!

Facebook is the third most visited website following Google and YouTube. This puts it ahead of other leading platforms like Twitter and Instagram.

Because if your Facebook Business Page gets restricted from advertising because you didn’t learn from the first few ad rejections, then that’s on you brosky.

If you haven’t had a chance yet, read my break down of Common Facebook Ad Policy Violations [Explained]

What if you had a guarantee that your ads were compliant before they went live on Facebook? What if you knew 100% without guessing why your ad account was disabled? What if you knew why your Facebook ads were blocked and had a path to get ads live again?

Keep reading for these answers and more:

Facebook Ad Ban Solution

Ad agencies: tired of getting the silent treatment from Facebook when all you want to do is get your Facebook ads live and revenue in the door?

I’m a Facebook ad policy specialist who worked deep at Facebook and I’m trusted by high level brands that take accuracy and results seriously:

If you’re ok with waiting a bit longer, and entering the waitlist to see if you’re eligible – Schedule a call or contact me via email.

Free eBook: Top 5 Reasons Agencies Fail at Facebook

This is How Ad Agencies Avoid Facebook Jail: Ad Policies Checklist

You can now get banned for the smallest thing on Facebook if you don’t know the Facebook ad policies. Want to shortcut to escaping Facebook jail? Keep reading…

Having a disabled Facebook ad account is a real bummer but you’re in the right place. I’ve worked at Facebook and today I’ll share a Facebook Ad Policy Checklist with you to prevent Facebook blocks and ad account restrictions.

(Further reading on restricted ad accounts here: Facebook Account Restricted from Advertising? Don’t Panic!)

Just like I provided solutions for Boomerang, a marketing research firm, you’ll learn how to avoid the land mines that shut down millions of businesses a year on Facebook.

Click here for a free discovery call.

Facebook Ad Policies: Review

Let’s cover the review process next.

Facebook Ad Review Process

Facebook’s ad review process takes up to 24 hours, and is 100% automated. So you’ll want to check your ads for facebook policy flags before submitting them for review.

Facebook changes often, as Jon Loomer mentions about the new Conversion API so you’ll want to stay up-to-date with new Facebook policy changes before submitting your ads for review.

Breaking Down the Facebook Ad Review Process

Your ads are the face of your business online. Social media ads are the top source of new brand discovery for internet users aged 16-24 (DataReportal, 2023).

When your ads first go for review, Meta’s automations review your ad account history, your Business Manager history and the industry you’re in. After a quick check, you’ll get an answer on whether it’s approved or not.

And just because your ad is approved doesn’t mean you are compliant – often smaller flags can slip through if you don’t have a complete audit of your funnel first for Facebook policy compliance.

Facebook’s Advertising Policies

Every year Facebook creates new Facebook ad policies that reflect changes to privacy, advertising, and PR that affects Meta’s stockholders. They may not always make sense from a conversion standpoint – but from a PR brand development level they do.

Restricted Ad Content

Certain types of content can get you banned in only a few seconds. Facebook won’t let you run ads from prohibited categories: forbidden substances, violence, weapons, hate speech etc. For you, if one of your words sounds similar to restricted ad content.

Facebook Ad Policies: Background

So why not just throw it against the wall and see if your ads stick?

Why Should You Bother Learning About Facebook Ads Policies?

It sounds like a pain in the ass to learn about Facebook ad policies but unless you want to run a black hat agency that is always pumping and dumping rented ad accounts, learning Facebook ad policy helps you establish longevity. You can’t build the pixel retargeting data if you are hopping from one ad account to the next. Learning Facebook ad policies helps you with building audiences for your brand to retarget later.

Understanding Facebook’s Advertising Standards

Facebook ad policies were created by the Facebook ad policy department but enforced by the engineering department I worked with at Facebook. That means that on the surface, Facebook ad policies seem simple, but how they are enforced can get complicated unless you speak bot-language. As automations enforce the ad policies your ads have to follow.

Facebook Ads Policies You Need to Know

Facebook ad policy automations enforce these ad policies the most:

Misleading Business Practices
Personal Attributes
Spam

Each Facebook ad policy affects different industries differently.

Additional policies that may apply to your ad

Depending on which type of business you have additional Facebook ad policies may apply. If you’re selling CBD, or gambling online or in person, there are more Facebook ad policies specific to your niche you’ll want to be familiar with.

Complying with Facebook’s Ad Policy

To ensure you you don’t get stuck in Facebook jail you’ll want to review your ads both for conversion, and for Facebook ad policy compliance.

How to Ensure Your Ads Comply with Facebook’s Policy

Look at your ads through the eyes of the machines that flag them, and predict where and how the Facebook automations will flag you, and make sure you have compliant ad copy. Stuck trying to figure that out? I worked with the engineers that created these automations at Facebook.

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). He offered some critical insights to why our Facebook Ad Account was disabled and shared options to reduce our chances of future issues. We have a better understand of how the algorithm works and know exactly what to do and say if our account gets disabled again.”

Want to see how I can help you? Schedule a free discovery call here. Or, if you’re in a rush, prepay for your consulting call and skip the line.

The Facebook Ad Policies Checklist

Step 1: Review Your Facebook Ad Policies History

What happens when you apply for a loan? The lender checks your credit history – and Facebook’s automations do this in a similar fashion. When you submit your ads for review, an automation checks to see what your ad account history is with Facebook.

How many ads have you had rejected in the past few months?

The machines will tally up your rejected ads and compare those to the number of approved ads – it all happens in a few seconds, completely automatic. And, let’s face it, that’s a simple math equation. The number of ads approved versus ads rejected.

Remember: 95% of the review process is done by machines so it comes down to a simple tally. If you have more rejected ads than approved ads within a certain time span like 30 to 60 or 90 days, the machines will conclude you are a bad actor. And then disable your Facebook ad account.

[Read: Your Access Can’t Be Reinstated here]

Of course, there is an easy way to weigh the scales in your favor: Run ads that follow Facebook ad policies. And make sure your motivation here isn’t profit but simply running ads you know will be approved, to help improve your ad account health.

If you need some tips on running ads on FB as a business, read How to Navigate Facebook’s Advertising Policies as a Business.

I guarantee it will save you more time to make a decision and take action on improving your ad account health before running conversion campaigns where everything is on the line.

Step 2: Look Up Facebook Ad Policies for Your Niche

Facebook may be many things, but few will actually say “Facebook is fair.” And the reason why this is a popular sentiment is because of how confusing Facebook ad policies are. They’re confusing af because different industries play by different rules.

Facebook ad policies vary a lot depending on what your business is. For instance, if you run employment ads, political ads, or real estate ads you’re in what’s called the special ad category for social issues.

When Facebook was sued in 2019 for having targeting parameters for income and zipcode (mainly in real estate ads) the backlash was taking away these targeting options and creating special ad categories.

There are specific ad policies that apply only to special ad category ads, so you’ll want to be familiar, even if on a surface level, with those facebook ad policies.

Gambling ads don’t allow you to provide users with the ability to bet using real money on an app for example. Here’s a quick overview of the facebook ad policies:

You can see we covered the special ad categories, but, let’s say you’re in the “how to start a business” niche. One thing you’ll want to be aware of is the Misleading Business Practices ad policy.

This is a policy to help prevent pyramid schemes from creating Facebook ads. Do you actually run an MLM? A multilevel marketing company isn’t allowed to advertise on Facebook. So, knowing that going forward will better prepare you.

I hope the main idea is clear here: get familiar with the facebook ad policies that relate to your business specifically. Even if you’re not an MLM, be aware of how your ads sound.

Don’t sound like an MLM.

That means making realistic claims for the results you promise in the ad copy.

Be aware of what those ad policies are before you press publish on any new ads. Or you can just hire me to review your ads and save time looking at 1000s of facebook ad policies.

Facebook Ad Policies Analysis

Next up, get ready to analyze your ads for flags.

Step 3: Analyze Your Rejected Facebook Ads

Facebook ads have multiple parts:

The ad copy above the creative
Creative (image or video)
Headline beneath the creative
Display URL
Leadform (if using Lead gen ads)

To avoid getting your Facebook ad account disabled, you’ll want to ensure you don’t have too many rejected ads. And make sure you don’t have the same ad policy strikes on multiple ads. You’ll want to analyze each part of your ad and look for potential Facebook ad policy violations.

Facebook Ad Policies: Ad Copy

For the ad copy – which is the 1st thing you see on a Facebook ad – you want to be extra careful you accurately represent your company, product, service, or brand being advertised. So, no outlandish promises of big results with little effort.

Facebook Ad Policies: Headline

It’s often said that you need to spend a lot more time split-testing headlines than the content on your lander because the headline is what grabs your audience’s attention.

In the same vein, you also want to keep in mind any ad copy in your headline that sounds spammy. Don’t talk about that “one weird trick.”

Facebook Ad Policies: Display URL

A lot of my clients that come to me with disabled Facebook ad accounts or rejected Facebook ads have been hit by the automations because of issues with their display URLs. What is the display URL?

It’s what you want your audience to see but it has to match your actual landing page’s URL. If you have a messy URL with a lot of numbers that’s super long, sure, you can put the root domain instead of the add-on domain there.

BUT don’t put your bridge page there instead of the actual sales page URL if the website address is different. That will getcha flagged. Too many flags can lead to ad account shutdowns or rejected Facebook ads that hurt your ad account score.

That was the case for my client Jack Randall. Jack is a social media marketer that kept getting shut down by Facebook until we worked together.

“Trevor helped me successfully diagnose exactly why my ad account was disabled, and helped me frame out a plan to move forward.” In a rush? Skip the line with prepaid funnel audits with VIP Access.

Step 4: Check Your Website for Facebook Ad Policies Violations

You’d be surprised how many advertisers tell me, “I didn’t know Facebook scanned my website as well as my Facebook ad.”

Welp! But they do!

Got a ton of ads running to a non-compliant site? I’m gonna have to quote Kermit on you.

A common flaw I’ve seen in advertisers who get the Facebook ban hammer is not making sure every link on their website works. If you have any 404 pages, Facebook automations will find them and flag you for a nonfunctioning landing page.

Also for the love of God, get a dang privacy policy!

This is a must for any website that you run Facebook ads to. And for some special ad categories like political ads, it is a legal requirement.

A common flag I see a lot is Personal Attributes – this happens when you target the pain points of a specific group of people too specifically. Be aware of that and look at your website to make sure you aren’t being too negative.

Look over your website and make sure there isn’t any content on it that violates Facebook ad policies. Don’t skip this step on the checklist!

Also check out: Top Reasons Why Facebook Disables Ad Accounts

Step 5. Get Your Funnel Facebook Compliant

(Before Running New Ads or Appealing)

WHEW! You’ve come so far. You’ve reviewed your Facebook ad policies history, looked up facebook ad policies for your niche, analyzed your rejected Facebook ads, and checked your website for Facebook ad policies violations.

The best strategy for keeping Facebook ads active is always going to be a preventative one. You can’t undo a certain level of banning – that’s why this Facebook ad policies checklist is focused on discovering potential flags and current or past facebook policy flags.

Your last step is to put all that knowledge you’ve gained in the previous steps to work. Now that you’ve identified Facebook ad policies you may have violated, you’ll want to get your Facebook funnel compliant.

Take a moment to review your Facebook ads and compare them to the Facebook ad policies online. Your marketing plan should include compliance before conversions. Because it’s a balance between those 2.

Conclusion

A preventative Facebook ad policy approach will SAVE YOU SO MUCH MONEY AND HEADACHES! Is it easier to pay child support for 18 years or pull out? Do the math folks.

Here is a TLDR for Facebook ad policies to check your funnel for:

Check for improper grammar or punctuation.
Check for sexual content, nudity, or allusions to sexual activity.
Reference or imply a user’s personal characteristics, including but not limited to race, ethnicity, religion, beliefs, and sexual orientation.
Discriminate or promote discrimination.
Promote misleading or deceptive practices or products in any capacity.
Contain images that portray non-existent functionality (for example, a “play” button that doesn’t play actual content).
Make potentially misleading claims or set unrealistic expectations.
Include low-quality content (for example, using sensationalized or exaggerated language or withholding key information to entice someone to click on the ad).

There you have it! I hope you’ve found the Facebook ad policies checklist helpful.

If you use this Checklist before running new ads you’ll increase your rate of approved Facebook ads and prevent disabled Facebook ad accounts from ever gracing your screen.

Thanks for reading!

Still here?

What if you had a guarantee that your ads were compliant before they went live on Facebook? What if you knew 100% without guessing why your ad account was disabled? What if you knew why your Facebook ads were blocked and had a path to get ads live again?

Keep reading for these answers and more:

Facebook Jail Solution

Ad agencies: tired of getting the silent treatment from Facebook when all you want to do is get your Facebook ads live and revenue in the door?

I’m a Facebook ad policy specialist who worked deep at Facebook and I’m trusted by high level brands that take accuracy and results seriously:

If you’re ok with waiting a bit longer, and entering the waitlist to see if you’re eligible – Schedule a call or contact me via email.

Free eBook: Top 5 Reasons Agencies Fail at Facebook

This Is Why You’re Losing Money With Facebook Ad Account Restrictions

Are you an advertiser seeking to remove Ad Account Restrictions on Facebook?

But, get frustrated when Facebook ad support hides the answer or takes a long time getting back to you? And their delay in answering is angering your clients and you, as all you want is a straight answer.

Why won’t Facebook just tell you what you did wrong and how to fix it?

1. Outsourcing labor for Facebook ad support.
2. Overload of spammers with fake accounts.

Meta is busy removing fake accounts from China trying to manipulate the next US Election so your ad bans won’t get a attention right away or a straight answer. I’ve worked in ads at Facebook and will help you get answers on avoiding ad account restrictions.

Just like I provided solutions for Boomerang, a marketing research firm, you’ll learn how to avoid the land mines that shut down millions of businesses a year on Facebook.

Click here for a free discovery call.
If I decide you’re a good fit, we can work together and I’ll reveal why FB shut you down and how to get compliant again. (In a rush? Skip the line with prepaid funnel audits with VIP Access).

Your Facebook Advertising Got Restricted…Now What?

If you’ve been restricted from advertising on Facebook all your active ads will be paused and you won’t be able to create new ads. Often you’ll see “ad error” next to the ads that used to be live.

Maybe you’re using the bully method with high manual bidding as Michael A. Stelzner talks about when scaling ads in Social Media Examiner. If one ad gets flagged, but 20 more have the same flag, you’ll be hit for 21 times and with no gun salute.

After reading my Facebook Ad Policies Checklist you may have started to see which ad policy applied to your Campaigns.

Now, the reason why you got shut down will be one of many. Each scenario is different. Why is that? Well, there are different types of Facebook ads and Facebook’s ad policies apply differently to each industry.

And I’m not even talking about Special Ad Categories (real estate, social issues, employment, loans etc).

How Facebook’s machines apply their striking automation really does depend on a number of factors which I’ll get into next.

As Liana Lang, CEO of Power Up Strategy Inc. said, “Please meet Trevor, my ‘secret weapon’ for all things Facebook compliance. I highly recommend hiring him to help you out especially if you plan to be running ads.”

Want the same white glove treatment navigating Facebook shutdowns?

Click here, to schedule a discovery call.

Ad Account Restrictions: How did I get myself restricted from advertising on Facebook?

You’d be surprised how many businesses are running ads based on what worked 5 years ago. Just like advances in technology rapidly change the social landscape, so do changes in Facebook’s ad policies.

What was allowed last year may not be compliant this year. And if you’re still running ads that used to be compliant, Facebook will show no mercy in shutting you down ASAP. And even retroactively punishing your ad account by flagging old ads that aren’t even active, if they violate new current ad policies.

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

Now, for those who are fatalists and doomscrollers – it’s still worth it to invest in Facebook ads despite the red tape BS. As of today, 57.53% of the world’s active internet users access Facebook every month.

You can get your ads rejected for violating the spam flags, the Personal Attributes policies, or Facebook could have flagged you as an MLM.

Your eyes would pop out if you knew the list of banned words Facebook has that associate you with a pyramid scheme. If you accidentally used one of these words, even 1 word would be enough to get you shut down.

Ideally, you’d have your ads prescreened for Facebook ad policy compliance before going live.

How can I tell if my ad account was restricted?

Facebook Ad Account Restrictions Guide

I know sometimes it feels like there is too much to read about Facebook bans, so I created an easy-to-read infographic on resolving ad account restrictions:

how to remove restriction on facebook ad account guide

What does having my ad account restricted mean?

If you have a restricted Facebook account, you are banned from using Facebook Ads, Facebook Pixel, Facebook Business Manager, and more. BUT there are many factors for why you may be banned.

This Is Why You’re Losing Money With Facebook Ad Account Restrictions:

The severity of your account restriction depends on:

• Your Type of Business
• The Ad Account History
• The Type of Ban
• The Number of Bans in the Past 3 months
• The Amount of Approved Ads

And a few other factors. Not all bans are the same, and not all Facebook restricted accounts have the same recovery process – or relaunching method.

Are mofos from Bangladesh promising you they can recover your restricted ad account? Don’t fall for it! Read How to Recover Facebook Ad Accounts now

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). He offered some critical insights to why our Facebook Ad Account was disabled and shared options to reduce our chances of future issues. We have a better understand of how the algorithm works and know exactly what to do and say if our account gets disabled again.”

Want to see how I can help you? Schedule a free discovery call here. Or, if you’re in a rush, prepay for your consulting call and skip the line.

Ad Account Restrictions: Next Steps

If your ad account restrictions have just started, make sure to do this one thing before taking the next step:

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

STOP!!! The 1st thing you need to do is STOP taking further actions on Business Manager and Ads Manager.

So many of my clients before they were clients dug themselves into a much deeper hole scrambling around with last ditch efforts to save their ad accounts. Which in reality, only made things worse. Yeah – you need to stop and assess your funnel FIRST.

Also – do not believe Facebook ad support, they can get you in worse shape because their advice is ignorant. None of them have recovered from a Facebook ban or even run ads with skin in the game.

They never made real profit from Facebook ads and only read textbook replies – I wrote some of these replies authoring internal documents for process flows at Facebook when I worked there in ads.

ALSO: Be careful whose advice you take when reading articles online. I’ve seen some pretty dumbass shit online, giving the wrong advice from hacks just GUESSING on what to do. Or worse, regurgitating bad advice they read on Reddit or in YouTube comments.

If you google “How to Remove Restriction on Facebook Ad Account,” The 1st result Google selected for the Google Snippet is wrong!

What the fuck is this?! You are googling “how to remove restriction on Facebook ad account,” and the 1st result tells you to publish a damn Facebook Page????!!!! Soooo irrelevant. Shit is irritating af because it isn’t the correct answer. At all.

Another prime example, SocialSurge Marketing gives bad advice about how to remove restriction on facebook ad account:

This is bad advice. SocialSurge Marketing says that if you lost your rights to advertise unnecessarily they will reinstate you. Incorrect. Banning is done 99% of the time by machines – they have no moral base or conscience about what is fair or unfair.

SocialSurge Marketing also says above to “just try…to wait it out and see if your restriction is only temporary.” Incorrect. Talk to some people who have been banned – some wait over 6 months with any reply. Waiting doesn’t solve shit.

It’s dumb trust – Facebook makes money in the billions they have little to no investment in caring if you speedily get back up advertising or never run ads again. Meta has got money to burn and hands out ad account restrictions left and right.

Also SocialSurge Marketing saying you should Request Review is a big mistake. Because if you click on “Request Review” you’ll get ONE machine to review ANOTHER machine’s decision. That’s like asking the fox to guard the hen house.

You think a Facebook bot is going to side with a human over another Facebook bot? WRONG. I’ll tell you what to do next that is a much better option.

Or you can also watch my YouTube video on the BS of suggesting Request Review here:

Ad Account Restrictions: Resolution Steps

Don’t miss out on the one thing you should do if you’re facing ad account restrictions:

To troubleshoot your restricted account:

The first step is to audit your funnel and identify the biggest risks when it comes to Facebook ad policy compliance after ad account restrictions. If you don’t know why you got flagged you won’t have very much to go on when attempting to appeal.

Review the Facebook ad policies that apply to your business specifically and determine which one the automations caught and flagged you for.

Still a little lost? I’ve created many Ad Guides on Facebook ad policy you can check out.

When you appeal, you gotta know WHY you were shut down FIRST. Most ad agencies have it BACKWARDS. They go in whining and angry, demanding to be told why their accounts were restricted. And asking that their accounts get restored.

You really have to find out for yourself FIRST before appealing, because that will be the heart of your appeal: “I know what I may have done wrong and I’ve learned from it.”

On Appealing: Chat in with Facebook Ad Support and get the agent you contact to submit the appeal for you instead of clicking Request Review. This will up your chances by a factor of 100.

Already completely banned?

If you are running ads and spending $100K a year or more on ads, I can help with that.

Also check out: Top Reasons Why Facebook Disables Ad Accounts

Ad Account Restrictions: Confirm Your Identity

If you do this wrong, it could end everything!

Confirm your identity

I have one word for you: DON’T.

You may be one of the lucky 2% that actually start confirming your identity and slip through the cracks. But most people?

Once you hit that button it’s game over. Facebook will never confirm your identity because their form is broken and doesn’t transfer the data (like your driver’s license) to Facebook itself.

There are other ways to get your ads live – all white hat – which are much better than trying to Confirm Your Identity.

Ad Account Restrictions: Complete verification

Facebook’s ad policies will tell you to complete verification but like I said above, and admiral Ackbar reiterates:

Secure your account

This is a new thing: If you’re a user of a Business Manager account that’s over 90 days old, you may need to enable two-factor authentication to meet Facebook’s security requirements. If you don’t, Meta may restrict your access to Business Manager tools for security purposes.

To reinstate your account, you’ll need to enable two-factor authentication after ad account restrictions.

If you haven’t submitted your IDs for the verify identity trap, enabling 2FA can sometimes restore your account. I’ve seen it happen – it isn’t reliable as the only solution, but it can help. As long as you don’t put a device, or email that you no longer have access to on your account! !

That’s another trap. Advertisers try to enable 2FA to get their ad accounts back but don’t realize they have an old email associated with their Personal Profile that they don’t have access to. Or an old phone number from a smartphone they no longer have.

You are royally fucked if you do this because Facebook will show no mercy if you tell them, “I don’t have access to this email/device anymore.”

It’s another good reason for you to make sure that your info is up to date before advertising, before appealing and before enabling 2FA.

Violating content

Facebook’s Violating Content Policies are a joke. You have no guidance here, it just says:

Advertisers can’t:

Severely violate our advertising policies
Repeatedly violate our advertising policies

You will have a lot more guidance from the articles I’ve written on specific steps to follow Facebook ad policy rather than these generic-ass statements.

When it comes to account authenticity Facebook wants to make sure the government name on your ID or Driver’s License is the same as the Facebook profile.

Ever had someone on your Business Manager get shut down elsewhere, on another Business Manager, and have the Facebook bots follow that one person back to your Business Manager and shut it down?

Even if your Business Manager WAS compliant?

This is that shit. Facebook started tracking / stalking advertisers who got shut down on 1 Business Manager and then assuming guilt by association.

Violating networks or associations is Facebook’s policy to automatically assume if someone has a Facebook ban, anyone they are connected to on Facebook is by default, also a bad actor. It’s bullshit, I know, but that’s their policy for ad account restrictions.

Almost 100% of the time this is because you logged into Facebook, either your personal Profile or Business Manager or the Facebook Business Page from a location different from your regular house and local haunts.

And if you have a credit card number banned causing more ad account restrictions.

Solution: get a new credit card that’s fresh and clean, and also only login to Facebook from one location (or 1 city rather).

If you haven’t had a chance yet, read my break down of Common Facebook Ad Policy Violations [Explained]

As amazing as many of the speakers are (and some of the speakers are former clients of mine), no one at the Traffic & Conversion Summit this year is going to tell you the best way to appeal Facebook bans.

Ad Account Restrictions: Appeals

From my time working at Facebook in ads, I’ll share some top tips next.

How to appeal advertising restrictions

Ad Account Restrictions: Request a review

More contradictory advice from Facebook:

“If your account is restricted due to a policy violation, you may be able to request a review.”

That’s like asking the original evil Terminator to review John Connor as he is hunting Connor.

Now – I’m not saying that it won’t ever work. About 1 percent of people who request review, DO get their accounts back after ad account restrictions.

But, I’ve worked with 10s of 1000s of advertisers and the stats show requesting review just locks you into a permanently restricted status.

Speaking of machines, the coming AI wave will also bring new changes with Facebook’s use of AI content, so keep on the look out for new Facebook AI ad policies on ad account restrictions.

Ad Account Restrictions: Learn more

Are you ready to stop second guessing Facebook bans and stop sitting on the edge of your seat worrying about shut downs?

Even if you spent a week reading Facebook’s Ad Policies you’d still be at risk of a shut down simply because there are a 1000 more flags than you are actually told about.

Yet the machines still scan your ads according to these invisible Facebook ad policies.

BUT – don’t miss out on an opportunity to never have to get flagged again. I’ve worked in ads, tech and project management at Facebook and can help.

What if you had a guarantee that your ads were compliant before they went live on Facebook? What if you knew 100% without guessing why your ad account was disabled? What if you knew why your Facebook ads were blocked and had a path to get ads live again?

Keep reading for these answers and more:

Ad Account Restrictions: New Solution

Ad agencies: tired of getting the silent treatment from Facebook when all you want to do is get your Facebook ads live and revenue in the door?

I’m a Facebook ad policy specialist who worked deep at Facebook and I’m trusted by high level brands that take accuracy and results seriously:

If you’re ok with waiting a bit longer, and entering the waitlist to see if you’re eligible – Schedule a call or contact me via email.

Free eBook: Top 5 Reasons Agencies Fail at Facebook

You Won’t Believe How Facebook Bans Advertisers for Ad Account Restriction

Banned for an ad account restriction on Facebook? I can help – I’ve worked at Facebook in ads.

So many people post fluff online when you google how to fix ad account restrictions on Facebook, but I’ll share how to avoid Facebook bans and ad account restrictions in this article.

My other blogs provided you with a Facebook Ad Policies Checklist. And today, I’ll explore exactly how the Personal Attributes flag bans advertisers and how to avoid Facebook jail.

As Liana Lang, CEO of Power Up Strategy Inc. said, “Please meet Trevor, my ‘secret weapon’ for all things Facebook compliance. I highly recommend hiring him to help you out especially if you plan to be running ads.”

Want the same white glove treatment navigating Facebook shutdowns?

Click here, to schedule a discovery call.

Facebook Policy Personal Attributes Guide

What are personal attribute ad account restrictions?

There are many reasons why your ad account restriction happened. Today, I’m focusing on the Personal Attributes flag and how that triggers ad account restrictions.

Personal Attributes is a detail about someone that ad copy calls out. Personal Attributes consist of targeting 1 specific group of people, and singling them out, negatively or positively. These attributes can be height, weight, age, gender, financial status, sexual orientation, or belonging to a subgroup.

One of the biggest roadblocks advertisers face when getting hit with a Facebook shut down is not being told why it happened. The rules of advertising when it comes the ole problem-pain-solution formula don’t work on Facebook. Or they work but only if customized for Facebook ad policy.

What you consider normal may not be perceived the same by the bots that do the flagging within Facebook’s ecosystem. That’s why things get tricky. You may feel your ad copy sounds normal – but if you want to follow the Facebook ad policies, you gotta frame your copy specifically for Facebook’s website.

Ad Account Restriction GENERAL GUIDANCE

This list sounds deceptively simple. You’re thinking, “How hard can it be to follow these 4 bullet points?”

Well, it can be harder than it sounds because a machine is the one interpreting your ad copy as compliant or ban worthy. (Check out my article Facebook ad account disabled next steps).

What “Text referencing or alluding to personal attributes or characteristics of the targeted group or individual,” means, is if you are calling out a specific smaller sub group of people you can get the Personal Attributes flag.

Facebook’s philosophy here is that if you are being too negative about a small enough group of people, they’ll leave Facebook, feeling too singled out. And Facebook loses a lot of ad money if people leave Facebook for a competitor platform.

You and Your are tricky pronouns, because they do specifically call out the viewer. So, you’ll need to be extra careful with how you use these 2 words. Especially if you single out an attribute of your target audience negatively AND use “you” or “your.”

Ad Account Restriction: RACE OR ETHNICITY

This is a great example of what not to say. When you use the word “other” you are dehumanizing (aka “othering”) a select group of people. Facebook doesn’t like that because it sounds bad.

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.

Ad Account Restriction: RELIGION

If you’re paying attention you may start to see the pattern – meeting “other” Buddhists isn’t allowed. Saying a specific group of individuals after “you” isn’t allowed.

Did you already say something that got your Facebook ad account disabled?

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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). He offered some critical insights to why our Facebook Ad Account was disabled and shared options to reduce our chances of future issues. 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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Ad Account Restriction: AGE

Ever hear the expression, “Never ask a woman her age?” Well, Facebook feels that way times 1000.

Some of my clients have included skin care companies, and they often have run into issues talking about looking younger or older. It’s a really fine line here. As you can see saying “teenagers” is allowed, as well as “seniors” but definitely not combining “you” and “younger.”

A good thought exercise before writing ad copy about age, is to say, “Would a person, sensitive to their age, get offended in any way by my ad copy?”

Filter your ad copy through that and you’ll have a better chance avoiding the ban hammer.

Ad Account Restriction: SEXUAL ORIENTATION OR PRACTICES

You can see like 80s nostalgia goes with Stranger Things, combining “other” with identifying a specific group of people will get you Facebook ad account restrictions.

It’s much better to go 3rd person. That’s a safer route than saying, “you” “your” or “other.”

Already completely banned?

If you are running ads and spending $100K a year or more on ads, I can help with that.

Also check out: Top Reasons Why Facebook Disables Ad Accounts

Ad Account Restriction: GENDER IDENTITY

This is one of the newest Facebook Policy Personal Attributes flags that came out, very recently. According to Facebook, you can say “Come meet transgender singles.”

But if I were you, I’d avoid doing so. It’s a hot topic, very divisive, and the machines at Facebook want to eliminate any ad that may put Facebook in a bad light. While it’s allowed right now within 6 months Facebook will impose stricter automations that will severely flag you for saying this.

Ad Account Restriction: PHYSICAL OR MENTAL HEALTH AND DISABILITY

You can see that the pattern continues of not directly asking with “you” about someone’s personal attribute. It’s much better to use the 3rd person perspective here.

Ad Account Restriction: VULNERABLE FINANCIAL STATUS

One of the most common businesses to get flagged for vulnerable financial statuses are loan companies. Also, car accident personal injury attorneys also get hit with the Personal Attributes flag.

I hope you’re starting to understand that on 1 level, the general idea about Personal Attributes is to not negatively call out details about your target audience. And to get more granular, this applies to each attribute.

Ad Account Restriction: VOTING STATUS

Attributing ownership of a ballot to a Facebook user here isn’t allowed, whereas the 3rd person “Learn about voter registration” is kosher. The same goes with identifying a Facebook user in your target audience by voter registration card.

Ad Account Restrictions: MEMBERSHIP IN A TRADE UNION

Do trade unions use Facebook ads much? I’ve never seen a Facebook ad about this but I’m not in a union. You’ll read above that Facebook isn’t not cool with advertising dissing Union reps – with “your” preceding it. A better version of this ad copy would be something like, “Issues with a Union rep?”

Ad Account Restriction: CRIMINAL RECORD

Asking someone if they are felon is not a great icebreaker. If felons are your target audience, Facebook probably isn’t going to be the best platform. Even the 1st approved copy example would still get you flagged.

This is where Facebook tends to frustrate advertisers and businesses alike – because above Facebook says you can create ad copy about “previous offenses” but I guarantee you the automations will still flag and shut you down. If not at 1st, eventually they will.

It’d be better to partner up with a vertical who already serves this clientele, that has their email addresses, like a probation company, do a JV or just buy an email list and create a custom audience from it and/or Lookalike audience.

Ad Account Restriction: NAME OR IDENTIFICATION

I didn’t even know this was a thing until I was hit with Facebook ads using my personal name – idk who sold my data, Shopify or something – and the company offered me personalized quilts with my name. Bad targeting on their part and against Facebook ad policy.

So, it’s only a matter of time before they are shut down unless they change to a new tactic. And I hope I don’t have to tell you not to ask for someone’s Driver’s License on a Facebook ad.

That’s like saying, “Hey buddy, comment on this Facebook ad with your social security number, credit card number and billing zip!”

Ad Account Restriction: Examples of violating ads with personal attributes

Hopefully these examples give you a better idea of what Facebook will flag you for. The “Alternative ideas” are almost all useless because they are too vague.

If you need help rewriting ad copy to be compliant with Facebook I offer a prescreen service – book a discovery call here.

Ad Account Restriction: Getting the Language Right in Your Facebook Ad

There are a few techniques you can use to ensure Facebook doesn’t flag you for Personal Attributes. One is to write everything in 3rd person. The other is to use a 1st person testimonial. These are pretty good alternatives than kicking the pain points a bit too hard.

However, you can still get flagged when using the 3rd person if you are too specific with who you call out with pain points. So, be careful there.

Determining Why Your Ad was Rejected

I have a process that has worked 100% of the time for identifying why a Facebook ad was rejected – but that’s because I’ve worked at Facebook for many years.

If you don’t know someone like me with this experience, skill and context, then I’d suggest taking a good look at the ad copy in your ad above the creative, below the creative as far as the headline goes, as well as your website.

Do the litmus test: Ask yourself, “If I was someone who got easily offended at any remark, positive or negative about myself, would this ad copy be on the line for a flag?”

Looking through that lens can help you identify potential Personal Attributes flags.

Fun fact: Facebook doesn’t flag as seriously on landing page outside of the Facebook platform, when it comes to Personal Attributes. Does that mean you say whatever the hell you want like a drunk Gilbert Godfrey (RIP)?

The answer is no, you’ll still get flagged if you negatively call out an attribute too specifically on your website. But, there is a little more wiggle room on an LP. Keep reading below for more details on Landing Pages (LPs).

Facebook Ad Policies and Landing Pages

Facebook | Meta has a list of verbatim words programmed into their automations and if you trigger this on your lander, yes, you’ll still be flagged.

BUT, some words NOT allowed above a Facebook ad creative in the ad ON Facebook, are in a grey area on your landing page. Meaning, if everything else in your funnel IS compliant then, you can get away with a little bit more on your website than on Facebook itself.

Meaning because, simply said, Facebook.com is prime real estate 100% owned by Zuck | Parent Company Meta. Your website is yours, but if it’s connected to Facebook ads, you’ll have some scrutiny. For more info read How to Fix NonFunctional Landing Pages

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Use Third-Person Narrative

This is a great technique for Facebook ban-proofing your ads. (So is my prescreen service). You are safer the more you are able to use the 3rd person, and avoid saying things like, “Want to lose weight off your fat a$%? Click Learn More!”

If you haven’t had a chance yet, read my break down of Common Facebook Ad Policy Violations [Explained]

Even if you spent a week reading Facebook’s Ad Policies you’d still be at risk of a shut down for Personal Attributes simply because there are ways Facebook’s bots flag you that Facebook isn’t transparent about.

Generally speaking, your ads have to follow a 1000 more rules than you are actually told about.

BUT – don’t miss out on an opportunity to never have to get flagged again.

What if you had a guarantee that your ads were compliant before they went live on Facebook? What if you knew 100% without guessing why your ad account was disabled? What if you knew why your Facebook ads were blocked and had a path to get ads live again?

Keep reading for these answers and more:

Facebook Ad Account Restriction Fix

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As is a healthy ad account life cycle, as Facebook uses your history to rate your online presence.

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Your access can’t be reinstated because too much time has passed since we restricted your account.

Did you get this message from Facebook:”your access can’t be reinstated because too much time has passed since we restricted your account” ???!

What makes it harder is Facebook doesn’t offer a path forward to get ads live again. I can assist with that having worked at Meta in three different departments.

A lot of advertisers are facing right now with Facebook ad restrictions and disabled Facebook ad accounts is like a retro ban hammer. Facebook’s automations are banning old ads you ran a while ago that aren’t even active!

If you are keeping up with the latest blogs, you read my tips and are becoming a detective, finding out how and why Facebook shut your ads down.

New to facebook advertising? You may want to check out another resource: What to Do After Violating Facebook’s Ad Policies.

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Your Access Can’t Be Reinstated

Have you been shut down and then waited to appeal and got the message that your access can’t be reinstated?

Maybe you only waited 4 days but by then it was too late and you already got a permanent restriction. To be honest, you have only about 48 hours to correctly appeal a disabled Facebook ad account. Let’s troubleshoot a restricted account. (Check out my last article Facebook ad account disabled next steps)

Troubleshoot your restricted account

A lot of people have been shut down without a second thought – this reddit post alone has many talking about getting banned without warning.

You may try to go to Facebook’s help pages, but come away frustrated because they don’t tell you how to get your Facebook ads live again. My article sheds some light on what to do if your ad account is disabled.

I say troubleshoot a restricted ad account because it really is like a tech support issue, rather than an advertising one. Because machines are the ones, not humans, doing the flagging.

Navigating Facebook’s Advertising Policies as a Business has a few extra challenges because, unless you’ve worked with the engineers like I have, who tooled many of these automations, the logic behind banning decisions doesn’t make sense.

Everyone is gungho about Chat GPT right now – but if you are a Facebook advertiser, you know the dangers of placing all the decision making into the hands of machines.

So, you got the dreaded, “your access can’t be reinstated because too much time has passed since we restricted your account.”

What now?

Facebook will ask you to confirm your identity but it’s a mistake.

Your Access Can’t Be Reinstated: Confirm your identity

The evil bots will send you a request to confirm your identity but there’s a fatal flaw in this request: half the time the identity form itself doesn’t work.

When I was working in ads at Facebook and tech, I edited some of these forms. I saw the backend of what you’re filling out to get back your disabled Facebook ad account. And you know what happened a lot?

The form was broken. When you are sending in your driver’s license or whatever, to confirm your identity and never hear back OR get a denial response – many times it isn’t your fault!

It’s because the form itself was broken and Facebook or Meta as Mark is calling it now, just rec’d a blank form without your driver’s license.

Then, when you are waiting to hear back, even if you filled the confirm identity form out the machines will send you this message: “Your access can’t be reinstated because too much time has passed since we restricted your account.”

I know I am kind of late to the game, but I just discovered Mr. Robot which is incredible. Getting a message like that from Facebook kind of makes you wish you could hack like Elliot #amiright?

But you can’t so your Elliot moment is more like:

Now, I’m not saying that confirming your identity is a bad thing. Just don’t think it’s the cure all or that the form will even work.

“Your access can’t be reinstated because too much time has passed since we restricted your account,” is a hard ban to overcome.

Do yourself a favor and don’t fall for the scam where a rando online offers to recover your account.

Don’t get ripped off! Read How to Recover Facebook Ad Accounts now

Your Facebook ad account is disabled, Facebook is offering no guidance on getting ads live again – if that sounds familiar 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). He offered some critical insights to why our Facebook Ad Account was disabled and shared options to reduce our chances of future issues. 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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You have too much negative feedback on your ads

If you are not writing good copy, and your FB ads suck to put it gently, you may be shooting yourself in the foot. Facebook already has policies as does IG, about low quality images for example.

So, before you freak out about a Facebook ban, double check your own ads to make sure they are on par with your competitors as far as quality and audience-product match.

One of the biggest challenges you face is not knowing who to trust. Let’s say you’ve googled, “your access can’t be reinstated because too much time has passed since we restricted your account,”

You’re going to see youtube videos like this one, just spouting gibberish trying to appeal on a smartphone.

Which is idiotic. Or you may land on this website, where people are just complaining without any guidance on what to do to get your ads running again.

The key is to look at your ads from Zuckerberg’s perspective. Ok, sure, Mark isn’t personally looking at your ads (get over yourself lol), but he created the system that is.

When Facebook’s automations first look at your ads, it’s always going to be guilty until proven innocent.

So you want to be super critical of your own ads not defensive. That whole feeling you know so well of being kicked in the gut after a Facebook ban hammer blinds you to solving the issue.

Take a critical eye to your ad copy and ask,”Am I calling out a group of people too specifically? Do my claims sound realistic?”

Pretend you are your own enemy, and want to take your ads down. Do your ads sound fraudulent in any way? Do this before trying to appeal a disabled Facebook ad account.

Facebook Account Disabled – How to Appeal to Reactivate it?

Outdated articles like this one, have no info that works as far as appealing and getting your disabled Facebook ad account back online.

To be honest, I would suggest that you don’t rely on an appeal to get your ad account back.

You may find that it is a lost cause. BUT, if you want the best chance of getting it back, there are a few steps I can recommend:

• Don’t wait longer than 48 hours to appeal
• Don’t use the Request Review button inside Business Manager
• First determine the EXACT reason you were shut down
• Chat in to Facebook Ad Support request a manual review
• Accept that you may need to create a new ad account – I can help with that.

Also check out: Top Reasons Why Facebook Disables Ad Accounts

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

I’ve said this time and time again, you want to prescreen your ads for compliance before focusing on conversions. It’s better to try to prevent yourself from being shut down than try to pick up the pieces afterwards.

Social media marketing agencies like this one, write articles that acknowledge how Facebook’s machines don’t discern idiomatic phrases that well – so be careful how you word ad copy.

They don’t really have a solution to this problem but I do.

The years I’ve spent working at Facebook enable me to immediately identify why an automation flagged your ad copy.

That’s my number 1 tip: find out why you got shut down before taking any actions. Because you may dig yourself into a deeper pit if you act sneaky or evasive trying to get your ads running again.

If you haven’t had a chance yet, read my break down of Common Facebook Ad Policy Violations [Explained]

What if you had a guarantee that your ads were compliant before they went live on Facebook? What if you knew 100% without guessing why your ad account was disabled? What if you knew why your Facebook ads were blocked and had a path to get ads live again?

Keep reading for these answers and more:

Solution to your access can’t be reinstated because too much time has passed since we restricted your account

My clients have included the social media marketing agencies of Tony Robbins, Harv Eker, and Dean Graziosi. How much is it costing you to not know why Facebook is shutting you down? Talk today.

I’m featured on the Queen of Facebook Mari Smith’s Marketing Essentials Course.

If you want to skip the line before this offer ends, immediately secure an expert-level Facebook consulting call from someone at Facebook. Book a call with me now!

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Advertising access permanently restricted this is our final decision fix

Advertising access permanently restricted this is our final decision

Sucks when you’re running Facebook ads and see: Your advertising access permanently restricted this is our final decision. You can no longer advertise with this business account, and its advertising assets will remain disabled. This is our final decision.

Keep reading to find out how to get Facebook ads live again even if you sent your ID and Facebook said you were permanently restricted.

Why trust me over all the other blogs online? I’ve worked at Facebook in ads, and tech, and with the engineers at Meta.

Trevor W. Goodchild is for brands that need MAXIMUM accuracy.

10-20% off is a the difference of tens, hundreds or even millions.

When one word can get you banned, you can’t afford to guess.

Just like my client, Amazon Reality Show star Juanita Ingram of The Expats International Ingrams you’ll discover there are micro flags in ad copy and landing pages that have to be removed first before attempting to appeal or relaunch a brand with Facebook.

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and unlike bad boys with leather jackets who act first and apologize later

You DO need to audit first, complain about FB later.

Meaning – be 100% about what’s IN your funnel, how close it comes to the ban hammer, and what specifically to do to ensure your entire ad copy, creative and website follow Facebook’s ad policies to a T.

Just like my client Darryl CEO of King Memory found out, and shared on LinkedIn there are specific ways to work with Facebook policies without losing conversions or getting stuck in Facebook jail:

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Why Is My Facebook Advertising Account Restricted?

I’ve seen a thousand and one reasons why Facebook ad accounts get rejected. When Facebook accounts are restricted from advertising, what’s seldom talked about is the difference of ad policy enforcement per industry.

Given my history of working with thousands of ad agencies both while I was working AT Facebook and in my own practice, I have stats on which ad policies are triggered the most in specific niches. Like personal attributes flags being higher in weight loss niches.

Understanding how YOUR specific niche interacts with Facebook ad policy automations is KEY to staying out of Facebook jail and avoiding an Advertising access permanently restricted ban.

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Advertising access permanently restricted: Myth Busting

Advertising access permanently restricted Facebook Solution

A full customer life cycle and cost are critical to getting true profit from your marketing.

As is a healthy ad account life cycle, as Facebook uses your history to rate your online presence.

Goodchild reviews your historic customer behavior and FULL cost of ad bans letting you see the EXACT cause of FB bans and how to fix them to IMPROVE your immediate ad & marketing results.

Make the most accurate decisions on the fly while working in your NATIVE workflow without having to constantly login or cross check data by collaborating with a top tech from Facebook.

Trusted by high level brands that take accuracy and results seriously:

After years of working at Facebook, I can show you how to resolve FB bans even if Facebook ad support doesn’t understand what you’re saying and solve issues like advertising access permanently restricted.

Schedule a call with me and learn how to stop the domino effect when Facebook starts banning your entire funnel after a simple ad rejection.

Don’t take my word for it, let my clients tell you what it was like working with me.

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If you want to skip the line before this offer ends, immediately secure an expert-level Facebook consulting call from someone at Facebook. Book a call with me now!

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Your advertising access is restricted – About

About advertising restrictions

Your advertising access is restricted: Policy Violations

Advertising restrictions for policy violations

Your advertising access is restricted: Unusual Activity

Advertising restrictions for unusual activity

Your advertising access is restricted: Background

Your advertising access is restricted – what does it mean?

What to do if your Facebook Ad Account is disabled and everything you can do to reinstate including how to resolve payment issues, rejected ads, and get support.

Your advertising access is restricted: Why

Why does Facebook say my advertising access is restricted?

If your Facebook account has been restricted from advertising, this guide will show you how to appeal your account ban and create ads again in no time

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Your advertising access is restricted: Causes

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Your advertising access is restricted: First Steps

How do I unrestrict my Facebook ads?

To troubleshoot your restricted account

How to appeal advertising restrictions

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Solutions to Your Advertising Access is Restricted

How to Solve a Disabled Facebook Ad Account

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Before you begin

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How Facebook Automations Flag Disabled Facebook Ad Account

Disabled Facebook Ad Account: Payments

When choosing a payment method, make sure:

The impact of a disabled Facebook ad account

Disabled Facebook Ad Account BM:

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Disabled Facebook Ad Account and PAS Formulas

Understanding Facebook’s Ad Account Policies

Why was your Facebook ad account disabled?

Immediate Steps to Take After Your Ad Account is Disabled

Navigating through Facebook ad complications

Disabled Facebook Ad Account: Intellectual Property

An Important Fact On Facebook’s IP

Disabled Facebook Ad Account: Appeals

Submitting an Appeal to Facebook

New Policies Affecting Disabled Facebook Ad Accounts

Tips to Duck a Facebook Ad Account Disabled

Disabled Facebook Ad Account: Road Map

From Disabled Facebook Ad Account to Appeal

How to Recover a Disabled Facebook Ad Account Part 1

How to Recover Disabled Facebook Ad Accounts part 2

Diagnose The Problem

Preventing Future Ad Account Disabling

How to prevent your Facebook ad account from getting disabled

Make a closed ad account active

Determine Why You Were Flagged BEFORE Appealing

Disabled Facebook Ad Account Request Review Tactic

Contacting Meta for Disabled Facebook Ad Account Guide:

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How Do I Recover My Disabled Facebook Ads Account?

What Happens After Appealing Disabled Accounts

What To Do If Your Ad Account Appeal Gets Rejected

Conclusion

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