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.

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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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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.

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

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. 

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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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.

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.

Advertising Access Permanently Restricted: New Tip

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).

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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.

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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 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.

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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.

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Keep reading for these answers and more: 

Remove a Restriction on a Facebook Ad Account Solution

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Ad Account Restricted Facebook 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.

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

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. 

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

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.

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.

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.


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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 

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

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. 

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.

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

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. 

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

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. 

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: 

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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?

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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.

Just like my client, a Darryl Tanner, CEO of King Memory 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?

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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.

Is your Facebook ad account already disabled? Don’t get ripped off! Read How to Recover Facebook Ad Accounts now!

Just like my client Dr. Emi benefited from my funnel audits for compliance, you can too. It all starts with a free discovery call here. By the way, Dr. Emi was just featured on the Today Show on NBC.  (In a rush? Skip the line with prepaid funnel audits with VIP Access).
Need help with the circumventing systems flag? I’ve got a handy infographic for you here:

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.

Need Facebook ad policy expert too? Schedule a call with me right now.

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:

After years of working at Facebook, I can show you how to resolve FB bans even if Facebook ad support is useless to resolve ad account restrictions.

Don’t lose any more money from Facebook bans and schedule your call with me now.

Don’t take my word for it, let my clients tell you what it was like working with me:

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 expert-level Facebook consulting. Book a call with me now!

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 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

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.

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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:

After years of working at Facebook, I can show you how to resolve FB bans even if Facebook ad support is useless to resolve ad account restrictions.

Don’t lose any more money from Facebook bans and schedule your call with me now.

Don’t take my word for it, let my clients tell you what it was like working with me:

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 expert-level Facebook consulting. Book a call with me now!

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

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.


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.

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.

Free eBook: Top 5 Reasons Agencies Fail at Facebook

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.

Speaking of AI – want to leverage the powerhouse of AI created funnels? Click here while supplies last.

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. Unlike bad bitches

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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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.

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.

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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).

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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.

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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.” 👍🏻

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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

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.

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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.

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Is your Facebook account restricted from advertising and you don’t know what to do?
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Sweating bullets when Facebook ad support doesn’t seem to know what you’re saying and offers no answers, you begin googling and find this blog. 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.

I’ve worked directly with the engineers at Meta, this feeds SUPERIOR data to your ad platform for better compliance without shut downs than just guessing with google if Facebook accounts are restricted from advertising.

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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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.

This means 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.

And of course it means you are now on trial with the judges at Facebook who are robots for the most part.

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Because it’s guilty until proven innocent – if you internalize that instead of feeling victimized, act like you’re Al Pacino playing attorney at law Arthur Kirkland and prepare your counter strategy, then I promise you counsel will not have to approach the bench.


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.

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. 

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?

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 Facebook accounts 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.

Facebook Restrictions: Facebook account restricted from advertising

One of the pain points of ad agencies is that Facebook is always changing their ad policies. 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 like a swarm of locust 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.

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 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 a facebook account restricted.

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.



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 client, a Norwegian travel company 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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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.

And Facebook never provides reliable advice on how to solve a facebook account restricted.

“Full Stop,” as my friend Amanda Bond likes to say.

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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

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.

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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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.

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.

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 are a few of the Facebook ad policies you may want to glance at:

• 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.

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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’s some dumbass advice. Full stop.

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.


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.

Then, ask for a manual appeal. Here’s the deal: the outsourced workers you’ll be chatting with have a goal of more chats per day than giving a damn about a 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 it is within less than 5 days of the shut down.

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.

What if you had a guarantee that your ads were compliant before they went live on Facebook?

Keep reading for these answers and more: 

Facebook Account Restriction Solution

After years of working at Facebook, I understand exactly what ad copy in your funnel is triggering the automations and how to get compliant.

Schedule a call with me and I can easily tell you why the automations flag you and how to become compliant. Don’t take my word for it, let my clients tell you what it was like working with me.


You’ll be swapping out walking in a minefield of ad flags, to have a sure path to having your Facebook ad accounts protected from being disabled.

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!

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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