How can I deal with Merchant Geo Targetting in Facebook Ads?

Discussion in 'Facebook' started by Agent007, May 30, 2010.

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    I've been having issues with incorrectly disapproved ads in FB ads.

    This occurs when I promote an affiliate offer (like dating) to a country outside the USA. The merchant redirects any traffic visiting my link outside of the specified region for the offer. A private network I use geo redirect any incorrect geo traffic to another related offer, but not of the same merchant. For example, my UK Zoosk dating ad will redirect non-UK visitors to a Be Naughty dating ad instead. This is common for many CPA networks.

    What happens is the FB Ad reviewer sees a different merchant to the one required to be mentioned in my ad if they are outside the region for that offer. So they disapprove it. FB have told me that their reviewers are based in several countries, not just the US. If I contact support they approve the ad but its a pain and time wasting to do it all the time.

    At the beginning of testing a new campaign I can initially cloak the ads to show maybe the homepage of the merchant. When approved then I change the link back to the affiliate link for that merchant in my p202. However, once the campaign is running I may have to edit some high performing ads ect (eg CPC to CPM bidding) which requires another ad approval. Then they get slapped. But I don't want to simply redirect ALL traffic to that campaign just when changing say 5 ads out of 30 in that campaign. Because I will loose revenue for all traffic during the redirection/cloaking.

    I use prosper 202 for tracking on a dedicated server.

    How can I easily geo redirect any traffic from incorrect countries to a suitable lander so the FB reviewer sees what they want to see?

    Thanks :cool:
     
    Agent007, May 30, 2010 IP
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    So noone does geo redirection here? Any scripts, code, tools to recommend?
     
    Agent007, May 31, 2010 IP