Facebook Blocked Website URL

**tufty** · 23 March 2018, 1:02 pm

Facebook blocked my website URL, right after I did a load of postings to the page. I think it was an automated block. It has removed all facebook posts that link to the website, whoever shared the post. Now if you click a link to my website from a facebook page - and there is just one remaining, on my website's facebook page in the "website" section, it says it is blocked because the site might be 'malicious'. If you attempt to share the page on facebook from the share plugin on my website it says people have reported the site as 'abusive' and it can't be shared. Oddly, the actual facebook page has not been unpublished. I have had them unpublished before, but this is different. There is some info on this problem online when I google it, but not much. If you use the 'facebook debugger' it refuses to do anything because the site is blocked - though that is where there is a link to report the problem. Has anyone else had this happen before? Was it temporary or permanent? Could you get it reversed? Thanks for any feedback.

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**tufty** · 23 March 2018, 1:42 pm

No, I did two posts to two newly-published articles, both on basketball. It's a US affiliate site, established, not spammy and the site is clean on securi etc and does not have any malware. I think I may have triggered some sort of spam filter or anti-gambling filter. At this stage I am more interested to know if anyone else has had this happen and how it played out. It seems more often the page is just unpublished by facebook, but to entirely block the website, remove all posts and leave the facebook page alive seems a bit more unusual. When I did google search on this I did see the political stuff could cause this, but a lot of the info I was reading was from a few years ago. Couldn't see many people complaining about this happening to them recently.

**Progger** · 24 March 2018, 10:49 am

U get some spam reports....

Setup a another Domain to your page,block the FB crawler...and post your links again.

**Yaro** · 24 May 2018, 3:24 am

had the same problem last week . fb banned all my links cause I was promoting similar to casino offer.

**luckyga** · 10 August 2018, 2:53 am

I had my bingo page unpublished a couple of weeks ago for not being pre-approved. So I went through the correct channels and they wanted me to have email confirmation for every site featured of their gambling licence and assurances that they would stick to their respective country laws - yeah, like that's practical and feasible to do.

The solution, forget it and set up a new page, see how long it manages to keep under the Facebook radar.

**Cash Bonus** · 10 August 2018, 6:14 pm

Yes, I think that you should just start over again and see how you go from there. I'm sure you should be alright.

**sportsbet** · 28 June 2019, 1:50 am

Originally Posted by tufty

Facebook blocked my website URL, right after I did a load of postings to the page. I think it was an automated block. It has removed all facebook posts that link to the website, whoever shared the post. Now if you click a link to my website from a facebook page - and there is just one remaining, on my website's facebook page in the "website" section, it says it is blocked because the site might be 'malicious'. If you attempt to share the page on facebook from the share plugin on my website it says people have reported the site as 'abusive' and it can't be shared. Oddly, the actual facebook page has not been unpublished. I have had them unpublished before, but this is different. There is some info on this problem online when I google it, but not much. If you use the 'facebook debugger' it refuses to do anything because the site is blocked - though that is where there is a link to report the problem. Has anyone else had this happen before? Was it temporary or permanent? Could you get it reversed? Thanks for any feedback.

Hey tufty. Just want to check out what happened with your page (after a year).

Did you do anything that unblocked your website link? Or you just started a new page?

**casinogeeks** · 14 May 2020, 12:29 pm

I guess Facebook are trying to ceed the igaming pages to those who can be profitable for them not the public. If you want to advertise fine, going through a few months process and everyone is happy, otherwise as you said unpublished pages and other silly techniques.

**CONMEN** · 30 May 2020, 3:19 am

Is there really a way to Contact Facebook? as GPWA they should have some contacts there. I just had a fanpage of over 15,000 legitimate users and was blocked overnight and then removed, even If i haven't posted gambling sites since 2016. Only football predictions from my website.

**tufty** · 30 May 2020, 12:58 pm

Originally Posted by sportsbet

Hey tufty. Just want to check out what happened with your page (after a year).
Did you do anything that unblocked your website link? Or you just started a new page?

Sorry, only just seen this. I messaged them everywhere I could explaining the situation. I posted in similar support posts on facebook, giving my domain. Nobody ever replied, but they did unblock my website URL after maybe 10 days. Starting a new page would not have solved the problem as they had blocked my website's domain from being linked to from anywhere on facebook. All links to the domain came up with a warning. The facebook page itself was never unpublished.

Nobody should rely on facebook to drive traffic in this business. Treat anything you get as a bonus. Treat having a page that isn't unpublished as a bonus. Otherwise you'll end up sick as a pig and very (dis)stressed.

**casinogeeks** · 31 May 2020, 1:37 am

I would just apply for their real money gambling approval. That would probably protect you if the reason for the removal was gambling advertising, however , your page could be penalised and if someone reported it as a spam etc.

**Yevhenii** · 18 August 2020, 2:08 am

Hello!
Please tell me, I'm launching an advertising campaign on Facebook for my community (gambling) In the community, the material is only about announcements of what is happening on the site (there is no direct activation, no promises of earnings and other things that Facebook does not like), but he still does not miss advertising company.
How can I deal with this? Thank you

**sai galvanize** · 25 August 2020, 3:11 am

This happened to me too!

I was selling superhero tshirts online which technically I shouldn't be doing without the big Marvel and DCs approval. Maybe you violated some community guidelines!

**Former Member 14** · 3 September 2020, 12:15 pm

It's a catch 22. G tells us we need social signalling. However, the social media sites we need, are now clamping down hard on gambling.

**Michael Martinez** · 3 September 2020, 8:20 pm

I wouldn't worry about losing Facebook links as far as Google rankings are concerned.

Google doesn't use social signals to rank Websites. It uses social content (Tweets and Twitter accounts, pins, Facebook accounts and pages, etc.) to populate the search results.

The idea that "social signals" are a ranking signal emerged from people not recognizing that the links in social media shares were once direct and used by the search engines. Google got the social media platforms to block off those links years ago. Pinterest was the last major social media site to do that.

**Former Member 14** · 3 September 2020, 9:41 pm

Originally Posted by Michael Martinez

I wouldn't worry about losing Facebook links as far as Google rankings are concerned.

Google doesn't use social signals to rank Websites. It uses social content (Tweets and Twitter accounts, pins, Facebook accounts and pages, etc.) to populate the search results.

The idea that "social signals" are a ranking signal emerged from people not recognizing that the links in social media shares were once direct and used by the search engines. Google got the social media platforms to block off those links years ago. Pinterest was the last major social media site to do that.

Obviously my 20 years as an affiliate, in addition to being hire as an SEO consultant in the industry, amounts to sweat FA. Yet your 32 posts, and no website, with no history, means everything... Thanks for insulting my experience, and twisting my words!

**Michael Martinez** · 3 September 2020, 9:48 pm

No insult intended. But I've been building and promoting Websites for 24 years if that really matters. And I've invested over 20 years in studying search engine design and algorithms.

However, it's easy enough to verify what I've said above. Just look at the source code for social shares and follow the links.

Twitter passes their links through t.co and that domain blocks crawlers.

Facebook and Pinterest break up the links and use Javascript to have the browser reassemble them.

The links haven't passed value in years.

Sorry.

**sterilizer** · 24 September 2020, 4:57 am

A small tip to check your domain on the ban can be in the service Facebook developers debug sharing.

If the domain is banned, Facebook will inform you about it.

**JeanV** · 20 November 2020, 2:38 am

Hello everyone, I'm new here, please be gentle as well

Just sharing:

Facebook has global policies relating to the promotion and facilitation of online gaming and gambling where money or money’s worth is involved.
Facebook’s Online Gaming and Gambling Advertising Policy

Ads that promote online gambling and gaming, where anything of monetary value (including cash or digital/virtual currencies, e.g. bitcoin) is required to play, and anything of monetary value forms part of the prize, are only allowed with our prior written permission. This includes games where purchases are required to continue game play and/or provide advantage in winning prizes, in cases where the prize is of monetary value. Authorized advertisers must follow all applicable laws, including targeting their ads in accordance with legal requirements. At a minimum, ads may not be targeted to people under 18 years of age.

Note: Common types of gambling or gaming activities which may require permission include betting, lotteries, raffles, casino, fantasy sports, bingo, poker, online skill-based tournaments and sweepstakes.
This policy also includes sites that contain or link to content which promotes or facilitates online gambling, for example:

Aggregator or affiliate sites that promote online gambling.

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