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Facebook Campaign Creation Question.. Tracking LInk

by Alvin Chang
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Hey Guys,

I had a question about creating a facebook campaign,

Whenever I put the external/destination URL as my tracking link:

I get "Unable to display a preview of this ad." and the AD does not show up in the preview, and thus the AD gets denied.

I'm currently having the tracking link set to direct link to the offer. When I do the offer alone, it shows up fine, however when I use a tracking link, it shows an error.

I even went as far as using another domain as the external URL, appending a PHP token at the end of the url IE: www.domain.com/?keyword=x

And having that file redirect to the tracking link with the keyword appended, but also shows up as unable to display a preview of this ad.

Anyone got any ideas how I can track and also setup a campaign?

Thanks!
#campaign #creation #facebook #link #question #tracking
  • Profile picture of the author 6figure101
    I am not sure I understand... But what I often use is bit.ly for simple tracking FB links .
    Don't forget that you can also customize your bit.ly link like this. Bit.ly/WhateverYouWant

    Not sure that is a full solution for you but maybe a temp one.
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  • Profile picture of the author Holmstrom
    Hello Alvin, here is awesome service and you can use most of the
    features what they have for free, check it out; ClickMeter: Click tracking, Link tracking, AD tracking
    I think you are going to like it!
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    • Profile picture of the author Alvin Chang
      Basically Here's my issue in detail, BTW thanks for helping guys.

      I want to create a campaign on Facebook.

      For the Destination URL, IE. Where I want to link to:

      I want to enter my Tracking Link, like the link p202 or CPVLab gives you to TRACK.

      It usually looks something like http://yourtrackingdomain.com/?varia...ble3=something

      Stuff like that.

      My ISSUE is that, whenever I put in my tracking link, I would get:

      "Unable to display a preview of this ad."

      And then the AD would get dissaproved, I pointed my tracking link direct to the offer page.

      However, if I put in a URL such as

      Google
      http://miscdatingsite.com

      It would work. However, that doesn't allow me to track things, or let me put in my affiliate URL, which kind of invalidates the whole point right?

      So I tried iFraming the offer (no affiliate link, straight up offer) to one of my domains and tried putting in, and it's also unable to display.

      I tried a PHP file that would redirect to my tracking link and append a token (to track ADS) [ . urlencode($_GET['keyword'] so I could use http://domain.com/?keyword=, but that also didn't work.

      I'm just wondering, how are affiliate marketers being able to put up campaigns then?
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  • Profile picture of the author Holmstrom
    Weird, FB will allow affiliate links, but your aff.networks url might be a black listed?
    create a subdomain and redirect that to your offer, it will work.
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