Facebook Purge - October 2019 - Are pages getting deleted?

Just lost another 2 pages that have done nothing wrong…

Can you please tell me what did you write in your appeal or any special trick please help

you had backup profile with same name or same authentic id on unpublished pages?
and what is the niches of unpublished pages? they were enabled on fb ads?

Nope

nothing special… i was the only admin since day one… with my personal profile… i told them that i do not pretend to be no one…

My page was 110K and was adbreak approved with no breaches everything was fine but after a restriction of week it was unpublished will it work for me can anyone help ?

Same, when my 10m+ network got banned. I recently was thinking about going back into Facebook again, but then I saw this topic… :roll_eyes:

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Same here! I really wanted a good fb page or group, but just too much unknown at this point. Crazy!

This happens twice a year, and started in around 2013. This isn’t anything new though, so veterans shouldn’t be surprised. The only thing that changes are the reasons why they can you.

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So after loosing a few pages and getting Instant Article’s monetization disabled on the others (a few million tier 1 fans) I’m thinking of not trying Instant Articles again, can’t live with this uncertainty every few months. What would you say is the best to monetize the remaining good large pages in a good stable way?

Can you not just continue posting articles and make money off adsense/other ad networks? People say reach is unaffected

Yes, reach is the same I assume. The question if Ad-Sense is the best way to go or do people here think there are better ways to monetize large good pages? Other Ad networks, other sources of income that worked better for them. I kind of reached a point where I simply had it with FB’s bullying behavior of not telling you what you did wrong, if, or collectively punishing a group of pages if one Editor did something wrong on a non-related page - a guessing game of what went wrong and seeing all your hard work go down the drain.

Using adsense + traditional links earns way more anyways, we figured this out in the beginning of 2018 and have consistently had higher RPM than any of our partners using IA since

Im from USA and today my page was unpublished. niche: Nature and Kids

What kind of content were you publishing? Was it original or copied/reposted? Asking just to make a case history…

I wouldn’t even attempt to buy or sell a FB page at the moment everyone until this purge is over. The page I just purchased the other day first got restricted, then went unpublished, now it looks like it’s totally deleted. What was weird though is FB sent me 2 notifications right before deleting…
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At first I was all excited because I thought they republished the page right? But no they gave me blue balls instead :smiley: No happy ending for this guy! I knew it was a risk taking the page after it was unpublished, but what can you do? I took a shot, and missed. Don’t make the same mistake I did! Trade safely everyone!

Added: Another weird thing is that my initial appeal ticket to the unpublished action is still open for the page. So I honestly have no clue what’s going on. But the page is gone completely for sure!

Can people that appealed let us know what changes have you done to the page before appealing?

In most of FB products they constantly state that do not appeal without making significant changes.

Personally, I’ve had pages unpublished, deleted, apps deleted/restricted, IA lost accesses etc. but if you can do some changes and let them know what you actually changed, chances on getting a green light are 99%.

Where you don’t stand a chance is on copyright issues, adult content and lately fake news.

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Well in my case I couldn’t even make any changes to the page before appealing because it was already restricted. Couldn’t change the about info, nothing.

I think the only way now is, making the seller still as admin, & removing him from the page after several days will prevent the page from getting unpublished.

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