All you know how Facebook interns love to disapprove ads. Or maybe they have some sort of point system: you have to disapprove 1000 ads to earn 100 approve points. And after ad has been disapproved - ‘Create similar ad’ link are gone.

Here’s small hack to make your live easier:

1. Delete disapproved ad. You will be redirected to URL something like this:

hxxp://www.facebook.com/ads/manage/?act=1234567&ag=1234567

2. Change URL to:

hxxp://www.facebook.com/ads/create/?act=1234567&adgroup_id=1234567

And now you have prefilled ad form.

Enjoy.

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As you probably already know old Facebook cloaking method not always work. They start testing new method without the traditional intern referral URL. So I’ve created clocking script + service to track reviewer’s IP addresses and share between users.

How it works:
You install script on your server, configure it and when Facebook intern come to review your ad from the traditional referral URL, script will send IP address, referral URL and user agent to tracking server. We will provide a daily updates of IP text file with fresh IP addresses. So your script always be up to date. More users use this script/service the more IP we will collect.

Installation and Configuration

1. Download.
2. Unpack the files to any folder on your web server. Make sure this line is in your php.ini file: allow_url_fopen = On
3. Edit the configuration file fbcloaking-config.php. You will see 2 PHP arrays $offers and $cloaked. $offers array for your non-cloaked URLs and $cloaked for cloaked links:). For same offer you have to use identical array keys in both arrays.

Example:

$offers = array(
 'offer-id1' => "http://trk.com/dl.php?t202id=123&t202kw=" . $_GET['ad'],
 'offer-id2' => "http://trk.com/dl.php?t202id=456&t202kw=" . $_GET['ad'],
 'offer-id3' => "http://anotheroffer.com/",
 
);
 
$cloaked = array(
    'offer-id1' => 'http://apps.facebook.com/visabusiness/',
    'offer-id2' => 'http://www.disney.com/',
    'offer-id3' => 'http://affiliateplex.com/',
 
);

As you can see you can pass through any query string parameters further to your tracking software.

Here is example how to configure cloaking script with prosper202/tracking202:

The best way to split testing your ads with prosper202/tracking202 and Facebook is using single destination URL and t202kw parameter.
For example you have created few ads with following URLs pointing to your cloaking script:
http://yourdomain.com/redirect.php?oid=offer1&ad=ad1
http://yourdomain.com/redirect.php?oid=offer1&ad=ad2
http://yourdomain.com/redirect.php?oid=offer2&ad=ad1
http://yourdomain.com/redirect.php?oid=offer3&ad=ad1

Then your configuration file should look something like this:

$offers = array(
 'offer1' => "http://trk.com/dl.php?t202id=123&t202kw=" . $_GET['ad'],
 'offer2' => "http://trk.com/dl.php?t202id=456&t202kw=" . $_GET['ad'],
 'offer3' => "http://trk.com/dl.php?t202id=789&t202kw=" . $_GET['ad'],
 
);
 
$cloaked = array(
    'offer1' => 'http://apps.facebook.com/visabusiness/',
    'offer2' => 'http://www.disney.com/',
    'offer3' => 'http://affiliateplex.com/',
 
);

If you don’t use tracking software you can just put offer or landing page URL into $offers array.

4. Daily update IP text file fbcloaking.txt from here.

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MySpace appears to have soft launched their self-service advertising platform this evening. As opposed to most ad networks where the advertisements link to external web pages, the ads on MySpace’s self-service solution link to profiles on the social network. Now if this is anything like Facebook’s launch, we can expect to get a shitload of traffic for cheap right now, and then have them clamp down on us with restrictions later, so don’t miss the jump. As for bids, well Myspace isn’t THAT stupid, and they set their minimum bids at $.25, so no matter what you are bidding on you will have to pay .25 a click.

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