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What do you do when Facebook blocks your URL?


To reproduce:

  1. Go to: https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug/og/object/
  2. Type in allprowebtools.com
  3. Submit

Error: This link is blocked, or you have triggered an excessive amount of scrapes. If you think you're seeing this by mistake, please let us know.

I am hoping someone out there can help me. Things I have done in efforts to correct this:

  1. Clicked the "let us know" link
  2. Talked to one of Facebook's sales representatives, she said she see's no obvious reason why this is happening
  3. Perfected our open graph html tags
  4. Registered and monitor for all major blacklisting companies, we have a good status on all I can find
  5. Changed our IP address, for the record you can use the IP as the URL (http://54.68.7.197/) and the error changes to: Failed to get composer template data.
  6. Opened Bug Ticket with Facebook was told to put this on this site: https://developers.facebook.com/bugs/460783617337306/

If anyone has anything that can help, please help a fellow frustrated programmer out!


Solution

  • I solved it! Since the time of my question I have:

    1. Wrote a letter pleading to Facebook
    2. Deleted an old hacked account
    3. Asked 20 people to click the "let us know" link that appears when banned

    Final solution that worked....

    I started paying for post advertising on my page, nothing that went to the website. One of the posts I really wanted to promote our new blog post so when I posted it I put the IP address in the URL instead of the TLD. Posted it, advertised it for $5, 10 minutes later we were unbanned!

    Hopefully this answer helps someone else that is going through this hell!