Facebook rejected my paid boost, but...
 

This is a weird one. Facebook rejected boosting of a post on my page - but the audience was specifically set to page subscribers only.

So I can make a post with "unsuitable" content to the page (post was wishing everyone a happy new year, links to a site that has the text "18+" and "sex chat", but with no images), yet I can't boost that same post so more subscribers to my actually page see it.

The other odd thing is that I have boosted posts with the very same link previously.

Seems to be no avenue of appeal, just keep trying until something works. :helpme

Dealing with Facebook is like a dog begging for treat from an owner that hates dogs.

Too many of your subscribers complained to Facebook then unsubscribed.

Facebook sucks. Happy 2017.

Seems about right in facebook land.

FB did this to OP:

http://i.imgur.com/yxxUa2a.gif

Haha, nah, I don't rely on them to generate income, so it's really just a bit of frustration and mild bemusement. Now if Google decided to penalise me, that would be another story entirely. :Oh crap

I presume some overworked person in a third world country looked at my ad and site for about 2 seconds then clicked "nope." FB probably makes more money by only acknowledging advertisers who spend big.

So out of curiosity, I calculated some stats over a period of a few months...

- 175534 total confirmed browser IPs
- 145985 from referer google.* (100% organic)
- 2190 IPs from referer facebook.com. Both paid and organic; at least 1207 of those are deep links so are NOT from paid ads. That's an absolute maximum, but likely less, of 983 paid visitors referred from Facebook

Conclusion: I'll continue sucking on Google's engorged teat :)