How to unblock your domain from Facebook
In this article, you will learn how to unblock your domain from Facebook. A lot of people me inclusive have faced this problem of URL/Domain Facebook blocks. In addition, Facebook goes ahead and blocks certain domain names that go against the Community Standards of Facebook. A few weeks ago cyclonetimes.com domain name was blocked from getting shared on Facebook.
This followed after a suspicious activity that was going around with this Facebook page and its domain name. Therefore all the posts that had been shared from the website to Facebook were all deleted. We then got a notification from Facebook that we had gone against the Community standards of Facebook.
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I and my entire team got so disappointed and frustrated with Facebook because we had stopped getting social media traffic. This really hindered our rankings on the Google Search Engine as we did not record any Social Media traffic during that period.
This is the worst experience any digital marketer or digital marketing agency can face. A lot of our friends advised to open up a new domain name and do a 301 redirect but we never wanted the traffic that we had built for a long time.
Therefore we found out new ways how to unblock your domain from Facebook. This is because we wanted to know why Facebook had shut down our domain from getting shared on Facebook. But was opening up a new domain name an immediate solution? Absolutely YES but how about if we opened up a new domain name and again Facebook blocked it. Therefore here are methods on how to unblock your domain name from Facebook.
How to unblock your domain from Facebook.
Step 1.
Go to your browser and Google Facebook Debugger or follow this link https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug/ and you will see this interface.

You then enter the URL of your website and then click debug. If your domain name is blocked, you will see this error message. “We can’t review this website because the content does not meet our Community Standards. Please if you think this is a mistake, let us know”. Now since we have seen the error message, let’s go ahead and solve this problem.
Click on let us know the link as indicated in the picture below.

You will then be redirected to a page where you will now provide the description of the problem you are facing. Refer to the picture below and in the text area type in the following message or you can get your own words fully describing your issue to the Facebook team.

“Hello Facebook team, I am your name from the company name. I have been using Facebook so much to promote my small business online. I recently opened up a small company website for it www.mysmallbusiness.com. However, when I tried sharing my first product on my Facebook page, I got a notification saying my content goes against the community standards for Facebook. I am really sorry if it’s the truth but I read and understood the policies very well and my content is really good for public consumption. I therefore kindly request you to look into my issue and take immediate action because am missing out on potential clients. Kind regards, your name.”
After typing this awesome, click on send. Then wait for some days. If a given number of days without any feedback, don’t give up. You can tell like four friends of yours to do the same process. With this Facebook will give you immediate attention and work on your issue.
Step 2: How to unblock your domain from Facebook
This one is the quickest way to unblock your domain from Facebook. In addition, I used this method to quickly get attention from the Facebook team to attend to me in two business days. I made sure I touched the part that hurts Facebook a lot. I opened a Facebook business account page in the Facebook manager. If you have not opened up one follow this link www.business.facebook.com. While logged in the go-ahead and create an ad account. After the creation of an ad, the account then repeat the other process in step one and modify the message.
This time round type a message describing how you are facing a hard time creating an ad campaign to sponsor your website. Since Facebook doesn’t want to miss out on this money, they will act immediately on your issue. I wrote to them and they got back to me immediately. After a few business working days, the cyclonetimes.com domain was unblocked. I hope this works for you.
Here is a screenshot of the response I received from Facebook.
