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Imagine this: you've finally found a profitable funnel, launched an ad campaign, and are already dreaming about how you'll spend the massive profit. And then, at the most inconvenient moment, disaster strikes — the advertising platform bans your account.

In traffic arbitrage, bans are not uncommon. But fortunately, they can be avoided. We've gathered for you 7 common mistakes made when working with ad accounts that lead to them getting banned.

Mistake #1: Sudden Movements

The system monitors users and flags those with suspicious activity as fraudsters or bots. New accounts are monitored especially closely. Suspicious actions include any sudden movements. For example, you just created an ad account and the next day deposited 50,000 RUB into it, and within 10 minutes launched 10 ads with the maximum budget. Such behavior won't go unnoticed, and such an account will likely be banned with a 90% probability.

To avoid a ban, warm up your account: gradually increase your budget and ad volume.

Mistake #2: Using Prohibited Phrases and Stop-Words

Popular advertising platforms have lists of phrases and words that cannot be used in ads. Each has its own rules, but they typically prohibit making false promises, offering outright freebies, and promising medical miracles:

• Medical miracles — promising to cure cancer or diabetes;

• False promises — "You will lose weight in 3 days," "Wrinkles will disappear forever";

• Outright freebies — this category includes ads about quick earnings: "Earn 50,000 RUB in 3 days" and similar phrases.

The list of prohibited words is actually much larger. But again, different ad platforms have their own lists of stop-phrases, so study them thoroughly before launching campaigns.

Mistake #3: Advertising Prohibited Goods

The most reliable way to get an account banned is to start advertising prohibited goods. Items that cannot be promoted on all advertising platforms include:

• Drugs and drug paraphernalia;

• Weapons and explosives;

• Hacking and fraud tools: password cracking software, devices for shoplifting;

• Fraudulent schemes: financial pyramids, fake crypto projects.

Advertising alcohol, gambling, lotteries, financial services, and 18+ content is sometimes allowed with special permission, but is strictly prohibited elsewhere. You need to read the rules of the platform where you are placing ads.

Mistake #4: An Improper Landing Page

Advertising platforms scrutinize landing pages — the pages users are directed to. If something is wrong with the landing page, the account can be banned.

An account can be banned if the landing page contains false promises and clickbait. Additionally, cloaking is also prohibited — this is when the ad platform is shown a page that complies with all rules, but real users are shown a page with a prohibited product. For this, they ban quickly and permanently.

Mistake #5: Using Mirror Domains

Using mirror domains is another common reason for account bans.

Arbitrage specialists create many mirror domains for the same site to trick moderation and increase conversions. In traffic arbitrage, mirror domains are copycat sites. This technique is especially often used if the original site has already been banned. The outcome is always the same — all linked accounts get banned, and it's almost impossible to restore them.

Mistake #6: Violations in Payment Data

Advertising platforms pay special attention to payment data because it is linked to their profit and fraud risks. Therefore, if the system notices discrepancies, the account gets banned.

You can get banned for:

• Using already banned cards;

• Using the same payment details for multiple accounts;

• Adding a card that does not belong to the account owner;

• Using cards issued in another country;

• Using cards previously involved in illegal activities;

• Suspicious activity: large top-ups in a new account, frequent changes of payment methods.

Mistake #7: Multi-Accounting

Multi-accounting is the main enemy of advertising platforms. If you run ads from several different accounts, the system will notice and ban all linked accounts.

However, it is possible to hide from tracking and manage multiple accounts without the risk of a ban, and proxies can help with this.

Proxies substitute your IP address and make the user anonymous online. This feature is indispensable for multi-accounting: you register an account from a new IP, and the system thinks it's a completely different user. With proxies, you can create even a hundred accounts, but it's important to use a separate proxy server for each one.

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