Reasons Why Your Link is Blocked on Facebook

Unfortunately, it is really unclear and unacceptable that Facebook is unable in providing the actual reason for blocking your blog.

They just say that  "the content of your blog doesn’t meet their community standards and it makes things harder for normal blogs who don’t violate the community guidelines."

According to this Facebook Help page, they may block people from sharing content that seems suspicious or abusive to their security systems. We don’t know what criteria or method Facebook uses in their automated security system to determine if a content is suspicious or abusive.

There could be several reason why your blog was determined as abusive:

People reported your posts for spamming

Even if Facebook’s security system didn’t mark you for spamming, it is possible that other users in Facebook might have reported your posts for spam. This is highly likely to happen if you go on dropping link to your blog on irrelevant groups or posts.

Maybe there is Unacceptable content in your blog

Your blog may have some content that triggered Facebook’s security system when they scanned the blog. This could be some because of vulgar words or even links to external sites that may have such unacceptable content according to Facebook.

Excessive sharing and spamming of your blog on Facebook

Some people get too enthusiastic about their new blog post and goes on a posting spree sharing the blog in every multiple Facebook groups, posts and comments in hopes to bring visitors. This is actually a bad idea and might trigger the Facebook’s security system to mark your blog and account as suspicious

When Facebook system goes wrong

Facebook’s security system is automated and it is possible for such an automated system to have false positives at times. But when it comes to Blogger blogs, it seems that Facebook is wrong many times and unfairly mark them as violating their community standards.

Common ways in such unfairly banned Blogspot/blogger blogs are:

Using the free domains

Blogger is a free service and anyone can create a new blog with a free sub-domain on.blogspot.com URL. Though it sounds great, there is a bad side to this. The amount of abuse that people does with Blogger platform is just too much.

So, seeing that your blog is also using the free.blogspot.com URL, it is possible their system have a suspicion if your blog is one of them.

This issue is not limited to.blogspot.com domain. Free domain extensions like .tk,.wordpress.com could also be subject to this issue, depending on how much spams exists under those domains.

The best way to avoid such a situation is to use custom domain name for your blog.

Lack of HTTPS / SSL certificate

All the transfer of data via the internet is expected by default to take place over a secure and encrypted form via HTTPS. In case of websites or blogs, this secure communication is enabled by SSL certificates.

Some of the Blogspot blogs that were blocked on Facebook didn’t have HTTPS enabled. Blogger provides a free HTTPS / SSL certificate for all blogs on its platform. If your Blogger blog does not have HTTPS enabled, get it enabled now.