How to Regain Lost Access to Monetization for Facebook Instant Articles

Most of the people using Instant Articles for Facebook pages lost Access to Monetization especially in the month or March and April, 2018. After the Cambridge Analytica, Facebook has become strict for its publishers. So is disabled  Instant Articles of Facebook pages that used to spread false news or that who violated Facebook policies or guidelines. Now Facebook approves only those websites that comply with its policies.

Most of the users have got this message from Facebook, "". But this problem can be solved as there is a button submit an appeal provided by Facebook.

The wrong most of the people are doing is that they submit an appeal without making any changes and get this reply."". Before making an appeal, you need to do these few changes-

What to do to Regain Monetization on Facebook Page Instant Articles?

First of all you need to check all the URLs connected with your page->Publishing Tools->Instant Articles->Configuration->Connect Your Site. You can see below example.

You can see in the above screenshot that on this Facebook page, Some of the URLs are approved and some are unapproved. To regain access to monetization on Facebook Page, you need to get all the URLs approved. Note that these URLs can't be removes unless the page is approved.

What are Approved URLs, Pending URLs and Unapproved URLs on Facebook?

Unapproved URLs are those URLs that do not get enough traffic from Facebook or are rejected by Facebook. In the low traffic case , these URLs can be converted to Approved URLs. The URLs have to clear the minimal readership for that. Pending URLs are those which are being reviewed by Facebook. For the timing you need to post new articles on those pending websites and give them Facebook Traffic. (i.e. Share Links on Facebook). It should be about 1500 views per day. 

You can check minimal readership from a new page that do not have approved Instant Articles. You can't check this on page disabled for Instant Articles. You can follow this link to learn about minimal readership- How to Fix Minimal Readership error for Facebook Instant Articles. 

After the minimal readership error is fixed for all of the URLs connected to your Facebook Page, wait for 4-5 days, post new articles on all websites and give Facebook Traffic. Remember to add Privacy Policy, Terms of Service and Contact Us Page on all your websites linked to that page.Remove the content from your website that violates Facebook guidelines. Now you can submit an appeal and you may get positive reply from Facebook as,"". 

After getting this message, you will have wait for 48 hours for the lost monetization notification to disappear from page. Then you will have to produce instant articles and resubmit for review. If you don't get access to monetization, try applying from new page. You can check this post- How to get Facebook Instant Articles approved- October 2018.

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