For you to get monetized by Facebook , you need to obey Facebook monetization policies . Furthermore, Even after been monetized you still need to maintain or comply to the rules and regulations so as not to get de-monetized. There are certain things to avoid, rules and regulations to comply to, before you can apply for monetization. Which will be stated in this article below. However Facebook render various monetization opportunities for content creators, businesses and publishers.
Below are guides to follow to successfully monetize your content on Facebook
1. Community Standards Compliance
Facebook’s community standard are the major foundation to monetizing your content. To be a member of the Facebook monetized partner program, you must obey and comply to rules , standards and regulations.
- Violence and criminal Behavior: Your content should not represent violence, criminal actions, gun shooting, harm or blood.
- Safety: your content shouldn’t include and depict self-harm, bullying, harassment.
- Objectionable Content: Your content should not promote hate speech, adult or child pornography.
- Integrity and Authenticity: Your content should not represent fake or misleading content. No propagating or spreading misinformation.
2. Content Monetization Policies
Apart from community standard compliance, there are some particular content monetization policies you must adhere to or follow.
- Prohibited content: Facebook does not monetize content that involves violence, adult/children nudity content, misleading medical information and controversial social problems.
- Originality: the content should be your own content or have right to that content you are posting. Prevent posting content that are not yours or posting repurposed content without any reasonable value.
- Misleading Content: it should not be a clickbait content (that is title of your content is totally different from the content itself), or deceptive practices.
3. Monetization Eligibility Standards
For you to be eligible for Facebook monetization , you have to meet he following criteria’s for monetization eligibility
- Your follower count should be at least 5000 followers and 60,000 watch hour in the last 60 days.
- Obey and comply to Facebook’s content monetization policies.
4. Partner Monetization Policies
Facebook monetization policy is also applied to features like in-stream ads, fans subscription and branded content
- In-stream ADS: video length should be at least one minute long for in-stream ads but for increase in revenue, produce videos over three minutes.
- Fan Subscriptions: Render content that are beneficial and has great impact to your followers. Provide content that is engaging to increase follower’s retention.
- Branded content: Be transparent to disclose every branded contents and abide by the Facebook branded content policies.
5. Ad Break Eligibility and Placement
For eligibility of ad break, you should consider the following policies
- eligibility content: Videos should be at least three minutes in length. Short videos below three minutes do not have Ad Breaks.
- Ad Placement: ads placement should not interfere with users experience with videos. Place ads at natural breaks in your content.
- Content quality: create high quality contents to attract and retain viewer.
6. Adherence to Copyright and Intellectual Property Policies
For you to get monetized on Facebook, respect other people’s intellectual property rights.
- Original content: Do not duplicate other people content to post on your page. Only produce content that is created by you or you have right to.
- Copyright infringement: Prevent copyright material unless you have permission for it. You can make use of the Facebook sound collection to produce your music for your content or purchase a proper licenses.
- DMCA Compliance: immediately reply to DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act) takedown notification and prevent any further infringement or violation.
7. Restricted Content for Monetization
There are Contents that are restricted from monetization
Controversial issue content: Facebook Prevent monetizing content that depicts political controversies or social issues.
Illegal products or services: Do not advertise or sell content that includes illegal products, services or activities.
Restricted Goods: take away content that represent alcohol intake, tobacco , firearms or adult products.
8. Authentic Engagement and Avoiding Fake Metrics
Facebook give priority to original content. Once content is not original, it tends not to gain much traffic.
Organic growth: Build your audience from scratch organically. Prevent actions like purchasing fake likes and followers. Or using engagement clickbait tricks.
9. Adherence to Payments and Payout Policies
Make sure you obey Facebooks payment policies to activate monetization.
Payment Information: Provide the right specific payment details in your account set-up.
Payout Threshold: You have to meet the minimum Facebook payout threshold to earn from Facebook which is the minimum of $100 and you can as well still make beyond trillions of dollars.
Compliance: Obey local tax laws and render the important tax details to Facebook.
10. Monitoring and Maintaining Compliance
On a regular basis, review and obey Facebook rules and regulation so as not to get demonetized.
Page quality tab: Review the page quality tab for any contradiction or infringement or content violation.
Notification : Always review Facebook notification regards to policy changes or issues.
Feedback: Correct any actions that is based on feedbacks from Facebook to prevent any restrictions or penalty.