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Ask HN: Is this known Facebook ads hack?

If you will create an advertising campaign on Facebook as follows (here is the sequence that can be reproduced): 1. Create 10 audiences 2. For each audience create the ad. 3. For each ad upload 6 images.

After that during short period of time(several minutes) in Google Analytics(Real-time report), you can see a large number of clicks to the site(I had more than 300) Later in Fb Ads Manager these clicks were not listed. What it is, why it's happening?

( 2 comments | 3 points | on HN )
Re:Ask HN: Is this known Facebook ads hack? by kosigz on Friday July 31, 2015 @07:21PM (#9985093)
The traffic is more than likely caused by Facebook crawling your page before launching the campaign.
Re:Ask HN: Is this known Facebook ads hack? by kshilov on Friday July 31, 2015 @07:25PM (#9985101)
Hm, tested this on real landing page: cost.remoteyoda.com. And saw some leads, not seem like robots. Buy the way if you upload only one image for an ad, it doesn't happen.