Often, when advertising on Facebook, you will find that the easiest way to create an ad is to use an existing post on your Facebook page. In fact, when creating the post, you will quite likely already have the intention of using it as an ad. A very common example is when you want to …
Friday Facebook Ads Tip #23: Facebook Sharing Debugger Read More »
When it comes to ad policies and approving ads, Facebook’s focus is always on user experience. Anything that detracts from the experience of users on Facebook and Instagram is not good for the company and is precisely the reasoning behind recent changes around privacy and transparency. Ad campaigns are at the mercy of this goal, …
Friday Facebook Ads Tip #22: Facebook’s 20% Text Rule Read More »
Choosing images and writing copy for your ads can be a challenge at the best of times and it’s getting all the more difficult with higher advertiser competition and stricter advertising policies. Of course, we all want to be unique and ensure our ads get attention for the right reasons, but as with any advertising …
Friday Facebook Ads Tip #21: Facebook Ad Library Read More »
Facebook and Instagram lead ads are not only a simple and fast way to get leads, they also provide a great way to build custom audiences to retarget people with future ads. You can build custom audiences based on page or post engagement over a specific number of days but you can’t focus on the …
Friday Facebook Ads Tip #20: Retargeting Lead Ad Engagement Read More »
Quick and Easy Lead Generation! That’s what Facebook’s lead generation ads can give you. And you don’t even need a website! With inbuilt forms, people don’t need to leave Facebook or Instagram to submit their details, and what’s even better is that their contact details are prepopulated. You can also ask additional questions, but my …
Friday Facebook Ads Tip #19: The Lead Generation Objective Read More »
As with life events, events that take place on your website can be far from “standard”, but that is how Facebook has chosen to classify them. They reflect what Facebook regards as the most common events taking place on a website, and you can configure them to measure conversions as well as use them as …
Friday Facebook Ads Tip #18: Conversion Tracking with Standard Events Read More »
Even if you are not using the Conversion objective for your Facebook and Instagram ads (yet), it’s important to set up conversion tracking within the Facebook Ads Manager. That way you will see how many conversions you are getting from your other ads and you will be “training” the Facebook pixel to understand the attributes …
If you are selling a product or looking for somebody to take an action on your website, it is very likely that you will want to use the Conversion objective for your ads on Facebook and Instagram. However, it’s not as straightforward as you might initially think. The Facebook algorithm needs to be fed with …
Friday Facebook Ads Tip #16: The Conversion Objective Read More »
The Reach Objective an often overlooked and perhaps misunderstood objective. The intelligence of the Facebook algorithm and its ability to find the people most likely to take your desired action is incredible, but it can mean that your ads are shown to some people multiple times while never being shown to others in your audience. …
Friday Facebook Ads Tip #15: The Reach Objective Read More »
Currently, Facebook gives you a choice of 11 different objectives when setting up a new campaign. They are Brand Awareness, Reach, Traffic, Engagement, App Installs, Video Views, Lead Generation, Messages, Conversions, Catalogue Sales and Store Traffic. Most of them are easy to understand but there’s a few where the use cases are a little less …
Friday Facebook Ads Tip #14: Choosing the Right Objective for Your Ads Read More »
