SEO, AdWords, affiliates, advertising, and promotions
Before going hardcore into super focused targeting for ads, I wanted my first ad campaigns to be reasonably generic since facebook had a ton of 'recommended' settings, and I figured this would mean they would do a better job than me at choosing who to show my ads to. I spent $300 on 4 campaigns to test the waters over the space of 4 days. I used my own product mockups and text but everything else was the 'recommended' setting.
At the end, under the ad manager, the 'quality' of every ad was 'below average' and the CTR of half of them was 'below average'. The end result was a single website purchase, 100 likes on my company facebook page, 20 followers on instagram, and 400 total website sessions. So how exactly do these ratings work in your experience? I figured 'Recommended' meant "We know your audience and will show your ads to the best people" yet their own settings give a 'below average' result.
Further, when i'm now looking at focused audiences (based on analytics from my earlier ads) facebook still recommends 'Ages 18-65+' over any of my own targeted ads which are for ages 18-30. Am I missing something? Why is facebook trying to recommend every age group?
Some insight would be appreciated. I was willing to blow some money to get my own analytics so i'm not really bothered I 'Lost' $300 but I am somewhat confused as to why their 'recommended' settings seem to be so useless
What products are you selling?
Facebook essentially want to make money, so they will show a generic audience as a recommendation in the business manager. I suggest the following:
Here are the audiences I normally use:
https://business.czarto.com/2020/05/16/facebook-audiences/
And here is my campaign structure:
https://business.czarto.com/2020/05/16/facebook-campaign-structure/
Essentially I split up my audiences into 3 buckets:
The initial audience for prospecting would probably be a 1% look-a-like audience based on your purchase pixel.
Then Prospecting feeds Remarketing which feeds Past Purchasers
Alex
Hi,
Thank you for reaching out here.
Facebook's recent adjustments aim to persuade users to share even more of their personal information with the world. The setting to share the content users post to Facebook will "recommend" or be preselected by default in the privacy "transition tool" that leads users through settings. At this point, the Facebook privacy transition tool is intended to encourage users to share much more of their Facebook information with everyone, which leads back to your question on why your Facebook still recommends ‘Ages 18-65+’ when your targeted ads are for ‘Ages 18-30’- because Facebook wants you to share the info to a broader audience,
Akohub has a feature called the Ako Marketing Funnel, which assists you in targeting the prospect audiences who are similar to your visitors or customers.
There are advanced ways to create multiple marketing campaigns with targeting audiences in a full marketing funnel: https://www.akohub.com/blog/how-to-create-your-own-marketing-funnel-to-win-your-customers-during-bfc...
Hope this was helpful and good luck with your store!
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