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Sept. 28, 2023

What Do You Want People to Do on Your Website?

What do you want people to do? When you analyze Meta advertising results, look beyond the core metrics in Ads Manager. If you were to look over someone’s shoulder while they visited your website, what are the things you’d want them to do? In some cases, there may be Meta…

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Sept. 27, 2023

Do Facebook Pages Verified the Old Way Get Meta Verified Benefits?

What happens to my verified Facebook page? Now that Meta is rolling out Meta Verified for businesses on Facebook and Instagram, I’m curious how this impacts businesses like mine. I haven’t signed up for Meta Verified, but my Facebook page was verified YEARS ago (I’m old). My Instagram profile was…

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Sept. 26, 2023

Translate Video and Audio Using HeyGen

Did you know I speak Spanish fluently? Unfortunately, I don't. But with the help of AI, it's a virtual reality. Using a tool called HeyGen, I uploaded a video that features at least 30 seconds of me speaking. It then regenerated the video from English to Spanish. It didn't just…

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Sept. 25, 2023

Create a Custom Event for Quality Traffic

Here’s the best way to measure quality traffic with Meta advertising... The home base for my business is my website, and the engine that makes it go is my blog. I write 100 blog posts per year, and sometimes more, teaching the most advanced strategies of Meta advertising. My potential…

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Sept. 24, 2023

Meta Should Separate Verification from the Paid Subscription

Here’s how to improve Meta Verified... Getting more people and businesses verified is good for users, businesses, and Meta. The more confident you are that people are who they say they are, the better the experience. But Meta needs to separate verification from the paid subscription. Many businesses may want…

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Sept. 23, 2023

Use Custom Events Instead of Landing Page Views

These actions are way better than link clicks... You may want to drive traffic to your website with ads, but your goal isn’t a sale or lead. The link click and landing page view aren’t good enough. This is one benefit of custom events with Google Tag Manager. One of…

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Sept. 22, 2023

Meta Verified is Coming to Businesses

Back in March, Meta rolled out Meta Verified for creators, which didn’t include businesses wanting verification. That’s changing now. Businesses can get verified on Facebook and Instagram to get access to the following benefits: • A verified badge • Impersonation protection • Account support • Improved discovery You’ll recall that…

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Sept. 21, 2023

Should You Listen to Meta Ad Reps?

Well, it depends... First, do they know what they’re talking about? In some cases, you will know more than your rep. You absolutely can get bad advice from them. Don’t waste your time with a clueless rep. Second, know that they have their own goals. They are essentially sales reps.…

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Sept. 20, 2023

Create a Custom Event that Fires When Someone Starts an Embedded YouTube Video on Your Website

This might be my favorite custom event. When someone plays an embedded YouTube video on my website, an event fires. That event captures: • URL it was on, • Title of the video, • Percentage of the video that was watched • Total time watched in seconds I add a…

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Sept. 19, 2023

What Happened to Ads Manager Updates?

What happened to Ads Manager Updates? One of the best ways to stay on top of Ads Manager changes is through the Ads Manager Updates sidebar. There’s one problem: IT'S GONE. In Ads Manager, click on the Help icon on the left. Normally, you would see an option for Ads…

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Sept. 18, 2023

How to Plan and Structure a 1-Minute Video

Here’s how to structure a 1-minute video... I’ve figured out that about a minute is the perfect length of time for a short-form video. Especially when doing tutorials like I do, you need enough time to explain something. But you don’t want to go too deep, or people lose interest…

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Sept. 17, 2023

You Probably Don't Know What Link Clicks Are

That doesn’t mean what you think it means! One of Meta’s most prominent metrics is Link Clicks, and most advertisers have no idea what it means. Link clicks include clicks, taps, or swipes on links to websites, app stores or app deep links, click-to-message CTAs, Shops, lead forms, Marketplace, playable…

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Sept. 16, 2023

How Often Do Lookalike Audiences Update?

Once you create a lookalike audience, Meta says it may take 6-24 hours for your Lookalike Audience to be created. Their documentation also says you don’t need to wait for that creation to complete, and that you can use it for targeting right away. Beyond that, a frequent question I…

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Sept. 15, 2023

How Ads Get Credit for a Conversion

Here’s how ads get credit for a conversion... By default, an ad gets credit if someone converts within 7 days of clicking your ad or 1 day of viewing your ad without clicking. This is a view-through conversion. You can change the attribution setting in your ad set. You have…

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Sept. 14, 2023

Should Meta Offer a Secondary Performance Goal?

Should Meta offer a secondary performance goal? The biggest issue with ads optimization is that, unless you optimize for purchases, Meta doesn’t care about quality. Link clicks, landing page views, ThruPlay, even add-to-carts and initiate checkouts. Meta only cares about getting you as many of that thing as possible at…

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Sept. 13, 2023

Page Posts Bug: Unable to Publish Static Link Ads

Is this a bug? One strategy for leveraging high-performing ads is to publish them organically to your news feed. When they’re published, they’ll already have that social proof. But I’m noticing a problem... I created a link ad with a static image. When I went to Page Posts to publish…

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Sept. 12, 2023

Do Not Optimize for Link Clicks or Landing Page Views

Don’t optimize for clicks! A popular strategy is to run Traffic campaigns that optimize for link clicks or landing page views. In most cases, you’re throwing money away. The link click will be the algorithm’s entire focus. Meta is trying to get you the most link clicks at the lowest…

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Sept. 11, 2023

Words Are Hard to Say

This is your regular reminder that recording these videos can be hard for me, too. You see the final, edited version. But there are often moments like this one when I just can't find a way to say the simplest words. Ignore the polish. We're all struggling. But we get…

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Sept. 11, 2023

When Should You Use Advantage+ Placements?

When should you use Advantage+ Placements? Advertisers love to manually select placements instead of using Advantage+ Placements. If you’re optimizing for a conversion when you do this, you’re likely increasing your costs. Let me explain... You’ve chosen a conversion as your performance goal, so that’s Meta’s entire focus. Meta will…

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Sept. 10, 2023

Clean Your Lens!

Here’s a quick tip to improve video quality... You keep your phone in your pocket most of the day. For the rest of the day, it’s in your hand. That means your phone is dirty. Most importantly, your camera lens is covered in oils, grease, and who knows what else.…

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Sept. 9, 2023

Meta Wants You to Test Catalog Ads

Meta wants you to test catalog ads. When you create an ad using manual upload, you may see a prompt under the Call to Action: “A/B test catalog versus manual upload. Run a 4-day test with your existing budget to see how using your catalog can impact performance.” Check that…

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Sept. 8, 2023

Schedule Individual Ads for an Advantage+ Shopping Campaign

You can schedule individual ads now. When creating an Advantage+ Shopping Campaign, you can choose to select a different schedule at the ad level. For the past several years, all schedules were created in the ad set. So now, you can set different start and end dates for each ad.…

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Sept. 7, 2023

How Would a Paid Ad-Free Subscription Option Impact Meta Ads?

How would this impact advertising? Meta is rumored to be considering an ad-free paid subscription option in the EU. Advertisers need to ask how this might impact them. First, imagine the paid ad-free option is successful in the EU. That could dramatically impact advertising in these countries. The people most…

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Sept. 6, 2023

What Would an Ad-Free Subscription to Facebook and Instagram Look Like?

What might this look like? The New York Times reported that Meta is considering an ad-free paid subscription option in the European Union. We have no details regarding how seriously this is being considered or even what a subscription might look like, but we can speculate. According to Meta’s 2Q…

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