Jon Loomer

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

When Meta first rolled out Advantage+ Shopping, advertisers had very few options for customization. Originally, you could only optimize to maximize the number of conversions. The conversion event was originally locked in as Purchase. The post Advantage+ Shopping Conversion Events appeared first on Jon Loomer Digital.

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Jon Loomer

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Some advertising mistakes are made due to inaction. Today’s post continues a theme of common advertising mistakes. Over the years, Meta has gone out of its way to make manually adjusting placements more difficult, encouraging advertisers to use Advantage+ Placements. Both apply to mistakes related to placement selection.

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Jon Loomer

JANUARY 29, 2024

And if you struggle to get good results, it’s often because you’re tripped up by a common advertising mistake. When we talk about ad set optimization, the conversation is around how Meta optimizes to deliver your ads based on critical selections you’ve made in the ad set. That’s not a mistake.

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Jon Loomer

JANUARY 8, 2024

What does this development mean for Meta advertisers? But I decided to immerse myself in as much of this cookie news as possible to help understand — both for my advertising efforts and yours — whether this is something to worry about. These cookies are important for advertisers and publishers, after all.

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Jon Loomer

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Keep it simple… Advertisers often obsess unnecessarily over campaign objectives. When promoting a conversion event, you could technically use one of three objectives: 1. Engagement In each case, there’s a website conversion location and the ability to select your pixel and conversion event. Which should you use?

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Jon Loomer

OCTOBER 2, 2023

If you’re an advanced Meta advertiser, you understand the value of the Compare Attribution Settings feature. Unfortunately, not nearly enough advertisers know that this exists or how best to leverage it. Attribution is how Meta gives credit to an ad for a conversion. Let’s fix that. We’ll focus on the top five.

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Jon Loomer

MAY 16, 2023

We had been hearing whispers of these impending changes to website conversion campaigns from members of our community and through our inbox. Meta says that “it will continue to evolve,” but many of the advertiser requirements related to iOS 14.5 advertisers were required to turn on Value Sets within Web Event Configuration.

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Jon Loomer

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Custom events and custom conversions confuse too many advertisers. Both require the pixel or conversions API and help you define conversions that are used for reporting and optimization. Custom conversions don’t require code and are built within the Events Manager interface. Do you know the difference?

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Webbiquity SMM

JANUARY 24, 2023

Social media advertising requires marketing professionals to proactively respond to continually evolving user habits and adapt to different trends. Elon Musk acquired Twitter, prompting concern among some advertisers and a freak-out among some users even as daily user growth hit all-time highs. Guest post by Nina Petrov.

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Jon Loomer

MAY 16, 2023

You’ve been advertising for years. Let me explain… Things Change It’s important to remember that Meta advertising today looks nothing like it did five or 10 years ago. If you are optimizing for a conversion, use Advantage+ Placements (leave all placements on) and allow the algorithm to sort it out.

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Jon Loomer

JULY 5, 2023

If you’re a newer advertiser, this will almost always be the recommended approach. Cost Per Result Goal This bid strategy helps you set the amount that will keep your advertising profitable. When using this bid strategy, the goal is no longer to get you the most conversions within your budget. When should you use this?

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Jon Loomer

JULY 24, 2023

If you dig into your Meta conversion events, you are likely to notice a problem: Conversion event data doesn’t match up. I’m talking about Meta’s own conversion event data not matching up. Custom conversion mapped to that standard or custom event 3. But there’s another… 2. It’s not.

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Jon Loomer

MARCH 15, 2022

Many Facebook advertisers don’t realize that view-through conversions are a thing. Ads Manager reports on conversions that happen within 7-days of clicking or 1-day of viewing your ad without clicking, by default ( Facebook ads attribution ). In other words, your ad can get credit for a conversion without anyone clicking on it.

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Jon Loomer

APRIL 6, 2022

Do you understand how custom conversions are used for Facebook advertising and how they’re different from standard and custom events ? The confusing part for many advertisers is that standard events, custom events, and custom conversions can all be used for both reporting and optimization. The difference is granularity.

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Jon Loomer

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

One of the primary reasons for bad reporting in Meta Ads Manager is conversion events that were set up improperly. This includes standard events, custom events, and custom conversions. Why isn’t Ads Manager reporting your conversions? When someone completes a conversion, does the expected event fire?

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Jon Loomer

AUGUST 9, 2023

Much of my content is catered to intermediate to advanced advertisers, but I’m often asked where those who are new to Meta ads should start. Consider this your beginner’s guide to Meta advertising. When Meta unveiled “Advantage” in 2022, most advertisers didn’t fully appreciate what we were in for.

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Jon Loomer

JULY 17, 2023

Engaged-View Attribution provides a unique way to measure conversions after engagement with your video ads. First, attribution is how Meta provides credit to your ads for conversions that typically occur on your website. First, attribution is how Meta provides credit to your ads for conversions that typically occur on your website.

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Jon Loomer

MAY 15, 2023

If you’re a Meta advertiser who manages ads for others, it’s important you make this phrase a regular part of your language: “It depends.” Let me explain… The Simplistic Question Those who are ignorant to the complexity of Meta advertising expect direct and specific answers to simple questions.

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Jon Loomer

MARCH 6, 2023

There is a common mistake made by Meta advertisers related to conversion rate and an attempt to scale ads. But it’s unlikely to work… Conversion Rate and Opportunity Like any good marketer, you pay attention to your website metrics with Google Analytics. And yet, no conversions. You can be better. Then $1,000.

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Jon Loomer

MAY 23, 2023

Meta gives advertisers seemingly limitless metrics that can distract us. Just optimize for link clicks or landing page views if you want a stellar CTR (NOTE: This will not help get more conversions! ). Be an informed advertiser who uses metrics constructively. Be careful. Simplify the key metrics that are most important.

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Jon Loomer

MARCH 16, 2022

When you measure success, do you also track surprise Facebook ads conversions? What I mean by that is you may optimize for Landing Page Views, but you should still follow other types of conversions that result from your campaign in Ads Manager. The existence of these surprise conversions may alter your impressions of performance.

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Jon Loomer

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

The Facebook Conversions API allows marketers to send a direct connection of conversion data from their business (website and offline conversion events) to Facebook. This data combines with Facebook pixel data to improve conversion tracking, optimization, and targeting capabilities. Select Conversions API Gateway.

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Sherrilynne Starkie

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Is Facebook advertising worth it? They allow advertisers to target only those people who are most likely to be interested and to find value in the offer. It’s a powerful approach that has revolutionized advertising. As a result, more traditional advertising media are failing.

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Jon Loomer

MARCH 1, 2023

If you’re an experienced Meta advertiser, you probably know full well that Audience Network is a problematic placement. In this post, we’ll explore the issues with the Audience Network placement and provide some clarity around when Meta advertisers should and shouldn’t use it. What is Audience Network?

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Jon Loomer

AUGUST 28, 2023

With the Instagram Profile conversion location, you can run traffic campaigns that send people to your Instagram business profile. Let’s set it up… Setup Use the Traffic campaign objective… Within the ad set, select “Instagram Profile” as your conversion location. There are no other options.

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Jon Loomer

APRIL 13, 2022

I wrote recently about the role of custom conversions in your Facebook advertising. If you aren’t using custom conversions , it’s time to start. First, a very brief reminder about what custom conversions are, in the simplest terms. Custom conversions provide granularity for both reporting and optimization.

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Jon Loomer

JANUARY 9, 2023

There’s a troubleshooting tool that can help diagnose and solve a lot of your problems related to conversion events. You can easily view where Facebook conversion events are firing by domain and URL. Watch it below… @jonloomer Here’s how to find out where your Facebook conversion events occur by URL.

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Jon Loomer

JANUARY 20, 2020

I recently announced a new training program called Beyond the Boost for beginner and intermediate advertisers. The goal is to help advertisers move “beyond the boost” button and into the more advanced techniques within Ads Manager. If all of my conversions were view-through, you may have less confidence in these results.

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Jon Loomer

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Facebook ad conversion attribution is one of the most confused and least understood topics for advertisers. What is considered a conversion? Let’s go… What Does Facebook Consider a Conversion? For Facebook to report a conversion when you run ads, you’ll first need to use the Facebook pixel.

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Jon Loomer

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

But if you aren’t using custom conversions, you’re doing it wrong. Let’s walk through what custom conversions are, how to create them, and how you might use them. Do you know how to use Facebook Custom Conversions? What Are Custom Conversions? Pixel events and custom conversions work in tandem.

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Jon Loomer

MAY 12, 2021

We were first warned about iOS 14 and how it would impact Facebook advertising in 2020. If you want to create a conversions campaign, you can only optimize for one of your eight configured events. In other words, you may want to ignore your conversion reporting for the most recent three-day window. Paused Ad Sets.

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Jon Loomer

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

If you want to know how many conversions were driven by an ad, Facebook is very good about helping you uncover that information. Today we’ll talk more about conversions from organic distribution, the ways you can track it, and how it ultimately impacts our actions as marketers. Organic Posts and Conversions.

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Jon Loomer

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Facebook pixel events and custom conversions are important tools that can amplify your marketing and advertising efforts. First, if you haven’t read my guides on how Facebook pixel events and custom conversions work, I encourage you to do so: Facebook Pixel Events: An Introduction. Conversion optimization.

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Jon Loomer

DECEMBER 13, 2021

The clients you work with can set you up for Facebook advertising success. There are many factors that you can’t control that will immediately make your life as a Facebook advertiser easier or harder. What About the Conversions API? If the Conversions API is not set up, this will be one of your initial projects.

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Jon Loomer

APRIL 5, 2023

I’ve been in search of a Facebook Conversions API alternative to the API Gateway that works seamlessly with Google Tag Manager. What I do know is that among its capabilities is sending web events for Facebook Conversions API. The post Testing Zaraz to Set Up Facebook Conversions API appeared first on Jon Loomer Digital.

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Jon Loomer

AUGUST 11, 2023

Do we even need advertisers anymore? I’ve heard some advertisers joke that with the advancements in automation and machine learning, businesses may be able to run advertising on their own now. You still need to understand conversions and know how to set up online and offline events with the API. Just go broad.

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Jon Loomer

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Facebook ad conversion attribution is one of the most confused and least understood topics for advertisers. What is considered a conversion? Let’s go… What Does Facebook Consider a Conversion? For Facebook to report a conversion when you run ads, you’ll first need to use the Facebook pixel.

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