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A Guide to Standard Events, Custom Events, and Custom Conversions

Jon Loomer

One of the most critical elements of Meta advertising is the ability to define important actions that happen on your website or your owned properties. This is possible with the help of standard events, custom events, and custom conversions. Events: This is how we define an important action.

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Advantage+ Shopping Conversion Events

Jon Loomer

When Meta first rolled out Advantage+ Shopping, advertisers had very few options for customization. The conversion event was originally locked in as Purchase. Now you can select from any of your standard and custom events. You don’t even technically need to select an event that has anything to do with the purchase flow.

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Differences Between Custom Events and Custom Conversions

Jon Loomer

Meta advertisers have plenty to get confused about. But one of the most common points of confusion I see is understanding the differences between custom events and custom conversions. This became especially obvious recently as I’ve written more about custom events. Are they used for reporting?

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Verify Your Custom Website Events

Jon Loomer

If you use custom events , you need to read this. Go to your Events Manager, and you may see this message to “Verify your custom website event(s).” Let’s discuss… What Are Custom Events? Verify Your Events As I write this, the requirement to verify custom events is rolling out.

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Custom Events Aren’t Updating

Jon Loomer

Why aren’t your custom events updating? I’ve been hearing from advertisers who aren’t getting reporting for their custom events. They’ve been using these events for months or years, and they just stopped populating. Go to the Overview tab of your Events Manager and find the custom event in question.

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Custom Events vs. Custom Conversions

Jon Loomer

Custom events and custom conversions confuse too many advertisers. Custom events require code and allow you to freely define actions beyond standard events using custom triggers. Custom events require code and allow you to freely define actions beyond standard events using custom triggers.

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How to Test Meta Conversion Events

Jon Loomer

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. You should test your events before relying on them in your Ads Manager reporting. Is the wrong event reported? Is the event firing?

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