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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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6 Targeting Mistakes Advertisers Make

Jon Loomer

Meta advertising has changed rapidly the past few years, and that leads to several common targeting mistakes. I admit that I miss the old days of Facebook advertising — before it was Meta advertising. It’s a step that’s often missed by beginner advertisers. Nonexistent or incomplete use of exclusions.

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Effective Meta Advertising: Key Metrics Simplified

Jon Loomer

Meta gives advertisers seemingly limitless metrics that can distract us. While there may be a couple dozen or so metrics that are interesting for a given campaign, prioritize them into groups. Each group has a different level of usefulness. There is no need to prioritize any metric over this group. Be careful.

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Meta Conversion Events, Deduplication, and Conflicting Reporting

Jon Loomer

If you dig into your Meta conversion events, you are likely to notice a problem: Conversion event data doesn’t match up. I’m not talking about your event data matching up with Google Analytics or other third-party reporting tools (these things will never match up). Browser vs. API Event Deduplication.

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Where Are My Client’s Hidden Facebook Events?

Jon Loomer

As advertisers configure their Facebook web events in preparation for iOS 14, we’ve been hearing from many experiencing hidden Facebook events. As you can see in the example above, hidden events are grayed out and won’t allow you to see or configure them. Let me explain… Why this Happens.

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Enforcement of iOS 14 Changes for Facebook Advertisers Begins

Jon Loomer

We were first warned about iOS 14 and how it would impact Facebook advertising in 2020. Let’s run through what you need to know… Optimization for Eight Events Only. If you want to create a conversions campaign, you can only optimize for one of your eight configured events. Delayed Access to New Configured Events.

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Create a Meta Custom Event That Combines Time Spent and Scroll Depth

Jon Loomer

But I have a solution for you: A custom event that combines time spent and scroll depth. I also assume that you’ve already created tags for both the 60-second view and 70% scroll events. We’re going to use the Trigger Group trigger type. Quality traffic with Facebook ads is the Holy Grail. Read them first.

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