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Surprise Facebook Ads Conversions

Jon Loomer

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. This may seem obvious, but make sure that your ad is set up to track conversions.

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Example: Reach Optimization and Conversions

Jon Loomer

Last week, Charlie told you about how to use the Reach objective for Facebook remarketing campaigns. Today, I want to give you an example of just how powerful this approach has been for me. In this case, I only used Facebook Feeds. Facebook’s default attribution window is 28-day click and 1-day view. Absolutely.

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Where Are Facebook Conversion Events Firing?

Jon Loomer

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. Some examples… 1. Do you use this feature to view where your Facebook conversions happen?

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Example: How to Use Custom Metrics in Facebook Ads Manager

Jon Loomer

If you’re a Facebook advertiser, one of the most underutilized features that you may not even know about is the Custom Metric. I want to take a second look at custom metrics today and provide two specific examples of how I use them. Is it due to the conversion rate? What Are Custom Metrics? These metrics are all built-in.

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Understanding Facebook View-Through Conversions

Jon Loomer

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 ). Why Are View-Through Conversions Controversial?

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Example: Use URL Parameters to Verify Facebook Ads Results

Jon Loomer

Inspired primarily by the negative reporting impact resulting from iOS 14-related changes in 2021, Facebook advertisers are searching for ways to verify and uncover conversion results. I wrote a tutorial previously about using Dynamic URL Parameters with your Facebook ads for this purpose. One approach is using URL parameters.

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Testing Zaraz to Set Up Facebook Conversions API

Jon Loomer

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. For example, you can have a trigger fire once a visitor has spent 60 seconds on a page.

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