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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. What Are Custom Metrics? Where you create the custom metric doesn’t matter.

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Vanity Metrics: Definition & Examples for Marketing

Hootsuite

It’s the perfect “meaty” metaphor for social media vanity metrics. any social metric can turn into a “vanity” metric if you’re bragging about it without any context. Social media metrics are incredibly important for a social media manager and shouldn’t be ignored. Start free 30-day trial What are vanity metrics?

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Effective Meta Advertising: Key Metrics Simplified

Jon Loomer

Meta gives advertisers seemingly limitless metrics that can distract us. Simplify the key metrics that are most important. While there may be a couple dozen or so metrics that are interesting for a given campaign, prioritize them into groups. There is no need to prioritize any metric over this group. Be careful.

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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. The existence of these surprise conversions may alter your impressions of performance.

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Differences Between Custom Events and Custom Conversions

Jon Loomer

But one of the most common points of confusion I see is understanding the differences between custom events and custom conversions. So many advertisers either think I’m discussing custom conversions or use the two terms interchangeably. You will need to utilize the pixel and/or Conversions API to define these actions.

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Missing Metric Totals in Facebook Ads Manager: What to Do

Jon Loomer

Have you ever noticed that metric totals in Facebook Ads Manager don’t appear? Attribution is how Facebook gives credit to an ad for a conversion. If one campaign reports on conversions within 7-day click and 1-day view while another reports based on 1-day click, Facebook will not attempt to add these metrics.

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Compare Attribution Settings: Get the Most of Meta Conversion Data

Jon Loomer

Attribution is how Meta gives credit to an ad for a conversion. Established in the ad set when optimizing for conversions, the default Attribution Setting is 7-day click and 1-day view. Report your conversions, by default, based on that Attribution Setting. You want to see how many conversions happened within 7 days, too.