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Do Not Use URL Equals for Meta Events and Audiences

Jon Loomer

In each case, the problem was caused by using “URL equals” when setting up events. The solution is simple: Use “URL contains” instead. And then I’ll explain why “URL equals” is causing problems and the best practices for using “URL contains.”

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How to Use URL Parameters for Facebook Ads Tracking

Jon Loomer

One tool available is URL parameters. While the use of URL parameters shouldn’t replace your Ads Manager reporting, they can provide a backup related to the traffic sent to your website from an ad (or even organically from your page or some other source). Let’s go… What Are URL Parameters?

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Is the Event Setup Tool Worth the Hassle?

Jon Loomer

We need to talk about the Pixel Event Setup Tool. The Event Setup Tool allows advertisers to add standard events for conversion tracking to their website without code, which is pretty great. I first wrote about the Event Setup Tool when it came out more than three years ago. That doesn’t make the tool worthless.

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The 8 best URL shorteners for engagement and tracking in 2022

Sprout Social

Since the beginning of the World Wide Web, Uniform Resource Locators (URLs) have been one of the primary methods for jumping from one webpage to another. Unfortunately, URLs become long and complex as subdomains, subdirectories and tracking codes are added. As social media grew in popularity, lengthy URLs began to present a problem.

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12 Facebook publishing tools for your brand in 2024

Sprout Social

Without the help of social media scheduling tools, that means you have to remember to go online each day (sometimes even multiple times a day) to manually publish your content. If you take advantage of a Facebook publishing tool, you will be empowered to have a tool semi-automate your social media management tasks.

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13 Best Hashtag Tools for Analytics, Tracking, and More

Hootsuite

Hashtag tracking tools compile all of this data to make it easy for you to plan, refine, and test your hashtag strategy. #1 1 Analytics Tool for Growth Beautiful reports. Start free 30-day trial 13 best hashtag tools for 2024 Hashtag analytics tools 1. Keep in mind that this hashtag monitoring tool is only for Instagram.

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Who Is Reading Your URL?

Small Business Mavericks

“A site’s URL structure should be as simple as possible. Consider organizing your content so that URLs are constructed logically and in a manner that is most intelligible to humans (when possible, readable words rather than long ID numbers). A URL like [link] is much less appealing to users.” Computers do.

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