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Effective Meta Advertising: Key Metrics Simplified

Jon Loomer

Examples of secondary metrics can include: Cost Per Link Click (CPC) Click Through Rate (CTR) Cost Per 1,000 Impressions (CPM) Cost Per Add to Cart All of these metrics have an impact, but we can be misled by that perceived impact. If your CPC sucks, but you get a great Cost Per Desired Action, who cares about that CPC?

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How Meta Automation Rewrites the Rules for Advertisers

Jon Loomer

Pixel, API, Events, and Attribution. You simply can’t run effective advertising unless your pixel, Conversions API , and events are set up properly. Do you know what events you should have and where? Do you know what custom events and custom conversions are for? These things are central to conversions optimization.

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Buzzwords Decoded: 32 Social Media Marketing Terms Explained

Ignite Social Media

What does CPC mean? CPC stands for Cost Per Click. What does CPM mean? CPM is short for Cost Per Mille or the cost for every 1,000 impressions your ad receives. Seizing the moment by incorporating current events or trends into your social media strategy. It’s the price you pay when someone clicks on your ad.

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Finally! Facebook Ads Reporting That Won’t Drive You Batty

agora pulse

Cost per 1,000 impressions (CPM): The amount you had to spend for every 1,000 ad views. Cost per click (CPC): The amount you had to spend for each click. Event responses: The number of people who provided a positive response to your event invitation (applies to event responses campaigns). View standard metrics.

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Quality Traffic Test #2: The Impact of Meta Ads Placement

Jon Loomer

For the first test, I created a campaign that compared the results generated by three different ad sets, each optimized differently: Link Clicks Landing Page Views Quality Visitor Custom Event ( I wrote about how I created this event here ) The targeting for each was completely broad, using only countries (US, UK, Canada, and Australia).

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Facebook Ads Bidding Changes: Optimization, Charging and oCPM

Jon Loomer

Under the old definition of a “click,” many advertisers unknowingly paid for clicks other than website clicks when choosing CPC bidding, for example. If you optimize for Reach, you’ll manually set your CPM bid. When You Get Charged: Link Click (CPC). Event Response Objective. oCPM has changed.

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Facebook Ads Bidding Guide: Optimized, CPC, CPM and Daily Unique Reach

Jon Loomer

Optimized for Clicks (CPC). Optimized for Impressions (CPM). When should you use optimized bidding, CPC, CPM or Daily Unique Reach? Clicks (CPC). Impressions (CPM). Clicks (CPC). Impressions (CPM). Clicks (CPC). Impressions (CPM). Clicks (CPC). Clicks (CPC).

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