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Saturday, November 10, 2012

3 Tips to Make the Most Out of Facebook Advertising

By Sheri Andrews


Facebook has turned out to be the world's most advanced social network, with a well defined advertising system in place. If you wish to utilize this marketing platform, then you must understand the things that we will discuss in this article.

Even though many people forget to do it, the first suggestion for advertising on Facebook is to split test your ads. It is important that you are getting positive results because you do not want to keep putting hard earned money into anything that doesn't have potential. Many times, you will find Facebook advertisers that start new ad campaigns with no more than one hundred dollars of pocket money. When they see that the results aren't that favorable, they decide that the whole Facebook advertising system is flawed. However, this is far from the truth. If no one is responding to your ad, you probably should change it. All successful advertisers are aware that in order to get your ad to perform well, you will have to do extensive testing.

An efficient Facebook advertising tip would be us utilize CPM ads and not CPC to test your ads. You must recognize that CPC or cost per click is not that profitable because all of the testing is done on the landing page. This does not allow you get the most out of testing. But you can do things better by testing your ads on CPM or cost per thousand impressions basis and look for those ads that require the lowest cost per click. Here you might get lower CPCs in comparison to the CPC bidding model where you test by bidding for clicks. But when you are utilizing a CPM model, it will make you see the ads that give the most positive outcome and lower the entire cost of your campaign. By using CPM you'd be able to determine what CPC rate you should be targeting, so that you can find out which ads are giving the best results.

Test the performance of your ads at various times. Plenty of times you will realize the an ad performs better at a particular times of the day. Although Facebook does not have any features to pick the time of the day when your ads can be displayed, you have the option to turn them off to see which times are providing you the best results. The horrible thing is that you have to consistently monitor the ads. Until Facebook brings out such feature in the future, this is the only way you can test out various times.

In conclusion, this article describes how Facebook can be advantageous for financial profits. However, to be successful with it, you have to test and tweak plenty of times to guarantee success.




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