Effective Facebook Advertising: Choosing The Right Campaign Objective
To effectively advertise on Facebook you need to get a bunch of things right. One of the most important is choosing the right campaign objective.
And that’s something that most people get wrong.
You can and should do a lot more than simply boosting posts.
Campaign objectives
There are actually 10 different campaign objectives that you can choose from in Ads Manager (There used to be a lot more but they have simplified the options)
The simplest way to approach this list (and to choose the right option) is to treat it like a menu.
Don’t try and game the options.
Simply select the outcome you want to achieve.
If you’re looking to generate sales via your website or leads via an opt in form, select conversions.
Promoting a blog post? Then select the traffic objective to get as many people to see it as possible.
Want as many app installs or video views as possible? Then simply select those options.
If you want to generate as many leads as possible then go for lead generation.
You get the idea.
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Facebook is smarter than all of us…
A lot of Facebook advertisers have split tested different campaign objectives and found that the “correct” option leads to a higher cost per click or cost per impression.
And as a result they have decided to go with the “incorrect” option and that is hurting their results, particularly in the long run.
For example, if you’re looking to generate sales and you split test the traffic campaign objective vs the conversions campaign objective, you’ll probably find that the traffic campaign objective generates a lower cost per click and has a lower cost per impression.
It might even generate a lower cost per sale in the short run…
But if you use the traffic campaign objective, you’re not giving the Facebook algorithm a chance to work it’s magic.
It may take a couple of days, but once Facebook has worked out what sort of person is likely to take the desired action…
(In this case make a purchase)
They can very accurately determine who within your target audience is most likely to take that action and therefore who they should put your ad in front of.
And if you end up paying twice as much per click, it doesn’t matter if your cost per sale is 50% less.
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But what about video?
Most Facebook advertisers don’t even consider the different campaign objectives.
If you do, you’re already ahead of most or your competition.
But amongst those that do consider them, some get lost with video.
With video ads you don’t have to use the video views campaign objective.
In fact, we rarely use that objective at all. And we use video ads all the time.
When we run video ads for our own business or for our clients, most of the time we’re looking to generate leads or sales.
And because of that, we use the conversions campaign objective.
Treat video ad campaigns just like image ad campaigns – select the campaign objective that best describes your desired outcome.
So what campaign objective have you had success with? Let us know in the comments section below.
