How to Generate Traffic to Your WebSite With Facebook Ads

How to Generate Traffic to Your WebSite With Facebook Ads – Here, I’m going to guide you how you can drive traffic to your site using Facebook Ads.

First Step:

You first step is to make sure you’re logged into Facebook as your business. To do that, head over to your Facebook Business Admin page. Click on the little gear icon and make sure it says ‘use Facebook as your business’, and not you.

Even if you’re an administrator for that Facebook page, you want to make sure that you’re actually using Facebook as your business. Once you’ve done that, scroll down and click on Create Ad. This will take you to the general Advertise on Facebook page which gives you information on how Facebook Advertising works.

What you want to do from here is click on the green Create an Ad button. Facebook will show you a few different advertising options. You want to choose Clicks to Website, and then you want to enter the URL that you want to promote which is going to either be your homepage or a landing page that you have set up specifically for Facebook traffic. We’re just going to put my site’s homepage, Backlinko.com, and then you just want to let.

It load and it grabs information and images from your site. You want to choose an image that they give you or you want to upload an image. It’s probably best that you upload an eye-catching image, unless you happen to have something really cool that it chooses for you. Just for the sake of this article, we’re just going to choose this image here.

Next you want to create an ad that’s eye-catching and compelling. Your first step is to make sure your ad is linked up to the right Facebook page. If you were logged in as your Facebook Business page, Facebook sets this up automatically. If you don’t see the right business page here, you can choose another one from the dropdown menu.

Choosing the best headline

The next thing you want to do is create a great headline. By default, Facebook pulls the headline from the title tag on the page that you’re trying to promote. You want to write something more compelling than just something that’s in the title tag, usually. Something like ‘Want more traffic?’ something like that. The text is a text that goes underneath; that would be something like ‘Learn how to get more search engine traffic’.

Then what you want to do is see how the ad will look in a feed: The news feed, if you promote it on other people’s news feeds, or as a right-column ad.

You just want to make sure that the picture looks really nice and clear, that you have a nice headline that’s brief but compelling, and that gives more information and compels them to click through. You can put something like ‘Learn more here’. Facebook will update the ad almost live as you type into it, so then you can see it. If this looks good, then you can move to the next step which is creating your audience.

Your first step is to choose a location. Wherever your target audience tends to be from, whether it’s customers, traffic, or conversions. Whatever business that you’re in, you probably know what country that people tend to visit your site from most and tend to convert from most. That’s what you want to focus on for your Facebook ads. You’d want to put the United States in most cases.

Location Setting

If you’re a local business that happens to target a specific area of the country or a specific zip code; if you’re a local brick-and-mortar business, then you can go down to the zip code level and put a zip code, like that. You will only serve people in that zip code. For our purposes, we’re going to assume that you’re targeting an entire country, which is the United States.

The next thing you want to do is pay attention to age. Depending on your business, you may be targeting people who are a bit younger, like 13, which is the minimum age on Facebook that you can advertise because no one younger than 13 can create an account on Facebook. This depends on your business.

If you’re targeting C-level executives, you may want to make the minimum age 40, because by the time someone’s 40-years-old, they have advanced their career and they may be a C-level executive. If you’re targeting people who are just entering the workforce, you may want to choose something like 22 and put the max at 24. This just depends on your business and where your customers tend to come from. Same story with gender; men or women, depending on what products and services you sell.

Here’s where Facebook Advertising gets very interesting: Interests and Categories. Interest and Categories generally make or break a Facebook advertising campaign. The better you can target your ads to a very, very, specific group that also is your target audience, the better your Facebook ads will perform. The first thing you want to do is take a look at any broad categories that may fit really well with your target audience. For example you go to books, choose Literature and Reading.

Depending on what you sell, maybe people that are really into literature and reading tend to buy your products a lot. If you want to get more specific, you can choose a precise interest, like novels, and choose that from the list. From here, you can even choose specific novels or types of novels from the list. What you want to do is keep novels here if you just want to target people that have shown an interest in novels.

Next we have Connections. Usually, you want to leave this set to All, but if you want to use Advanced Connection Targeting, you can target people who are connected to your page, so you could choose your page from the list, or someone else. Usually, the reason that I say you want to leave this at All, because now you can see that Facebook tells me that my audience selection is too specific. Unless you have a lot of followers on Facebook, you want to leave this to All; same story with Friends of Connections.

If you have a lot of Likes or you want to target people who are friends of people who are connected to your page, you can do the same thing by entering your page, your app, or your event here. If you also want to target people who are interested in a certain gender, you can do that, or relationship status. Under Languages, you usually want to choose English, but obviously, you want to match that to the country that you’re targeting.

Finally, you can set an education level if your target audience tends to have a particular education level or if they tend to work someplace. You can enter a particular workplace where your target audience tends to work. Finally, we have Account and Campaign Settings. Usually, your currency and your country are set by default, depending on where you’re logging in from, then your campaign budget. This is a decision only you can make about your business, how much you have to spend.

This is your per-day or you can use a lifetime budget if you want to have a huge campaign. If you want to choose Automatically Optimize My Bid to get more clicks, you can do that, or you can manually bid for clicks. That’s usually better for performance, or else you just get a ton of clicks. You can choose your max bid per-click, as long as it’s within the suggested range, you can usually do well. Sometimes, you can always test it, put it at below the suggested bid and see how many clicks you’re getting.

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