Wednesday, November 30, 2011

How Does Facebook Advertising Help Your Site?

In no other online site is there so much pertinent personal information being openly shared with people other than the most popular social networking site Facebook and an online advertiser, a smart one, would find it hard to ignore this phenomena and use it to their advantage, make do with the rich stock of specific information and data about people that would normally take a bank to elicit the same kind of information. Hence Facebook holds great promise for online marketers who want to perform a more thorough targeted marketing on the internet. The Facebook ad program helps advertisers hit the right demographics based on personally volunteered data such as age, interests, employers, location even to the town, and even relationship status and friends lists.

Nevertheless, the Facebook advertising program is comparatively new and up to this point expert advertisers are still on a "try to get the feel" mode making experiments with the Facebook ads and seeing how the targeted audience reacts to the posted advertisements. Being new as it is, even digital marketing experts who are already very proficient in the arts of advanced targeting displays in paid search advertising are just starting to get their feet wet and are still on the tweaking phase of running their ad programs on Facebook.

But there are already assured parameters that you can use as an online advertiser to get your ads noticed by the millions of Facebook users and one of these tactics requires you to tailor fit your ads to work within the Facebook general ambiance and experience. You have to understand that the users of Facebook spend an inordinate amount of time compared to how much they spend in other websites and while on Facebook, they interact with friends by sending emails and real-time chatting, share information such as photos and videos, and connect with their favored causes, but never search for anything to buy so their mindset is not to spend but to interact with people they know so if you have this situation in mind, then you can create a type of ad where you can carefully select images, editing calls-to-action, and tweaking on the messages on your ad to cater to the prevailing atmosphere on Facebook and that is interaction.

So first off, try not to think of Facebook as an ordinary site like an e-magazine where you can just post your ads and drive the viewers into your website for instant traffic, though for a few popular brands, this may work for any site they wish to post their ads on, but since you are not them, it would be better to stick to a more programmed battle plan and stick to the general Facebook experience because doing that would bring better results. You can create Custom Pages as part of your Facebook Page enabling your viewers to easily "Like" your website so that you can without difficulty re-market to them with updates about new deals and upcoming events in the future.

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