Wednesday, February 26, 2014

Target User Interests Using Facebook Ads

By Adam Khan


The Facebook advertising platform is a great way to get the word out about a good or service that you are currently offering. One of the great benefits of the advertising program is that one can target a very specific demographic group who is most likely to buy one's particular product. On can even use Facebook paid ads to target specific interests.



Facebook is the ultimate big brother spy tool for getting to know about people. While many people find this uncomfortable, the vast majority of the user base seem to have no problem putting every detail of their person life online. For advertisers this is an absolute gold mine of information that can be used to target certain individuals. This is because Facebook allows you not only to target people based on demographics such as age, sex, and where they live, but also based on what they have publicly liked.

This can be accomplished in one of two ways. The most basic is through the targeting section of the Facebook Power Editor or user interface. You start with your base demographic, and then can narrow it down by adding interests. With each interest a number of people is displayed, and as you ad that interest that is filtered through your demographics to give you a target audience. The more interests you add the larger target audience.

For example, you could do a Facebook graph search for people who like the Denver Broncos and like teeshirts, an even more specific targeted group. Facebook will then return a list of names that you can scrape with the scraper. This could allow you to get an even greater percentage of real buyers to your offer.

The ads are usually posted on the newsfeed of your fan page, as that is the area where most of the eyeballs are focusing, but they can be on the right side too, which is the traditional ad area. The newsfeed will get you the best results as a rule.




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