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  • Lookalike Audience | What, Why & Tips For Building Lookalike Audiences 👀

    Lookalike Audience | What, Why & Tips For Building Lookalike Audiences 👀

    This article provides everything you need to know about lookalike audiences. From the basics of how to effectively seed lookalike audiences to how lookalike audiences work and how you can profit from the technology. What Is A Lookalike Audience When To Create A Lookalike Audience Tips For Building A Lookalike Audience Facebook Lookalike Audience Google…

  • Facebook Advertising Network | How To Instantly Improve Your Facebook Ads 🧩

    Facebook Advertising Network | How To Instantly Improve Your Facebook Ads 🧩

    This module is part of a free online course where you can learn digital marketing. The Facebook advertising network is the most advanced and powerful marketing platform the world has ever seen. In this module I’m going to show you ways to get the most out your Facebook ads. [Video] 7 Tips To Improve Facebook…

  • All the Facebook ads targeting options [infographic]

    All the Facebook ads targeting options [infographic]

  • Facebook changes ad text guidelines

    Facebook changes ad text guidelines

    Facebook has changed it’s policy on disallowing ads with more than 20% text. There are now 4 bands in which your ad will be placed. OK, Low Text, Medium Text, High Text. The higher band your ad comes in the lower your quality score and less traffic you will get or higher you will have…

  • The truth about online advertising agencies and consultants

    I see a lot of companies promoting online marketing services to small and medium sized businesses. The engineering company I am involved with gets emails every day from companies offering adwords optimisation or SEO (search engine optimisation) services. How many of these companies actually know what they are doing though? I would hazard a guess…

  • Setting Up Retargeting Pixels for Adwords and Facebook

    Setting Up Retargeting Pixels for Adwords and Facebook

    Retargeting works by placing a image pixel or code snippet on your website. You can then launch advertising campaigns targeted at those specific users that have visited the page and “seen” the hidden pixel. This is how to set it up… Facebook Go to Ads Manager > Audiences > Create Audience > Custom Audience >…

  • Designing Banners in Place

    Designing Banners in Place

    Something I don’t hear a lot of affiliates talk about is taking the placement in to consideration when designing banners. Sometimes if you are targeting multiple sites/positions this isn’t possible but for traffic sources like Facebook this is something every affiliate should consider. Simply take a screenshot of the page where you intend to advertise…

  • Facebook taking on Google Adwords

    UPDATE: 29th September 2014 – More details coming in about this. Facebook is expected to make an announcement tonight about the new ad platform. Early reports suggest it is a reworked version of Atlas which they acquired from Microsoft. The key principle is laser targeting across multiple devices. So you can target the same user…

  • Big Brands Screwed By Facebook Because Of ViralNova

    We were sold on spending huge budgets to gain Facebook page likes with the promise of being able to publish content to those fans for free. Facebook has now done a U-turn and is saying that in future only 1-2% of your Facebook fans will see organic content and that you will need to pay…

  • Facebook Social Graph, Start of the end for online dating?

    Today Facebook launched the social graph in the UK. You can see from the below screenshot how this can be used to search for friends and friends of friends who are single. Could this be the start of Facebook entering or getting more involved in the online dating world? With the introduction of #hashtags it…

  • Installing Prosper202 for Affiliate Marketing

    Things you’ll need to get setup with Prosper202 and affiliate marketing: > A webhost or VPS or Dedicated server (web host is cheapest, Dedi’s are most expensive, VPS is a good compromise) > A domain name, just use a .com in case you want to run international in the future. Godaddy are pretty good. >…

  • Facebook Funnies

  • Is Facebook Going Live with Mobile Traffic?

    Is Facebook getting ready to go live with mobile traffic? There are options for mobile operating systems and devices in broad categories now. I still haven’t seen any ads other than sponsered stories on m.facebook.com yet… This screenshot is from the power editor in Chrome, highly recommended if you are uploading lots of similar ads.

  • Social Network Demographics

    Heres a little sketch I put together of the stereotypical users of each of the major social networks. I used Alexa to put this together based on their audience profiling and I’ve linked to each at the bottom if you want some further reading. Alexa profiles: Facebook Twitter Linkedin Pinterest MySpace

  • Custom Facebook Share and Twitter Tweet Buttons as WordPress Widget

    The following is the php code to make your own dynamic Facebook share and Twitter tweet buttons. Just place the images in the root directory and install the Samsarin PHP widget. Copy this code into a Samsarin Php widget and drag it to your sidebar. <a target=”_blank” href=”http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=<?php echo “http://” . $_SERVER[‘HTTP_HOST’]  . $_SERVER[‘REQUEST_URI’]; ?>”><img…

  • Facebook Share button more effective than Likes?

    A recent post at SEOMoz suggested that their research has found a better correlation between facebook shares than Facebook likes. The full post is here and makes for an interesting read. One of the things that really caught my attention was in the comments and I quote: “After chatting with our Google rep it seems…

  • Setting up twitter feed to post to Twitter and Facebook accounts

    If you don’t already have a facebook and twitter account for your company they are really easy to setup. On facebook remember to click the “Create a Page for a celebrity, band or business” link on the homepage. Once you have those accounts setup head over to twitterfeed.com and sign up for an account. Enter…

  • Setting up custom facebook and twitter buttons using php

    The canonical tag has been a god send for us helping to get pages indexed and clean up site structures. In many sites we use the same php variable for our share buttons. This is a great way to setup custom twitter and facebook share buttons for your pages. We always use an external template…