Facebook Ads: How to Optimize Text Per Person

Facebook offers limitless optimization options to help you reach the right person with the right message. One of those options is Optimize Text Per Person.

In this post, we’ll talk about how to use Optimize Text Per Person and how it’s different from similar ad optimization options.

How to Use It

The ability to optimize text per person isn’t available for every objective. Since we are in a transition period where some people have the new objectives and some don’t, I won’t confuse you about which objectives allow for this. Just know that if you don’t see it, you may need to switch objectives.

When creating an ad, Optimize Text Per Person is off by default. You may not notice the setting. It’s under the Description field. Hover and click “Edit.”

Optimize Text Per Person

You will now see a toggle and the following description:

When likely to improve performance, allow text to swap between fields, such as showing your headline as primary text.

Optimize Text Per Person

The tooltip provides more details…

Optimize Text Per Person

Text you provide as the Primary Text could instead be moved to the Headline or Description; text provided as the Description could instead be moved to the Primary Text or Headline; text provided as the Headline could be moved to the Primary Text or Description. You get it, right?

As Facebook says, you may customize text per placement. Facebook will not take that adjusted text and swap it outside of that placement.

Strategy

If you’re going to use this, you’ll need to use it strategically. You need to complete the text fields with the knowledge that it could be used in any of the three locations.

For example, the Primary Text could continue to be longer, but make sure you have a brief, to-the-point top line. It will cut off after that.

The idea here is that Facebook may recognize when a user is more likely to respond to short text vs. long text. Or a certain headling may be more effective in some cases. It could be due to the behavior of a user or where that ad is being seen.

Don’t view this as a split-testing option. You aren’t looking for the right combination. Instead, you are simply providing Facebook with the freedom to move text around if they believe that it will lead to better results — at least for a specific situation.

Compared to Other Options

Facebook now has a full toolbox of text optimization options, and it could actually be a bit confusing.

Multiple Text Options

With Multiple Text Options, you provide up to five different options for Primary Text, Headline, and Description. Facebook will mix and match to find what works best.

Multiple Text Options

With Multiple Text Options, you provide different options that can be used for each location, but Facebook can’t move those options between locations. With Optimize Text Per Person, you are only providing a single slate of options.

You can technically use Optimize Text Per Person AND Multiple Text Options at the same time if you want to get super advanced and technical. Just know that if you go this route, you should make sure that you have plenty of budget so that all of this slicing and dicing will still lead to meaningful results.

Dynamic Creative

Dynamic Creative works like Multiple Text Options, but it adds in the ability to test out multiple images, videos, and CTA buttons.

Facebook Dynamic Creative

You cannot turn on Optimize Text Per Person when using Dynamic Creative.

Your Turn

Have you experimented with Optimize Text Per Person? What results have you seen?

Let me know in the comments below!