FBX: How to Create Retargeted Facebook Ads with AdRoll

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You should now know what FBX is, but here’s a brief overview…

FBX is Facebook’s retargeted advertising that makes it easy for advertisers to increase efficiency and ROI. A cookie is placed on owned websites so that visitors will be served a custom ad once those users visit Facebook.

It’s an awesomely powerful tool. Make sure that you read more about it here.

Until recently, FBX was only available to the biggest of brands with the biggest of budgets.

But now there are two services that provide the small-to-medium sized business access to FBX. Earlier I profiled PerfectAudience. Now let’s take a look at AdRoll.

AdRoll

Since launching on FBX, AdRoll has grown to become the most widely adopted FBX provider with over 2,000 clients running campaigns. AdRoll reports that some of their advertisers have seen a 16X ROI on the platform with up to a 70% lower CPC when compared to standard web retargeting campaigns.

Once you start your trial, here’s how you create your FBX campaign…

1. Add Smart Pixel.

On PerfectAudience, it’s called a “tag.” Same thing, it’s the piece of code you’ll place between the HEAD tags of your site that help track visitors from your site to Facebook.

2. Segment visitors.

This is how you focus on visitors to specific pages to make your advertising as targeted as possible.

For example, someone who visited a landing page for your product but didn’t complete the transaction could be served an ad promoting that product when they return to Facebook.

3. Create a campaign.