Facebook advertisers could be seeing CTR’s take a dump, not content with showing 2, 3, 4 and even 5 ads on a page…they’re now shoing 6 ads in sidebar units. Time to make those images stand out! I guess at least it means you could still see some impressions/action on smaller bids, but on the [...]

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Just read an interesting article on TechCrunch about the problems advertisers are experiencing with Facebook’s self-serve ad platform and increasing click fraud. Interesting, because the issue is being brought out into more mainstream attention. This actually isn’t ‘new’ news, the issue has been growing for weeks in a thread on Failbook ads over at Wickedfire. [...]

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Anyone who reads this blog will already know I think that farcebook ads suck ass, but this amused me today – apparently they have now implemented a blanket ban on diet ads in the quest to ‘maximise end-user experience’ or some .com – sounding bullshit. Wow. Big shock and awe there, especially for anyone who [...]

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<rant> Just tried submitting a few more ads in various niches to facebook again tonight, I try and avoid it if I can but thought I would give it one last, last, last last go seeing as I keep hearing about how much money others are making out of it. I’ve tried in the past [...]

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Well kind of…have just noticed today that facebook seems to have put links below each ad on site pages to allow users to ‘vote’ on relevancy, decency and all manner of other toss. Of course voting is a two way street, so there is also a button to report/snitch on ads you don’t like or [...]

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I finally sat down tonight and made an ad on facebook – I’d been meaning to for ages and today managed to think of a couple of things that should convert ok. After making my ad (a pretty simple process) and setting up budgets etc., I submitted it and went off to do something else. [...]

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