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Before we get into the CTR rule, itâs important to talk about the lens we use when it comes to Facebook Advertising.
There are plenty of different ways to use Facebook Advertising for growth, however, weâre specifically looking at it as a performance marketing channelâââmeaning all the campaigns we run, and all the rules in our playbook series are meant to have the user perform a specific action (e.g. make a purchase, install an app, etc.)
This is an important distinction, because every metric becomes related to its positive or negative effect on helping us reach the ultimate performance goal.
With that in mind, letâs take a look at one of the first ratio-based metrics in Facebook Advertising: Click Through Rate.
Baseline CTRÂ Rule
The main reason we look at the Click-Through-Rate metric is to help us judge the relevance of the Ad Unit and Creative to the audience that our Campaign and/or Ad Set is targeting.
Our rule is based on campaigns weâve run from budgets started at $5 / day to $50,0000+ / dayâââso the rule can be applied to a wide range.
However, a good rule of thumb is that the less money youâre spending on a campaign, the higher your CTRs should be.
Rule
If a link ad has a link CTR less than 0.75%, you should consider swapping it out with a new ad unit. You should de-prioritize changing the Creative or Ad Unit if the CTR is above 0.8% and close to 1% or higher.
Caveats
You should only judge the CTR of an Ad Unit or Creative once it has passed the Enough Impressions Rule.
You should be comfortable with lower CTRs in the case that the post-click Conversion Rate is higher than the average you see across your campaigns and when costs are sustainable. For example, an ad unit may not be the most engagingâââbut it gives a great deal of context. In this case, when someone does eventually click on it theyâre more likely to convert than people that came from other ads.
Itâs also okay to be at the lower-end of this range if youâre using self-selective Creative (which weâll talk more about in the future).
Thank you for reading our audience selection mini-guide (in our series Facebook Advertising series). If youâve landed here and would like to get the rest of the series, please subscribe here (or below). Thereâs also a mini-glossary at the bottom of the post for clarity on terms weâve used!
Mini Glossary
Impressionsâââthe number of times an ad has been seen (counts multiple views by the same person)
Reach Sizeâââthe number of people that are being shown an ad
Campaignâââthe grouping of Ad Sets, usually indicates targeting and/or Creative direction
Ad Setâââthe grouping of Ad Units within a Campaign, usually indicates a sub-target within the Campaign and/or Creative direction
Ad Unitâââthe image, copy, and/or video combination thatâs displayed as an individual Ad Unit
CreativeâââIndividual pieces of an Ad Unit (i.e. image, copy, and/or video)
CTRâââthe number of clicks over the number of unique impressions
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