How To Set Up A Retargeting Campaign In Facebook

The Power & The Fury

Facebook retargeting campaigns are powerful. The Facebook advertising is powerful, and that means that there’s a bit of a learning curve. Today’s lesson is on how to set up and run a Facebook retargeting campaign. Hopefully this tutorial will save you some time and frustration on setup!

I had to set up another retargeting campaign today, and it’s been a while since I’ve had to do one. While I was working today, I just remembered how complicated, and frustrating, is is to start from scratch (hence the fury). I thought you would find it helpful to just have a quick walk-through. Let’s take a look.

What is Retargeting?

In this case, when someone goes to our website and then goes to Facebook retargeting allows you to show them an add on Facebook for your company, product or service.

What Is The Facebook Pixel

On the website, we have what’s called a Facebook pixel. The Facebook Pixel is a piece of code that goes into the website code on every page of the site. If the pixel is on the website, then Facebook knows who went to the website. That tracks that user in Facebook’s system, so that when the user then goes back to Facebook, Facebook can deliver them information based on where else they have been on the web, in this case, ads.

Step By Step Setup

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Step 1: Get to the Advertising Area

Time: 01:55 in the video

Go to your page and click on this advertising button at the very bottom right of the page. You will be taken to the advertising campaigns page. This is your overview page.

Step 2: Click on Business Settings

Next, click on where it says, “Business Settings” from the navigation. You may need to look at the bottom of the nav dropdown for the “All Tools” rollover link.

Step 3: Add People and Assets In Facebook Business Settings

First click on “People” and add any other users you need to add to the system.

Step 4: Claim your pages if you haven’t alread

Next, claim your pages if you haven’t already. You may need to go back to “People” to add people to your pages and accounts after you finish adding them.

Now you got your pages set up, you can go back to your people and you can add the pages or the add accounts to those people.

Step 5: Add An Ad Account Per Page You Want To Set Up

Now you also have to set up an advertising account (ad account) per business you want to run ads for. That’s an add account per page, or multiple add accounts per page.

Step 6: Create a Facebook Pixel

Next, you’re going to need a Facebook pixel.

Click on Data Sources > Pixels.

• Go through the creation process in the modal
• Put the code Facebook gives you onto your website
• Or send it to your developer to be added

Now you’ve got:

• The pixel
• The account
• The ad account

Step 7: Tricky Part! You Have To Add The Asset

If you’re not already there, click on the pixels area then click on the ‘add assets button’. From here you can add the asset.

Step 8: Now the ad account has been added to the pixel, we need to create the custom audience from the audiences area.

Click on “Audiences” in the navigation menu.

Click on “custom audience” button, and then you’re going to come on website traffic.

Next, click on “Website Traffic”.

Select the correct Pixel

Then name it your new audience at the bottom of the modal and click “Create Audience”.

Now, You’re Ready To Create The Ad!

Click on the navigation menu, then “All Tools”, and select the “Ads Manager”.

Click “Create”

Go through the add creation process, and when you get to the “Audience” area, choose the audience you created.

There are a ton of different ways to run ads, different goals, etc. But that is for another time.

Now that you have a process for creating an audience out of the users coming to your website and a method of delivering Facebook ads to them, you can run those many different ads in different ways.

And now you know how create a Facebook Retargeting Campaign!

Please let me know if you thought this was helpful and if you have any questions!