New Facebook feature: Promote your Page’s call to action

Posted on by Marie Page

Facebook call to action ad

Another day another update from Facebook.

Today it’s another minor ad type.

Having rolled out the call to action options from your home page a few weeks ago, brands are now being given the ability to promote the CTA with an ad.

Open up Facebook and you’ll likely see this:

Call to Action Promote

Click on your CTA and you’ll get the option to Promote:

Call to Action Promote Video

Be aware that if your normal cover image contains more than 20% text you’ll need to upload something within the Ad Policy limits.

It’s also worth re-writing the copy that will auto surface.

New Facebook Ad Feature: Promote your call to action.

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Here’s what I’ve done on the Musicademy Page:

Call to Action Promote Mobile

I’ve uploaded a decent sized thumbnail from the video that the CTA links to (it’s always good practice to make the thumbnail image representative of wherever the click leads). I’ve also crafted a headline and tweaked the default targeting:

 

Call to Action Promote Facebook

You get to see a preview of how it looks on mobile and desktop newsfeed. Click “Promote” and you’ll then get a Review notice. Mine took considerably longer than the estimated 15 minutes.

Facebook Review

Refine your targeting

Once you’ve got your ad posted you can then further refine your targeting by going into the Ads Manager or Power Editor. For instance, you might want to target a custom audience or exclude a certain audience.

Test your bidding

You can also change the bidding selection once the ad is created.

I’d strongly suggest testing CPC against the default option which is Optimised CPM:

Clicks to Website

Add in a conversion pixel

The other recommendation is to go into Power Editor and add in whatever conversion pixel you want to track actions other than clicks.

Sneaky Power Editor trick to increase the amount of copy

You will also find that once in Power Editor you can adjust the length of copy in the headline and link text and squeeze in quite a few more words. You can even add in some text underneath the headline!

Amended CTA ad

Is it worth it?

Who knows? I’ve not seen great traction from the Call to Action feature to data (a handful of video views each week) so this may well give a little more oompf to the Page. At the very least it’s a novelty factor for now and at the most it’s another way of surfacing a video ad (or whatever else your CTA is trying to get people to do).

My initial results are good. I’ve had far more traction with the promotion in place than without and have paid on average 18 cents per click:

CTA results

 

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Marie Page

About Marie Page

Marie Page is one of the UK’s leading Facebook marketing experts. She is a founding partner of digital marketing consultancy The Digiterati and the Digiterati Academy e-learning portal for marketers and entrepreneurs. Her award-winning Master's Dissertation was the culmination of three years' academic research into Facebook that resulted in a book (and companion online course) 'Winning at Facebook Marketing with Zero Budget' that became an Amazon bestseller. Marie's work on the Facebook News Feed algorithm was featured in The Huffington Post. A recognised thought leader on social media, Marie is often approached by journalists for comment in articles such as this Telegraph article. She was also interviewed for ITV's Tonight show on Facebook privacy issues in relation to advertising. Marie is a regular guest on digital marketing blogs and podcasts including Social Media Examiner and Smart Insights. In 2018 she is speaking at Brighton SEO, Europe's biggest search and marketing conference. Marie is also author of two Smart Insights books: 'Smarter Guide to Facebook Marketing', now in its fourth edition, and 'Facebook Ads Guide', both edited by Dr Dave Chaffey. Marie is also a part time yoga teacher.

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