Facebook bidding question

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When bidding on Facebook, do start at the high end, or closer to the low end.
Example. FB shows a suggested bud of $1.14-$1.74 (cpc). I usually bid 1.16-1.20, but I am super new. When I click on that "simple bid" mode. It says it will automatically bid $1.40.

I'm taking lots of action on this, and I am actually making a little profit, but I dont know how to work the bids. Do I lower the bids on the high CTR ads?

Thanks
 


Here is the problem I am consistantly haveing, and I cant seem to fix it. Every time I start a new campaign, I get 30,000-40,000 impressions in minutes. Then, the impressions go away and I dont get anymore.

I went in and increased all my bids to the max suggested bid and I still cant get anymore impressions. I am bidding CPC. I cant get to my $50 limit because my impressions keep stopping after I have spent around $30. My campaigns are profitable, but I cant sustain or scale, or analyze my ads because there isnt enough data.

Thanks
 
I know you guys arent big on buying ebooks, but would Volk's facebook guide answer these questions for me?

I was a bole to get a lot of ads above .2% ctr in one campaign, and I am bidding $1 over the max suggested bid (CPC), but, I get 30,000 impressions quickly, then nothing. I am targeting a gtoup of 460,000 people.
 
writtenstyle said:
I know you guys arent big on buying ebooks, but would Volk's facebook guide answer these questions for me?

I was a bole to get a lot of ads above .2% ctr in one campaign, and I am bidding $1 over the max suggested bid (CPC), but, I get 30,000 impressions quickly, then nothing. I am targeting a gtoup of 460,000 people.
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You can always mail affiliates@facebook.com maybe something is broken with your account? For biding on facebook I would start low and then go higher, usually facebook doesn't like it when you lower your bids.
 
^^^ No, I get the canned response of "our inventory is limited... we chose ads with ..." crap. In the limited times I can get impressions, I was able to get the majority of my ads between .09% and .220% CTR. I dont think that is all that bad.
 
^^^ Yes I did use a couple of coupons back in January. I did some more testing. I created 25 campaigns. Some CPC and some CPM. Every campaign goes the same way, 30K impressions in minutes, then just a trickle over the next few hours.

It does it regardless of the ctr. I have ads with .25% CTR in a demo of 460,000, and I am bidding the max suggested bid. Still, no impressions after the first 15 minutes.

In fact, to get my spending limit up, I had to create a whole bunch of campaigns, because I cant even get a campaign to $35.00.

It sucks, cause I am good at writing ads that get good ctr, but I cant get a steady flow of traffic to test the offer or improve the campaigns.
 
Try this - run the 30K impressions, then pause the ad for a little bit (30 mins or something) let your suggested bid catch up, bid at the top of it, but make our daily budget like 1000 or more, or whatever. Even though your limit daily is less probably (so you wont actually spend that much)

Back in the day I found that helped a bit in getting traffic. Also, pausing at night, then starting fresh in the morning seemed to get a better jump on traffic, rather then letting it trickle in all night.
 
I know you guys arent big on buying ebooks, but would Volk's facebook guide answer these questions for me?

I bought it--- not much in it,
 
I've had to resubmit the same Ad to facebook multiple times and each time it was targeted to the same exact group. What's interesting is FB's recommended bids jumped all over the board (almost 100%) which leads me to believe their recommended bids are BS or they are doing some serious split testing (which still equals BS).

Just sayin'!
 
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