I know I am biased but my recent experience of Facebook ads have just been getting better and better and better. Below is a sample from my “more ads” page which shows a random selection of ads being shown to me recently.
For those of you who don’t know me internet marketing is my chosen career and my passion so it’s just awesome to get a list of cool interactive marketing jobs and agencies in front of me. On top of this I am getting ads from a local rowing club and a bunch of moveon.org ads.
Anyway my main thought on this is that marketers are going to be early adopters of new marketing products but if I can have this relevant and high quality set of ads it’s possible for that to happen for anyone on facebook so come on marketers, prove your worth and get more great products and services promoted on the facebook site to the right people. The tools are there to use so give it a go!
Recovering from the Hack
Getting hacked was one of the most traumatic things that has happened to me since I first launched a website in the 1990s. My traffic was completely pulverized dropping 60% year on year when I had been growing at a nice 20-30% rate, I have lost a tonne of repeat visitors who have lost trust with the site, my search rankings seem to have been adversely affected which really sucks and all of my social media marketing is shot. The bottom line is now that I am over the hack and clean and all the major places that were blocking me have opened up again my traffic is down 20% year on year and roughly 1/3 from where I would have expected it to be.
Rebuilding is going to be tough but I am planning to do some of the things I have been holding off of for a long time:
Wish me luck in this new endeavor, as always I will try and post progress on the project to this blog and would be keen to get your advice on how to proceed.
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