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Tips and Tricks: Improve Your Facebook Relevancy Score

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Check out these top strategies to increase the relevancy of your ads.
Check out these top strategies to increase the relevancy of your ads.

As advertisers using Facebook, once your ad has received 500 impressions Facebook will generate a relevance score. Facebook's relevance score is a rating on a scale of 1-10 that demonstrates how well your Facebook ads are being received by your target audience.

In this article, we will touch on why relevance scores matter. As well as share a few strategies to help improve your Facebook relevance score.

Take full advantage of how relevance score will improve your business.
Facebook's relevance score provides helpful data.

Why Facebook’s Relevance Score Matters

Facebooks relevance score system provides advertisers with useful feedback while ensuring their platform contains high-quality content. Ads with low relevance scores are punished with higher costs, and ads with high relevance scores are rewarded with lower costs. As a result, this encourages advertisers not to run ads with low scores. Pay attention to relevance score, it could help lead to a successful campaign.

Strategies to Improve Facebook Relevance Score

#1: Spot On Targeting

Narrow your audience by specific ages, interests, location, and behaviors. Take it one step further by using Facebooks Custom or lookalike Audience to improve relevance score.

Follow Facebook's step by step instructions to properly set up audience that work for you.
Take advantage of Custom and Lookalike audiences.

More info on Facebook Custom Audiences here

#2: Use Video

Video ads are more time-consuming and higher priced to create than image, carousel, and slideshow ad formats. But it’s no secret that well-executed video ads perform great. Therefore, it makes perfect sense to use them to improve your relevance score.

#3: Learn From Testing

Show multiple ad variations to the same audience, or the same ad to a different audience. Look for patterns in your existing ads that might lend insight into what works. Ask yourself "what ads have the highest relevance score and what do they have in common?"

Test different styles, and types of ads to different audiences. Use the results to better your marketing.
Test test test. Try different ad styles, ad copy, and different creatives within your ads.

#4: Improve Your CTA

Call to Action (CTA) buttons are used to lure users into taking action or engage in your content. As a result, CTA buttons are another great way to improve your relevance score. The best CTA’s are clear and simple as possible, all while being relevant to the targeted audience.

Call-to-action will help lead to success from multiple paths.
Make sure to have a relevant call to action button. Guide the user and tell them exactly what you want them to do.

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Until Next Time

The Facebook ads relevance score is one of several indicators of ad success. Adjusting your Facebook ad campaigns to achieve a high relevance score will make a significant difference in your results.

Do you pay attention to your campaigns relevance score? If so I would love to hear some strategies you are using to achieve high scores.

Happy Hunting 🙂

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About Tim Burd

Tim Burd is a public speaker, consultant, and serial entrepreneur who’s been called the “Godfather of Facebook Advertising” for his many years of supporting and empowering digital marketers.

Tim’s Facebook Ad Buyers Group is the largest community of online advertisers in the world. He is the co-founder of AdLeaks, an exclusive subscription-based community, and resource for digital marketing and business growth.

In addition to hosting Mastermind workshops and events, Tim has been featured on publications and platforms ranging from Forbes and Bloomberg to Buzzfeed and Bravo.

Tim Burd lives in Newport Beach, California, and works with clients worldwide as a high-end advertising consultant and business development expert.

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