{"id":7279,"date":"2019-10-17T07:00:13","date_gmt":"2019-10-17T07:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.brilliantagency.co.uk\/?p=7279"},"modified":"2019-12-10T22:39:53","modified_gmt":"2019-12-10T22:39:53","slug":"understanding-facebook-attribution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brilliantagency.co.uk\/blog\/digital\/understanding-facebook-attribution\/","title":{"rendered":"Understanding Facebook Attribution"},"content":{"rendered":"
Don’t be too quick to turn off your Facebook ad-sets! Your eCommerce store could be leaving money on the table by not using the attribution window to its fullest. Let me explain…<\/p>\n
Buyers purchasing behaviour online can complex and fragmented. If they click on ad and purchase in the same session, though that ad has certainly served a purpose, it’s likely that 10 ads prior all did the heavy-lifting and they deserve some credit.<\/p>\n
To gain a more in-depth understanding of how your conversions are taking place, consider looking into Facebook’s longer attribution window, rather than judging success purely on Google Analytics last-touch attribution. This is an especially useful tool with products that cost more on average and may require more consideration for someone to convert.<\/p>\n
If we look at a 1, 7 and 28-day attribution lift, for example, we know we can leave ad-sets below our target ROAS (return on advertising spend) running and be patient because by day 7, they\u2019ll be profitable and by day 28 they\u2019ll be very profitable.<\/p>\n
What do I mean exactly by that? <\/strong><\/p>\n Facebook\u2019s default attribution window is \u20181 day from viewing your ad and within 28 days of clicking it’. This is the number of days between when someone either viewed or clicked your ad and then took a valuable action on your website – i.e. a purchase or a lead.<\/p>\n The image below shows revenue and return on ad spend rising over time, this is because people convert later on and we are looking at a wider time window.<\/p>\n