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Re: Google and Facebook ad traffic is 90% useless

#11
Why are the two gifs so vastly different? The times are fairly close to each other just 10 seconds difference but the Facebook/Google looks to be altered to give the impression of them doing nothing.

The replay shows them both at 1x but they're not the same at all, the second gif is like 10x the speed of the first.

That behavior looks exactly correct for mobile traffic.

Flagged the story, looks like title click bait to probably hit front page; There seems to be manipulation on the gifs to drive their point.

Re: Google and Facebook ad traffic is 90% useless

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post #11

Why are the two gifs so vastly different? The times are fairly close to each other just 10 seconds difference but the Facebook/Google looks to be altered to give the impression of them doing nothing. The replay shows them both at 1x but they're not the same at all, the second gif is like 10x the speed of the first. That behavior looks exactly correct for mobile traffic. Flagged the story, looks like title click bait…

The second gif animation is actually slower - you are correct. Both gifs were speed up 3X. The Google/Facebook one is a very very slow scroll.

The point I am making is that 80-90% of the traffic is a simple user interaction.

Sorry, but the scroll is so slow that I decided to speed up both animations 3X - that is stated in the article.

Re: Google and Facebook ad traffic is 90% useless

#15
post #11

Why are the two gifs so vastly different? The times are fairly close to each other just 10 seconds difference but the Facebook/Google looks to be altered to give the impression of them doing nothing. The replay shows them both at 1x but they're not the same at all, the second gif is like 10x the speed of the first. That behavior looks exactly correct for mobile traffic. Flagged the story, looks like title click bait…

See the bottom-right of the GIF "Skip inactivity", which explains the difference you're seeing.

Re: Google and Facebook ad traffic is 90% useless

#17
post #15
post #11

Why are the two gifs so vastly different? The times are fairly close to each other just 10 seconds difference but the Facebook/Google looks to be altered to give the impression of them doing nothing. The replay shows them both at 1x but they're not the same at all, the second gif is like 10x the speed of the first. That behavior looks exactly correct for mobile traffic. Flagged the story, looks like title click bait…

See the bottom-right of the GIF "Skip inactivity", which explains the difference you're seeing.

Correct, thank you.

Re: Google and Facebook ad traffic is 90% useless

#18
post #11

Why are the two gifs so vastly different? The times are fairly close to each other just 10 seconds difference but the Facebook/Google looks to be altered to give the impression of them doing nothing. The replay shows them both at 1x but they're not the same at all, the second gif is like 10x the speed of the first. That behavior looks exactly correct for mobile traffic. Flagged the story, looks like title click bait…

I basically used Camtasia and changed the clip to 3X the speed, I didn't do it via the Fullstory UI

Re: Google and Facebook ad traffic is 90% useless

#19
We've been doong FB for almost a year now and have learned alot in this space, (with still alot to go).

Here are some things that might help you.

1. The type of ad you run and the copy you use has a big impact on the user's behaviour. Not all ads are created equal. Good copy that really taps i to why someone should be clicking through and what value they can expect to attain the other end makes a big difference. But this isnt an exact science. Its more of an art.

2. If you're targeting is off, you will also get undesired behaviour. People might click through because they like the ad, but if they havent been targeted correctly, it will cause issues. You may need to get more laser focused in terms of targeting. Age range, custom audience (through email upload), lookalike audiences, interests etc.

3. People via email, trust you to some extent and have a relationship with you. They're a warm audience. This is the real reason the organic approach is working for you. You have a relationship with those people. Its not the same with paid ads. You need to build that trust and warm them up. You might take a layered/re-targeting approach by offering them some value and then re-targeting the people that interact with your content with a second and third round of ads. You might also grab their email and then target them both via email and fb.

FB can work, but it take alot of iterations and time to get it right.

Alternatively you could just run an FB ad that does something to collect email addresses, then run an email nurturing campaign, warm up the audience and then target via email.

FB can work, but it takes time.

Re: Google and Facebook ad traffic is 90% useless

#20
post #8

Was it a Search or a Display Campaign for Google? I could understand that adsense webmasters used clickfarms. However finding out that google is using clickfarms for Search campaigns would be uncovering the greatest scam of the Internet.

Interestingly the behavior is similar to what I have observed with Mouseflow recordings for organic Google+ and Facebook posts. The page is opened, the mouse never moves and the 'user' scrolls a couple of times. I wonder if these records could just be the regular reviews that Google and Facebook do; their visits do not show up on Google Analytics but Mouseflow is able to take recordings.
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