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Facebook ads for traffic? 4:1 to Facebook

I thought I'd test out Facebook dirt-cheap ads, dirt-cheap meaning that they are from around the world, and most of the clicks you end up getting are from East-Timor, , Somalia, Nigeria, you get the point. So how did it go?

Well, there are positive things and negative things to mention.

The positive things
The main positive thing is that for $1.50 on one ad (still hasn't used the entire days's worth of $5), Facebook has sent me 311 clicks. On ad two, Facebook has sent me 136 clicks for $0.70. So if we look a... continue reading

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