Why old POST IDs might be messing up your ads ...
A new student bought the LAKE Method last week. But he had a problem - he raised prices on his offer (which can be fine), but the same ads were running. With the same Post ID. For those who don't know, a Post ID is basically the static link for one ad with the same copy, image / video, headline, etc ... And it carries an extraordinary amount of data. If a particular Post ID gets a lot of results in a short period of time, those results are likely to continue. Facebook "fine tunes" and hones in on who took action from that post. It basically makes its own Lookalike audience, but just for that specific post. But there's a catch - if results suddenly drop off, it can spoil that Post ID over time. So if you make changes in the funnel, sales page, pricing, etc ... And that change DOESN'T work out ... That Post ID could very well have built bad data because suddenly Facebook sees that "this ad isn't getting results". And above all else, Facebook values the user experience. So if an ad isn't contributing to what they consider a good experience, they give it a worse algorithm. That's when your costs go up and results go down. Back to our story here. He applied some of the techniques in the LAKE Method, and changed up his ads enough to have a new post ID. His direct message to me: "well seems like it worked. sales went up on friday, and over doubled on saturday and sunday. seems like i'm a bit ahead of the curve today for sales as well" Point is ...Sometimes "good" post IDs go bad. You can often get a good boost by changing things up.