Is facebook pixel useful if no sales ?

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If I understand right facebook pixel track the number of add to cart or purchase event.

But all my website (5 so far) had no sales (I don't know about add to cart but I imagine there was none).

I copied completely website that work and sold item recently so it's not the problem.

I was optimizing for traffic since I had no pixel.

But what will happen if I try to optimize for conversion ?

I have no conversion at all so I don't see why that would change.
 
''I was optimizing for traffic since I had no pixel.''

Here is the problem. You asked for traffic, FB is giving you traffic.

If you want conversions, create a pixel and create a purchase campaign
 
I understand that but I have NO sales lol

What will the purchase campaign be based on if there's no event of purchase ?

Does the purchase campaign do other thing than just reviewing the type of people who bought your product and try to show your ad to similar people ?
 
I understand that but I have NO sales lol

What will the purchase campaign be based on if there's no event of purchase ?

Does the purchase campaign do other thing than just reviewing the type of people who bought your product and try to show your ad to similar people ?
And it will continue without any sales as long as you keep asking Facebook for traffic.

Your pixel may be at zero, but Facebook's artificial intelligence has been collecting millions and millions of events for at least ten years and knows how to identify who are buyers for your product and who to send to just visit your site without generating any sales.

FB's AI works based on similar sites, similar products and almost identical ads to yours, they know how to identify who buys fitness products or pet products, even if you don't put any targeting
 
I get it but fb says :


Troubleshoot Conversion Optimization​

If our delivery system predicts your ad set is going to get none of the conversions you optimized for, we'll let you know so you can make adjustments before it starts running. This guide helps you figure out what the right adjustments are.

Is the conversion you're optimizing for happening frequently enough?

When optimizing for conversions, we recommend choosing one that happens about 50 times per week at a minimum. Our system needs that many to learn from. Our system needs to learn so it can deliver your ad to the right people at the right time to get you the best results.
Important: In order for a conversion to count towards your 50, it has to happen within your chosen attribution setting. For example, if you have a 1-day click attribution setting for purchase conversions and someone clicks your ad and completes a purchase 3 days later, that doesn't count towards the 50.
If your ad set is predicted to get zero conversions, you may not have chosen to optimize for one that happens frequently enough. To figure out the right one, check your pixel data. See how many times each event happens per week. If you're not seeing enough of any single pixel event, you may want to first focus on building up website traffic and a customer base.
Here are some ad set creation options we recommend trying if we predict your ad set will get zero conversions:
  • Optimize for a more common conversion: It may be tempting to jump right to optimizing for purchases, assuming that's what you ultimately care about. However, purchases are the rarest type of conversion. If we predict you're going to get zero of your chosen conversion, try optimizing for a more common one instead. For example, instead of optimizing for purchases, optimize for adds-to-cart or page views. Both events are more likely to lead to a purchase than, say, someone engaging with a post on your Page, but may occur frequently enough that we can consistently get you that result. Purchases may not.
  • Optimize for landing page views: This conversion event drives higher quality traffic than link clicks do, since a landing page view only occurs when the page you want to send people to loads. (If someone clicks a link, but then closes out your page before it loads, that counts as a link click, but not a landing page view.) However, it's still more common than most other conversion events. It's a good choice if you do need to build up more website traffic and a customer base.
If you're trying all of these but you're still predicted to get zero conversions, the problem may be elsewhere.

 
If I understand right facebook pixel track the number of add to cart or purchase event.

But all my website (5 so far) had no sales (I don't know about add to cart but I imagine there was none).

I copied completely website that work and sold item recently so it's not the problem.

I was optimizing for traffic since I had no pixel.

But what will happen if I try to optimize for conversion ?

I have no conversion at all so I don't see why that would change.
That's like asking how useful is a ruler if you have nothing to measure.

Pixel itself is just a piece of js that Facebook uses to show you analytics. It doesn't cost you anything in itself to have it around (apart from like some neglible cost in bandwidth).

And in the future when you will have some sales. Pixel will let you track how many of those were from your campaigns.

So, yes. It's really useful to have it around even if you have no sales.

And sales (or add to cart) aren't the only conversions it can track. It can also measure stuff like Scroll Depth and on-page time.
 

Which is it?

you need actual purchase for your conversion campaing to work?

or like Monzani says:

Your pixel may be at zero, but Facebook's artificial intelligence has been collecting millions and millions of events for at least ten years and knows how to identify who are buyers for your product and who to send to just visit your site without generating any sales.

FB's AI works based on similar sites, similar products and almost identical ads to yours, they know how to identify who buys fitness products or pet products, even if you don't put any targeting
 
Nevermind I got banned for no reason like always.

My personal account when I was using my credit card is banned, that was my friend's account with his credit card.

I don't have anymore legit way of running fb ads.
 
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