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Relevance Score

What is Relevance Score?

Relevance score was a Facebook Ads metric, rated from 1 to 10, that estimated how relevant an ad was to its audience based on the positive and negative feedback it was expected to get. In 2019 Facebook replaced it with three more specific metrics, the ad relevance diagnostics.

Facebook’s ad relevance diagnostics

  • Quality ranking: how the ad’s perceived quality compares with ads competing for the same audience.
  • Engagement rate ranking: how its expected engagement compares with those ads.
  • Conversion rate ranking: how its expected conversion rate compares with ads that have the same goal.

Each is shown as above average, average or below average.

The same idea elsewhere

Google Ads has Quality Score and ad relevance, and search engines judge how relevant every page is to a search. The principle is the same everywhere: the closer your ad or page matches what people want, the better it performs and the less it costs.

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