How to Install the Facebook Pixel: Squarespace Sites [Step-by-Step Guide]

You’re ready to get started with Facebook ads – well done, you. You’re smart enough to know that they can help you get your work in front of a very specific audience, promote your offerings to them, grow your list, and even bring in serious revenue.

However, you won’t know which ads actually did something for your business if you don’t have the Facebook Pixel in the right place! 

“WTF is this Facebook Pixel anyway??”

The good news is that it’s not nearly as complicated as it sounds. Basically you paste a snippet of code in the backend of your website JUST ONE TIME in order to do two important things: 

  1. Show your ads to people who have visited your website in the past (also called retargeting or remarketing), and
  2. Track any conversions that resulted from your campaigns.

If you learn best via video, check out this total pixel overview I recently streamed live on Facebook:

 

So first you need to figure out what the “conversions” in your business are. Most online entrepreneurs think of conversions as transactions. In other words, when someone buys something from you, they convert from a prospect to a customer or client.

But you could (and probably should) be tracking other important conversions as well, for example:

  • When someone signs up for your free content or newsletter.
  • When someone adds one of your products to their cart.
  • When someone signs up for your free or reduced-price trial membership.
  • When someone visits the sales page of your product or service after reading one of your blog posts.

When you have the Facebook Pixel in place and conversion tracking set up, it’s REALLY easy to figure out a) which ads/audiences are getting you the most conversions, and b)how much each you’re paying for each one.

So it’s time to install this pixel and then set up conversion tracking – you with me?

Start in the Ads Manager by visiting facebook.com/ads/manager. (This is assuming that you already have a Facebook advertising account connected to your regular profile. If you’ve ever boosted a post or run an ad, you have this account.)

Click on the little hamburger menu icon at the top left of your screen, and then scroll over All Tools. A larger menu will pop out to the right. Click on Pixels under Measure & Report.

how to install the facebook pixel squarespace ads manager

Click on the green button that says Create a Pixel. Give it a name like “[Your Company Name] Facebook Pixel.” Then click the Create Pixel button.

how to install the facebook pixel squarespace create pixel

NOTE: if you don’t see the green Create a Pixel button, it means you’ve already created your Facebook Pixel. But to be certain you’ve installed it in the correct place, click on the button that says Actions and then on View Pixel code. Continue to follow the rest of these directions.  

Scroll down to step 2; you’ll see a box with several lines of code in it; go ahead and copy/paste the code into a doc on your computer so you can access it later.

how to install the facebook pixel squarespace view pixel

Can’t find that code? Check out this 25-second Ads Manager tour:

Now you need to place it in the backend of your Squarespace site.

(Click for instructions on how to install the Facebook Pixel on Wordpress sites or to place it on Leadpages pages.)

How to Install the Facebook Pixel on Squarespace Sites

1. Log into your Squarespace account and click on Settings.

2. At the bottom of the Website section on the left-hand menu, click on Advanced.

how to install the facebook pixel squarespace settings 3. Click on Code Injection.

how to place pixel squarespace 24. Paste the Pixel in the box under Header.

how to install the facebook pixel squarespace code injection

And you’re done! 

To test that you installed the pixel correctly, install the Chrome Pixel Helper extension (it’s free!) and then visit your site.

pixel-helper

(From here on out, you’ll be able to see if the Facebook pixel is installed on any site. I don’t know about you but it makes me feel like MacGyver!)

How to Set Up Custom Conversions to Track Your Results

Now that you’ve installed the pixel, you can get real data about whether people are taking actions as a result of your Facebook ads. The simplest way to do is is to use custom conversions.

Fortunately custom conversions are super easy to set up:

1. Go back to the Ads Manager and click on the menu at the top left. Hover over All Tools and then select Custom Conversions.

how to install the facebook pixel squarespace setup custom conversions

2. Click on the blue Create Custom Conversion button.

3. Insert the url of the page on your site that “marks the conversion.” Usually that means a “thank you” page that people see after signing up for your free content or buying your product. 

Set up custom conversions

Skip the conversion value (unless you’re tracking purchases, in which case you should put the price of your product).

5. Click the Create button, and relax because you are DONE! 

How to Connect Your Custom Conversion to Your Facebook Ads

This is one thing I love about this way to track conversions for your Facebook ads: it’s automatic! You don’t need to “connect” them like you did in the past.

Any and all custom conversions you’ve created will be tracked on every campaign you run so long as you see this option toggled on when creating your ads:

Facebook pixel toggled on

And that, my friend, is it. Let’s recap real quick:

  1. Create your Facebook Pixel in the Ads Manager one time only.
  2. Install it on your Squarespace site one time only.
  3. Create custom conversions whenever you have a new thing that people can sign up for (like a cheatsheet, webinar, interest list, etc.) or product.

Why You MIGHT Want to Get Creative With Your Custom Conversions

Note: you do NOT need to do any of the following, but if you’re reeeeeeally into tracking stuff or you’re serving a client who likes lots of information about their campaigns, read on!

You can also create custom conversions for some more nuanced actions people take while visiting your website. One example is visiting an important page, like a sales page for your product or service. If you have an e-commerce store, another good conversion is adding a product to their cart.

So if you want to go deeper with your tracking, create a custom conversion with the category “View Content.”

Then you could run ads to a blog post of yours that ends with a pitch for your product. When looking at your reports, you could see:

  1. How many people clicked over to the blog post;
  2. How many of THOSE people clicked from the blog post to your sales page;
  3. How many people ended up buying your product as a result of your Facebook ads.

Adding more custom conversions allows you to see the different steps of your funnel, and to find out how many people are making it from one step to the next.

Getting More Advanced With Standard Events

In 2018, tons of my students and a few of my clients were met with a nasty surprise – suddenly their custom conversion tracking simply stopped working. ????

That forced me to start using Standard Events, which is another way to track your conversions. Many people still aren’t using standard events, but I highly recommend you take the extra time to learn about them and get them set up.

Best way to do that? Watch the video below for a Standard Events overview – jump to minute 01:45 to skip over the intro:

Wow, you must love detailed blog posts if you’re all the way down here. Does all that make sense? Let me know what your Facebook Pixel or Custom Conversions questions are in the comments below!

Quick question before you go: are you 100% clear on what ad strategy to use to actually make more sales in your business?

Yes, running ads can help you grow your audience and make more sales, but only if you go into it with a clear understanding of why you’re promoting each thing, and where it fits in the bigger marketing picture.

Discover the specific Facebook and Instagram ads I use every month for my 7 and 8 figure clients in this free masterclass: