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TikTok Paid Traffic: Quick and Practical Guide on How to Get Started

By Tiago Moraes 3 minutes reading
TikTok Paid Traffic: Quick and Practical Guide on How to Get Started
TikTok paid traffic: drive more consumers into your online store through ads on one of the largest short video social networks in the world. Photo: @freepik
TikTok paid traffic: drive more consumers into your online store through ads on one of the largest short video social networks in the world. Photograph: @Freepik

Paid traffic TikTok is an advertising method in which you, as an advertiser, pay to run and target ads about your e-commerce brand and its respective products to the audience segments you want within one of the largest short video social networks of the world.

For those who are not aware, the social network TikTok emerged in 2016 on the initiative of the Chinese company ByteDance. From the beginning, its proposal has been to allow its users to share videos of 15 to 60 seconds only.

With this proposal, the social network TikTok reached the milestone of just over 1 billion monthly active users, according to Statista data from October 2023. This is, therefore, an excellent audience for advertising. In fact, creating paid traffic campaigns with TikTok can increase visits and sales in your online store.

HOW TO CREATE PAID TRAFFIC CAMPAIGNS WITH TIKTOK?

Creating paid traffic campaigns with TikTok is very simple. To do this, follow the steps below:

  1. First, create an account for your e-commerce on the TikTok social network;
  2. Afterwards, register with TikTok for Business platform;
  3. Next, start creating an ad;
  4. Now, enter your advertising objective;
  5. Next, define the budget, segmentation and bidding method;
  6. Later, upload a photo or video and include a text with Call-To-Action (CTA);
  7. Finally, review the settings and click send.

As you can see, creating an ad and generating paid traffic with TikTok is very simple. However, if you need to work with multiple ads for your e-commerce business, the ideal solution is to hire a performance agency. The e-Plus Agency , for example, offers Paid Media Management services and runs advertising campaigns on this social network for merchants like you who operate in e-commerce. To hire them, click the button below and start a conversation via the messaging app right now:

ADVANTAGES

There are several advantages of generating paid TikTok traffic. For example:

  • Consumer research: 52% of TikTok users say they find new products in ads on this social network;
  • Differentiated ads: 61% think that advertising on TikTok is different from the main social networks and video platforms;
  • Content search: 88% of users of the social network TikTok like to discover new content while browsing the app.
Video: learn more about how to use the social network TikTok to boost your e-commerce (use the controls in the player on Youtube to activate and translate the subtitles into your language)!

The data cited above is from TikTok Marketing Science in the USA. As you can see, this social network has a large quorum that firmly engages with the ads. This proves that TikTok is essential for generating paid traffic for e-commerce. It's worth using!

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