How to Check Facebook Ads for 20% Text Overlay

So I was trying to upload an image to boost on Facebook, when it highlighted “Your ad may not run” message. How to Check Facebook Ads for 20% Text Overlay tutorial is created in order to make you understand why it is important to maintain that Text to Image Ratio and how to exactly achieve that.

How to Check Facebook Ads for 20% Text Overlay your ad may not run warning

Facebook wants you to advertise something which is worthy to be advertised. If you put stuff that’s entirely covered with text, people tend to lose interest mid-way. Also, if your stuff isn’t that attractive to look at, there are chances people might not even bother look and scroll on.

facebook meme

To curtail such things from happening there is this text overlay rule that helps in keeping your text to image usage in check. It says you can use 20% of the entire area as text and not more than that. If you go beyond that there are chances that people might end up ignoring it. While it is not a thumb rule, it is a good habit to keep your text short, exciting and readable, so the integrity of the image is maintained and the post looks chic af.

Here’s a glimpse if you have other questions about text overlay:

FAQ for text overlay

Steps on How to Check Facebook Ads for 20% Text Overlay

Here is a step by step procedure on how to check facebook ads for 20% text overlay:

Step 1: Open the following link:

https://www.facebook.com/ads/tools/text_overlay

If you are not logged in already, you might need to.

login in Facebook first

Step 2: Once you have the following screen, just click on Upload.

click on upload button

A dialog box will open from where you can select the image you wish to check.

Step 3: I am selecting one of the images which has some text on it to prove the point. Select the image and click on Open.

browse dialog box

Step 4: On clicking on Open, Facebook will automatically load the result in the form of the following:

  • Ok
  • Low
  • Medium
  • High

Note: If your ad comes in the category of High, there are chances that running your ad might end up getting restricted.

Here, the image chosen is showing as Ok and in green. That means we are good to go.

ok for ad

Image Text is Ok meaning our ads will run normally.

So now that you will boost this image on Facebook by creating an ad it will run normally.

Next Step is to Promote

Now that you know that your ad is good to run, that the amount of text it has is okay, the next step is to promote it.

You must create a post first using that image. Then the option of Boost Post might begin to show like this:

Click on Boost Post.

It will open you a dialog box to enter details.  You can set your target audience.

promotion

Then you can set your budget and duration:

When you are done just click on Boost Post.

boost now

Now your ad will begin.

Check out other cool Tips and Tricks as well.

Scottshak

Poet. Author. Blogger. Screenwriter. Director. Editor. Software Engineer. Author of "Songs of a Ruin" and proud owner of four websites and two production houses. Also, one of the geekiest Test Automation Engineers based in Ahmedabad.

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