Tracking conversions within your The Next Ad Suite and Google Ads account enables you to know and understand whether or not your current efforts are bringing the results you desire. This article covers the major benefits of tracking conversions of your Search campaigns, the value of conversion tracking to your business and how to utilize its power to sustain long-term growth.
So, you’ve started advertising on Google and you’ve got a nice number of ads running – great job! Of course, you’d like to know how effective these ads are in relation to the reasons why you’ve set them up in the first place.
Maybe you were looking to increase traffic to a certain landing page, boost the views of a video, generate more newsletter sign-ups or drive more sales on your website?
Whatever it may be, you won’t find out how many of these ads actually resulted in the actions you were hoping for, unless you start using a conversion tracking tool! Tracking conversions enables you to gather data on how consumers are interacting with your ads.
Based on these insights, you’ll be able to fine-tune your campaigns to drive more traffic to your website, increase calls or generate more customers! But before we dive into the nitty-gritty of conversion tracking, it’s important that you understand what a conversion exactly is!
Conversion tracking allows you to see what happens after a customer interacts with your ads – whether they purchased a product, signed up for your newsletter, made a call to your business, or downloaded your app. When a customer completes an action that you’ve defined as valuable, these customer actions are called conversions.
Depending on what is most relevant to your business, you’ll choose to keep track of a certain number and a few types of conversions. While you don’t have to keep track of every conversion goal you can pick, it is generally good to collect useful data. Even though you might not ‘need’ the data now, it could come in handy in the future!
As we’ve mentioned before, the ultimate reason for conversion tracking is to see how effective your ads are, in terms of consumer interactions and your conversion goals. When tracking conversions, you’ll be able to:
• See which keywords, ads, ad groups and campaigns are performing best at driving the conversions you are looking for.
• Understand your return on investment (ROI), which enables you to make better-informed decisions about your advertising spend for your next campaigns.
• Use different types of Smart Bidding strategies that will help you automatically optimise your campaigns according to your conversion goals.
• Get a clear image of the path your customers are taking before they convert. This could be across (i.e.) different devices and/or browsers.
Conversion Tracking starts with you creating a Conversion Tracker, by selecting a conversion action in your TNA Suite or Google Ads account. You can use conversion tracking to track the following kinds of actions:
• Website actions: Purchases, sign-ups, and other actions that customers complete on your website.
• Supported in Google Search Autopilot
• Phone calls: Calls directly from your ads, calls to a phone number on your website, and clicks on a phone number on your mobile website.
• Supported in Google Search Autopilot
• App installs and in-app actions: Installs of your Android or iOS mobile apps, and purchases or other activity within those apps.
• Import: Customer activity that begins online but finishes offline, such as when a customer clicks an ad and submits a contact form online, and later signs a contract in your office.
• Local actions: Actions that are counted whenever people interact with an ad that’s specific to a physical location or store.
Technically, the conversion tracking process works a bit differently for the various types of conversions. For each type, aside from offline conversions, however, it usually works like this:
• Conversions tracked with manually placed tracking tags
Add a conversion tracking tag, or code snippet, to your website or mobile app code. A temporary cookie is placed on a computer or mobile device, each time a person clicks on your ads from the Google Search results page.
Once the person completes the conversion goal you’ve predefined, the conversion tracker will recognise the placed cookie and record a conversion.
• Conversion tracked without manually placed tracking tags
For some types of conversions, you won’t have to manually place a tag on your website or mobile app. If you want to track phone call conversions from your call extension or call-only ads, you can use a Google forwarding telephone number. When this number from your ad is used, you’ll be able to track details like call duration, call start and end time, and caller area code.
This can also be done with app downloads and in-app purchases from the Google Play store.
After successfully setting up conversion tracking you’ll be able to record conversion data for your campaigns, ads groups, ads and keywords – helping you to better understand how your advertising efforts help you achieve your business goals!
Now that you’ve got a good understanding of conversion tracking, it’s time to set up conversion tracking for your Google Search Autopilot campaigns!
Can’t figure it out? Don’t hesitate to send a message to our support team by sending them a message in the chat or by sending an email to support@tnasuite.com!
The benefits of tracking your conversions are indisputable – measuring how your campaigns perform, understanding how customers interact with your ads, and being able to fine-tune your campaigns to drive your desired conversions!
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