Tuesday, June 18, 2019

The missing Link Google Ads and Google Analytics


This week we added another text ad to our campaign, added analytics to our site and linked our Google Ads and Google Analytics accounts.  We also went over how to limit our spending within google ads by setting daily budgets and max CPC.

One of  the best pieces of knowledge from this week was a video from Brother Poole.  He walked through some of the finer details of how spending will actually occur.  While we may set a daily budget, google translates it into a monthly budget and may go way over or under our daily budget to compensate for the fluctuation of number of users searching for our keywords. 

Tying this back to our research into keywords, they also showed monthly searches and then divided for daily estimations, so that strategy works.

The site I’m working on is built using wordpress.    I initially attempted to add the code in a code block to each page last week, but analytics didn’t pick it up.  So, this week I spent more time researching how to get it to work correctly.  Before I could add the analytics code, I had to try out several plugins that would allow me to insert code in the header or footer, before I found a plugin that would work well on my particular site design. 

The reading and research on Quality Scores gave a good general idea on what factors influence the score, but I think in application it will come down to what results am I getting from my ad campaigns.  If the ads are cost effective and driving good results, I might settle for a 8 instead of a 10 that doesn’t actually translate into sales. 

I think that rather than edit the ads I have, I would create new whenever possible to make sure I keep historical campaigns for comparison.

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