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Search Funnel Analysis
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Search Funnels
Conversion Analysis Beyond Just The Last Click
Nguyen Quang Dong – Senior Project Manager
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Executive Summary
• Search Funnels is a new set of reports available to Adwords
Conversion Tracking customers
• It uncovers how converters interact with paid search clicks and
search impressions on Google.com
• Search Funnels insights will demonstrate which keywords are used
by converters preceding last click
• You will now see the true value of all keywords, not just the last click
prior to conversions
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Index
1 What are Search Funnels
2 What Search Funnels can do for You
3 How to get started
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Last Click Doesn’t Tell the Full Story
Conversions
Before converting, users do
multiple searches and are
exposed to many of your AdWords
ads and keywords
What impressions and clicks led to
conversions?
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Last-
Converting
Clicks
Now, you can see more!
AdWords Search Funnels are a set of reports describing
the Google.com search ad click and impression behavior
leading up to a conversion
Adwords Conversion Tracking is Required
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In the Search Funnels reports, you
can now see:
• Upper funnel clicks and impressions*
that occur prior to last clicks that drive
conversions
• Average length and duration of
conversion paths
• How keywords, ad text and campaigns
assist each other prior to conversion
*impression data only available from Google
Search Funnels will Uncover New Insights
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Sample Search Funnels Path – JetWithUs.com
keyword cost Conversions Cpa
JetWithUs $3400 16,000 $0.21
Air hotel packages $155 10 $15.50
May not be
capturing full value
Last Click may not tell the whole story…
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Last click conversion
3/11
'Air hotel packages'
3/17
'JetWithUs.com flights'
3/24
'Hotel flight'
'Soho New York
hotels'
3/26
'JetWithUs'
Search Funnels: keywords and dates of search
Conversion
Let’s work backwards
Let’s look at an example:
Sample Search Funnels Path – JetWithUs.com
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keyword cost Conversions Cpa
JetWithUs $3400 16,000 $0.21
Air hotel packages $155 10 $15.50
By taking assists into
account, the CPA
should be lowered.
Last Click may not tell the whole story…
+ 1000 assists
Sample Search Funnels Path – JetWithUs.com
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Assist Clicks And Impressions
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Performance based on how many assisting clicks
and impressions there are for each keyword, ad
group, or campaign.
Performance based on how many assisting clicks
and impressions there are for each keyword, ad
group, or campaign.
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Benefit: identify campaigns
contributing to conversions and
then adjust bidding. Or expand
into similar keywords that
contribute assists
Benefit: identify campaigns
contributing to conversions and
then adjust bidding. Or expand
into similar keywords that
contribute assists
Assist Clicks And Impressions, cont’d
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Top Paths
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Shows the sequence of Keywords/Ad
Groups/Campaigns that were clicked or shown
(impressions) leading up to conversion
Shows the sequence of Keywords/Ad
Groups/Campaigns that were clicked or shown
(impressions) leading up to conversion
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Benefit: identify how brand terms
compare to and interact with non-
brand Ad Groups, and see if an
Ad Group contributes to
conversions before the last click
Benefit: identify how brand terms
compare to and interact with non-
brand Ad Groups, and see if an
Ad Group contributes to
conversions before the last click
Different paths to the same
keyword conversion
Different paths to the same
keyword conversion
Top Paths, cont’d
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Path Length
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What amount of impressions/clicks occurred before
conversion/revenue?
What amount of impressions/clicks occurred before
conversion/revenue?
Benefit: understand your
funnel. Gauge the efficiency of
the flow from ad click or
impression to conversion, and
work to shorten a consumer’s
path to your conversion.
Benefit: understand your
funnel. Gauge the efficiency of
the flow from ad click or
impression to conversion, and
work to shorten a consumer’s
path to your conversion.
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Path Length, cont’d
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Different conversions have
different path length
histograms
Different conversions have
different path length
histograms
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It all starts with AdWords Conversion Tracking
Once you implement Conversion Tracking,
Search Funnels reports will automatically populate
Now, with Search Funnels data, you can expect to see: The impact of search in the brand-building process T he interplay of brand and generic keywords across the search purchase funnel The impact of upper-funnel ad impressions and clicks on conversions A time and latency analysis of funnel paths *Search Funnels is a confidential beta. Please keep these slides confidential, per the AdWords Terms and Conditions (all beta participants agree to keep beta confidential)
The issue: Conversions in AdWords are attributed to the last ad clicked before the conversion. Advertisers wish to: gauge the true value of keywords by understanding how they behave in paths leading to conversion. find out whether generic, long tail keywords actually contributed to conversions occurring from a branded keyword search.
Now, with Search Funnels data, you can expect to see: The impact of search in the brand-building process T he interplay of brand and generic keywords across the search purchase funnel The impact of upper-funnel ad impressions and clicks on conversions A time and latency analysis of funnel paths *Search Funnels is a confidential beta. Please keep these slides confidential, per the AdWords Terms and Conditions (all beta participants agree to keep beta confidential)
Here you can see that Air hotel packages actually assisted – it was searched prior to the last click conversion. *Search Funnels is a confidential beta. Please keep these slides confidential, per the AdWords Terms and Conditions (all beta participants agree to keep beta confidential)
Here you can see that Air hotel packages actually assisted – it was searched prior to the last click conversion. *Search Funnels is a confidential beta. Please keep these slides confidential, per the AdWords Terms and Conditions (all beta participants agree to keep beta confidential)
These are CPA calculations. If the cost of the keyword Jetwithus is $3400 and it brings in 16,000 conversions, it ’ s cost per acquisition is $.21, which is low. Air hotel packages costs ony $155, but it only is attributed to 10 conversions, thus it ’ s CPA is $15.50. However, if you account for the fact that it assisted on 1000 conversions, then that CPA decreases. For example, you can say an assist is worth a half a conversion on average. (That ’ s a nominal figure that is up to the advertiser). For instance, say, an assist is worth half a conversion. Then air hotel packages was worth 510 conversions. At $155, that ’ s a $.30 CPA.
These are CPA calculations. If the cost of the keyword Jetwithus is $3400 and it brings in 16,000 conversions, it ’ s cost per acquisition is $.21, which is low. Air hotel packages costs ony $155, but it only is attributed to 10 conversions, thus it ’ s CPA is $15.50. However, if you account for the fact that it assisted on 1000 conversions, then that CPA decreases. For example, you can say an assist is worth a half a conversion on average. (That ’ s a nominal figure that is up to the advertiser). For instance, say, an assist is worth half a conversion. Then air hotel packages was worth 510 conversions. At $155, that ’ s a $.30 CPA.
Ads/Keywords/Campaigns that were shown and/or clicked leading up conversion You could use this report to derive hypotheses to test -- e.g. investing more in competitor keywords or adjusting creatives/landing pages to directly target comparison shoppers. Other takeaways --what ’s the branding effect of assist impressions? --is bidding for position effective? Look at assist impressions. *Search Funnel is a confidential beta. Please keep these slides confidential, per the AdWords Terms and Conditions (all beta participants agree to keep beta confidential)
Ads/Keywords/Campaigns that were shown and/or clicked leading up conversion You could use this report to derive hypotheses to test -- e.g. investing more in competitor keywords or adjusting creatives/landing pages to directly target comparison shoppers. Other takeaways --what ’s the branding effect of assist impressions? --is bidding for position effective? Look at assist impressions. *Search Funnel is a confidential beta. Please keep these slides confidential, per the AdWords Terms and Conditions (all beta participants agree to keep beta confidential)
Other takeaway: -- Average Order Values Conversions are not equally valuable and more expensive purchases may take longer to convert. The Path Length report also reports on Revenue share per path-length, which tells you whether conversions with longer paths result in higher valued orders. In order to see Revenue show up properly you need to pass conversion values into the AdWords Conversion Tracking tag. *Search Funnel is a confidential beta. Please keep these slides confidential, per the AdWords Terms and Conditions (all beta participants agree to keep beta confidential)
Here ’s a second path length, for a different conversion. You can see that each conversion’s histogram will be unique. Understanding it can help you form expectations as well as experiments when adding new keywords or doing other marketing.
Now, with Search Funnels data, you can expect to see: The impact of search in the brand-building process T he interplay of brand and generic keywords across the search purchase funnel The impact of upper-funnel ad impressions and clicks on conversions A time and latency analysis of funnel paths *Search Funnels is a confidential beta. Please keep these slides confidential, per the AdWords Terms and Conditions (all beta participants agree to keep beta confidential)