This document provides information on optimizing campaigns on the Google Display Network. It discusses setting campaign goals and measuring goals. It covers the fundamentals of the Google Display Network and products. It then details how to set up an AdWords account including campaign, ad group, and ad setup. It discusses various targeting methods like placements, interests, topics, and contextual. Finally, it covers types of optimizations including scheduling ads by day of week and hour of day as well as using negative keywords.
2. The Plan
○ The Fundamentals ○ Campaign Optimisations
○ Campaign Goals ○ Scheduling
○ Measuring Goals ○ Advanced Scheduling
○ Differences in measurement of goals ○ Time Sensitive Ads
○ Google Display Network Products ○ Days
○ Hours
○ AdWords Account
○ Creative
○ MCC Dashboard
○ AdGroups ○ Campaign Tracking
○ Google Analytics Tagging
○ Campaign Setup
○ Google Analytics Goals Creation
○ Tools
○ Google AdWords Conversion Tracking
○ Placement Targeting
○ Interest Category Targeting ○ Campaign Reporting
○ Topic Category
○ Contextual Targeting
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3. 1.0 Fundamentals
Campaign Goals
Measuring Goals
Differences in measurement of goals
Google Display Network Products
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4. Campaign goals
○ What are you trying to achieve?
Examples of business goals are:
○ N% ROI on products sold
○ N orders per month
○ $N revenue per month
○ N phone calls per month
○ N leads per month (form completions)
○ $N cost per acquisition for a new customer
○ $N cost per lead
○ N visitors per day
To know how well you are doing you need to
be able to measure it
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5. Measuring goals
○ How many goals are you completing?
○ Which of your traffic sources are
generating your conversions?
○ In AdWords you can import your
conversion data from Google Analytics
○ Or track conversions using AdWords
conversion tracker
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6. Differences in measurement of goals
Importing goals from analytics
AdWords conversion tracking Uses a 6 month cookie
Uses a 30 day cookie Works on a last click attribution
Any subsequent conversions are model
attributed to the last click Direct visits do not overwrite
previous campaign settings
Day 1, someone clicks on an ad, visits the site and does not convert
Day 3, they return organically and convert
AdWords conversion tracking records this as an AdWords conversion on day 1
Analytics records this as an organic conversion on day 3
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7. Google Ad Network
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8. Types of Targeting
Types of Targeting Definition
GDN Blast Network blast. On average, blasts can reach over 7Mil Online
Australians (f3+) in 24-48 hours.
Placement Targeting Target users on selected sites
Interest Categories Target users that have demonstrated an interest in certain web
content based on past visitation habits – topic or audience
Topic Targeting Target relevant sites based on topics you choose
Keyword Contextual Target web content that contains text relevant to your campaign
Remarketing Re-target past site visitors & convince on-the-fence customers to
convert
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9. Targeting Methods Evaluation
Objective Suggested Method
Conversions Remarketing
Reach & Traffic Topics + Keywords
Limited Reach Interest Based or Contextual
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10. Targeting Methods Evaluation
The following graph shows the theoretical ratio between impressions and clicks rate
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11. Targeting Methods Evaluation
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12. 2.0 Adwords Account
MCC Dashboard
AdGroups
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13. The Structure
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14. Campaign Setup
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15. Reasons for creating a new campaign
○ Daily budgets – to control how much a marketing are can spend
○ Location and language targeting
○ Network targeting – search vs. display
○ Device targeting – desktop, tablet, mobile
○ Bidding Type - max. CPC, enhanced CPC, conversion optimiser
○ Ad scheduling – hours running or bids
○ Start and end dates – seasonal campaigns
○ Frequency capping – display network only
○ Audience targeting – remarketing, interest categories or topics
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16. Campaign Setup
Tools
Campaign Settings
Placement Targeting
Interest Category Targeting
Topic Targeting
Contextual Targeting
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17. Placement Tool
A tool in your account that can help you find websites and other placements where you
might like your ad to appear
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18. Keyword Tool
A tool that helps you find new keyword ideas and add them to your account.
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19. Contextual Targeting Tool
The Contextual Targeting Tool automatically builds keyword lists that can be used to
show your ads on relevant webpages across the Google Display Network.
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20. Google AdWords Editor
○ Work offline on your Mac or PC.
○ Upload changes to AdWords any time.
○ Store and navigate one or more accounts.
○ Add, edit, and delete campaigns, ad groups, ads,
keywords, and placements.
○ Make large-scale changes quickly.
○ Perform advanced searches and edits.
○ Add comments for your changes.
○ Sort and view performance statistics.
○ Copy or move items between campaigns, ad
groups, and accounts.
○ Export a snapshot of your account for archiving or
sharing.
○ Import a backup or shared file and review the
proposed changes.
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22. Targeting
○ There are two different campaign settings that you can select when you opt in to the
Display Network:
○ Broad reach: Show ads on pages that match my primary targeting method
○ Specific reach: Show ads only on pages that match all my targeting methods
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23. Campaign Settings and Google Display Network settings
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24. Campaign Settings & Interest Categories
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26. Placement Targeting 1 of 6
Settings Tab
1. Go through all the necessary fields and
select the relevant option
2. Always select specific reach
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27. Placement Targeting 2 of 6
Settings Tab> Ad Group >
1. Select Image ad for GDN Ad Network
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3. Select the relevant placements, even if you missed this steps,
you can always come back to it later.
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28. Placement Targeting 3 of 6
Settings Tab> Ad Group > Ad Creation
1. Select your SWF Flash file
2. Always put the domain name
3. Include Mediamind Click Tracking
Or Google UTM URL
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29. Placement Targeting 4 of 6
Settings Tab> Ad Group > Ad Creation > Ads
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30. Placement Targeting 5 of 6
Keywords
1. Your keywords determine
the managed placements that
are good match for your ads
2. Negative keywords helps to tighten our targeting and preventing it from appearing on irrelevant sites
3. You can build your negative keywords from Ad Group level or Campaign level.
4. Campaign level negative keywords will include all ad groups keywords while negative keywords for ad
groups is more specific to the selected ad group level.
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31. Placement Targeting 6 of 6
Networks
1. Click on add placements and select the relevant sites for your campaign
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32. Brand Safety - Negative Site/Keyword/Topic
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33. Most brands don’t belong everywhere
○ GDN has a vast array of sites – some of
them not appropriate for brands
○ [Image right] gets lots of impressions on
GDN – but isn’t right for most brands
○ Negative Site List is a growing list of non-
appropriate sites
○ Negative Keywords make sure we don’t
appear next to keywords that might be
inappropriate
○ “plane crash” -> Jetstar
○ Negative Topics protect brands from
appearing next to inappropriate content
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34. Interest Category Targeting
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35. Interest Category Targeting 1 of 5
Settings
1. Go through all the necessary fields and
select the relevant option
2. Always select specific reach
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36. Interest Category Targeting 2 of 5
Settings>Ad Group
1. Name your ad group
2. Select image ad for Google Display Ad network
3. Leave Keywords & Placements blank
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37. Interest Category Targeting 3 of 5
Settings>Ad Group> Ad Creation
1. Select your SWF Flash file
2. Always put the domain name
3. Include Mediamind Click Tracking
Or Google UTM URL
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38. Interest Category Targeting 4 of 5
Settings>Ad Group> Ad Creation > Ad
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39. Interest Category Targeting 5 of 5
Audiences
1. Select the
relevant interest for
targeting
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40. Topic Targeting
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41. Topic Targeting 1 of 6
Settings
1. Go through all the necessary fields and
select the relevant option
2. Always select specific reach
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42. Topic Targeting 2 of 6
Settings> Ad Group
1. Name your ad group
2. Select image ad for Google Display Ad network
3. Leave Keywords & Placements blank
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43. Topic Targeting 3 of 6
Settings> Ad Group> Ad Creation
1. Select your SWF Flash file
2. Always put the domain name
3. Include Mediamind Click Tracking
Or Google UTM URL
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44. Topic Targeting 4 of 6
Settings> Ad Group> Ad Creation > Ad
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45. Topic Targeting 5 of 6
Settings> Ad Group> Ad Creation > Ad> Topics
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46. Topic Targeting 6 of 6
Settings> Ad Group> Ad Creation > Ad> Topics
1. Select the relevant
topics for your
campaign
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47. Contextual Targeting
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48. Contextual Targeting 1 of 6
AdWords Editor
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49. Contextual Targeting 2 of 6
Keyword Tool
1. Fill in the relevant fields
2. Select the relevant fields
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50. Contextual Targeting 3 of 6
1. Review all the results from the tool and select the appropriate group and keywords.
2. Export keywords/adgroups into excel and import it back to AdWords Editor
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51. Contextual Targeting 4 of 6
1. Click on any
campaign and
select “make
multiple changes”
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52. Contextual Targeting 5 of 6
1. Select the
relevant fields
2. Paste the
relevant fields
into the box
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53. Contextual Targeting 6 of 6
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54. Optimisations
Types of optimisations
Days of Week Advertising
Hour of the Day Advertising
Negative Keywords
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55. Types of Optimisation
○ Campaign Settings ○ Time/Day of Week
○ Pausing Ad Groups ○ Geographic
○ Expanding Ad Groups ○ Demographic Bidding*
○ Keywords
○ Negative Keywords
○ Placement exclusions
○ Category Exclusions
○ Landing Pages
○ Creative Rotation
○ Frequency Cap
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56. Day of Week Advertising
All campaigns would use ad scheduling to control when they run
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57. Hour of the Day Advertising
All campaigns would use ad scheduling to control when they run
Call centre open ads would include click to call phone details and phone extensions
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58. Negative Keywords
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59. Google Analytics Tagging
Types of optimisations
Days of Week Advertising
Hour of the Day Advertising
Negative Keywords
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60. Tagging
Types of Types of Data Example Example of Data
Tagging
Client Web Analytics Omniture, Google Analytics Time Dwell, Bounce Rate, pages consumed
Agency Adserving Mediamind/Doubleclick/ Clicks, impressions
Google AdWords
1. Why do we need to know this?
a. Tracking – To ensure we are embedding the right tags for tracking
b. De-duplication – For all acquisition focus campaign that has more than 1 supplier and have
more than $10k spend will need to build the ad tag in mediamind and send it to Google to
adserve our ad tag in their system.
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61. Google UTM URL Tagging
If the site is tagged with Google Analytics
and we are not running the campaign in
Mediamind.
It is mandatory to be tagging the URL with
Google UTM tagging
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62. UTM URL Best Practice
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63. Conversion Funnel & Goals
○ Define a funnel that leads to your conversion
○ Allows you to visitor progress towards you goal
○ You can identify common exit points
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64. REGEX | Conversion Funnel
○ You can use Regular Expressions (RegEx) to gain insight into the funnel path:
○ User exhibits behavior:
○ Page 1 = /index.html
○ Page 2 = /category-footwear.html
○ Page 3 = /category-clothing.html
○ Page 4 = /category-headwear.html
○ Page 5 = /products/kangol-tropic-player-trilby.html
○ Page 6= /cart/basketview.html
○ Page 7= /cart/registration.html
○ Page 8 = /cart/paymentoptions.html
○ Goal = /cart/salesorderconfirmation.html
○ Need to know conversion rate of categories to products to purchase:
○ Step 1: index.html
○ Step 2-4: ^/category.*/
○ Step 5: ^/products.*/
○ Step 6: ^/cart/basketview.html
○ Step 7: ^/cart/registration.html
○ Step 8 : ^/cart/paymentoptions.html
○ Goal: ^/cart/salesorderconfirmation.html
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65. Conversion Funnel
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66. Google AdWords Conversion Tracking 1 of 4
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67. Google AdWords Conversion Tracking 2 of 4
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68. Google AdWords Conversion Tracking 3 of 4
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69. Google AdWords Conversion Tracking 4 of 4
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70. Thank You.
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