Note: This article describes the use of a new grouping of conversion actions into conversion goals, and a new experience during campaign creation and conversion tracking setup. The updates are designed to improve the performance of your campaigns by keeping a strong focus on your advertising objectives.
Your campaign bidding configurations set prior to this launch have been preserved, and all existing campaigns bidding toward conversions will continue to bid toward that exact same set of conversions.
Conversion goals help you organize your conversion actions so that you can more easily optimize toward your advertising objectives. Actions that you want your customers to take, or conversion actions, are grouped together based on related categories to form these conversion goals. For example, the “Purchase” conversion goal would automatically contain all conversion actions, from purchasing online on select websites to purchasing via select apps, that fall under the “Purchase” category type.
BenefitsConversion actions are meaningful actions that your customers and potential customers can take and that you've defined as valuable to your business, such as an online purchase or phone call. These actions, measured with conversion tracking, are now grouped together and categorized under conversion goals based on the category type you select for each action. Learn how to set up a conversion action.
With conversion goals, bidding optimization is determined by which goals your campaigns bid toward—more on that below. At the conversion action level, you can decide whether or not an individual conversion action is used for bidding optimization, when the goal it's part of is used for bidding. If you’d like a “Purchase” conversion action to be used for bidding when campaigns are optimizing toward the “Purchase goal”, you can indicate that it’s a “primary” action.
Learn more about using conversion goals for conversion tracking.
Set up app conversion tracking using
Web to App Connect. Once you’ve used the Web to App Connect interface in Google Ads to set up conversion tracking and deep linking, you can provide a seamless web-to-app experience for your customers and drive on average
2 times higher conversion ratesfor ad clicks landing in your app compared to your mobile website.
This improved experience allows your customers to more easily complete their intended action, whether purchasing, signing up, or adding items to their cart. Plus, from within the Web to App Connect interface, you can track these in-app conversion actions and get recommendations on how to improve your campaign.
To get started with Web to App Connect, follow the 3 steps below:
Learn more about converting better with the Web to App Connect interface.
Conversion goal types Standard goalsConversion actions that you add are automatically grouped into conversion goals based on their conversion category type, for example, “Purchases”, “Contacts”, or “Submit lead forms”. These goals are called standard conversion goals.
You can select standard goals as goals for default bidding optimization across all campaigns in your account by making them “account-default conversion goals”. Those you haven’t chosen as account-default goals can still be used for bidding optimization in specific campaigns.
Account-default goalsThe standard conversion goals you set up as account-default goals should be the conversion goals you’d like all campaigns in your account to bid and optimize toward automatically. These are typically the most meaningful goals for your business. When you create a new campaign, all account-default goals in your account are selected for optimization by default.
To get the most out of Google AI and cross-campaign learning within the account, it's recommended that you optimize all your campaigns to meet the same set of goals. You can do this by aligning all your campaigns to the same account-default goals. When you create a new campaign, you’ll be shown your existing account-default goals to add to your campaign.
ExampleIf you have an existing account-default goal of “Purchases” that includes a variety of purchase-related conversion actions, that account-default goal is suggested as a conversion goal for the campaign you’re creating.
Note: If you have multiple standard conversion goals tracking different stages of the same conversion funnel, we recommend that you set only one of them as the account-default goal. For instance, if you’re an e-commerce shoe retailer that wants to drive more online shoe sales, it's recommended that you set "Purchase” as the account-default goal.
Custom goals (for advanced users)Custom goals are goals that you can create and add any combination of primary and secondary conversion actions. For example, you can create a custom goal with a primary conversion action from the “Purchase” conversion goal and a secondary conversion action from the “Submit Lead Form” conversion goal. You can create custom goals in your “Conversions Summary” (to view the summary in Google Ads, click "Tools" and then under “Measurement”, click "Conversions"). Note that generally, these goals are for advanced use and aren't recommended in most cases.
TipYou’re only able to bid toward one custom goal per campaign, so if you do choose to use a custom goal for a new campaign, make sure that your custom goal includes all conversion actions that you want your bidding to focus on. You can’t combine multiple custom goals for a single campaign.
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