In Google Ads, actions that you want your customers to take, or conversion actions, are grouped together into conversion goals. For example, the “Purchase” conversion goal contains all your conversion actions in which customers make a purchase.
For your goal, you want to select which conversion actions should be used for bidding optimization and included in your reporting. Those key actions are called “primary conversion actions”. Possible conversion actions that are not directly used for campaign optimization are called “secondary”. Most conversion actions can be set to either primary or secondary, but some conversion actions aren't able to be set as primary or secondary.
When you set up conversion tracking, you will be selecting primary and secondary conversion actions that support a defined goal:
This article defines primary and secondary conversion actions and how to use them.
Example
You may have a standard goal called “purchases” that's applied by default to campaigns in your account. Within your “purchases” goal you may have two conversion actions: a “subscription” conversion action that you’ve marked as primary and a “one-time purchase” conversion action that you’ve marked as secondary. The primary action will be reported in the “Conversions” column and used for bidding in all campaigns that use your “purchases” goal whereas the secondary action will be used for observation only.
If you decide to create a custom goal and add your “one-time purchase” conversion action to it, then the “one-time purchase” action will automatically be used for reporting and bidding in any campaign that uses your custom goal, even though it's marked as secondary.
Note: Conversion actions included in a
custom goalare used for reporting and bidding regardless of whether they’re set as “primary” or “secondary” actions.
How to update the primary and secondary setting for a conversion actionNote: You can't edit the goal category and action optimization of Google Analytics conversions through the Google Analytics interface. These settings can only be updated in Google Ads. Conversion-related updates made through the Google Analytics interface will only appear in the "Change history" page of Google Ads.
How to set up app conversion trackingSet 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 rates for 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.
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