4 New Features for AdWords Ecommerce Advertisers

4 New Features for AdWords Ecommerce Advertisers. Google Optimize This new product from Google will integrate with AdWords to help advertisers create and test landing pages, without needing coding skills or webmaster assistance. But in typical Google style, it will offer Optimize for free to AdWords advertisers. Create ad copy that specifically speaks to the event(s) you’re targeting like “Great Gift For Graduation!” Repeat that message on the landing page. Consider using Optimize to A/B test landing pages. Then, when you see audiences that perform better, increase the bids to boost your results or perhaps even create separate campaigns for these audiences wherein to tailor your efforts even more. Google is offering this product for free to all AdWords advertisers. Google Attribution allows you to choose from multiple attribution models — “Data-driven,” “Last click,” “First click,” “Linear,” “Time decay,” and “Position based” — and attach that model to a conversion. Better attribution, generally, is something that advertisers should get used to. Last-click attribution has many weaknesses and advertisers should, in my view, adopt more accurate models.

Author: Robert Brady / Source: Practical eCommerce

Google recently held its Marketing Next event and announced several changes to its suite of advertising-related products. In this article, I’ll address four of the changes that are important to ecommerce merchants.

Google Optimize

This new product from Google will integrate with AdWords to help advertisers create and test landing pages, without needing coding skills or webmaster assistance. Here is Google’s description:

With the Optimize and AdWords integration, you can quickly and easily create new versions of your landing pages and then apply them to any combination of AdWords campaigns, ad groups, and keywords — no coding or webmaster required.

There are multiple companies — such as Unbounce, VWO, Optimizely — that provide this service for a fee. But in typical Google style, it will offer Optimize for free to AdWords advertisers. The features on Optimize include:

A/B testing;
Native integration in Google Analytics;
Advanced targeting such as geography or user behavior;
Support for single-page web applications.

If you’ve been wanting to do more A/B testing on, for example, landing pages, but have been held back by a lack of resources, this is a good option — create landing pages in Optimize’s WYSIWYG editor, with its full activity log and preview option.

For more, see “Google Optimize: No Excuse Not to Test” and “Google Optimize: Setting Up Experiments.”

Life Events Targeting for YouTube and Gmail Ads

Life Events are targeting enhancements for YouTube and Gmail ads, for occasions such as graduations, marriages, and babies. For certain industries, such as wedding suppliers, this is very helpful. But since many of these life events could involve gifting, most ecommerce advertiser can take advantage

For advertisers looking to tap into Life Events, here are three suggestions.

Create ad copy that specifically speaks to the event(s) you’re targeting like “Great Gift For Graduation!”
Repeat that message on the landing page.
Consider using Optimize to A/B test landing pages.