Author: Rocco Baldassarre / Source: Entrepreneur A big recent change to Google AdWords will dramatically change the way you optimize your
A big recent change to Google AdWords will dramatically change the way you optimize your campaigns. Specifically, the change is impacting view-through conversions (VTC). This may seem like an overly technical thing that most Google advertisers may have never even heard of, but it is actually something useful for campaigns of all sizes. We all know what a conversion is. People buy something on your website or fill out a form — Google AdWords sees that as a conversion.
For the sake of making this simple, every conversion is a product purchase. View-through conversions are nearly the same as a regular conversion except that right before buying, people saw an ad, didn’t click on it but bought the product anyway. In other words, with VTC, people buy after seeing an ad but not clicking on it. That’s the main difference between a VTC and a regular conversion. In regular conversions, a click is a necessary for it to count.
VTCs have existed for a long time on Google. What has changed is the time window that Google uses to track between people viewing and people buying. Up until March 29, 2017, Google would tell you if there was a VTC for up to 30 days. It’s now been reduced to one day.
For example, let’s say you Google “fuzzy socks” and click on a www.fuzzysocks.com ad, but you don’t feel like buying anything. Then, you go to another website and see the remarketing campaign for fuzzy socks and decide you need them and can’t live without them. You go to www.fuzzysocks.com and purchase the socks. That counts as a conversion.
Then there is this scenerio. You Google “fuzzy socks” and click on a www.fuzzysocks.com ad, but you don’t feel like buying anything. You go to another website,…
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