Things to Do Before Launching a Google Ad Campaign
Are you a lost child in a busy market trying to understand the workings of the ad platform? Indeed, finding an ideal platform for investing in a marketing budget is always a tricky affair. Google Ads can be the ideal tool for boosting traffic to your business website for aspiring marketers.
You can determine the best for your business’s digital marketing by looking at the figures of the stats. The answer is undoubtedly Google! But how do you launch an ad campaign? Let us help you with that. We have set a Google Ads checklist with the help of which you can reach your prospective customers and target audiences.
Whether you’re a marketing novice or a veteran, everyone knows how Google Ads can skyrocket sales and brand awareness. If you are a marketer who wants to capitalize on the large number of searches that take place on Google daily and quickly garner attention, there’s no better way than signing up to use Google Ads.
Read our analysis of why you need to create a Google Ads account.
Checklist for Running Google Ads Campaign
1. Campaign Setup
Upon opening your account, you will be given options that will be goal-oriented. The options include:
- Sales
- Leads
- Website Traffic
- Product and Brand Consideration
- Brand Awareness and Reach
- App Promotion
You can also opt for creating campaigns without the goal guidance. The basic idea is to control your ad campaign and not let Google make decisions for you.
2. Ad Rotation
Google Ads has a customized campaign setting called Ad Rotation. It automatically rotates ads within the ad groups on the search and display networks. The platform chooses the best-performing ad or evenly rotates the ads. So the marketer can decide on which ad to emphasize.
3. Network
Typically, the Google Network is bifurcated into groups to give the marketer more control over where they would like the ad to appear. While you know your business niche, its makeup, and expectation from ad campaigns, the finite budget could limit you. Therefore, selecting the network where your ads will run or determining where the allocation of the fund should be done across the network is important. Making a decision will help your business get the maximum ROI.
4. Budget
Regardless of the kind of budget you have allocated for Google Ads, it will surely be a key factor in your business reaching its target. Therefore, it is important to be smart about expenses and leverage professional media planners and strategists. After this, you can try and test your ads to get the best of your online advertising efforts.
5. Bidding
In a bidding strategy, the marketer must determine a particular amount they can pay per thousand impressions. The higher the bid, the higher the chance that the ads will get preferred placement. Smart bidding can increase the reach of one’s budget. With CPM (cost per thousand impressions), marketers can maintain their campaign’s average CPM lower or equal to the target they have estimated. However, the prices of impressions might differ.
6. Conversion Settings & Tracking
Conversion tracking is a free tool that shows marketers how customers interact with ads. Examples include purchasing a product, signing up for a newsletter, getting in touch with the business, or downloading an app.
7. Automated Rules
Automated rules allow marketers to change their accounts automatically based on the settings and conditions they select. With this, they can modify their ad budget, status, bids, and more when those certain predetermined criteria are met.
8. Ad Schedule
An ad schedule is a feature that allows the marketer to display ads or change bids frequently. For example, if a marketer wants a maximum of 6 ads to appear daily, that can be scheduled and automated.
9. Language
Language targeting chooses the language of the prospects your brand would like to reach. Your ads will be shown to customers who use the same language for Google products on the Google Display Network (GDN).
10. Location
In Google Ads location targeting, your ads are shown to the users in your chosen geographic locations. It can be a particular country, region within a nation, a radius around a location, or location groups. Location groups range from business locations, people’s spaces of interest, or tiered demographics.
11. Audiences
When choosing who sees their ads, audience targeting will help the marketer become precise. In Google Ads Editor, marketers can download, view, and assign old audiences. Then, based on the campaign type, they can target custom combination lists, re marketing lists, life events, and interest categories.
12. Demographics & Device
With demographic targeting in Google Ads, brands can reach a particular set of potential customers who are likely to be within a specific gender, age range, parental status, or household income. On the other hand, device targeting allows brands to target ads to people based on the device they are accessing the Internet.
Final Words
When it comes to Google Ads, the playing field is quite dynamic. You’re dealing with Google’s algorithm updates, ever-changing bid prices, and new competitors. However, some principles will never change, and this checklist is a great way to take care of them.
