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Disable Auto-Apply Ad Suggestions in Adwords

turn off auto apply adwords suggestionsDisable Auto Acceptance of Suggestions in Adwords with the below steps:

  1. Go to Settings
  2. Select the Account tab
  3. Choose the Don’t Automatically Apply

Opt out of auto accept adwords suggestions

MCC /Agency Accounts can use the below form to opt out en masse:

https://services.google.com/fb/forms/adsuggestionsmccoptoutform/

Late last year Google adwords accounts have begun to default to “accept” Google’s Suggestions after 14 days. They describe this as the “ideal setting for most advertisers” and actively discourage opting out of it.

The Suggestions in adwords are fine, and by all means may be valuable, but allowing them to auto apply relinquishes a significant amount of control of factors that influence your budget and ROI.

Ultimately, all advertising platforms have an interest in advertisers spending larger budgets. This doesn’t mean you need to discard all Suggestions, but it’s enough to make not accepting them your default starting point as an advertiser:

 

 

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Track Email Campaign with Analytics URL Builder

You will always want to evaluate each and every campaign that you run and separate data based on your efforts and different avenues in order to reach conclusions.

Email campaigns are no different. We tyipcally use Analytics URL Paramaters via the Analytics URL Builder Tool to tag our email efforts.

Step 1: Visit Google Analytics URL Builder

Go to https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/1033867?hl=en

Step 2: Enter Info into Form

– Enter Landing Page
– Enter campaign Source
– Enter Medium
– Enter Term
– Enter Content
– Enter Name

Analytics URL Builder Form

Step 3: Copy URL

Copy URL from below form

Copy URL from Form

Step 4: Paste into Email Marketing Campaign as Link

Paste your URL Builder link into your email

Paste Link

Step 5: Test Link and Send out

Step 6: Evaluate Data in Google Analytics

Video Transcription:

Hey everybody. It’s Ori from Astral Web. Just wanted to talk about something that has come up lately with our clients. The issue is tracking email marketing campaigns, newsletters, email reachouts. When you send out emails to your customers, clients, whomever it is, you want to track that your specific emails are getting clicks to your website so you actually know your campaign is doing good. Aside from open rates, you want to know that they’re coming to your website and converted. And if you’re going to include a simple links such as www.example.com, you won’t see where it came from, which newsletter if came from, if it was a direct visit from a yahoo mail, etc. So what you want to do is track what you are doing. Go to google analytics url builder and all you have to do is fill out all fields with asterisk and associate it in your email campaign. You’ll be able to track a lot of information and it’ll give you so much more. I
ll so you how to use it quickly. Type in website url the url. Now the source for email newsletter can be newsletter1. and the medium would be email and campaign terms and content is more for ppc and adwords. Now let’s go to name, emailweekend. And all you do is click on submit and you copy this url and paste it in your email link, not just www.domain.com. On last thing before you move forward is to test url’s in email because some sites do not handle this correctly as they process php for example in a different way. You don’t want your web pages to break. Always test. Hope you enjoyed this video. Thanks!