About campaign management in Search, Social, & Commerce
Search, Social, & Commerce allows you to track and/or manage your search, display/content, social, shopping, audience, and performance max campaigns in one place. Depending on the ad network and campaign type, the available functionality may include synchronization with your ad networks, create and edit abilities, tracking and conversion attribution, reporting, and bid and budget optimization. For details about the functionality available for each ad network, see 鈥Supported Inventory.鈥
As you add and edit campaign data in the Campaigns views, Search, Social, & Commerce immediately pushes the data changes to the ad network. Search, Social, & Commerce also pulls campaign structure data and click data from synced ad network accounts once a day (or more often when new campaigns are detected) and on demand as requested.
Setting up access to your ad network accounts
To track the performance of ads in an advertiser鈥檚 ad network account (and to potentially place bids for the ads), the 蜜豆视频 Account Team creates a corresponding account record in Search, Social, & Commerce. The account record includes tracking options.
For accounts that are synchronized via the ad network鈥檚 API, the account record also includes the account access credentials. Once the account is enabled, the account data is pulled from with the ad network. You can then view the existing account data as well as create and edit campaign structure and ad data.
Click tracking to tie clicks to conversions
If you use the 蜜豆视频 Advertising conversion tracking service, then you must include Search, Social, & Commerce click-tracking code in the landing page suffix, tracking templates, and final/destination URLs for ads, keywords, and placements, sitelinks and product listings. For supported ad networks and campaign types whose campaign settings include 鈥淓F Redirect鈥 and 鈥淎uto Upload,鈥 Search, Social, & Commerce automatically appends its own redirect and tracking code when you save the record, so you don鈥檛 need to manually add it. Otherwise, you must manually add the code to your tracking templates or final URLs.
For more information about tracking, see the chapter on 鈥淭racking.鈥
Automating bidding and budget management
For supported ad networks and campaign types, you can group your campaigns into portfolios, each with a specific business objective and a specific budget or performance target. In standard portfolios, Search, Social, & Commerce optimizes CPC keyword bids and campaign budgets. Hybrid portfolios combine optimization technologies from Search, Social, & Commerce and your ad networks.
For more information about the available portfolio options and how to set up portfolios, see Optimization Guide chapter on 鈥淧ortfolios,鈥 which is available from within Search, Social, & Commerce.
The campaign management views
The campaign management views allow you to monitor and manage your search accounts. The following views are available:
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Campaigns 鈥 The Campaigns views show data from each connected ad network account. You can view cost, click, impression, and revenue data across all ad network accounts and across individual accounts, campaigns, ad groups, keywords, ads, shopping product groups, placements, auto targets (dynamic search targets), audiences, and ad extension libraries and their associated account entities. For supported campaign types on supported ad networks, you can create and edit data for individual campaigns and campaign components directly in the interface. You can optionally export the data in most subviews to a spreadsheet file.
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Products 鈥 The Products views show data for each Google or Microsoft merchant center account that鈥檚 synced. The default Accounts subview lists all synced accounts; some user types can add new accounts from this view. The Products subview lists each product within the account.
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Advanced (ACM) 鈥 From the Advanced (AMC, for Advanced Campaign Management) view, you can set up automated processes to create dynamic ads and keywords targeted to each item in your inventory according to an ad network-specific ad template you create and the contents of Google Merchant Center accounts or inventory data files you upload to an FTP location. Subviews show details about each feed template for the advertiser and each campaign, ad group, keyword, and ad included in a feed that was propagated through a feed template but not posted to the ad network.
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Bulksheets 鈥 Use the Bulksheets view to create bulksheet files containing as much data as you want for an account on a supported ad network, and then post them to the ad network.
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Audiences 鈥 The Audiences views lists all of your Google Ads and Microsoft Advertising audiences generated from various types of user lists. You can create Google Ads audiences from your existing 蜜豆视频 Experience Cloud audiences and your customer email lists. You can also view and manage audience targets and exclusions for your Google Ads and Microsoft Advertising ads.
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Label Classifications 鈥 Use this view to create and delete label classifications, which can help you group your labels into meaningful sets.