How can google ads utilize conversion events from google analytics?

Why Bother With Conversion Tracking?

By utilizing conversion tracking in Google Ads, you’re able to see and measure the user journey from the moment they click on your ad to when they complete an action on-site, such as signing up for your newsletter or donating. It may be a couple of extra steps, but we promise the data you’ll receive will help you make more strategic decisions to drive impact for your organization.

In order to set up Google Ads Conversion Tracking, you’ll need 2 things:

• A Google Ads Account. Yes, you can (and should) set up conversion tracking if your a nonprofit using a Google Ad Grant account.
• A website

A brief note before moving forward. We highly recommend linking your Google Ads to your Google Analytics account. If you already have goals configured in Google Analytics, you can easily import them into your Google Ads account. The following steps apply only if you are a creating new conversion not already configured as a goal in Google Analytics.

How to Create a Conversion in Google Ads

1. Sign in to your Google Ads Account
   • In the top gray bar, click “Tools” → “Conversions”

1. Click the blue plus “+” icon to add a new conversion. There are several types of conversions you can track, including Website, App, and Phone Calls. Additionally, you can upload your own conversions from a third-party source, such as Google Analytics. The most common conversions we track are on websites, so we’ll continue with that option for the purpose of this tutorial.

1. Fill in the information for the conversion you want to track. Suppose we want to track newsletter signups on our website. For Category, we’d choose “Sign-up”

1. Name: We can name our conversion “Newsletter sign-up.”

1. Value: You then have the option to enter a monetary value for your conversion if you know exactly what one conversion is worth to your organization. If you already have ecommerce tracking set up in Google Analytics, you have a good idea of what these values are. You also have the option to not add a value.

1. Count: We would choose “One” in our example, since we wouldn’t want the same person signing up twice for our newsletter to be counted as two seperate conversions.

1. Conversion Window and View Through Conversion Window: A conversion window allows you to tell Google how long to track a conversion after someone clicks on your ad. The default is 30 days, which is recommended, but you can learn more about conversion windows and chose what’s best for your situation. View-through conversions are similar to conversion windows, but are specifically for ads on the Google Display Network

1. Include in Conversions: You’ll want to check this box if you plan on optimizing your Ads campaigns for this specific conversion using Google’s smart bidding strategies like Target ROAS, Target CPA, and ECPC.

How to Set Up the Conversion Tracking Tag

Once you create a conversion in Google Ads, you’ll receive a snippet of code, called a tag, that you need to deploy on your website in order to start tracking conversions. There are two options to do this: You can install the tag yourself, or you can deploy it using Google Tag Manager.

Option 1: Install the conversion tag yourself

Here are the full instructions if you want to DIY it (or send to your developer).

Option 2: Install Using Google Tag Manager (Recommended)

1. Copy the Conversion Label and Conversion ID given to you when you create your conversion event in Google Ads.

1. Watch this quick, 3-minute tutorial to learn how to use Google Tag Manager (GTM) to deploy Google Ads conversion tags,

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