Google has just revealed their future plans for AdWords in a
video livestream. Some of these changes are big, meaning they are also
(probably) important.
Before we go on though, I must ask you a crucial question:
what does Google think is the key to getting your advert out to your consumers?
I know…you are thinking Mobile?
Well, if you said mobile, you have four options:
If you said, ‘It’s about connecting people to content with
whatever device they’re using right now to the content they want now,’ take the
rest of the day off. You’re allowed, I have already cleared it with your boss.
The new buzzword on the market is connecting.
Say that at parties and everyone will think you know more
than you do. People will probably even buy you free drinks. Please remember to
drink responsibly – You. Are. Gonna. Get. Hammered.
Gonna Get Hammered
Oh ya, here are the 3 main things that Google will be
rolling out in AdWords over the next few months:
1. App Specific ads
Google calls this ‘Innovative Ads’ but really they just want
to help app promoters advertise their apps because that’s where loads of dosh
is at the moment.
The sequence for app advertisers is:
Awareness > Install > Engagement > Conversions ie. Monetization
60% of apps are never installed and 80% of apps are only
fiddled about with once.
Look at your phone. Are you one of the 80%? If you are, buy
some pink and green socks tomorrow so you can be unique again.
Purple and Pink Socks
Google wants to help app advertisers increase installations
and engagement. They’re going to do this by having:
a) App keyword suggestions – there will now be ‘app ads’
which recommend a relevant app based on what you’re searching for. Google
thinks hotel apps are a particularly relevant example.
App Keyword Suggestions
b) Ads inside apps - based on what apps you have already
downloaded /what you have been searching for/what you had for supper last
Tuesday.
c) Ads that deep link inside an app. Eg. ‘Doner kebab
sellers near me’ in a HungryHouse app.
Ads inside ads kebab
2. Insightful Reporting
Google has very helpfully carried out some case studies
which tell us that ‘yes, online desktop purchases have originated from mobile’
and ‘yes, people who originate from a mobile advert spend more in an online
store or even a physical store’.
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Thanks guys! That means we can see the effect that our
mobile ads are having on end conversions and bid MORE so our ‘effective’ ads
are showing more often.
In summary, Google is trying to close the loop from online
to offline and make another $23,834,091 billion in the process.
3. Intelligent Tools
There are 4 main functions that Google are bringing to us:
1) For people who can’t change their own bidding, the
tongue-in-cheekily named ‘intelligent tool’ offers new goals for automated
bidding.
They’ll introduce ‘max conversions’ and ‘max revenue’. Sure,
Google will help you sell more pink and green socks at your online shop but at
a £54 cost.
AdWords stream screenshot
b) Do you get annoyed having to export AdWords data and manipulate
the numbers in Excel?
No? It doesn’t matter. Google still wants to trample all
over Excel and offer exciting reporting possibilities within Adwords.
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What is kind of cool, is that all the data can be
manipulated live. So, you will never have an excuse that your info is old and
your account ‘should be doing much better now’. Also, Google lets us have some
pretty colours and graphs to spend our time on.
c) Bulk Changes
No need to mess around with Editor if you want to make some
large-scale campaign changes. You will soon be able to do it within AdWords.
Maybe Excel and Editor can have a farewell party together?
d) ‘Drafts and Experiments’
If you want to change your bids from £0.35 to £45 and are
scared at what will happen, don’t worry as the new tool makes it easier to find
out. A kind of ‘shopping cart’ for Adwords changes, you can carry out some
experiments and test with a certain % of your total traffic to see what will
happen. Personally, I’d opt for £55, call me reckless.
All of these changes are coming to a screen near you soon,
but in the meantime let me share with you something new you can see today.
1. Go to the Keyword Planner
2. Get some ideas for keywords of your choosing. I like
‘secret rum punch recipes you can sip at work and no-one will know you’re
drinking rum’.
What do you notice?
google analytics trends over seasons
Exactly! New reporting graphs which show us trends on
seasonality, devices and location. A welcome visual encapsulation for when my
eyes go all blurry from too many stats.
So now you’re fully up-to-date with the latest Google goings
on. Use the information for good not evil. And enjoy the ever evolving Google
landscape!
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