To automatically track clicks from Google Ads within your A1WebStats account, you will need to modify your setup within your Google Ads account.
This will allow you to see all visitors from Google Ads, sometimes including the identifiable company they came from, and also the keyword phrase that brought them in. Below you can see an example of this.
This may be set up by you directly or passed onto those who manage your Google Ads for you.
There are two ways to do this:
- The quick and easy method (covered within this page).
- The slower but more beneficial method, which allows you to see more of the Google Ads clicks and analyse them at a granular level, including which ad creative resulted in better quality traffic.
If you are new to A1WebStats and don’t need the granular level analysis at this stage, the setup on this page will be right for you. You can add on the other method of setup at a later stage, if you choose to dig deeper into what you are gaining from your Google Ads clicks.
Video
This video takes you through the basic setup step by step …
Those steps are also displayed below …
Step 1
Within your Adwords, click into one of your campaigns and then click on Settings, which will bring up the Settings view for that campaign.
Step 2
Click on Additional settings.
Step 3
Click on Campaign URL options.
Step 4
Within the Tracking template field enter: {lpurl}?keyword={keyword}&medium=ppc&network={network}
Then click on Save to save your changes.
Don’t put in any of the custom parameters unless you have them already in your Adwords campaign.
Step 5
Leave it for a day (you can do this faster if you have regular PPC traffic and want to watch for your new visitors) and then look at your A1WebStats data for the time after you made the change, focusing on Adwords visitors.
You should see that it’s all tracking fine.
If it’s not, then contact us and we’ll be happy to help. If it’s all fine then you can repeat the steps for each Adwords campaign you’ve got (if you started with just one as a test).
After setup
This page shows you how to analyse return on investment from Google Ads after you have completed the set up and have allowed time to accumulate clicks to then analyse.
The upside to this method of Google Ads tracking
Quick to set up – 2 minutes maximum
The downsides to this method of Google Ads tracking
- May not track ALL your Google Ads clicks. This is because people access Google Ads in different ways and in some cases the easy method of tracking can’t pick up that those clicks came from Google Ads. Therefore, there may be some differences in the number of clicks you see within Google Ads, compared to those you see within A1WebStats.
- Doesn’t allow you to dig into detailed level analysis. Although you will be able to see all the clicks from Google Ads, you won’t be able to easily track individual ad groups. For example, you may want to see the impact of one advert over another, including how those people then went on to engage with pages within your website.
The solution to both the above downsides is to use the more advanced method of tracking.