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Google Ads Performance Max Campaigns Best Practices

Google Ads Performance Max Campaigns Best Practices
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Hello, Google Ads have just announced the latest campaign, the Performance Max campaign. So, in this video, I am going to go through as to what this the campaign is and how does it work? Hello and welcome to this video. My name is Uzair and thanks for joining in. If you haven't subscribed to our channel and hit the bell notification button yet, then please do so as we upload videos on a very regular basis and you'll be one of the first one to be notified when we do launch upload a new content.

Okay, so just last week, Google announced at the Google Marketing Live, the annual conference and event about this new type of campaign called the Performance Max campaign. So, let's go through as to what this is all about and how can it help you as an advertiser? So, at the moment, not everybody has got access to the to this campaign.

So, if you don't see this in your account, it will eventually start to show up. It is being rolled out. So, right now, it is in Beta and is expanding to more advertisers. If your primary objective is to generate leads or to drive online sales without using the Google Merchant product feed. Now, this is quite interesting because a lot of people do struggle with the merchant center and for for the Ecommerce stores.

So, this will be quite interesting and intriguing to see how this works but for lead generation, again, it's all it's basically it's all good news all around or if you don't have this in your account at the moment. So, please reach out to your account team at Google to see if you would like to join the beta.

So, what this is Performance Max is a new goal the based campaign that is types that allows advertisers to access all of Google Ads. Inventory from a single campaign is designed to compliment your keyword based search campaigns to help you find more converting customers across all the other channels. Youtube display, search, discover Emails, and maps. So, that is pretty powerful is going to simplify a lot of the things and it'll help you find the right customer across all these channels.

So, I am quite pleased to see that this is happening and how it's going to actually work once we do get access to it. So, Performance Max helps you drive performance based on your specified goal conversions delivering more conversions and value by optimizing performance in real time across channels using smart bidding. Okay, direct automation by entering your specific marketing goals.

For For example, if you have a Target CPA, or a Target ROAS and adding creative assets, audience signals, and optional data fees. Performance Max then combines Google's automation technologies across bidding, budget optimization, audiences, creatives, contributions, and more. So, it is going to do a lot more. It's pretty much going to do everything. So, it looks like, well, it doesn't It is a kind of a campaign where you can run YouTube display search, discover Gmail, and maps all in one.

So, you don't need to create additional Campaigns. That's what I think and that's what it looks like. Okay, so you have your campaign objectives like you do normally. Okay, let's see the benefits. Unlock new audiences across Google's channels and network. Try better performance against your goals, get more transparent insights, steer automation, okay, simplify campaign management. This is huge.

This is going to be very good for a lot of advertisers where it's just going to simplify everything for them and optimize their ads. So, it's going to find more converting customers, drive more value, acquire rich insights. I'm not going to read all of this. I'll put the link of this URL under this video in the description.

So you can go and read this. all of it. Okay. When to use it. Yeah. So, the best option is you have specific advertising and conversion goals. okay, Which we all have. You want to maximize the performance of your campaign and are not limited by which channel your ads appear on. You want to easily access all of Google's advertising channels using a single campaign. that is huge.

That is really, really great. Yeah, I'm quite excited about this how it's going to actually work. I'm not sure how the metrics we can see all the different ones in one campaign but if Google thinks that it can do it, then it can because we usually don't have the search campaign with the display or the video. We all have different Campaigns for these because the CTR and the conversion rate cost per conversions can be different on all these channels.

So, how it all work under one campaign Let's see how how it works out. To get additional reach and conversion value-based beyond keyword based search campaign. So, this is obviously taking into account you're other additional signals and audiences and a lot of these automations where Google knows who is likely to convert. So, it's not just a basic keyword based search campaign.

Okay, so, automation uses machine learning to grow your business, your unique expertise, Performance Max uses machine learning models to optimize bids and placements to drive conversions or conversion value for your goals but you provide important inputs like the audience signals including your customer data and high quality. Now, the customer data is the customer match and what the way it used to be is you can only upload your customer match if you had a minimum spend of $50000 in the account but now, they had relaxed that rule and more and more accounts can upload the customer match list or the customer Email list into Google Ads and you can target them So, that's what they mean by including your customer data, high quality text images, and videos that can significantly improve your campaign performance.

You can also, provide important inputs about what types of conversions are most valuable to your business by applying conversion values and setting value rules. Okay, so that's that's it. It looks very interesting. I quite like it and see how it works actually. So, that's it for this video. Thank you so much for being here and I look forward to seeing you in the next one.

Bye for now.

First things first, what is Google Ads Performance Max?

It is a brand new campaign type within the Google Ads platform that enhances your brand performance across all the Google inventory, using machine learning.

Since it uses machine learning, you provide the assets and your marketing goals and Performance Max will do the rest for you, calculating the best times to boost ads towards the right audience for you. After providing Google Ads with your asset bank, Google’s Smart Bidding will start to process across multiple platforms, based on your goals.

What are the main benefits of using Performance Max Campaigns?

  1. More focus time on strategy

Since Google Ads does all the hard work for your campaign, you’re free to use that time on other ad planning and optimisation, like improving and making more creative assets.

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  1. Better performance

Performance Max uses the best machine learning and attribution technology to find your audience and customers at the right time with the best ad for them, increasing your campaign performance.

  1. Goal-focused campaign

Google Ads Performance Max puts your marketing goals to the forefront of your campaign as the main performance target. So based on your specific goals, Google Ads machine learning will find the right customers for you.

Performance Max Campaigns

How to use Google Ads Performance Max Campaigns:

  1. Launch your Google Ads Campaign, When creating a Performance Max campaign, you need to decide what your marketing objective is; ‘Sales’, ‘Leads’ or ‘Local store visits and promotions’.
  2. Select the settings for your campaign and upload your creative assets
  3. Select the goals that Google Ads Performance Max should target

Keep your goals within Performance Max the same as you’re other Google Ads campaigns as it will be easier to compare performances between them. Google Ads Performance Max will automatically maximise conversion volume within your goals unless you state that one goal is more important than the others.

Other features Google Ads Performance Max Campaigns has:

  1. URL Expansion:

In simple terms, this feature selects the right landing page for your goal, with the customer intent in mind.

Google Ads Performance Max is created and designed to push forward maximum performance (it’s in the name) and uses this URL expansion feature to pick the most effective landing page for your audience.

  1. Asset Group & Ad Strength

This is where all your creative assets come in, from images to video, Performance Max will assemble them so they fit your customers and your specific campaign goals.

Here is a checklist of best practices so you can keep your campaign running fully optimized:

  • Use as many assets as possible
    • Five versions of text assets
    • Five versions of image assets
  • Run the duration of the campaign for at least 6 weeks for enough data to compare
Uzair Kharawala

Written by Uzair Kharawala

Partner at SF Digital Studios, a Google Premier Partner agency. Uzair has been helping businesses grow with Google Ads since 2002 and teaches it every week on YouTube.

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