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Advertising on Google: The High Performance Cookbook

By : Kristina Cutura
Book Image

Advertising on Google: The High Performance Cookbook

By: Kristina Cutura

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Advertising on Google: The High Performance Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Enabling auto tagging at the account level


You are likely already using or planning to use a web analytics program to analyze your website statistics. In order to get AdWords data properly fed into your web analytics program, you should make sure to enable Auto-tagging in AdWords.

How to do it..

To enable Auto-tagging, follow these steps:

  1. Navigate to the My account tab.

  2. Choose the Preferences sub tab.

  3. Make sure that the Auto-tagging checkbox is selected.

  4. Click on Save changes.

How it works...

Auto-tagging is a feature that helps you analyze performance in other analytics tracking programs, such as Google Analytics, by adding extra parameters to your URLs. For example, you'll be able to see in Google Analytics which campaigns, keywords, and ads led to visits, as well as the associated cost data.

There's more...

You can also choose to tag your keywords and ads manually by adding URL parameters that are compatible with your analytics tracking tool. You'll need to make sure to tag all of your ads and...