III. Start advertising
The remaining thing to do is to launch a campaign in Google Ads.
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In your Google Ads dashboard, click the New Campaign button.
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Select the campaign goal.
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Select a campaign type.
- Provide your direct tracking URL as your business's website. Do not include any tracking parameters at this point, provide the plain URL:
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Click the Continue button.
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Provide all required information for the selected campaign goal and type. This information include:
- Campaign budget.
- Bid.
- Targeting.
- Keywords.
- Ad title, images and description.
- Save your campaign by clicking the Save button.
- Once you have saved your campaign, go to this campaign's details.
- Go to Settings.
- Click the Campaign URL options.
https://my_lander.com/?cpid=976d4dc5-d4d3-4881-aaf7-a9272fa3112e&gclid={gclid}&campaigid={campaignid}
cpid=976d4dc5-d4d3-4881-aaf7-a9272fa3112e&gclid={gclid}&campaigid={campaignid}
Paste the part of the direct tracking URL that you have copied from Voluum that starts after the
?
character in the Final URL suffix text field.Example:
The complete direct tracking URL that you have copied from Voluum should look like this:
The following part of the above URL should be pasted in the Final URL suffix text field:
- Click the Save button.
Now your campaign is pending approval. Once it is approved, traffic will start flowing.
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(Optional) Set Up Passing Conversion From Voluum to Google
If you want to pass conversion information from Voluum to Google, you need to do the following:
1. Create a conversion action in Google Ads:
- In Google Ads, click the Tools button.
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Select the Conversions option.
- Click the button to add a new conversion action.
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Select the Import type of conversion and then the Other data sources or CRMs / Track conversions from clicks option and click the CONTINUE button.
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Provide all required information about a conversion action in the Create an action view, including the name of the conversion action, and click the Create and continue button.
Voluum Note: Keep in mind than the name of your conversion cannot contain spaces. So instead of the name "Book purchase", type "Book_purchase".
- You do not need to set up a conversion event in Google Ads any further.
2. Generate a postback URL in Voluum
- In Voluum, click the button to go to the Settings page.
- Go to the Integrations tab.
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In the TRAFFIC SOURCE INTEGRATIONS section, click the Generate button next to the Google integration.
- Provide the name of the conversion action that you have created in Google Ads in the Type in Google Conversion Action text field.
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Click the Generate postback URL button.
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Click the Copy button to copy the URL to the clipboard.
3. Submit a postback URL into your traffic source setup in Voluum
- In Voluum, go to the Traffic sources tab.
- Edit the Google Ads traffic source element.
- Paste the postback URL from the clipboard in the Traffic source postback URL text field.
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Click the Save button.
You have successfully configured reporting conversions to Google Ads.
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