Extend your Google Ads setup beyond app campaigns

This article guides you through setting up and optimizing Google Ads campaign types beyond app-focused campaigns, expanding your reach across various marketing goals.

Measure Google Ads web-to-app campaigns

Google Ads might not claim attribution for certain users in web-to-app campaigns. In this case, we recommend that you generate Adjust links to use in Google Ads web-to-app campaigns so that Adjust can leverage them for attribution.

Follow these steps when you run Google Ads web-to-app campaigns:

1. Enable the Google Ads SAN integration.
2. Set up the final URL in Google Ads.
3. Based on the type of Google Ads web-to-app campaign that you're running, create link URLs for each of the following partners:

1. Use the Adjust link URL as the Tracking Template in the Google Ads web campaign dashboard. This is not mandatory, but we recommend doing it.

Once a user clicks your ad, the user is sent to the Final URL with the Final URL Suffix. If the user's browser supports parallel tracking, the URL is loaded and a click to the Tracking Template is fired.

If parallel tracking is not supported, Google uses sequential measurement and sends the user to the Tracking Template. Adjust then redirects the user to the Final URL.

1. Your data is available in Datascape and is reported under the network name of the link.

Measure Google Ads re-engagement campaigns

Google Ads re-engagement campaigns allow you to target your pre-existing users with personalized incentives to return to your app.

Requirement

For Adjust to measure any Google remarketing campaigns, you must enable deep linking within the Adjust SDK. Developer instructions are listed below:

• iOS
• Android

Google Ads re-engagement campaigns allow you to target your pre-existing users with personalized incentives to return to your app. To set up an official remarketing campaign on Ads, follow these steps.

1. In the Google Ads dashboard, insert your raw deep link into the Ads Remarketing Campaign.
   • You do not need to add Adjust parameters to a raw deep link when using the Google Ads API.
2. Confirm that you've enabled event linking for Google Ads in Campaign Lab.

For iOS and GDN campaigns, you do not have to use the official Google Ads remarketing campaign setup. Instead, you can append a deep link parameter to your Adjust link URL within the Ads Tracking Template field. This lets Adjust measure reattributions and perform deferred deep linking.

Example:

https://app.adjust.com/f0ob4r?lpurl={lpurl}&campaign={campaignid}&adgroup={creative}&creative={placement}&google_network={network}&google_placement={placement&deep_link=myapp%3A%2F%2Fproduct1

As a reminder, for iOS version 9 and higher, you need to implement universal linking within your app.

Since Adjust automatically syncs and queries Google Ads for user re-engagement, all re-engagement campaigns will display under separate campaign sources in Adjust.

Once a user is re-engaged, all of their subsequent activity is associated with their most recent source of attribution.

Measure campaigns using Google Ads App Asset

To manually create your Adjust link URLs for any Google Ad App Asset campaigns, follow these steps.

1. Under Campaign Lab, select Partners.
2. Select New partner.
3. In the Partner selection screen, choose one of the following options:
   • Google Ads App Asset (Search): For your Search campaigns. Using these campaigns can make your ads appear on Google search results and search sites using relevant keywords.
   • Google Ads App Asset (PMax, Local, Smart):
     • Performance Max campaigns: Allows you to access your Google Ads inventory from a single campaign.
     • Local campaigns: Recommended for referring your potential customers to your local stores.
     • Smart campaigns: Use to measure performance and see results based on your campaign goal.

1. In the App selection screen, choose the app for which you want to create the link.
2. In the Link structure screen, review the default link structure parameters provided by the network, and click Quick create.
3. Implement your link URLs through the Google Ads App Asset UI.
4. Once your newly created link URLs are live, all relevant campaign information will appear in Adjust.

Measure campaigns with Google Marketing Platform

With Adjust’s Google Marketing Platform integration, you can measure the performance of your marketing efforts on Display & Video 360 and Campaign Manager 360. For more information, see setting up campaigns via the Google Marketing platform.

Record Google organic search

Requirements

• Adjust SDK 4.27 or later configured to always send the install referrer.

Google allows mobile users to download apps directly from a Google search. This means that when a search is made from a mobile device, the results can include icons for relevant mobile apps. When a user clicks an app icon, they are redirected to the Google Play Store to download the app. In Adjust, these installs are recorded as Google organic search and do not count towards your included attributions.

All installs attributed to Google's organic search will display search keywords at the Campaign level (sublevel 1).

Adjust can record up to 100,000 search terms for your app, and all keywords can be included in your Adjust install and reattribution callbacks using the {search_term} placeholder. This placeholder will be filled with the search query used by the device immediately before clicking on the download link.