Google Shopping campaigns are a brilliant way to gain more visibility alongside your search campaigns and demonstrate your product range to potential customers.
Conversion rates on Shopping campaigns tend to be higher than that of search as the price, description and an image are all visible to the searcher before the ad is even clicked. As the user is presented with much more valuable information pre-click the traffic quality is higher, therefore increasing conversion rate.
Whilst an increased conversion rate generally translates to a higher ROI, there are a number of important areas that need to be optimised effectively to make the most of your Google Shopping campaigns, particularly around big holiday shopping days like Black Friday.
Your feed contains all of the information about your product range, including landing pages, images, prices, shipping details, brand information and much more. This feed is then uploaded into your Merchant Centre account, which then links the information through to AdWords to populate your Shopping campaigns.
It is essential that your shopping feed adheres to Google best practices as this can have a huge impact on how many of your products will return in search results and how prominent they are. Below are the required attributes that every shopping feed must contain:
Depending on your industry there will be a number of other required attributes, but these are required for every feed.
Once your feed is uploaded into the Merchant Centre you will be able to view the diagnostics and highlight any problems with the products in your feed to ensure they will show. It’s important to ensure the feed you have uploaded has as high a percentage of approved products as possible to ensure that your feed has a high quality score:
Once you have all the attributes added, it’s important to optimise key elements to increase click-through rate and relevancy. The title of your product should contain the most relevant information to the searcher and display this according to priority. For example, clothes should specify the brand, gender, item type, colour, size and material.
Old title – Blue t-shirt
Optimised title – Gap Women’s t-shirt, blue, size 10, cotton
Once your data is uploaded into your shopping feed and is being pulled into AdWords, it’s important to ensure your Shopping campaign set-up allows you to effectively allocate budget and optimise your bidding strategy to manage campaigns effectively.
One incredibly effective strategy is to split out your highest revenue products into their own campaign so you can assign a separate budget and ensure they reach the maximum level of visibility possible.
You can then manage your bids against benchmarks to improve your impression share and increase visibility of your products.
In order to increase the visibility of your ads make sure you are using a promotion in them, as this will increase the size of your listing and increase both engagement and click-through rates on your ad.
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After joining Vertical Leap in May 2019, Carl has managed SEO for small business clients, helping them achieve rapid business growth. He has also contributed to a wide range of Enterprise level SEO campaigns. In his spare time he enjoys chess, acting with a local drama group, and watching Doctor Who with his young son.
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