The New Year has heralded lots of digital changes already – the pace of which has never been so fast. With Google announcing new updates on everything from AdWords to Analytics, we have put together a summary of the key stories from January. And if you’re considering using Snapchat to reach new audiences, our blog article should help you to understand how it works for your property, and what the options are.
This blog article from Kate O’Flynn, one of our digital team experts, outlines all that you need to know and includes some examples. For further queries please contact your Digital Strategy Manager or email digital@avvio.com
Google is calling it the ‘Speed Update’, and it will only impact a small percentage of queries – those pages that deliver the slowest experience to users. Google recommends you use the new updated PageSpeed report and tools like LightHouse to measure page speed and make improvements.
For more information on this visit:
https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2018/01/using-page-speed-in-mobile-search
The data emphasises the need for a fast and user friendly mobile experience to help accommodation providers capitalise on the potential bookings. While there is a lot of data around apps which most hotels don’t have, there are some interesting desktop and mobile stats.
The report highlights a few key points:
For more information on this visit:
https://www.criteo.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/18_Criteo_Travel_Report.pdf
However, this won’t be a big loss as it was one of the more difficult extensions to get approval for due to the restrictions and third parties involved.
For more information visit:
https://www.wordstream.com/blog/ws/2018/01/10/rip-adwords-review-extensions
The type of AI that is responsible for a lot of success in PPC today is based on statistics and Machine Learning to categorise things. Quality Score (QS) is a great example; Google looks at historical click behaviour from users and uses machine learning to find correlations that help predict the likelihood of a click or a conversion.
There are also many free tools from AdWords that are getting better every day thanks to advances in AI, like Portfolio Bid Strategies, Custom Intent Audiences and optimised ad rotation. Google uses information about search queries, historical ad performance and other contextual signals combined with Machine Learning, to predict whether or not someone will click on your ad. This predicted click-through rate helps determine the selection, ranking and pricing of your ads–meaning the algorithm is already working to show the right ads to the right customers.
The approach we take at Avvio balances the personal touch of setting up campaigns for clients and closely managing PPC, coupled with advances in the technology, should help us to better target the right people and improve conversion rates over time delivering excellent results.
For more information visit:
https://searchengineland.com/technology-behind-ai-ppc-289777
https://adwords.googleblog.com/2018/01/adwords-machine-learning-part-1
The tips include:
For more information visit:
https://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/7-tips-optimize-facebook-ad-campaigns/
Analytics standard reports have been updated to focus on your users. User metrics are an essential way to understand engagement with your customers, especially those who may have multiple sessions across multiple days.
You can see immediately, for instance, how many users are coming to your site from paid search ― in addition to seeing the number of sessions.
Another tool that marketers can use to analyse visitors on an individual level is User Explorer.
Now Google have added something new: lifetime metrics and dimensions for individual users (based on the lifetime of their cookie). These new metrics and dimensions will give Analytics users a much more detailed way to measure visitors and customers.
For marketers who live and breathe audiences ― which is most of us ― the breathing just got easier. We've added the option to publish any audience to a new report in Analytics that should help make every audience easier to understand. You can now go to the new Audiences report and see a cross-channel view of the audiences you’ve created in Analytics.
Google Analytics’ newest metric is Conversion Probability. It takes user-based metrics one step further to show you just what the name suggests: the probability that a given user will convert in the future. The calculation is based on a Machine Learning model that learns from users who have made transactions in the past. This report will show you the Conversion Probability for all your users, including across important dimensions such as channel.
This new feature from Analytics Intelligence is the first forward-looking estimate of how likely a conversion is for individual users.
These four new enhancements will help you better understand your users and what they are doing on your site, so that you can create better experiences for them. If you — like 90% of marketers — are working hard to understand your users' journeys, you'll find these features useful.
For more information visit:
https://analytics.googleblog.com/2017/12/new-ways-to-measure-your-users-in-google-analytics-pmm
