For each conversion goal, you can decide whether or not to include it by default across all of the campaigns in your account. If you enable the âaccount defaultâ setting for a conversion goal that means the primary conversion actions within that goal will be tracked as conversions in your reporting and used for bidding across all your campaigns (except those where youâve set up campaign-specific goals).
In this article, weâll go over what account-default goals are and why you might use them. Learn more about managing conversion goals.
Benefits
You can use the âaccount-defaultâ setting to do the following:
- Fine-tune your "Conversions" column to only view data for the conversion actions that matter most to you.
- Tell Google Ads which conversions to optimize for in an automated bid strategy.
- Adjust your "Conversions" column to better inform your manual bidding.
How account-default goals work
The âaccount-defaultâ setting lets you choose whether or not to include the conversion action data related to your conversion goal in your conversions reporting by default across your campaigns. Google uses the data included in your conversions reporting to optimize your bids when you use an automated bidding strategy, like Target Cost-Per-Action (CPA) or Enhanced Cost-Per-Click (CPC). Choosing not to include a conversion action means your automated bid strategies wonât bid for these particular conversions. This can be useful if you want to bid for certain kinds of conversions but not others.
Example
You own an online clothing store, and you have two conversion goals: âAdd to cartâ which includes one conversion action to track each time a customer puts something in their shopping cart and âPurchasesâ which includes 2 conversion actions, one to track clothing purchases and another to track styling services purchases.
You want to optimize your bidding for the purchase conversion goal and view these conversions in your reporting. You donât want to bid for the add to cart conversion action, and you donât need this data in your reporting.
You check "use as an account goalâ for your purchase conversion goal, and uncheck the setting for the add to cart goal. Now, your automated bid strategy will only optimize your campaign towards your purchase goal, and your reporting will only show purchase conversions. However, data for the shopping cart goal is still included in your âAll conversionsâ column.
If you donât use automated bid strategies to optimize for conversions, this setting wonât automatically affect your bidding. However, you can also use the setting to adjust the âConversionsâ column to better inform your manual bidding.
The default setting for most conversion actions is to include data in the âConversionsâ column.
Note: For App campaigns, you always set the conversion actions youâd like to use for bidding and reporting at the campaign level and account-default goals arenât applicable.
This improved experience allows your customers to more easily complete their intended action, whether purchasing, signing up, or adding items to their cart. Plus, from within the App Connect interface, you can track these in-app conversion actions and get recommendations on how to improve your campaign.
To get started with App Connect, follow the 3 steps below:
- In your Google Ads account, click the Tools icon
.
- Click the Planning drop down in the section menu.
- Click App advertising hub. This will take you to the App Connect interface.
Learn more about converting better with the App Connect interface.
Instructions
- In your Google Ads account, click the Goals icon
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- Click the Conversions drop down in the section menu.
- Click Summary.
- Go to the conversion goal you want to edit.
- Click Edit goal.
- Select âUse as an account goalâ.
- Choose which conversion actions to set as primary or secondary actions.
- Click Save changes.
