In this
video, I'm going to show you how you can install the call conversion tracking feature of Google
Ads onto your website with the help of Google Tag Manager. All and more coming up.
Hey there measure geeks, Julian here back with a another video for you guys. On this
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subscribing down below. Today, we want to talk about the call conversion tracking feature
of Google Ads and how to install this on to our website. Now, what is this called conversion
tracking feature? If you have a search result, just like on a search result in Google on
your mobile phone, you might notice that there's a phone number that you can actually click
and then are connected to the advertiser directly. But what if the user clicks on the search
result then goes to the website and you have a different phone number displayed there,
but Google Ads gives us a call conversion tracking code for our website that can change
this dynamically. So it mimics whatever is on the ad, we just have to install it. And
today, I'm going to show you how to do this with the help of Google Tag Manager. So fire
up your Google Tag Manager and your ads account. And we're going to get started right now.
Welcome back to our demo shop on this demo shop, I have installed a phone number right
here that can be called by our customers. And if the customer actually goes through
Google AdWords and comes to the page, he might have seen an ad just like this one, where
there is a call extension feature. So the user can click on this button and then be
connected with us right away, these features can be installed, they are not available for
every country. But if you go into your Google Ads account on the ad extensions, you can
look, if you are able to install them right here, you can create a call extension, this
will give you a number by Google, which will then connect right to your phone.
And if the user calls through Google while he's still on Google, this can be counted
as a conversion. Now obviously, if the user clicks on the ad itself and comes to our page,
he will be greeted with a completely different version of the number. And this is where Google
AdWords wouldn't be able to count this to a converted user. But luckily, they gave us
a tracking code that we can install that mimics whatever number is called right here and ports
that over to the number and replaces actually the number right here. So we will be able
to still track conversions in Google AdWords. So let's install this with the help of Google
Tag Manager. First of all, what you would need is to have a call extension already running,
then you can go ahead and go to Tools up here. And under conversions, we can set up a call
conversion. So go to the plus button. And we already greeted with a tracking field for
phone calls. And then we have three options here. And we will go with the option to track
calls that actually happened on our website. So right here we gonna go with continue.
And we can give this all a name.
We can choose a category lead is fine with me. But you might want to change this based
on your website. We can assign our conversion of value, I won't do this for now. And decide
if you want to count every call that comes from a user or count the user as converted
one time, I will go with every. And then there are other configurations such as when you
want to count a user has converted. If the call length is longer than 60 seconds to conversion
window is 30 days, and choose whether you want to include this in conversions. And also,
you can choose the attribution modeling here. Don't worry, you can always change them later
on if you choose so. Let's go ahead and create and continue. And then it will ask us how
do we want to install us in our case, we want to installs with Google Tag Manager. And it
will give us a conversion ID and the conversion label. Now, in order to install this, we need
to install a new tag that's called Google Ads conversion tracking which is actually
not quite right anymore because they're already have a new tag template, which we'll gonna
use. And then also make sure you have the conversion linker tag enabled on your page.
So let's go ahead and set this up. We'll go over to Google Tag Manager. And here we're
going to go with a new tag that we want to install. And this will be our Google Ads
Call extension tag. We're going to find this on all pages as our phone number is on all
pages of our website. But you might want to restrict this, if you just have the phone
number on a certain page. Now as a tag configuration, we're not choosing the Google Ads conversion
tracking, but rather the call tracking which is a a new template, which is a little bit
down the page here. If you can't find it just like me, then you might want to utilize the
search functionality up here. But here we go. It's a Google Ads calls for website conversion.
This is we're going to use and then we need to enter the phone number that is displayed
on our website. And this needs to be exact because the script will actually look through
the website and try to find these numbers and then replace them.
So we're going to copy this and put us in right here. Then we need a conversion ID and
the conversion label which we have right here. So let's copy this
and set up the trigger which is simplicity all pages trigger. We'll save this.
And before we test this, we're also going to configure our conversion linker tag for
Google Ads.
This tag will also be deployed on all pages, as it's a tag to ensure that our information
when the user comes from Google is correctly written to the cookie. So here we go, we already
have the conversion link attack. If you have cross domain tracking, you might want to enable
this but in most cases, you will need us and we can go ahead and simply triggers on all
pages. Simple as that. Now, let's go into our preview and debug mode which will put
our browser into a special mode. And if you go back to our page and reload it.
we can now see our Google Ads call extension and our conversion linker has been deployed
correctly. If you have the tag assistant by Google installed, you'll also see a new tag
website called metrics. This should be deployed. Now in order to test this correctly and see
if data is received in your tool, you will actually need to click on an ad and see if
the phone number changes. But there's also another trick to see if this actually works.
And this is by entering a piece of code at your URL which is the hash and then Google
WCC debug. This will put your browser and the code will recognize this little snippet
into a special mode. So when we go ahead and reload this.
And we're going to close down our tag assistant here we should see some. Now this sometimes
doesn't work because it's cached. So we're going to go to another page here. Let's enter
our code again, Google minus WCC minus debug,
and reload.
And this time, here we go. We should see if we minimize this a little window here where
our Google Ads website call conversion will try to replace this phone number. So we can
click on force here. And we see our phone number has been replaced. So the code actually
works and would change your phone number. In the instance, if somebody came through
a call extension ad through Google. But again, if you want to make sure that this is working
correctly, you would need to click on your own ad in order to see the phone number being
replaced. Now that we have these two tags installed, we can go ahead and submit a version
and publish this to a version that all our users will now be tracked. And this is how
you can install call conversion tracking with the help of Google Tag Manager.
Yes, that's right. This is how you can install Google Ads call conversion tracking with the
help of Google Tag Manager. If you run into any problems or if you have any questions,
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