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Google Ads Integration

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Integrating Voluum and Google accounts enables Voluum to periodically ask for campaign cost information and update it automatically and report conversions back to Google using the S2S postback method.

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Prerequisites

Before you perform an integration, make sure that you have the following:

  • An active Voluum account.

  • An active Google Ads account in Google

  • A Google Ads customer ID. You can find it in your Google Ads account, in the top right corner of the screen. If you have more than one Google Ads account under your Google account, you can select an account you want to integrate with by clicking the profile icon:

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    Caution

    Voluum Note: If you integrate a master Google Ads account that contains sub-accounts, campaigns in both master and sub-accounts will have their costs integrated.

  • At least one campaign running and with tracking set on a campaign level, not on an ad, ad set or account levels.

Once you have everything ready, read the further part of this guide.

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I. Set Up Integration

In order to integrate, do the following steps:

  1. In Voluum, go to the AUTOMIZER module.

  2. Go to the Traffic sources tab.

  3. Click the Add traffic source button.

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  4. Click the Add new integration button under the appropriate traffic source.

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  5. Provide your Google account email or phone number.

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  6. Provide your Google account password.

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  7. Grant Voluum permissions to manage your Google Ads campaign by clicking the Allow button.

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  8. Confirm your choice by clicking the Allow button again.

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  9. When the Voluum page loads again, select which campaigns should have their costs integrated by removing or providing relevant Voluum campaign IDs and click the Add integration button.

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  10. Your Google account has been integrated with Voluum.

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Note

Cost models in traffic source setup and integration

With the full API traffic source integrations, the cost information passed via the integration will OVERRIDE any cost value set in a traffic source setup in Voluum. However, the full integration fetches cost info in time intervals. If you want to have estimated cost values between cost update intervals, you can provide a cost value in a given cost model. When cost information will be fetched, it will replace the estimates.

If you do not care about having estimates between cost update intervals, you can set the cost model option to Not tracked.

II. Pass Conversions from Voluum to Google Ads Using The Integration Feature

How Does It Work?

Once you integrate your Google Ads account with Voluum, you will be able to generate a postback URL that you will submit as a traffic source postback URL in Voluum. This way, conversion info reported by an affiliate network platform to Voluum will be passed back to Google as well.

Prerequisites:

In order to track conversions with Google Ads, you need the following:

  • Tracking of Google traffic with Voluum set on a campaign level, not on an ad, ad set or account levels.

  • A Google account integrated with a Voluum account. In order to learn more about the integration process, read the Google Ads Integration article.

  • Conversion tracking in Voluum set on your account. In order to learn more, read the Track Conversions article.

Set up passing conversions

With tracking of Google Ads events already set up, and with information about conversions being passed to Voluum you have all the information you need gathered in one place. To complete the circuit, you need to pass conversion info from Voluum to Google Ads. This can be achieved in three steps:

1. Create a conversion action in Google Ads:

  1. In Google Ads, click the Tools button.

  2. Select the Conversions option.

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  3. Click the add_conversion.png button to add a new conversion action.

  4. Select the Import type of conversion and then the Other data sources or CRMs / Track conversions from clicks option and click the CONTINUE button.

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  5. Provide all required information about a conversion action in the Create an action view, including the name of the conversion action, and click the Create and continue button.

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    Caution

    Voluum Note: Keep in mind than the name of your conversion cannot contain spaces. So instead of the name "Book purchase", type "Book_purchase".

  6. You do not need to set up a conversion event in Google Ads any further.

2. Generate a postback URL in Voluum

  1. In Voluum, click the profile_settings.png button to go to the Settings page.

  2. Go to the Integrations tab.

  3. In the TRAFFIC SOURCE INTEGRATIONS section, click the Generate button next to the Google integration.

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  4. Provide the name of the conversion action that you have created in Google Ads in the Type in Google Conversion Action text field.

  5. Click the Generate postback URL button.

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  6. Click the Copy button to copy the URL to the clipboard.

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3. Submit a postback URL into your traffic source setup in Voluum

  1. In Voluum, go to the Traffic sources tab.

  2. Edit the Google Ads traffic source element.

  3. Paste the postback URL from the clipboard in the Traffic source postback URL text field.

  4. Click the Save button.

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You have successfully configured reporting conversions to Google Ads.

Reauthenticating the Integration
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