Refind Ads Feature: The Search Funnel
January 10th, 2009We would like to take the chance to present one of our new – and very strong – features gone live in Refined Ads in Q4 2008: The Search Funnel.
The Funnel allows you to associate one Lead or Sale with more than one keyword if the same user clicked on multiple of your ads with various keywords. It is extremely useful to see how pretty generic keywords lead to a more specific search that converts. The data analyzed for this type of reporting currently includes the last 30 days till the conversion takes place. The best part is that you can set to which extend a click attributes to a conversion and have a percentage set to it that is visible in the statistics and used in the Traffic Controller, our bid management.
Funnel settings can be set under Administration. Check the desired checkbox:
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- Traditional setting: The keyword that was clicked last will be credited 100%.
- First and last clicks win the most: The keywords that were clicked first and last will be credited a fixed percentage, other clicks will share the remainder missing from 100%.
- All clicks are the same: The credit will be divided by the number of clicks that lead to a conversion (up to a maximum of five clicks).
- All clicks are individual: You can specify a value to the last five clicks leading to a conversion.
- Last click is the big click: You can set a value for the last click (up to 99%) and the rest will be divided between previous clicks.
The data created by the funnel can be analysed as individual funnels (click history) or as value in Elements.
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If the transaction column is underlined, you can display the funnel dialog by clicking on the value. The dialog displays the clicks per line. The first value (left) of the line is the keyword that was clicked first. The last value (right) is the last keyword before the transaction (lead / sale) The column Revenue does not display the proportionate value of the keyword, but the sum of the transactions.
Check out this new features right away in your Refined Ads Account! Customers find additional information on that feature the the Refined Ads Guide (https://guide.refinedads.com/index.php/en:Funnel).




