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Creating a Google Ads Campaign

Last Updated / Reviewed: Jan 10th, 2023

Execution Time: 10-20 minutes

Today we learn how to Create a Google Ads Campaign

 

  1. Go to https://ads.google.com/ and log in to your account (if you couldn’t create an account please Click Here to create an account
  2. Before you can enable auto-tagging, you will need to create a dummy campaign (this campaign won’t be live and won’t spend any budget). Click on “New campaign”

3. From the list of goals, select “Sales” and click “Continue”

4. From the list of campaign types, select “Search” then “Continue”

5. Next, select “Website visits” from the list and type your website URL

6. Then add your campaign name:

7. Click “Continue”

8. In the bid settings, click “Next” to skip

9. In Campaign settings, leave everything as default and click “Next”.

10. Again in the ad group page, leave everything as default/empty and click “Next”.

11. In the extensions page,leave everything as default/empty and click “Next”.

12. Then, in the Budget section, set the daily budget to $1 and click “Next”:

13. In the Review your campaign page, you’ll see a few errors (rightly so because this is a dummy campaign). Ignore everything for now and click “Publish Campaign”.

14. On the ad group setup screen, leave everything as default, scroll down to the bottom of the page and click “Save and Continue”

15. If you see the confirmation modal, click “publish”.

16. Now that your dummy campaign has been Published, you can enable auto-tagging. Click on the Google Ads logo in the top navigation

17. On the sidebar click “Settings”“Account Settings”“Auto-tagging”

18. Tick “Tag the URL that People Click Through from My Ad” → Click “Save”

19. That’s all! You should start seeing your Google Ads traffic information inside Google Analytics in the first 24 hours after your ads have started running.