Overview of implementing Search, Social, & Commerce

Evaluate your high-level business goals and devise strategies to achieve them:

1. Identify your business model and marketing objectives.

2. Identify your conversion tracking requirements

3. Analyze your existing online ad account structures.

4. Identify metrics for portfolio optimization and reporting.

(Administrator or account manager users) Set up administrative accounts:

1. Set up the advertiser’s account. If an agency manages the advertiser’s data, then the advertiser’s account must be associated with the agency account.

2. (If necessary) Create user accounts for the advertiser to view and manage its campaign data and to generate reports.

For details about setting up accounts, see the help chapter on “Admin.”

Synchronize with, or create, campaigns for each of your ad network accounts:

• Synchronize with the account by a) creating a corresponding account record in Search, Social, & Commerce that contains the account access credentials and tracking options and b) setting the account status to enabled.

• If the accounts don’t already contain campaign data, then add campaigns, ad groups, keywords, ads, and placements from within Search, Social, & Commerce or from within the ad network.

  For details about setting up search campaigns, see the help chapter on “Campaign Management.”

Set up tracking for all ads for which you want Adobe Advertising to track conversions:

1. (If necessary) Set up click tracking for ads, and optionally for keywords, Google Ads placements, and Google Ads extensions by generating and uploading click-tracking URLs.

   Click tracking URLs for advertisers with the Adobe Advertising pixel-based conversion tracking service include a redirect to Adobe servers.

2. Set up conversion tracking. Depending on the implementation, this may involve adding conversion tracking tags to the appropriate webpages and/or setting up a daily feed drop for conversion data that you’ve collected using your own method.

   For details about setting up tracking, see the help chapter on “Tracking.”

Set up integrations with additional products:

1. (Advertisers with Adobe Analytics and/or Adobe Audience Manager) Set up integrations between the various accounts so that Adobe Advertising can exchange data with them.

   See the guide on “Integrations with Experience Cloud.”

2. (Advertisers with Google Analytics) Sync conversion metrics for a Google Analytics account, property, and view combination for optimization and reporting.

   See the help subchapter “Admin” > “Configuring Data Sources.”

Set up and launch portfolios:

1. Set up portfolios configured to meet your objective and business goals, with the appropriate campaigns. The implementation team then gathers and validates click and revenue data for at least 14 days and validates the portfolio settings.

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   Search, Social, & Commerce still tracks and reports data for campaigns that aren’t assigned to portfolios, but it doesn’t provide optimization for them.

2. After enough data is available to create a baseline, then the team can launch the portfolio — allowing Search, Social, & Commerce to optimize bids and/or budgets for the portfolio, based on the optimization type.

For details about setting up and launching portfolios, see the help on “Optimization,” which is available from the Help menu ( ) in the upper right of any page within Search, Social, & Commerce.

Monitor your portfolios’ performance:

1. Generate advertising insights, which are visual, actionable data about your optimized and active portfolios.

2. Set up, and potentially automate, customized reports for performance monitoring.

For details about running advertising insights and setting up reports, see the help chapter on “Insights & Reports.”

(Optional) Configure your performance data views to show the data that you want to see.