Frequently Asked Questions

Which search engine accounts are included in Advertising Analytics?

Search engine accounts include Google AdWords and Microsoft Bing.

Where do I go to access Advertising Analytics?

After logging in to Adobe Analytics, navigate to the Admin. Then select Advertising Analytics to add your search engine accounts.

How is the data collected and passed into Analytics?

Advertising Analytics utilizes a series of custom APIs to pass data from search engines via the Adobe Advertising Cloud into Analytics.

What search data do I get with this integration?

You will get

• Impressions
• Clicks
• Costs
• Quality Score
• Average Position directly from the search engines, as well as
• AMO ID Instances (Click Instances).

Can I break my Advertising Analytics data down by other Analytics data (metrics/dimensions)?

No, the raw search data will come in as an independent data set. However, there is an Instances version of the click data that can be broken down by other Analytics data.

I am trying to map my Advertising Analytics accounts to a specific report suite, but it is not available in the Report Suite modal. Why?

Before you can assign a report suite to an Advertising Analytics account, the desired report suite needs to be provisioned for Advertising Analytics reporting
This is done through a separate Admin page that is accessible from: Admin > Report Suites > [select report suite] > Edit Settings > Advertising Analytics Configuration.

Is it possible to assign a virtual report suite to an Advertising Analytics account?

Virtual report suites do not collect data, so you cannot directly map an Advertising Analytics account to a Virtual report suite. However, you can map the Advertising Analytics account to the parent Report Suite of the Virtual report suite that you want to see data in. The Search Engine metrics (click/cost/impressions) may not show up in the Virtual report suite unless you include an “or” condition in your segment logic based on the AMO ID (or its classification). Example: Adding “all hits where AMO ID exists” would include the search engine metrics in the segment.

Are Advertising Analytics metrics reportable in the Marketing Channels report?

No, they are not included in the Marketing Channels report.

When does the search data get pulled into Analytics?

The search data is pulled from the search engines around 6AM (06:00) in the time zone of your Analytics data center. This is when the AMO data is collected and inserted into the report suite. It is then converted into the report suite time zone as part of inserting the data into Analytics.

What can be captured before the click? Do we bring impressions, cost, average position, etc. even without the click?

The AMO ID will capture the Search engine metrics: Impressions, Cost, Clicks, Average Position, and Average Quality Score. If there are no clicks, but there are impressions, then the impression/position/quality score data will still be sent to Analytics. Typically, if there are no clicks, then there is also no cost.

What level is this data being captured at? Visitor? Hit?

The Search engine metrics are captured at the hit level and connected to the AMO ID (and its classifications). It is summary level data and not connected to visits/visitors. As such, the search engine metrics can only be used in segments that are hit-level scope and are based on the AMO ID (or its classifications).

The AMO ID is also captured on the landing page in the hit for that page (which connects it to the visit/visitor) and will persist downstream to get credit for other Analytics metrics (until it expires or is overwritten by a new AMO ID). It is fully incorporated into the data set like any other eVar.

Do we only capture google.com or country versions (like google.co.uk, google.it, google.fr, or google.de) as well?

The Ad Platform classification captures these values: “Google Adwords”, and “Bing Ads”. A common best practice is to include the country code as part of the naming of campaigns. You can then filter down or segment (e.g. if all campaigns start with countrycode_, then creating a segment where Campaigns (AMO ID) starts with “UK_” would provide you with only data for the UK).

The metric "AMO Cost" is the cost paid for each keyword/ad as reported by the search engine. Is this Net cost or Gross cost?

“AMO cost” is only the cost paid to the search engines. It does not include any agency or search optimization/management platform fees.

Are there plans to include other advertising channels such as Display or Social?

No, currently we do not have plans for these other channels on the roadmap.