How-to apply network settings in Google Ads
Overview
This Action allows you to edit what networks your campaigns will target in Google Ads, including Search Partners and GDN.
Instructions
This Action setup uses the Settings - Google Ads Network Setting Action Type
Set up your change logic
Login to Alli Data and select the client you want to create an action for
Navigate to Reports → Explorer and select New Data Report
Give your report a Name and update the Report Type to Custom Redshift
Copy and paste the SQL Example in from below and update anything within and including
{
}
to match your client settingsOnce your SQL is updated, click Publish to update the query
Click Preview to ensure the output is as expected
Create a new Action
Go to Alli Actions then select Create Action
Filter the Vendor column for Google Ads and select the Settings - Google Ads Network Setting Action Type
Continue to the Configure screen and select your authenticated account
Click Next to set up and link where your changes are coming from, for this example that will be Alli Data
Insert your report name i.e. {client}.{view name you set in step 1-c}
Review your action setup
Save and Schedule your action to run
You can use this Google Sheet to reference Google Ads Network Setting options
SQL Example
Login_customer_id
This corresponds to the MCC ID. If you don’t have MCC for your account, this line can be removed.
Ex: ‘{XXX-XXX-XXXX}’ becomes ‘012-345-6789’
Context for the WHERE section below:
This is where you choose campaigns to include or exclude from this action.
The way this is done is by saying “campaign_name ILIKE '%TEXTHERE%'”.
The ILIKE means “contains” and is not case sensitive, it will match uppercase or lowercase.
The TEXTHERE piece is where you can put common pieces of your campaign names to identify which campaigns to select, such as “brand”, “nonbrand”, “retargeting”, etc.
That text needs to be surrounded by a tick ' on each side
The percent signs mean that it is looking for that text no matter what is before or after it in the campaign name.
Essentially using percent signs means “look for campaign names that contain this text”, not using percent signs would mean “look for campaign names that exactly match this text”
Example
ILIKE '%part%' will match to party & apartment
ILIKE 'part%' will match to party but not apartment
TRUE/FALSE Inputs
Lines 5 thru 8 need to be either TRUE or FALSE, which value you want can be determined based on the Google Sheet linked above.
SELECT distinct
'{XXX-XXX-XXXX}' as login_customer_id
account_id as customer_id,
campaign_id,
'{TRUE/FALSE}' AS google_search,
'{TRUE/FALSE}' AS search_network,
'{TRUE/FALSE}' AS partner_search_network,
'{TRUE/FALSE}' AS content_network
FROM {client}_core.search_campaign
WHERE
(
{campaign inclusions or exclusions}
Example:
campaign_name ILIKE '%brand%'
OR campaign_name ILIKE '%nonbrand%'
)
AND campaign_status ILIKE 'ENABLED'
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