The question of transferring and converting advertising campaigns from Yandex Direct into Google Adwords came to me almost immediately, as I began to engage in contextual advertising. And as practice shows, it is not I who have such a need. Why it is from Direct to Adwords, and not vice versa? Yes, everything is simple - to create a campaign in excel for Direct is much easier.
What we have at the moment from the tools for this task:
For simplicity, hereinafter, I will call the first three tools by their position in the list: “first”, “second” and “third service” service, respectively.
Recently, Adwords has introduced a new text ad format - “Expanded Text Ads”. Its main differences from the standard: two fields "Title" (up to 30 characters each) and one long field "Description" (up to 80 characters). And from January 31, 2017, AdWords will not be able to create or edit standard text ads. When creating ads you will need to use the new format - expanded text ads. This is a big problem with the current versions of the "table" converters - they do not support it. That is, from February 2017 you will not actually be able to use either the first or second converter from the list above.
But this is not their only problem. Even if they add support for the new format, there are a number of problems that have been reaching for them for quite some time:
In order not to be unfounded, I took one of my most recent campaigns created, and tried to transfer it through all available tools. (The campaign shortened, changed the url and replaced parts of the text (preserving the original number of characters) to preserve confidentiality.). Download campaign file .
Important note - I used all the tools “as is”, without any modifications and following the instructions if any. I know that if you make some changes in tabular converters, you can beat a few of their sores. But such changes have to be done individually for each specific campaign.
As we can see, the result is far from ideal. Of course, there are also successful campaigns for converting, for example, those in which all headers are no longer than 30 characters. But I see no reason to set myself such restrictions when you can simply use a more advanced tool - the Synapse-transfer converter.
Service Synapse-transfer.ru. The goal of the service is to maximize the automation of the process of moving and converting campaigns. And now this is the most advanced solution of all that can be found. It works directly with Yandex.Direct and Adwords accounts through an API. That is, you will not see any tables, scripts, macros or desktop applications at any stage of the transfer.
The same campaign that was used to test converters from the list above is transferred by the Synapse-transfer service in 40 seconds and without a single error. For comparison, only the script of the “first” converter in Google Docs was executed for more than two minutes.
Now we are beta testing the service. All members receive a month of free and unlimited use.
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Beta test functionality:
Thus, even with the current functionality, you can save from 10-20 minutes, up to several hours on the transfer of only one campaign. The time depends on the complexity of the initial campaign in the Directive and on how full your hand is. And it’s generally inadvisable to do such a thing as cross-minus one in Adwords manually - doom yourself for a few hours of monotonous Ctrl + C / Ctrl + V.
A detailed description of the nuances of converting headers, keywords and other elements of the campaign by the Synapse-transfer service, you can read in the “Instructions” section in your account.
Not without flaws. But these are only beta costs:
We are also planning to increase the functionality: add transfer and conversion of YANA campaigns, fully transfer campaign settings, there are requests to add the Direct and Adwords campaigns synchronization function, and a lot of things to talk about yet.
I will answer one of the first and main questions before using the service:
“ How safe is it to use? After all, giving access to accounts via API is a rather intimate matter. ”
This question was asked to me in the Google Adwords Russia community, and there I answered it in detail. I will give a brief version of the answer here too:
We do not store the data of campaigns passing through the service. And we don’t load anything into your accounts, except for those campaigns that you choose yourself from your Yandex.Direct. Also, all items are loaded with the status "Stopped" and without your knowledge new campaigns will not be shown.
In addition, Adwords just does not give access to its API. We underwent multilevel testing and verification by Google before getting it.
And if at least one user has a nuisance in the form of leakage of advertising campaigns or loading into accounts of what should not be there, they will know about it and the reputation of the service will be lost forever. And this we in no case need.
We are open to suggestions, and if you have any ideas or suggestions for the service, please feel free to express them in the comments or on our group in VK .
Landing with a more detailed description of the functionality.
The beta test is expected to last until mid-February 2017.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/320362/