You can test the impact of automatically created assets (ACA) – Final URL expansion in your Performance Max campaigns through optimisation experiments. The feature allows you to understand how FUE affects your campaign performance.
On this page
- Requirements
- How it works
- How to create Performance Max optimisation experiments with automatically created assets (ACA)
- Related links
Requirements
You need to enable the following features in your campaigns to participate in optimisation experiments.
- Campaign eligibility: Ensure that the campaign is active, is not part of another experiment and its 'Final URL' setting for 'Automatically created assets' is turned off. Learn more about controlling automatically created assets in Performance Max campaigns.
- Automatically created assets (ACA): Treatment arm traffic will show ads generated with automatically created assets and final URL expansion turned on, and control arm traffic will show ads generated with the campaign's original settings.
- Budget: If your Performance Max campaigns are budget-constrained, we recommend increasing your budget to ensure experiment success.
How it works
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Control: A Performance Max campaign with current ACA and final URL settings.
- Treatment: The same Performance Max campaign with ACA and final URL settings enabled.
Note:
- Instead of creating a new campaign for the treatment arm, some fraction of the traffic within the existing Performance Max campaign will be diverted to control and treatment campaigns.
- You can now specify URLs to exclude. This allows you to focus on testing the performance impact of final URL expansion on your selected landing pages.
- When using page feeds with final URL expansion on, the page feed helps to verify that we’re indexing the provided URLs, but it doesn’t restrict ads to serve only URLs from the provided feed. Learn more about how to use page feeds in Performance Max.
How to create Performance Max optimisation experiments with automatically created assets (ACA)
Follow the instructions below to set up experiments with ACA. Based on the results of your experiments, you can optimise the campaigns that you share from Google Ads.
Set up a final URL expansion experiment with automatically created assets (ACA)
- Go to Experiments within the Campaigns menu
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- Select the plus button
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- Under 'What do you want to test?', select the Assets card.
- Under 'Choose a variable to test', select the Automatically created assets card.
- Under 'Edit experiment settings', select the Select campaign button and choose an existing Performance Max campaign for the experiment.
- Define the traffic split percentage for 'Control arm' and 'Treatment arm'.
- Select Exclude some URLs under the 'Treatment arm' card and add the URLs that you wish to exclude from the experiment.
- Set the 'Start date' and 'End date' for the experiment under 'Experiment dates'.
- Give your experiment a name by entering text in the 'Experiment name' field.
- Select Schedule.
.Note: You can still update URL exclusions by selecting View details or Change settings in the 'Experiment results'. After choosing the experiment that was set up, you can select Exclude some URLs in the 'View details' menu to exclude accordingly until the experiment ends.
