Getting Started with Remarketing - How to create a remarketing list

Remarketing is a great way to make the most of the Google Display Network, perfect for brand awareness and keeping in touch with your target audience. Visitors that are shown remarketing ads do not even need to have come to your site via organic search. You may also have be using other forms of marketing and gaining traffic via your brand and want to remind visitors about special offers. This will help to increase the value of all visitors to your site. You could also just use remarketing to reward loyal customers that already trust your site!

Easy if you know how!

If you are interested in creating your first remarketing campaign you need to firstly make a remarketing list. To do this you need to create a new ‘audience.’ This is found under the ‘shared library‘ section of adwords (see image below).

When you have located the shared library you need to create your first audience. If you are not prompted with the ‘set up remarketing’ tab, you will be shown the default list called ‘main list.’

The ‘audience’ section is where you will return to when you want to create remarketing lists in future. However, you will only need to create the code once.

Google Adwords now works a lot better with your data, allowing you to use data that has been generated on other campaigns such as Video Campaigns, so start to create lists as quickly as possible!

Remarketing Code

If you click the [Tag] on the right hand side of the default audience you will be shown the remarketing code. Copy the code and put this in to ever page of your site.

Adding Your Remarketing Code

Your Remarketing code should look like this…

Create Your First Custom List

The custom list will target all pages that the tag is on so you will need to create a specific list. To create your first list click the ‘new audience’ tab

Choose Which Pages To Target

You then need to decide which pages you wish to target. For example, if you want to deliver ads to people that have visited the shoes section of your site, then include urls relating to shoes. The remarketing code is intelligent enough to pick up keywords within the url, so if you url structure works well then targeting shoes should be easy!. You could also repeat the process for fans of certain brands!

Example of targeting shoes

Setting Up The Campaign

To create the new ‘Campaign’ you will need to create a display network only campaign. You will now see the ‘Remarketing’ option.

 Create Your Ads

You can then create your ads and include them within the campaign.

Be Intelligent With Remarketing

With Remarketing you could

• Target customers that have made  a purchase and recommend setting up a credit account
• Target customers that have left the checkout process at a certain level, offer an helpine?
• Bought a product that may run out/need renewing after 12 month (remind them after 11 months)
• Target existing customers to buy seasonal products. A message to say as a customer do you know you can also buy ‘X’ product from us.
• Encourage customers that visited a specific page, possibly gone to another page to look at price comparison or have not had the time to complete the purchase.
• Let visitors that have shown an interest in your brand know about special offers

Remarketing Most Popular Banners

The most popular remarketing banners are 300 X 250 and 728 X 90. If you would like to speak more about Remarketing or want us to create a set of 9 banners for your brand then get in touch!