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Ads Checklist.

Stop guessing what's broken. Use these paid media checklists to diagnose leaks in your ad accounts, tracking, creative, and launch setup.

Budget and Bidding

1. Conversions are being tracked (Geo/Devices/Age/Gender/Income level/Audiences for observation)

2. You use automated bid strategies, but your campaign generates fewer than 5 conversions per day (Maximize conversions, Maximize conversion value, Target CPA)

Ad Copy and Extensions

1. All extensions are added to ads

2. Using A/B testing of Ad copies

3. Regularly checking ad copies performance

4. Ad copy meets ad policy requirements

Landing Pages & Conversion Tracking

1. Conversions are being tracked

2. Conversions are divided into macro (primary) and micro (secondary)

3. Landing page has a clear submit form

Targeting & Keywords

1. At the geotargeting level in large countries the location is added not by the entire country, but separately by each state (for example, the USA)

2. At the campaign level, the location option is set to "Presence: People in or regularly in your targeted locations"

3. Negative keywords are added to Search campaigns

4. Branded, competitor, and generic keywords are grouped separately

5. Correct grouping of keywords is conducted in the campaign: for each category of keywords separate Ads are used

Campaign settings

1. Search Partners generate a large volume of traffic within Search campaigns

2. Display Network is enabled within Search campaigns

3. Audience Expansions/Optimized targeting is enabled in Display/Demand Gen/YouTube

4. Ad placements on irrelevant websites and devices are excluded (apps, TV placements, topics related to kids, gaming, etc.)

5. Maintaining a high Optimization Score

6. Auto-applied recommendations are enabled

Analytics & Reporting

1. Data-driven attribution is selected

2. UTM tags are set up (checked at the account, campaign, ad levels)

3. Google Analytics is linked to the account

4. Auto-tagging is set to "YES"

Budget and Bidding

1. An Automatic Bidding Strategy is chosen instead of Manual

2. You constantly monitor and optimize the bids and budget for each campaign

Campaign Settings

1. "Permanent" option is selected for Locations

2. The Average Frequency metric is about 5

3. Ad rotation is enabled

4. All ads in the campaign perform similarly, with no ads performing worse than others

Analytics & Reporting

1. Insight Tag is placed on the website

2. The account tracks conversions

3. Using of LinkedIn’s reporting interface to find the most/less effective demographics/targets

Targeting

1. There are NO impressions for job seniorities such as Entry, Training, Unpaid

2. There are NO impressions for irrelevant Job Titles

3. Company employees, competitor employees, recent purchasers and lead form fillers are excluded

Audiences

1. Remarketing audiences are created and actively used

2. Audience Expansion is turned off

3. LinkedIn Audience Network is disabled

Creative & Ad Copy

1. Each campaign has 4-5 creatives and they rotate

2. Each creative is tailored to the target audience you’re targeting

3. Compelling CTA is actively used in Ads

4. From time to time you experiment with different Ad formats

Conversion Tracking

1. Conversions are being tracked

2. Pixel is installed and working correctly

3. Conversions work based on events, not on page visits

4. Custom conversions are set up

Account Structure

1. All necessary audiences are set up (remarketing, look-alike, conversion actions, etc.)

2. There are no restrictions in the account and/or campaigns (Spend limit, Learning limit, etc.)

3. The account is structured according to the funnel model TOFU ➝ MOFU ➝ BOFU

Campaign Settings

1. Campaign goal or primary conversion selected correctly

2. Using Highest Volume bidding strategy

3. Advanced targeting is disabled

4. Website visitors, form fillers, and current customers are excluded

Ads Settings

1. Too high or too low number of ads in ad groups (we recommend having 3–5 ads per ad group)

2. Creatives are sized for each placement

3. UTM tags are set up

4. There are custom fields in lead forms

Analytics & Reporting

1. There are no imbalances in statistics by GEO, gender, age, placements, etc.

2. Different audiences are divided into different groups

Technical Infrastructure

1. Are DMARC, DKIM, and SPF records properly authenticated?

2. Are you utilizing secondary burner domains?

3. Is daily sending volume restricted to under 50 emails per inbox?

4. Are you running a continuous warm-up process?

Messaging & Execution

1. Is your cold email copy under 75 words?

2. Are your emails focused on the prospect's pain instead of your features?

3. Are you utilizing a multi-channel touchpoint strategy?

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