Taboola's webinar, "How to Track Your Taboola Campaign" was held on Wednesday, June 3rd at 11am EDT. This is session two in a three-part webinar series on how to drive highly engaged traffic with Taboola. The full video recording can be viewed here: https://goo.gl/XwWMZv
Taboola's Senior Manager of Media Operations and Training, Grace Earle, led the discussion on the ins and outs of tracking including tracking parameteres for Google Analytics and Omniture, why tracking is so important and more.
The third and final session:"How to Set Up Your Taboola Campaign in Backstage" will be broadcasted Wednesday, June 10th at 11:00AM EDT. This series will help advertisers learn how to make the most of their Taboola campaigns!
For more information about Taboola, please visit www.Taboola.com
3. TABOOLA REACHING MORE DESKTOP USERS THAN
FACEBOOK 1/2015
ReachProperty
95.1%Google Ad Network
86.0%Taboola
85.1%Yahoo Audience Net.
83.3%Google Sites
73.4%Outbrain
72.4%Yahoo Sites
57.3%Facebook
4. AGENDA
Why tracking engagement is
important
Tracking pixel (JS code)
Tracking parameters (for Google
Analytics and Omniture)
How to optimize for engagement
using tracking
5. WHY IS THIS IMPORTANT?
• Track ROI
• Track trends
• Gather data to use for future initiatives
6. FIRST STEP: KNOW YOUR GOALS
• PPVs? TOS? Uniques?
• Are goals different by URL? Platform? Country?
• Use existing benchmarks
• Alert AM or consult Taboola resources if needed for help
7. BE READY TO TEST
• Types of content
• Page layouts
• Platform and countries
• Targeting
9. JAVASCRIPT CODE – PPV TRACKING
• A few lines of code, placed directly into <head> section of site
• Allows us to track PPVs in Backstage
10. JAVASCRIPT CODE - USE BACKSTAGE TO TRACK
• By site
• By campaign, by item
• By country
• By platform
11. TRACKING PARAMETERS – ENGAGEMENT TRACKING
• Custom based on your tracking needs
• {site} passback macro
• Can be added to GA or Omniture parameters
12. TRACKING PARAMETERS - USE ANALYTICS TO TRACK
Ex. utm_source={site}&utm_medium=taboola
13. TRACKING PARAMETERS – BACKSTAGE SET UP
• Can be added at campaign level
• Can be added at URL level
• *Make sure the same parameter
is not in both places*
15. SHOULD I USE JS CODE OR
TRACKING PARAMETERS?
Tracking ParametersJS Code
• Easy set up in Backstage• Implement on every page
• Multiple on site metrics• Easy optimization
• Track all traffic sources• Future opportunities for opts
USE BOTH!