For your App campaign for engagement to perform, learn and drive conversions, the conversion flow must be set up properly. Setting up your conversion flow correctly lets Google Ads learn faster and reduce potential discrepancies and tracking issues with App Attribution Partners (AAPs).
Before you begin
- Enable conversion tracking. Learn how to Set up conversion tracking.
- Add an in-app event that reports ‘session_start’ along with the GCLID for Android apps. To avoid under-reporting conversions, conversion tracking on Search requires a 'Google Click Identifier', or GCLID. Without a GCLID, your App campaigns for engagement will only measure data from Display and YouTube and not Search.
Instructions
Find your Attribution provider in the list below, and click it to open the instructions.
Firebase
Measure app conversions from Google Analytics 4 properties here.
AppsFlyer
- In your AppsFlyer settings, turn on 'Google Ads Retargeting'. See the AppsFlyer instructions under Step 2.
- In your AppsFlyer settings, under 'Sending Option', choose Events attributed to any partner or organic.
Adjust
- In your Adjust settings, make sure that 'Enable reattribution' is turned on.
- Set the inactivity window to 0 days.
- Verify that your app is making the call below to Adjust’s Software Development Kit (SDK):
Singular
- From the 'Partner Configuration' section of your Singular app, under 'App-specific Configuration', tick the box next to 'Enable Re-engagement Tracking'.
- Confirm that your app is enabled to track deep linking.
- Make sure that the conversion windows are the same in Singular and Google ads.
Kochava
- In the Kochava app, click the app that you wish to configure, then choose Campaign Manager from the drop-down menu that appears.
- Click Add a Tracker.
- Under 'Tracker type', select Reengagement.
- Under 'Media Partner', select Google AdWords.
- Under 'Event', enter '_deeplink'.
- Click Save.
- At the top of the page, open the App Tools drop-down menu, then select Partner Configuration.
- Under 'Network', find 'Google AdWords'.
- Click the 3-dot menu next to Google AdWords, then select Postbacks.
- Confirm that '_deeplink' is listed under 'Active Events'.
- Click the 3-dot menu next to '_deeplink'.
- Under 'App event type', select Session Start.
- Under 'App event name', enter 'DeepLink'.
Branch
- In the Branch Dashboard, navigate to Configuration > Attribution Windows.
- As a Best Practice, the re-engagement inactivity window should be set to 0 days (confirm this setting).
- Navigate to Ads > Partner Management > Google AdWords the select Attribution Windows (within AdWords settings).
- Toggle 'on' Use ad partner attribution settings (these take precedence over Configuration windows).
