The non-paid results of a search query. For example, when a consumer searches for "red shoes", the results include both ads (paid search results) and links found by the search engine based on the content of web sites (natural search results).
By default, Search Ads 360 ignores natural search clicks. However, if you subscribe to the Search Ads 360 Natural Search feature and choose Equal Attribution, Search Ads 360 considers natural search clicks to be part of the conversion funnel along with display clicks and paid search clicks.
Example
For example, here's a conversion funnel:
- Paid search click
- Natural search click
- Conversion
By default, Search Ads 360 gives all conversion credit to the paid search click. This is true of all attribution models in Search Ads 360: since Search Ads 360 ignores natural search clicks by default, there's only one paid search click in the funnel, and only one click to distribute credit to.
If you subscribe to the Search Ads 360 Natural Search feature and choose Equal Attribution, Search Ads 360 considers the natural search click to be part of the funnel.
In a Search Ads 360 report:
- The last-click attribution model gives no credit to the paid search click. (The natural search click receives all of the credit, but Search Ads 360 only reports on paid search clicks.)
- Other attribution models may distribute some amount of credit to the paid search click, but the last click is considered to be the natural search click.
In a Search Ads 360 Natural Search report, all of the credit goes to the natural search click.