Yandex Metrica: evaluate your ad performance

You can use Yandex Metrica data to increase your return on advertising

After you set up your goals in Yandex Metrica, you can switch to an automatic strategy. For example, the Maximize conversions strategy lets you get the maximum number of conversions and bring the average weekly CPA closer to the value you set. Learn more about strategies

If you manage your bids manually, Yandex Direct can automatically raise or lower bids depending on the forecasted conversion probability. By setting up priority goals for your campaign, you help Yandex Direct predict conversions more accurately. Learn more about priority goals

Yandex Metrica in ad settings is helpful

Yandex Metrica lets you collect data about a site's audience. This data helps you more accurately target your ads, create more attractive ads, and optimize your campaign settings.

How to set up a campaign based on website audience data

Site statistics in Yandex Metrica help you improve this

Your campaign success also depends on the quality of your website. Even if an ad brings a lot of impressions and clicks, you can make it more profitable by analyzing your website statistics and improving its usability.

How to identify shortcomings of your website

If there are people who help you manage your ad campaigns in Yandex Direct, like an agency or a setup expert, you can choose to give them access only to the goals on the tag for your website. In this case, these users will be able to use them to optimize ad campaigns without having access to the Yandex Metrica tag. To do this, go to Yandex Metrica, open the Goals page, and enable the Allow optimizing campaigns for goals without access to the tag option. If you created the tag recently, the option is enabled by default.

When you create a campaign, information about the Yandex Metrica tags installed on the website is automatically shown in the relevant field. If you are setting up an ad but don't have access to the necessary tags, the system will suggest requesting access to goals on these tags. To do so, click Request access. Please note that you won't have access to all tag statistics. Only the part of these statistics that is necessary to run ad campaigns will be available to you:

• Data on goals will be collected only for the launched campaign. That's why you won't be able to use the data obtained during campaigns run on other accounts. The statistics will only contain the data obtained during the ad campaign where the goals were used.

• Transferring income data from Yandex Metrica to Yandex Direct won't be available. E-commerce goals can be used for optimization. In the Maximum conversions strategy limited by cost-revenue ratio (CRR), specify the conversions and set their value.

• You can't set up retargeting lists for such goals.

• Hints in the interface like the number of conversions over the past period or CPA recommendations won't be available.

Review your Yandex Metrica reports for Yandex Direct. The Yandex Direct, summary report provides traffic statistics for ads, keywords, and search queries, and the Yandex Direct, costs report provides cost statistics for them.

For example, if the Yandex Direct, summary report shows a high bounce rate after clicking one of the ads, this might mean that users cannot find the advertised product on the landing page. You can prevent bounces by editing your ad or landing page.

In each report, you can select a goal and see its conversion statistics. From the Yandex Direct, summary report, you can learn which ads are more likely to lead to your goal, while from the Yandex Direct, costs report, you can learn how much you spend on these clicks. Reallocate your budget in favor of better performing ads and keywords to get more conversions.

Ads are more effective when they address a specific target audience. Know your visitors to target your ads better.

Contact your visitors again

You can display ads for people who already interacted with your site. For example, users who looked at three or more products but didn't make a purchase can be suggested a broader selection of products in the category they're interested in. To do this, create a retargeting list based on Yandex Metrica goals and segments. Learn more about retargeting

Adapt your ads to your audience

Yandex Metrica gives you a deeper insight into your audience with the Long-term interests, Geography, Gender, and Age reports. When you select a goal, you can see the characteristics of users who reach the goal more often. You can set up bid adjustments to increase the number of such users, and write separate ad texts for them. Learn more about bid adjustments

Find out how visitors go to your site

For example, see the Search query report: you can add the most effective queries to your campaign keywords.

Check your website performance on different devices and browsers

If the website loads slowly or fails to adapt to screen size, mobile users bounce out. You can compare bounce rates and page depth for desktops, smartphones, and tablets (in the Devices report), and for different browsers (in the Browsers report). You can analyze website performance using the Page load time report (you can also group it by device).

Evaluate user interaction with the website

• Identify the landing pages that often bounce visitors back from the website: see the bounce rate in the report Content → Landing pages.
• Create a multi-step goal: define the sequence of steps the user takes on their purchase path. In the Conversions report, you see which step you lose your customers at most often.
• Find out what difficulties the users have: use Session Replay to select sessions with product views without purchases and replay the sessions.
• Additionally evaluate your website navigation using the maps of clicks, links, and scrolling.
• Use the Form analysis tool to test how your forms work: you will find out on which field of your form the users usually drop the form.