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    • lmoraes
      lmoraes last edited by

      Hi,

      I have two campaigns running in Google Adwords or Google Ads now and I saw in Google Ads account that I had 5 clicks today (09/18/2018) but when I try to search for this clicks in my Google Analytics in ACQUISITION > All Traffic > Channels I don't find nothing about "Paid Search" or something like that.

      Bellow is a picture of my Google Analytics account to prove it. The accounts are linked and I can find the 2 campaigns in the Analytics.

      How can I interpret this picture? Where the paid traffic is showing? or not showing there?

      Thanks

      Leandro

      uvAtrsg

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      • Alick300
        Alick300 last edited by

        Glad to help!!

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        • lmoraes
          lmoraes last edited by

          Solved with Google support. Thanks for the answer and the link Alick300.

          The problem was in Google Analytics properties settings.

          Just needed change a parameter in Google Analytics menu Admin > Proporties > Properties Settings > Advanced Settings

          Click to enable this feature:

          Allow manual tagging (UTM values) to override auto-tagging (GCLID values) for Google Ads and Search Ads 360 integration

          Regards,

          Leandro

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          • Alick300
            Alick300 last edited by

            Hi,

            Yes auto tagging is enabled and adwords and analytics linked as you said above so I would suggest you to reach Google ads support team they will help you.

            https://support.google.com/google-ads/gethelp

            Thanks

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            • lmoraes
              lmoraes last edited by

              Hi, thanks for the answer Alick300 and Sean Ginnaw, I really don't use auto-tagging. But I checked my auto-tagging settings and looks like be set to ON as the picture.

              But using the section of Google Support to set this feature he saids to change "Tracking" the the options showed in this link doesn't exists in the actual version, looks like an old manual.

              https://support.google.com/google-ads/answer/3095550?co=ADWORDS.IsAWNCustomer%3Dfalse&hl=en

              Can anyone help me?

              NS72mCb

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              • seanginnaw
                seanginnaw last edited by

                Hi There,

                Auto tagging is a great place to start.

                If that isn't possible, it it's breaking, you can manually specify UTM values by adding a query extension to each landing page URL.

                Google's tool for doing this is here > https://ga-dev-tools.appspot.com/campaign-url-builder/

                All the best,

                Sean

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                • Alick300
                  Alick300 last edited by

                  Hi,

                  Please check auto tagging is enabled or not? If not enable it.

                  Thanks

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