The complete guide to LinkedIn Ad Management
Part Three: Analysing and optimising your LinkedIn ad campaign
Congratulations! If you’ve followed part one and part two of this guide to to LinkedIn ad management, then you’ve officially launched your LinkedIn Ad campaign!
Now, for the best and debatably most important part of campaign marketing — analytics. LinkedIn makes it easy to track your progress in the Campaign Manager dashboard (under “Campaign Performance”), where you’ll see various charts that measure performance like clicks, expenditures, and CTR. You can also keep track of conversions in the graphs toward the bottom of the dashboard.
When you finish setting up your first campaign, you’ll see a lot of “0”s at first. Don’t worry, that’s only because your campaign is new (and don’t forget that LinkedIn usually has to approve your ads before they go live).
How to Optimize Your LinkedIn Ad Campaigns
Social ad campaigns can always be improved. Remember, your audience and content are always changing as well as the platform itself. Here are some ways to optimize your LinkedIn ad campaign.
Optimising Under-Performing Campaigns
If your campaigns aren’t performing as well as you’d hope, here are a few measures you can take to optimize your campaigns. Tip: Set a reminder for yourself to check and optimize your campaigns each month.
Look at each campaign click-through rate.
Is one campaign out-performing the other(s)? If so, you may want to pause the less successful campaign(s). LinkedIn will automatically display less successful campaigns with lower frequency, so it makes sense to minimize any resources spent on them. Instead, putting more resources into successful ad variations and campaigns is more likely to accomplish your marketing goals.
Tweak one variable at a time.
Just because your ad is under-performing doesn’t mean you need to scrap the whole thing. Test different variations of the same ad to see what factor is contributing to or hindering its success. Edit the copy in your headline, change your feature image, tweak the target audience attributes, or update your bids — just don’t do these all at the same time or you won’t know which one is the fix.
Get — and stay — familiar with your audience.
Take a refresher on your target audience every month. Check out your buyer persona and conduct new research on the audience attributes that might need to be tweaked on your campaign. Update these attributes regularly so the very best people are always seeing — and hopefully engaging — with your ads.
Qualifying LinkedIn Ad Leads with Post-Click Reporting
Once your ads are running and people begin clicking on them, it’s time to determine if they’re actually driving qualified traffic to your website. That isn’t something LinkedIn can tell you, so you’ll need to do some closed-loop reporting on these campaigns to get more details on the makeup of this traffic.
How can you figure that out? It’s all about “gated” offers and forms — when someone clicks on your ad and lands on your website, “gating” the content you are offering with a lead form will help you collect data that qualifies that person as a good lead (or not). Connect that lead capture form to your customer relationship management (CRM) software, so that once the information is imported, your sales team can act upon them.
But don’t neglect your LinkedIn ad campaigns in favor of the landing page form data in your CRM. Is the traffic to your website generated by LinkedIn ads qualified? Is it generating customers? If not, you might need to further optimize your campaigns.
For example, if your LinkedIn ads are targeting people in companies with 1 to 10 people, but you find that the majority of your closed deals are from leads with companies with 100 to 200 — stop paying to target those smaller companies on LinkedIn.
The targeting options we covered previously allow you to change any of your criteria, so use it to your advantage.
Ready to Try a New Ad Strategy?
With the right amount of patience and strategy, LinkedIn ad campaigns can be a huge factor in your company’s marketing success. LinkedIn has a very powerful advertising platform; don’t leave this off your social campaign marketing list. A well-researched, optimised campaign has the potential to bring in thousands of new leads — and sales.
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