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5 Incredibily Useful Remarketing Lists to Import From Analytics

Find out how you can maximize the conversion rate of your website working on custom remarketing lists. Find out more today.

Remarketing is becoming more important to online marketing strategies everyday. Sales are based on becoming a top choice for your ideal target customer, which means you need to make the most of good leads as often as possible.

Remarketing using just the remarketing lists you built in AdWords will not help find that perfect audience. A lot of traffic you will be targeting may be irrelevant. So, how do you make sure you are targeting your ideal customers and enticing them to come back and complete a purchase?

Here are five lists you can create in Google Analytics to boost the effectiveness of your remarketing strategies.

People Who Have Visited and Spent More Than 30 Seconds on Your Site

People that have spent more than 30 seconds on your site are much more likely to buy than people who spent just a few seconds on it and then bounced off. They were more likely to be interested and actually debated making  purchase.

In order to create this list, go to the admin section of your analytics, then click on “Remarketing”, then “Lists”. You now need to click on “Create a new remarketing list” and then  “Create my own remarketing list using segments”.

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All you have left now is to go to the behavior section of the segment and set up a session duration higher than 30 seconds. Once you save the list you will be able to see and use it in the AdWords account you have linked to that analytics.

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People From Geographic Locations Who Have Sold the Most

Google Analytics provides geographic level data as long as you have set up your e-commerce tracking. This is a very important information that will help you understand which area converts the best for you. Once you have figured it out, you can implement a very effective remarketing strategy:

  1. Create a remarketing list including all visitors from a given geographical area that spent more than 30 seconds on the site
  2. Import this list in Google AdWords and create an adgroup specific for this audience in your remarketing campaigns
  3. Exclude converting users from this list and try to boost the profitability on the users in the area that have to purchase yet

Creating this list is very similar to what we did before. Go in the admin section of your analytics profile, then click on “remarketing”, then “lists”. Then, select “Create my own remarketing type using segments” and choose “demographics”. Customize your selection by choosing the desired settings in “location”.

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Google Smart List

Using the Google Smart List is a relatively new tactic, but it can be extremely beneficial to test out on your accounts.

Google Analytics describes smart lists as follows: “Based on historical conversion data from businesses like yours, Analytics can estimate which users are most likely to convert during subsequent sessions. Remarketing to this list allows you to optimize your marketing budget based on the users closest to converting.”

In order to be able to take advantage of this feature you simply have to go into the admin section of your analytics and click on “Remarketing” and then on “Lists”.

You now need to select “Allow Google to manage my list for me” under “Remarketing type” and save it. You are already done and able to test out a new audience right away!

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People Who Have Visited Specific Pages of a Sales Funnel

Your site is most likely to have several level of customers:

  • People who visited the site and looked at products or services
  • People who looked at information such as shipping costs, special offers, and similar pages
  • People who added items to the shopping cart and did not convert
  • People who spent more than a given amount of time on the website

All of these people might be very good targets for a potential advertising campaign because they are more likely to convert.

The best way to approach such a customer would be to work on a custom strategy depending on what they have previously performed on your site:

  • Users who visited specific pages of the site should receive an advertising message with a special offer or an offer of more information. This the goal is to try and provide the missing element for conversions (it could be testimonials, a discount on the price, more technical information, etc.)
  • People who looked at shipping costs or offer pages on the site could be offered free shipping, free shipping over a given order amount, a reminder about the offer expiration date or any other offer related to the page they visited and that makes the deal sweeter.
  • If you are trying to remarket to people who dropped out the shopping cart, try to either promote a deal or to A/B test solutions to get these buyers to complete their purchase (Shipping costs? A simple reminder? A discount?)

All of the other users can be retargeted with a more general message, but you should test several ad messages to see what works best!

Creating the lists is easy and you just need to follow the steps we used for the previous steps but changing the list settings.

Most Profitable Age and Gender With High Time on Site

Analytics will also help you figure out what ages and genders are the most profitable for your business. Once you find that out, the best way to get the most out of them is to simply retarget the people in these segments who did not convert yet!

Reaching out to the most profitable audience for your business is a pretty obvious key for success. However, this tactic does not exclude people in your most profitable segments who are not the right customers.

In order to account for that, you need to work on additional tune ups to qualify your traffic. For instance, you could create a remarketing list for your best age and gender and then combine it with restrictions in terms of bounce rates and average times on site which you consider ideal.

Also, you might want to consider using page visited as another good parameter in deciding to which users to remarket to.

Conclusion

Remarketing is one of the most effective tools when it comes to maximizing your profits by targeting potential customers who have  already shown interest in your product. But, you must use it carefully to make the most of your money.

Looking at analytics and eCommerce data is a great way to find and target the clients who are most likely to convert.  Just remember to keep testing to find what works for you.

Have you had success (or failures) using Remarketing? What have you noticed seems to work or not work? I would love to hear your experiences in the comments below.

 

All screenshots taken June 2014. Featured image created by author.

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Rocco Baldassarre Founder & CEO at Zebra Advertisement

Rocco Baldassarre is a digital marketing consultant and entrepreneur. He is best known for being the founder of the award ...

5 Incredibily Useful Remarketing Lists to Import From Analytics

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