The AdWords advertisers have been receiving several emails from the Google.
The mail stated that from 6th February 2017 the call extensions will be a part of mobile ads, a change that will have a prominent impact on the advertisers. Google has taken the complete responsibility of bringing about this changeΒ and according to them, mobile search will help to drive more calls to business. It is predicted to drive 19 % more call to the businesses. This will not happen if one only makes use of the landing pages which are available. Even though most advertisers have received this mail, there are cases of many advertisers not receiving such mail till date.
Google has decided to include the phone number acquired from the landing pages and include it in the mobile ads as a call extension. This change probably is not going to be much effective as it sounds to be. Most advertisers do not favour such change due to several reasons. There are many people who do not agree to pay for calls and there might be some people who do not prefer such phone calls.
There will be availability of automatic call extensions at the campaign or add group level. These calls will be reported at the main call extension report rather than in the automated extension report. In this way, one is able to view all the numbers which are being used both at your doing or the Googleβs in one location.
There are many advertisers who use different phone numbers on landing pages instead of using call extensions. The spokesperson of Google has said that henceforth this case will screen for this type of scenes. It will not hold true when there are automatic call extensions from different phone numbers on the landing pages.
The advertisers need to opt out in case they do not agree to pay for the calls directed to the phone numbers on the landing pages. The given steps should be followed if one wants to opt out-
- First, you need to visit the Ad extensions tab.
- Second, you need to select βView: Automated extensions report.β
- After that, click on the βEditβ option by scrolling down to the βAutomated Extensions Options.β
- Finally, you need to select the options which read βDo not use specific automated extensions for this accountβ.
- There is an added option in the list of automated extensions introduced by the Google.
You should note that if you check this option after 6th February a need to remove any automatically generated call extensions might arise.On the other hand if you agree with the call extensions which will be automatically added to your mobile ads, you do not need to do anything. Simply sit back and let the change affect you in the following month. On the other hand for people who have the availability of such call extensions already, this change wonβt be any new.