Page managers and advertisers should have noticed design changes and new tools like conversion tracking and the ability to save target audiences earlier this year.
Just recently, three additional changes should have advertisers who aren’t spending $25,000 a month jumping for joy:
1. Retargeting website traffic
If you have a decent amount of quality traffic to your website, retargeting can remind those who have visited your website that you exist. It’s a foolproof way to reach a warm audience—an audience that already knows you—which typically converts at a higher rate than a cold audience.
Facebook has had retargeting capabilities for a few years, and LinkedIn is finally jumping on the bandwagon.
All you have to do is add a snippet of code to your global footer and your audience will start building. The tracking pixel will collect visitors to your website for the past 90 days, enabling you to serve ads to this audience once you cross the 300-match threshold.
2. Upload lists (organizations and customers)
Another option now available to all LinkedIn advertisers is the ability to upload lists with customer data (or potential customer data).
You have two options:
1. Upload email addresses that you’ve collected. (For best results we don’t recommend uploading a purchased list.)
2. Upload a list of organization names you want to target.
The ability to upload organization names using an Excel file might have caused me to hear the sound of angels singing, because if you’ve ever had to manually input 100 organization names into LinkedIn’s advertising platform, you probably don’t want to have to do it ever again. The ability to upload an Excel file of names also allows you to max out at 300 organizations, whereas before the update the maximum number you could target was 100.
3. Lead forms
Last but certainly not least is a major update to the look and feel of LinkedIn’s sponsored content.
If you are promoting any gated content on LinkedIn, listen up. LinkedIn’s lead forms are almost an exact replica of Facebook’s version, and they both provide a streamlined user experience to those interacting with your ads on their mobile device.
Instead of sending people to a landing page where they have to futz with a form to provide information in return for a white paper, LinkedIn’s lead forms will allow you to complete the “transaction” within LinkedIn’s app.
Bonus points: if a user has filled out his/her LinkedIn profile, most if not all of the information you are requesting will be prefilled. The hope is that by making a user’s experience easier and less of a hassle, you’ll see a higher conversion rate.
Kelsey Leavey is a PR and social media specialist at The Hodges Partnership. A version of this article originally appeared on The Gong Blog.
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