Use remarketing lists to show ads to people who have visited your website before. This article explains the steps you’ll need to follow to create a website remarketing list.
Before you begin
If you aren't familiar with remarketing, you should read How remarketing works first.
Instructions
- Sign in to Google Ads.
- Click the tools icon
, then click Shared library.
- Click Audience manager.
- Click Audience lists.
- To add a website visitors list, click the plus button
and select Website visitors.
- On the page that opens, start by entering a descriptive remarketing list name.
- Choose a template from the "List members" drop-down menu.
- Select a set of rules from the “Visited pages” drop-down menu options. For each menu option, add the conditions for web pages on your site where you'd like to collect visitor cookies. Values can be words, numbers, or dates, depending on the rule template and conditions you selected for the list you’re creating. After you've completed a rule, click Or or Add (depending on the rule option you selected).
- Enter an initial list size, which is the number of visitors to your website during a set period of time. You can add site visitors from the previous 30 days to your list, or you can start with an empty list.
Note: If you have a remarketing tag on your website and want to include visitors who match your list’s rules, select the option to add site visitors from the previous 30 days.
- Enter a membership duration, which is the length you want a visitor to stay on your list. You can change the membership duration at any time.
- (Optional) Enter a description of your audience.
- Click Create audience.
Create as many remarketing lists as you'd like. Once you've created lists, create new campaigns and ad groups where you can add your lists.
Google Ads does not permit the implementation of tags on pages related to policy-restricted offers. Learn more about the Personalized advertising policy
Best practices
Best practicesRead the Google Best Practices guide to learn how to re-engage previous site visitors with personalized ads.
Reach Past Visitors with Display Remarketing: Google Best Practices