Retailers who increased bids closer to their physical stores to a majority of their search campaigns in Q4, increased store visits by 107% quarter-over-quarter versus a 69% increase for those who did not.

Google Internal Data, Measured via holdout study, n=205 advertisers, April–July 2017.

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