Outsourcing tracking to a specialist
An ad platform optimises on whatever you pass on as a conversion. If that conversion is wrong, Smart Bidding learns from noise: spam, your own test traffic or visitors who never become customers. That is why good marketing starts with measurement that is right, from the click on your ad to the deal in your CRM.
As a tracking specialist, we build that measurement for you. Not as a stand-alone technical project, but with an eye on how you sell: which step predicts revenue, which signals are only for observation, and which data may go to which platform according to your cookie banner. Want to know where you stand today first? Then a tracking audit is the logical first step.
What we set up
GA4 and Google Tag Manager. A GA4 property with the events and key events that fit your business, managed from one tidy Google Tag Manager container with clear names and a fixed structure.
A data layer. Forms, demo requests, purchases and phone calls are pushed as events to the data layer. That way tags fire at the right moment, even with an embedded calendar or a form without a thank-you page.
Server-side tagging. With a server-side container on your own subdomain, you decide which data goes to which platform. We tell you honestly when that pays off and when a good client-side setup is enough. Read more in our article on server-side tracking for Google Ads.
Consent Mode v2 and your CMP. With Consent Mode you pass your visitors’ consent to Google, so tags adapt their behaviour. We connect it to your cookie banner and take Belgian and Dutch rules into account. See also Consent Mode v2 for Google Ads.
Google Ads and enhanced conversions. Conversions on the right event, with enhanced conversions that send hashed first-party data for more accurate measurement. See how to set up enhanced conversions.
Meta, LinkedIn and TikTok. The Meta Pixel together with the Conversions API, with deduplication between browser and server. Plus the LinkedIn Insight Tag and Conversions API, and the TikTok Pixel and Events API.
Offline conversions from your CRM. We store the click ID with the lead in HubSpot, Pipedrive, Salesforce, Teamleader or Odoo and send qualified leads and deals back to your ad platforms. How that works is explained in importing offline conversions into Google Ads.
Call tracking. With dynamic numbers you see which campaign produced a phone call, and you measure those calls as conversions. More in our article on call tracking.
How we test that it works
A tag in the container is not yet a conversion that is right. Before every go-live we test each conversion in Google Tag Manager preview mode and Tag Assistant, in GA4 DebugView and in the test tools of Meta, LinkedIn and TikTok. We check whether the click ID survives the redirect, whether consent works per category and whether nothing is counted twice between GA4 and Google Ads.
From tracking to reporting
Reliable measurement is the foundation; you make decisions in your reporting. Once your data is right, we can build a Looker Studio dashboard and you can move on to our Reporting & data service, where we translate the numbers into choices about budget and channels. And because the same team can also run your Google Ads, Meta Ads and LinkedIn Ads, the measurement goes straight to work in your campaigns.
Who is this for?
For B2B companies with a longer sales cycle that want to steer on qualified leads and deals, for e-commerce that wants pixel and server to work together, and for agencies looking for a reliable partner for their clients’ technical measurement. See how we approached it at Tryve, Suivo and Kaizo.
Pricing is on request, because every measurement setup is different. Contact us and within 24 hours you’ll hear how we would approach your tracking.