Google Ads · Offline conversion imports
A form fill is not a sale. If you close deals by phone, email or in person, Google Ads only sees the enquiry, so it chases more enquiries, good or bad. We feed your real results from your CRM back into Google Ads, so smart bidding learns to find customers, not just leads.
Lead journey · example month
Google stops chasing the 120 and starts looking for more of the 12.
Why it matters
Imagine two keywords. One brings 20 enquiries a month, mostly tyre-kickers. The other brings 8, and half of them sign. If Google Ads only sees enquiries, it will push more budget to the first keyword every time. It’s doing exactly what it was told to do.
Offline conversion imports fix that. When a lead becomes qualified, gets a quote or signs, your CRM tells Google Ads. Google connects that result to the original ad click, then starts bidding for more people like the ones who actually paid you.
This matters most for businesses with a sales process: B2B, professional services, real estate, education, finance, solar, building, and any service where the real value is decided after the first call.
It sits on top of clean GA4 conversion tracking and call tracking. Those catch the enquiry. Offline imports tell Google what happened next.
Try it
Pick a stage to see what Google learns from it. Most businesses do best feeding in more than one.
How it works
Four steps, running quietly in the background every day.
Someone clicks your ad. Google adds a click ID to the web address.
Your form saves the click ID and the email address with the new lead in your CRM.
Your team updates the lead as it moves along: qualified, quoted, won.
Each day, results go to Google Ads with the click ID or the scrambled email, and Google matches them to the right ad.
Connections
HubSpot and Salesforce connect directly through Google Ads Data Manager. Most other CRMs connect through Zapier, a scheduled file upload or a custom connection. If your leads live in a spreadsheet or job management software, we can work with that too.
Some tools connect directly, others through a connector or a custom integration. We confirm the most reliable route for yours before we start.
Google changed how offline conversions get into Google Ads this year.
How we set it up
We move carefully here, because changing what Google optimises for changes how your budget is spent.
We define what a qualified lead and a sale mean for your business, and roughly what each is worth.
We make sure every form stores the Google click ID and the email address, and that your CRM keeps them with the lead.
We set up a conversion action in Google Ads for each stage you want to send.
We connect your CRM through Data Manager, a trusted connector or an automated upload, so results flow daily without anyone touching a spreadsheet.
We push test leads through, then check Google Ads shows them against the right campaign.
Once there is enough data, we shift bidding towards qualified leads or real revenue, step by step, so results don’t dip while Google relearns.
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Each of these works best alongside the others. Here is how the rest of our tracking and setup work fits together.
We manage Google Ads for businesses right across Australia, including Perth, Melbourne, Sydney and Rockingham, Mandurah and Busselton.
Questions
What sales-led businesses ask us most.
Any result that happens away from your website after someone clicks your ad, like a qualified sales call, a signed contract, a booked job or an in-store sale.
Google accepts imported conversions within the conversion window you set, up to 90 days after the click. That’s why we set up daily uploads rather than waiting until the end of a quarter.
It helps a lot. But if you track leads in a spreadsheet or job software, we can still send results to Google Ads, as long as each lead keeps its click ID or email address.
If you bid on sales instead of enquiries, the number in the conversions column will be smaller, because there are fewer sales than leads. The quality goes up. We change bidding gradually and report both numbers so you can see what is happening.
Phone leads can be imported too. Google forwarding numbers or a call tracking platform link each call to a click, and the result can be sent back to Google Ads.
Emails and phone numbers are scrambled before they are sent, and only used to match results to ad clicks. Your privacy policy should say that you do this. We help you check it.
Yes, and you should. Real values let Google Ads bid for your most valuable customers, not just the most customers.
About the author
Director and Lead Consultant, Anahaw Media
John Conigliaro is the Director and Lead Consultant at Anahaw Media, a Perth digital marketing agency focused on performance. A Filipino-Australian digital marketer now based in Perth, WA, with more than 15 years’ experience across Singapore and Australia, he has led agencies in Australia on technical execution and growth strategy, founded a globally recognised eCommerce brand, and managed almost 300 campaigns, from small businesses to multinational brands, including Canon, Uniqlo, Benefit Cosmetics, Asiana Airlines, Changi Recommends, APM and Golfbox. He completed an MBA and a dissertation on Digital Transformation, holds a specialisation in Computer Applications from De La Salle-College of Saint Benilde (DLSU-CSB), and is also a consumer tech critic and publisher. His mission is to use his talent and passion for digital marketing to change businesses for the better, in how they win customers and how they build their brand.
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