Enhanced Conversions

Elevate your customer journey tracking game with Enhanced Conversions

Customers visit the website or social media handle but may buy the product or service at a different platform. This poses a challenge to marketers who don’t know how to attribute offline or cross-device conversions to their advertising campaigns. Enhanced Conversions service fills this knowledge gap and allows marketers to track their campaign’s success more effectively without deviating from the customer privacy norms. We, at Analytic Route, are thorough in our approach towards implementing Enhanced Conversions and have a solution-specific process capable of adapting as per your business models and ad budgets.

What are Enhanced Conversions?

Enhanced Conversions are your go-to feature in Google Ads when you want to level up your tracking game. It helps you track even those conversions that happen offline and map those to your Google account. So, you can track the sales happening offline and get complete information on the effectiveness of your Google Ads campaign.

When you select the Enhanced Conversions feature in Google Ads, you simply hash the data that a customer or a prospective lead is most likely to use at various touchpoints. For instance, the feature captures hashed data, like email ID or phone number, from the website and sends it to Google. The search engine matches the hashed data with stored information and carries out the attribution process. Thus, you get the actual conversion picture. Using this, marketers can determine the effectiveness of cross-platform marketing campaigns. It also helps you know how to allocate ad budget, design bidding strategy, and improve sales figures.

Wondering how to use Enhanced Conversions for your marketing campaign? Leave those worries to us; we provide start-to-end support for Enhanced Conversions so that you can do more with your marketing ideas!

Why Enhanced Conversions matter

The advertising landscape is transforming with the introduction of stricter privacy regulations. Also, contemporary browsers hand over more power to users by giving them the power of consent while placing cookies. Hence, marketers need to pave a middle road to track the actual performance of their campaigns without crossing the user privacy line. Enhanced Conversions feature helps work with changes that make it difficult for marketers to gauge the effectiveness of the marketing campaign. By using Enhanced Conversions, marketers benefit by:

  1. Overview of the complete customer journey

    Every search made by the customer on your website or search engine ending in a purchase, form fill-up, or file download is on your radar

  2. Accurate Attribution

    You can link the purchase back to the online enquiry made by the customer and find the most profitable touchpoint for a better marketing strategy

  3. Optimize smartly

    Enhanced Conversions help you find customer behavior and preferences, which helps you optimize your campaigns aligned with customers’ expectations

  4. Follow customer privacy regulations

    With Enhanced Conversions, the data collected and hashed before sending to Google helps marketers meet their objectives without compromising on privacy regulations

  5. Best bidding strategy

    When you know where ad spend is generating maximum revenue, your bidding strategy becomes more data-based. No more relying on hunches, as correct numbers are always with you with Enhanced Conversions

  6. Effective target segmentation

    True conversion data helps you find your target segment. With better data quality and added completeness of data, segmenting becomes more effective and allows designing campaigns accordingly

Want to map your customer journey with Enhanced Conversions? We are eager to help you understand how; talk to us or request a callback to know more!

Common Enhanced Conversions Challenges

Enhanced Conversions feature has its own challenges. As your trusted digital marketing partner, Analytic Route Enhanced Conversions experts take care of all the challenges and ensure that you do not need to drain your energy overcoming them. Enhanced Conversions’ results are adversely impacted by challenges such as:

Web analytics dashboard showing interrupted data, conversion funnel drop-off, low match quality and broken tracking connections
  1. Incorrectly formatted hashed data items

    Emails and phone numbers left untrimmed or written in uppercase before hashing can cause rejection of tags

  2. Out of sync data collection

    Websites running slow at checkout pages lead to slow capturing of data, because of which the possibility of an empty tag arises

  3. Tag limitations

    Third-party tag managers interfere with Google tag functioning and do not allow smooth reading of website elements

  4. Poor match rates

    Customers may not fill all fields of the form; as a result, the hashed identifiers required for matching data go missing

  5. Lead sync not up to mark

    Data passing through CRMs may suffer delays in processing. Attribution characteristics become difficult to match, consequently

  6. Privacy regulation issues

    The entire Enhanced Conversions process is dependent on customer consent. Regulatory requirements like GDPR compliance restrict seamless transfer of data, as customer permission is required before transmission

Our Enhanced Conversions service knows how to handle these challenges and help you have a smooth process for favorable outcomes. Call us to know more about Enhanced Conversions from our experts!

Our Enhanced Conversions Process

We have designed a foolproof Enhanced Conversions Process to ensure flawless results and a better client experience. Our process is a fitting answer to all Enhanced Conversions challenges and is tested thoroughly for effectiveness and compliance. Right from designing the objectives to integrations and reporting, we cover every aspect of Enhanced Conversions implementation. Main steps in the process include:

1

Conversion goals setting

When marketing objectives are different, how can the process be the same? Our Enhanced Conversions Process is designed to meet all conversion objectives as we configure them in the ad platform after a detailed discussion

2

First-party data collection

No GDPR is overlooked while collecting the first-party data. We find out the touchpoints with maximum lead traffic first and then choose the data type for collection (eg. phone, email, or location)

3

SHA-256 hashing

We hash the collected data using an unalterable algorithm, SHA-256, to ensure clear and correct hashing. All hashing errors are avoided and rechecked before submission to ensure flawless outcomes. Error-free hashing without compromising user privacy is our work rule!

4

Transmit Enhanced Conversions data

Whether you operate using a tag manager, API, or website tag, our process of sending Enhanced Conversions data is designed for all. We ensure tagging data along with the conversion event for flawless tracking

5

Attribute conversions

We are committed to delivering flawless matching of hashed data and registered users so that attribution does not go haywire and you have correct numbers with you, always!

6

Optimize results after validation

Every data generated, hashed, and matched is made to go through an automated validation process. We perform real-time implementation checks to ensure all errors, if any, are caught much before they become a problem. We further optimize the campaign using conversion insights for better ad budget utilization.

Consult our Enhanced Conversions experts who work using a well-defined process framework

Enhanced Conversions Services

Aimed at improving ad budget utilization, effective optimization, and above all, enhancing conversion measurement accuracy, our Enhanced Conversions Services are designed to deliver results you expect from a professional setup. You can reach Analytic Route Enhanced Conversions Services for:

Enhanced Conversions assessment

A complete audit is carried out to find how Enhanced Conversions have been used or left unused and its impact on the results. We demarcate gaps in data collection, hashing, and attribution, along with consent, and design a wholesome action plan.

Implementing action plan & configuration

Our Enhanced Conversions Services are compatible with Google Tag Manager, Google Ads API, as well as Google Tag. Based on your marketing objectives, conversion objectives are configured, and data is mapped accordingly

Customer data integration

With prior consent of customers, the first-party data is collected from input channels like lead forms or checkout pages and integrated into the conversion tracking system

Fully compliant data hashing

SHA-256 hashing is done with thorough real-time checks to avoid all compliance lapses, and error-free hashing ensures flawless tracking

Platform integration

Your touchpoint may be a website, a social media handle, or an e-commerce store; we are at ease with integrating all types of platforms with Enhanced Conversions

Hash validation and testing

All event IDs are decided after discussion with the client, and tags are tested for firing relevantly and timely data transmission. We walk an extra mile and fix gaps with automated Tag Assistant tools to deliver a flawless Enhanced Conversions setup

Quality optimization

Our Enhanced Conversions Services experts are finicky when it comes to results’ quality. We keep a close eye on match rates and continuously work towards improving them until attribution is on point and is a clear indicator of purchase events in the future.

Reports & Performance Analysis

Every Enhanced Conversions campaign is on our radar. We deliver timely and regular reports to give clients a comfort factor while planning and optimizing ad campaigns. Our work does not stop at implementation. We carry out performance analysis to understand campaign impact and further attribution improvement requirements

Proactive maintenance & fully responsive support

Every website update and its impact on conversion tracking quality is managed with proactive measures. Our support team is by your side all the time to take care of tracking issues and fix them without asking for downtime

Training & Report/Documentation Support

Our focus is on giving clients complete control over the conversion tracking process. So, we also organize training programs for clients’ in-house marketing professionals and empower them with the right knowledge and tools. Professional setup support and how to perform documentation activities are our other deliverables. We believe in learning and growing together!