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Running Google, Microsoft and Meta ads without letting them drift

A Google Ads, Microsoft Ads or Meta campaign pays off when it is measured on real enquiries, not clicks, and adjusted every week: negative keywords, tested ads, budget moved to what converts. Left alone, it spends whatever you give it.

This category covers conversion tracking before any spend, running Google Ads, Microsoft Ads and Meta ads, how paid and organic search work together, and what a campaign really costs once management fees are counted.

Start with the guide

Send your CRM sales back to Google Ads: the guide

In B2B, the sale is signed weeks after the click, by phone or in a meeting. Until Google Ads knows that, it optimises for submitted forms, not for customers: here is how to send it the stages from your CRM.

3 articles

  • Stepping back7 min

    AI and disinformation: lying machine or remedy?

    One study shows that AI writes more convincing false information than humans do, another that it reduces conspiracy beliefs, but its journal has expressed a reservation. What we can take from them, and what the law requires of those who publish.

  • Choose and price7 min

    Google Ads or Meta for a B2B SME: how to choose

    Google Ads answers a search, Meta interrupts a news feed. In B2B, that difference decides which platform to start with, and how to judge the test.

  • Practical guide8 min

    Send your CRM sales back to Google Ads: the guide

    In B2B, the sale is signed weeks after the click, by phone or in a meeting. Until Google Ads knows that, it optimises for submitted forms, not for customers: here is how to send it the stages from your CRM.

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