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Google Ads Reference

Send advertising events directly to Google Ads from Freshpaint

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Optimize your Google Ads spend by attributing ad clicks to conversion and other key behaviors.

Destination Info

  • Supports calls

  • Supports

  • Supports forwarding from the

  • Refer to this destination as Google AdWords New in the

    • If you've configured multiple Conversion IDs, you can choose a specific one by suffixing the Conversion ID, such as: Google AdWords New::123456789. You can retrieve this value from the Google Ads configuration page for the Conversion ID of interest.

When no suffix is specified, all configured Conversion IDs are selected for inclusion / exclusion.

  • Connection Modes:

Client-side
Server-side

Web

Mobile

Server

When using Server-Side connection mode you are using a Proxy Integration for Google Ads. This destination runs on Freshpaint's servers, but emulates a native installation of Google Universal Analytics Tag. That means the integration behaves the same as if you did a native installation of Google Universal Analytics Tag, but the data first flows through Freshpaint before it's sent to Google. .

This is a reference document for the Google Ads destination. For information on how to set up this integration, see the.

API Mapping

Events

Freshpaint.track() events map to any Click Conversions you've already created in Google Ads. Any properties you've created will be passed along as well.

Track Events

When you send an event to Google Ads, you can track conversions from your ad campaigns based on those events.

Client-side

Freshpaint property

Google Ads parameter

Type

Required?

Description

category

ec

string

Optional

Event category defined as you wish. Can be used as an additional filter criterion for conversion goals.

revenue

gv

number

Optional

Value of the conversion in USD. Must be between 0 and 9999999 with up to 3 decimal places.

Server-side

Freshpaint's servers use the same API as the client-side Google Tag. You may provide the following additional event properties:

Freshpaint property

Google Ads parameter

Type

Required?

Description

$gclid

gclid

string

Required

gclid (Google Click ID) is generated at ad click time and appended to the landing page URL. Freshpaint will automatically capture gclid for events from your website. If you wish, you may provide $gclid as an event property to override the automatically captured value.

conversion_label

label

string

Required

The Conversion Label configured within google ads to identify which conversion action the event should trigger

$gbraid

gclgb

string

Optional

gbraid is generated at ad click time and appended to the landing page URL. It will be used as the click ID if $gclid is not provided.

$wbraid

gclgb

string

Optional

wbraid is generated at ad click time and appended to the landing page URL. It will be used as the click ID if $gclid and $gbraid are not provided.

transaction_id

oid

string

Optional

_gcl_aw or gclaw

gclaw

string

Optional

Defaults to the gclid

gac

string

Optional

The google analytics code. Will only be sent to google ads if configured within your account.

gtm_ee

string

Optional

Enable Enhanced Ecommerce on the event.

$title

tiba

string

Optional

The title of the page being visited

$referrer

ref

string

Optional

The referrer to the page being visited

user_agent_arch

uaa

string

Optional

The User-Agent Architecture

user_agent_bitness

uab

string

Optional

The User-Agent Bitness

user_agent_full_version_list

uafvl

string

Optional

The User-Agent Full Version List

user_agent_mobileness

uamb

string

Optional

The User-Agent Mobileness. Must be 1 for a mobile device and 0 for non-mobile devices.

user_agent_platform

uap

string

Optional

The User-Agent Platform.

user_agent_platform_version

uapv

string

Optional

The User-Agent Platform Version

user_agent_wow64

uaw

string

Optional

The User-Agent WoW64 (Win32 on Win64)

utm_campaign

utm_campaign

string

Optional

The advertising campaign the specific event belongs to

utm_source

utm_source

string

Optional

The advertising source that the user followed to reach the site.

utm_medium

utm_medium

string

Optional

The medium or channel that the user followed to reach the site.

utm_content

utm_content

string

Optional

The content tag used to track the specific content or variation of an ad that the user followed to reach the site.

utm_term

utm_term

string

Optional

The keywords the user used when searching that led to the ad impression.

$screen_height

u_ah

number

Optional

The screen height of the device visiting the page

$screen_width

u_aw

number

Optional

The screen width of the device visiting the page

$viewport_height

u_h

number

Optional

The visible height of the web page

$viewport_width

u_w

number

Optional

The visible width of the web page

u_tz

u_tz

number

Optional

The timezone offset of the device

value or total or revenue

value

number

Optional

currency

currency_code

string

Optional

$os

os

string

Optional

The operating system of the device. Freshpaint will only send this property if it is allowlisted.

Freshpaint will only deliver events to Google when a user arrives on your site by clicking on a Google Ad, thus generating an gclid, gbraid, or wbraid. Without one of these click IDs, Google will not be able to attribute conversions.

Setup Conversion Labels

If you are using conversion actions that trigger off of a Page load, you will need to create new manual conversion actions in google ads. Freshpaint does not pass the URL to google ads which could expose HIPAA sensitive data when using the server-side integration.

Each Google Adwords conversion action uses a conversion label to uniquely identify the conversion action.

  1. Click on the conversion action you're setting up

  1. Select Tag Setup

  1. Select Use Google Tag Manager

  1. Get the Conversion label from the instructions

Using Multiple Google Ads Accounts

If you need to send conversion actions to more than one different Google Ads account, this can be achieved by configuring additional instances, each with its own Conversion ID. After doing this, you'll see them listed in the Overview list, for example:

If you're using precision tracking, see Destination Info above.

If you're using the Google Tag Manager integration integration, you enter the specific Conversion ID on the Freshpaint GTM Template tag:

Call Conversions

To use Google Ads call conversions, you need to call freshpaint.registerCallConversion. If you have an existing Google Ads Call Conversion configuration that looks like:

gtag('config', <TAG_ID/CONVERSION_LABEL>, {
  'phone_conversion_number': <phone-number>
});

You need to replace it with the following call to the Freshpaint SDK:

freshpaint.registerCallConversion('<TAG_ID/CONVERSION_LABEL>', <phone-number>)

Here's an example:

freshpaint.registerCallConversion('AW-1234567/aLabel', '312-555-1212')

If you have call conversions configured through Google Tag Manager, you can use the Google Ads Call Conversions on the Freshpaint GTM Template instead of calling freshpaint.registerCallConversion directly.

Considerations

Conversions may take up to 24 hours to appear in your Google Ads Conversion Goals.

Conversion Actions Configuration

Conversion Event Imports Between Google Analytics and Google Ads

The workflow of importing GA4 events as conversion actions in Google Ads is considered non-compliant, primarily related to the handling of user identifiers like the GCLID (Google Click Identifier).

To remain compliant for both GA4 and Google Ads, Freshpaint recommends:

  • Not allowlisting the Google Click Identifier (GCLID) property for your Google Analytics destination.

  • Creation of net-new Website Conversion Actions in Google Ads: Instead of passing the GCLID directly to GA4, create specific Website conversion actions. This method generates a "conversion label" which allows Freshpaint to map an event to a specific conversion action in Google Ads.

View-Through Conversions and Retargeting

View-through conversions and retargeting are possible with the Google Ads Conversions API destination:

Freshpaint uses the to send events to Google Ads. You may provide the following additional event properties:

This is a Proxy Integration for Google Ads. This destination runs on Freshpaint's servers, but emulates a native installation of Google Universal Analytics Tag. That means the integration behaves the same as if you did a native installation of Google Universal Analytics Tag, but the data first flows through Freshpaint before it's sent to Google. .

The Proxy integration allows you to re-use your existing google ads configuration. If you're starting fresh, we recommend using the destination.

Allows overriding the generated by Freshpaint with a custom id to avoid duplicate conversions in Google Ads.

Value of the conversion. See for more information

Currency of the conversion value, "USD" by default. See the list of .

Get your google conversion label. In you're google ads account go to .

Configure a for the Event within Freshpaint to attach the conversion_label or any other fields to send to the destination.

You can then select which Conversion ID you want for a given Event using the toggles in your :

The way you set up your conversion actions can affect the data that shows in the Google Ads console downstream. For example, if you have your conversion action set up to "Count one conversion", only one click per user will be shown in your console. This means that even if recent events are triggered, if they are triggered by the same user and ad as a previous event that was already counted, it will not show again. You can read more about how click ids are generated by Google Ads .

Similarly, the click through conversion setting on your conversion action can be important. For example, if you have a 30-day click through conversion setting on your conversion action, any of the corresponding events sent to Google Ads from outside that 30-day window will not be shown in the Google Ads console under that conversion action. You can read more about that .

Unlinking your Google Analytics 4 property from your Google Ads account. The process for how these 2 tools are unlinked is documented , under the "Unlinking Google Ads accounts from Analytics" section of the article.

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