Enhanced conversions is a feature that can improve the accuracy of your conversion measurement and unlock more powerful bidding. It supplements your existing conversion tags by sending hashed first-party conversion data from your website to Google in a way that safeguards privacy. The feature uses a secure one-way hashing algorithm called SHA256 on your first-party customer data, such as email addresses, before sending it to Google. Learn more about Google’s conversion modelling solutions.
You can set up enhanced conversions using the Google tag, Google Tag Manager or the Google Ads API.
Note: Google is committed to protecting the confidentiality and security of your data. We'll keep your data confidential and secure using the same industry-leading standards that we use to protect our own users’ data. We only report privacy-safe conversions. You can read more about enhanced conversions customer data policies and how we use your data.
How it works
When a customer completes a conversion on your website, you may receive first-party customer data such as an email address, name, home address and/or phone number. This data can be captured in your conversion tracking tags, hashed, sent to Google in their hashed form and then used to enhance your conversion measurement.
Depending on which type of enhanced conversions you use, the hashed data will be used in different ways to improve your measurement:
Enhanced conversions for web | Enhanced conversions for leads |
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Relevant for advertisers who want to track sales and events that happen on a website. |
Relevant for advertisers who want to track sales that happen off a website (for example, phone or email) from website leads. |
Improves measurement of online conversions. |
Improves measurement of offline transactions that came from a website lead or visitor. |
Allows you to send hashed first-party, user-provided data from your website when a user converts. The data are then used to match your customers to Google Accounts, which were signed in to when they engaged with one of your ads. |
Allows you to use hashed, first-party user-provided data from your website lead forms for offline lead measurement. When you upload your leads, the provided hashed information is used to attribute back to the Google Ad campaign. |
Enhanced conversions for web
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Google signed-in user views your Youtube ad. |
The user converts on your website. |
The conversion tag captures a field you determined (eg. email), hashes the data and securely sends to Google. | The hashed data is matched against Google hashed user data and a conversion is reported in your account. |
With enhanced conversions for web, first-party customer data such as an email address, name, home address or phone number are captured in your conversion tracking tags, hashed, sent to Google in their hashed form and then used to match your customers to Google Accounts, which were signed in to when they engaged with one of your ads.
Benefits:
- Recover conversions that otherwise wouldn’t have been measured
- Improve bidding optimisation through better data
- Privacy-safe with hashing of first-party customer data
Set up enhanced conversions for web
You can set up enhanced conversions for web in 3 ways:
Google Tag Manager: If you currently use Google Tag Manager for conversion tracking, you can set up enhanced conversions for web using Google Tag Manager with only slight changes to your configuration.
The Google tag: If you currently have conversion tracking implemented using the Google tag directly on your page (not within a third-party tool or iFrame), you can set up enhanced conversions for web using the Google tag by making slight changes to your configuration.
Google Ads API: If you would like to provide enhanced conversions data via the API to have more flexibility and control over your data, you can set up enhanced conversions for web in the Google Ads API.
Enhanced conversions for leads
User clicks on an ad and arrives on your site. | User browses your site and reads about your product/service. | User fills in a form on your site and becomes a lead for your business. Your website sends Google hashed lead information (e.g.hashed email address) that you specify. | You store the lead information in your CRM database. | When a lead converts (e.g. becomes a customer), you upload the hashed lead information. Google matches the hashed information back to the ad that drove the lead. |
You can upload or import conversion data into Google Ads using first-party customer data from your website lead forms. Unlike the standard version of offline conversion imports, enhanced conversions for leads doesn’t require you to modify your lead forms or customer relations management (CRM) systems to receive a Google click ID (GCLID). Instead, it uses information that was already captured about your leads, like email addresses, to measure conversions.
Benefits:
- Easy to set up: Configure measurement entirely from your Google Ads account.
- Better performance: Optimise your campaigns to sales and transactions that happen off your website.
- Flexible: Implement it using the Google tag or with Google Tag Manager.
If you want to use a GCLID to track conversions when they occur, the existing GCLID-based upload method is still available. Learn more about how to set up offline conversions using GCLID
Set up enhanced conversions for leads
You can set up enhanced conversions for leads in 3 ways:
Google Tag Manager: If you currently use Google Tag Manager for conversion tracking, you can set up enhanced conversions for leads with Google Tag Manager with only slight changes to your configuration.
The Google tag: If you currently have conversion tracking implemented using the Google tag directly on your page (not within a third-party tool or iFrame), you can set up enhanced conversions for leads with your Google tag by making slight changes to your configuration.
Google Ads API: If you would like to provide enhanced conversions data via API in order to have more flexibility and control over your data, you can set up enhanced conversions for leads in the Google Ads API.
Download the enhanced conversions assist tool
Follow step by step guidance to validate and troubleshoot your enhanced conversions set up.
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Related links
- About enhanced conversions for web in the Google Ads API
- Set up enhanced conversions for web using Google Tag Manager
- Set up enhanced conversions for web using the Google tag
- Set up enhanced conversions for leads with the Google tag
- Set up enhanced conversions leads for lead form ads
- About the enhanced conversions Partner Program
- Customer data policies
- Your guide to conversion modelling
- About Performance Max campaigns
- Create a Performance Max campaign using a Merchant Center feed
- About the enhanced conversions assist tool
- Enhanced conversions assist tool