Paid Google Ads or paid-search clicks in the monthly period being audited.
What to count
Example: 5,400 paid-search clicks last month.
Where to look: Google Ads, Microsoft Ads, or paid-search platform monthly campaign summary.
Review what happens from a paid click to a useful lead, real next step, and customer. Choose Not sure whenever you do not have the number handy.
Paid Google Ads or paid-search clicks in the monthly period being audited.
Example: 5,400 paid-search clicks last month.
Where to look: Google Ads, Microsoft Ads, or paid-search platform monthly campaign summary.
Clicks that became visible calls, forms, chats, bookings, or other lead actions.
If 5,400 clicks produced 420 visible leads, this rate is 7.8%.
Where to look: Ad reports, call summaries, form records, booking records, or website lead reports.
Visible leads that were real, relevant, and worth sales, booking, or intake follow-up.
If 420 visible leads produced 190 useful leads, this rate is 45.2%.
Where to look: CRM, intake, booking, sales, or lead quality summaries.
Useful leads that moved into a real next step.
If 190 useful leads produced 95 real next steps, this rate is 50%.
Where to look: CRM records, booking reports, consultation logs, proposal records, or sales summaries.
Opportunities that reached a decision, quote, booking, consultation, retainer, or comparable revenue step.
If 95 opportunities produced 55 decision-stage outcomes, this rate is 57.9%.
Where to look: Pipeline status, booking, proposal, quote, consultation, or retainer-status summaries.
Decision-stage outcomes that became real revenue outcomes attributed to paid search.
If 55 decision-stage outcomes produced 19 wins, this rate is 34.5%.
Where to look: Won deal reports, booking reports, signed-retainer reports, and paid-search lead summaries.