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 Integrate Google Ads with Salesforce and Pardot 

 

Connecting Google Ads to Salesforce and Pardot (now Salesforce Marketing Cloud Account Engagement) helps turn paid search from a lead-volume channel into one that optimizes for bottom-funnel events. Instead of only tracking clicks, form fills, and surface-level conversions, Concept helps to tie your advertising data to Salesforce lead stages, opportunity creation, closed-won revenue, Account Engagement prospect activity, and campaign ROI.

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Go Beyond Basic Conversion Events With A Smarter Setup 

Most Google Ads accounts are still optimized around the easiest event to measure: the form submission. That can work for simple funnels, but it rarely reflects how B2B revenue actually happens. In a Salesforce and Pardot environment, the real story happens after the click: a lead is created, qualified, assigned, nurtured, converted to an opportunity, influenced by campaigns, and eventually won or lost.


Concept helps clients move past basic conversion tracking by designing Google Ads, Salesforce, and Pardot integrations around pipeline quality, sales readiness, revenue value, campaign influence, and true return on ad spend. 

Google Ads and Salesforce Integration

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Import Salesforce Leads, Opportunities, And Revenue Signals Into Google Ads

Google Ads Data Manager can connect to Salesforce and import data from Lead, Opportunity, and Order objects. That means advertisers can choose the Salesforce object that best represents the conversion they want Google to optimize around — such as a qualified lead, sales-accepted lead, opportunity, order, or closed-won deal.

Concept helps define which Salesforce milestones should become Google Ads conversion events, which fields should be used for matching, and how each conversion should be valued so Smart Bidding is trained on business outcomes rather than lead volume alone.

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Use Enhanced Conversions For Leads

Enhanced conversions for leads use hashed first-party customer data, such as email addresses, to improve offline conversion attribution back to Google Ads campaigns. Google describes enhanced conversions for leads as an upgraded version of offline conversion import that can improve reporting accuracy and bidding performance by matching imported CRM outcomes to lead data collected on your website and signed-in Google accounts.

Concept helps configure the website, Salesforce fields, Google tag or Google Tag Manager setup, and offline import workflow needed to make enhanced conversions work reliably across the full lead-to-revenue journey.

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Capture Google Click IDs And First-Party Lead Data

A strong Google Ads and Salesforce integration depends on clean identifiers. Google’s Salesforce setup supports GCLID and user-provided data, and Google recommends including and mapping as many available identifiers as possible, including GCLID, email, and phone number.

Concept helps clients capture, store, normalize, and map these identifiers so Salesforce records can be matched back to the ads, campaigns, keywords, and audiences that generated them.

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HubSpot and Salesforce Integration Implementation

Our team can implement, customize, and configure the HubSpot and Salesforce integration, to ensure you get the most out of both platforms.

Training and Onboarding

As an official partner of both platforms, we are well-poised to provide training and onboarding services designed to reinforce your business processes and the management of the integration.

Management & Administration

Whether just wrapping up a new implementation or if you have an existing integration up and running but are struggling with adoption, reporting, or implementing new features, Concept is here to help as an ongoing source of support.

Partner With Our Integrated Team

The HubSpot and Salesforce integration is a powerful tool, but working with a great team can help fit it to your needs and processes for that “just-right” feeling.

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Optimize for Qualified Leads, Not Raw Form Fills  

Not every paid-search lead should teach Google’s bidding algorithm. A branded inquiry, competitor click, student research form, low-fit company, or duplicate lead can all look like a conversion if the setup only tracks submissions.

Concept helps build Salesforce and Pardot qualification rules that only send meaningful events back to Google Ads — such as MQL, SQL, sales-accepted lead, opportunity created, proposal sent, or closed-won customer. 

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Use Pardot Score and Grade to Improve Paid Search Signals 

Pardot / Account Engagement can qualify prospects using behavioral engagement and fit. Concept helps translate that qualification layer into Salesforce fields, campaign logic, and Google Ads conversion rules so ads optimize toward prospects who both engage and match your ideal customer profile.

For example, a form fill might remain a secondary event, while a prospect who reaches a target score, earns a strong grade, and is accepted by sales can become a primary conversion event. 

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Connect Paid Search Cost to Salesforce Opportunity ROI

You can use the standard connector to tie Google Ads cost data to Salesforce opportunity data in order to determine true cost per qualified lead and your SEM campaign data’s ROI.

However, Concept helps build the reporting layer that shows which campaigns, ad groups, keywords, and landing pages are producing qualified pipeline, not just inexpensive inquiries. 

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Build Smarter Campaign Attribution Across Salesforce and Pardot

Google Ads, Salesforce campaigns, and Pardot campaigns do not all measure the same thing. Pardot/ Marketing Cloud Account Engagement campaigns are commonly used for first-touch tracking, Salesforce campaigns support campaign membership and influence reporting, and Google Ads reports paid media performance.

Concept helps define how these systems should work together: which campaign owns first touch, how UTM values are captured, how Salesforce campaign membership is applied, and how paid search influence should appear in opportunity reporting.

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Track Google Ads Activity in Account Engagement

To track Google Ads in Account Engagement, Salesforce instructs users to add a Final URL Suffix to ads, campaigns, ad groups, or keywords. The destination page also needs Account Engagement tracking code so ad clicks can be tracked properly.

Concept helps implement tracking templates, final URL suffixes, UTM governance, landing page tracking code, and campaign naming conventions so Google Ads activity flows cleanly into Account Engagement and Salesforce reporting.

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Track Google Ads Conversions on Pardot Forms

Salesforce documentation notes that Google Ads conversion code can be added to hosted Account Engagement marketing forms, or to a separate thank-you page when a form redirects after submission.

Concept helps decide which forms should count as Google Ads conversions, which should remain secondary engagement signals, and how form completions should influence scoring, grading, Salesforce assignment, and downstream conversion imports.

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Use Customer Match and CRM Audiences Strategically

Google Customer Match allows advertisers to use online and offline customer data to reach and re-engage customers across Google properties. Using third party integrations, Concept helps clients design compliant audience workflows from Salesforce and Pardot for customer exclusions, opportunity-stage remarketing, reactivation campaigns, high-value customer lists, and lookalike-style prospecting strategies in Google Ads.

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Improve Lead Routing From Paid Search

Paid search leads often arrive with valuable intent signals: campaign, keyword, landing page, source, medium, offer, form, geography, and search theme. Concept helps map those signals into Salesforce and Pardot so leads can be routed based on product interest, region, company type, urgency, source, or campaign intent.

This helps sales teams respond differently to a high-intent quote request than to an early-stage content download.

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Trigger Pardot Nurture Based on Google Ads Intent

Not all ad clicks and keywords have the same value. A person who clicks a Google ad for “pricing,” or “demo,” is showing a different level of intent than someone searching for a general educational topic.

Concept helps use campaign and landing-page intent to trigger Account Engagement segmentation, nurture programs, scoring adjustments, sales alerts, and lifecycle movement so paid-search engagement becomes part of the broader buyer journey.

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The Paid Search Revenue Intelligence Framework

A basic Google Ads setup tells you which campaigns generated leads. A smarter Google Ads, Salesforce, and Pardot setup tells you which campaigns generated qualified pipeline, sales activity, and revenue.
Concept’s integration framework is designed to connect the full path from paid click to CRM outcome:
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Precision Measurement

We connect Google Ads activity to Salesforce and Account Engagement records so you can see which paid-search efforts create qualified leads, opportunities, and closed-won revenue.
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Smarter Bidding Signals

We help send better conversion signals back to Google Ads, including CRM-qualified milestones and revenue values, so Smart Bidding can learn from the outcomes that matter.
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Pipeline Visibility

We help build Salesforce and Pardot reporting that connects ad cost, campaign engagement, lead qualification, opportunity movement, and closed revenue.
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Intelligent Automation

We use Salesforce and Account Engagement logic to route, score, nurture, alert, suppress, and report on paid-search leads based on real buyer intent.

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HubSpot Implementation

Our team can implement HubSpot across your entire organization. Our process customizes and configures the platform based on your unique needs to ensure you get the most out of your Hub.

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Integrations 

Enhance your HubSpot by integrating other key systems and applications across your organization. Whether you’re planning to integrate a new app with your Hub, or an existing stack, we can help.

As a partner of both Salesforce and HubSpot, we are uniquely positioned to help you integrate these two powerhouse systems.
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Training and Onboarding

As an official Partner-Scaled Onboarding (PSO) agency, we can provide training and onboarding services designed to reinforce your business processes and integrate them with the tools available within HubSpot.

HubSpot Hubs Support

 

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Marketing Hub

Sales Hub

Service Hub

Drive revenue and streamline marketing efforts with tools that connect you to your audience effectively, all while optimizing investments with powerful analytics. Enhance productivity and customer connections with comprehensive sales tools, designed to scale with your organization’s growth. Build lasting customer relationships with a suite of service tools that streamline communication and enhance team productivity.

 

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CMS Hub

Operations Hub

Commerce Hub

Empower your marketing and development teams with a CMS that offers flexibility, security, and personalized customer experiences. Maintain clean, curated customer data and automate business processes for a unified view of customer interactions, delivering seamless experiences. Streamline your commerce operations with robust tools for billing, subscriptions, and revenue collection, integrated seamlessly with your CRM.

 

Management & Administration

Whether just wrapping up a new implementation or if you already have HubSpot up and running but are struggling with adoption, reporting, or implementing new features, Concept is here to help as an ongoing source of support.

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Partner With Our HubSpot Professionals

HubSpot is a powerful platform, but working with a great team can help it integrate with your needs and processes for that “just-right” feeling.

Our Technology Partners

In addition to our HubSpot partnership, we also proudly partner and have experience integrating additional solution providers to help our clients reach their business needs.