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Every Platform Grades Its Own Homework : Scott on the ROAS Trap
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The Paid Traffic Truth : The ROAS Trap Held a Second Week — and Got Wider
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The Paid Traffic Truth : Your best ROAS channel costs the most per new customer
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The Paid Traffic Truth : Meta's New Customer Conversion Just Jumped 66%
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The Paid Traffic Truth : The New Customer Markup Your Dashboard Hides
Jul 6, 2026 by Scott Desgrosseilliers
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Your Data Is Being Estimated — And Nobody Told You
Jun 15, 2026 by Scott Desgrosseilliers
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Three Attribution Shifts That Changed This Week — And What They Mean for Your Revenue
Jun 8, 2026 by Scott Desgrosseilliers
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How Meta, Google, and TikTok Changed Your Numbers Without Telling You
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How Link Necklaces Cut Meta nCAC 22% and Nearly Doubled New Customers
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The Monday Routine That Stops Wasted Ad Spend : The Five Forces Playbook
Apr 27, 2026 by Scott Desgrosseilliers
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How the Optimization Force Improves Campaign Performance
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Facebook Custom Conversions : How They Work
By Scott Desgrosseilliers on Sep 7, 2016, 12:39:48 PM
FACEBOOK CUSTOM CONVERSIONS : HOW THEY WORK, AND WHAT THEY STILL CANNOT TELL YOU
Facebook Custom Conversions let you define and optimize for a specific action that matters to your business, rather than relying only on Meta's standard events. They are genuinely useful, and they are still part of the setup in 2026. But the world around them has changed completely since most guides were written, and the honest truth is that even a perfectly configured Custom Conversion only ever measures what Meta itself can see. Here is how they work now, and where you still need to look beyond them.

