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The Paid Traffic Truth : Why Holiday Demand Pays Meta and Bills Google
Sep 15, 2026 by Scott Desgrosseilliers
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The Monday Morning Report Is Eating Your Agency's Week
Sep 11, 2026 by Scott Desgrosseilliers
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The Paid Traffic Truth : Why Labor Day Made Your Ads Look Smarter Than They Are
Sep 9, 2026 by Scott Desgrosseilliers
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Why One Channel Looks Too Cheap and Too Expensive at Once
Sep 2, 2026 by Scott Desgrosseilliers
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The Paid Traffic Truth : The 159% Markup Hiding Inside Your Blended CAC
Aug 31, 2026 by Scott Desgrosseilliers
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How to Track SEO & Content ROI in 2026 (Zero-Click Era)
Aug 27, 2026 by Scott Desgrosseilliers
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The Paid Traffic Truth : Why Your Priciest Ad Channel Grows the Fastest Customers
Aug 24, 2026 by Scott Desgrosseilliers
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The Paid Traffic Truth : Which Way Is Last-Click Attribution Wrong? One Direction
Aug 17, 2026 by Scott Desgrosseilliers
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The Paid Traffic Truth : Why Last-Click Attribution Cuts Meta's ROAS and Pays Search
Aug 10, 2026 by Scott Desgrosseilliers
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The Paid Traffic Truth : Why Your Best ROAS Channels Bring the Fewest New Customers
Aug 3, 2026 by Scott Desgrosseilliers
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The Paid Traffic Truth : Why Your Meta Cost Rose but Your Click Price Didn't
Jul 28, 2026 by Scott Desgrosseilliers
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Every Platform Grades Its Own Homework : Scott on the ROAS Trap
Jul 27, 2026 by Scott Desgrosseilliers
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The Paid Traffic Truth : The ROAS Trap Held a Second Week — and Got Wider
Jul 22, 2026 by Scott Desgrosseilliers
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The Paid Traffic Truth : Your best ROAS channel costs the most per new customer
Jul 14, 2026 by Scott Desgrosseilliers
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Your Data Is Being Estimated — And Nobody Told You
By Scott Desgrosseilliers on Jun 15, 2026, 8:30:00 AM
Your Data Is Being Estimated — And Nobody Told You
Two things happened this week that every DTC brand running paid media needs to understand. Both are quiet. Neither comes with an alert in your dashboard. And together they explain why your attribution numbers are getting less trustworthy at the exact moment your platforms are making them look more complete.
Topics: Wicked Reports • Aggregated Event Measurement • CAPI deduplication • Marketing attribution accuracy • Conversions API
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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.

