95% of PPC Accounts Have This Problem – Do You?

Hi there, it’s Chris here from PPC Geeks.

What if I told you that most PPC budgets waste money every single day?

It’s true.

In fact, 95% of the accounts we audit have tracking issues…and we’ve audited thousands!

If you have tracking issues, you’re in good company.

Without proper tracking, you’re operating blind.

You can’t tell which ads, keywords, or campaigns are actually driving revenue.

You might even be optimising for the wrong things. Or worse not optimising because you don’t even know if it’s working.

Yes, many companies, huge known brands included, have no clue the true returns they are getting from the PPC budgets.

Tracking is what separates educated decisions from guesses.

For PPC, the key is knowing what actions drive income (or more specifically profits!)

This means setting up proper conversion tracking – not just tracking clicks or impressions but actual money-makers.

If you’re running an e-commerce business, you need to track purchases and their values.

For lead generation, it’s about tracking inquiries, form fills, and calls – real steps towards revenue.

And yet, we still see businesses stuck in the dark, focusing on vanity metrics or not knowing where their leads and sales come from.

Yes really. This still happens. In 2025!

Clicks and impressions might feel good, but they’re not paying the bills.

What pays the bills is identifying the 20% of your efforts that deliver 80% of the results.

This is where tools like Google Tag Manager and robust CRM integrations come into play.

They let you track every meaningful interaction without messing around with website code.

You need to know how to use it, but in a way that the easy part.

The hard part is knowing what to track and why and how it impacts your bottom line.

It’s about tracking accurately and prioritising what matters.

Mistakes like double counting conversions or ignoring lead and lag measures can snowball over time.

Poor tracking compounds into poor results.

The long-term effects? Wasted budget, wasted time, and campaigns that could have succeeded failing instead.

If you want your PPC campaigns to succeed, you must commit to tracking money making actions accurately – there is no other way to do it properly.

Guesswork is expensive.

Are you really sure you are tracking accurately?

Are you 100% confident that the revenue or leads you see in Google Ads or Meta are a true reflection of what is happening in your business.

Most Marketing Managers and Business Owners are not.

Get confidence in your tracking so you can understand, truly, your ROI and grow.

Let’s chat about how to make it happen.

If you need a tracking review of your account, or have any tracking or PPC questions just hit reply and let us know. We’re here to help.

Until next time,

Always. Be. Tracking.

Cheers!

~ Chris

Co-Founder & Chief Geek
PPC Geeks – The UK’s leading specialist PPC Agency.