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I need an idiot proof tutorial for Google conversion ads. I cannot understand how to set up a conversion event to a third party landing page.
Posted by on April 22, 2026 at 11:45 pmHello! As title says, I am struggling to create a conversion for tracking clicks on a landing page on Google ads (I want to run YouTube ads to a download gate).
This takes less than 10 minutes on meta, and involves simply creating a new data source, grabbing the pixel ID and CAPI token and dropping them into fields for tracking on the landing page setup tool.
These fields exist for Google ads as well, but I can’t work out googles side for the life of me. I’ve spent literal days watching tutorials and I’m none the wiser.
Can anybody link me a video?
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search google tag manager on yt
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What landing page tool are you using?
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Yes, but Google makes it way more annoying than Meta.
If the third-party landing page lets you add a Google tag or GTM, you can track it. If it doesn’t, you usually can’t track that conversion directly in Google Ads.
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Google’s conversion setup for third-party landing pages is genuinely worse than Meta’s, it’s not just you. There’s no equivalent to dropping pixel+CAPI token into a field because Google wants you to tag events via gtag.js or GTM on the page, and if you don’t own the page you can’t.
Three options depending on what you can edit.
If the third-party tool lets you paste HTML in the page head, install Google Tag Manager there and fire your conversion event when the download link is clicked. This is what I’d do if at all possible.
If the tool has a native Google Ads integration (Convertflow, Landingi, and Unbounce all have it), enable that and it handles the gtag firing for you.
If you can’t do either, your last fallback is tracking the download from YouTube directly as an “engagement” conversion (action button clicks), which is inferior but counts something.
Google Tag Assistant (browser extension) is useful for verifying the conversion fires in real time once you set it up. If it doesn’t show up in Tag Assistant, Google Ads won’t count it either.
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If your tool only gives you a tad ID plus conversion label that means you should be using a google ads conversion(not GA4). Create it under tools , Conversions, pick website, then use the label it gives you in your landing page
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