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Conversion value

The amount of money a single conversion — a lead, a signup or a sale — is actually worth to your business.

In plain English

Conversion value is simply the euro figure you attach to something a customer does. When someone fills in a form, books a call or buys a product, that action is worth a certain amount to you. Conversion value is that amount, expressed in money rather than as a plain "1 conversion".

Without it, every action looks the same to your ad platform. With it, a €5,000 order and a tyre-kicker who never buys are no longer treated as equals.

A concrete example

Imagine you run a kitchen renovation company. Last month your ads brought in 40 enquiries. To Google and Meta, that looked like "40 conversions" — all identical. But in reality, 8 of those enquiries became projects worth an average of €18,000, while the other 32 went nowhere. If you feed conversion value back to the platforms, those 8 winning leads carry €144,000 of value between them, and the platforms learn to chase more people who look like the buyers — not more form-fillers.

Why it matters for your business

Ad platforms optimise toward whatever you tell them to value. If you only count conversions, they hunt for cheap, high-volume leads — even bad ones. The moment you send real conversion value, the algorithm starts steering your budget toward the customers who actually make you money. That usually means higher revenue from the same spend, without lifting your monthly budget by a cent.

  • ROAS — return on ad spend, which conversion value feeds directly.
  • Lead scoring — ranking leads so you know which value to send.
  • Offline conversions — sending sales that happen off your website back to the platforms.
  • Customer lifetime value — the long-term version of conversion value.

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