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Integration in Four Steps

Step 1: Connect dbt

Connect to your dbt repo, select a branch that you'd like to use, and tag your models with "census" to make them available.

Step 2: Connect Google Ads as a destination

You can use an OAuth log-in flow to connect Census to Google Ads directly via the Census Connections page.

Step 3: Define the core data that matters for your business

Choose your sync frequency with options to transfer data continuously, on a schedule, or triggered after dbt run.

Step 4: Schedule your sync

Choose your sync frequency with options to transfer data in real time, on a schedule, or triggered via our API.

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Where can you sync your dbt in Google Ads?

Call Conversion API

Tracking phone calls from call extensions requires a ConversionAction with a type of AD_CALL. These use a Google forwarding number and specify the conversion action in the phone call extension's FeedItem. In the Google Ads UI, this type of conversion is called Calls from ads.

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Click Conversion API

You can use the Google Ads API to upload offline click conversions into Google Ads, mapping to the Uploads conversion source in the Google Ads UI, followed by Conversions from clicks. It gives you more flexibility in associating clicks with conversions. You can track ads that led to sales in the offline world, such as over the phone or through a sales rep.

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Conversion Action

Although goals are organized by category and origin, you can set the primary_for_goal attribute of each ConversionAction to indicate the role it should play in bidding and how the action's conversions will appear in reports.

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Creating User List

For expression_rule_user_list, there's an additional distinction to make. By default, Google Ads will AND together all rule items in a rule item group. This means that every rule item in at least one rule item group must match in order for the rule to add a visitor to the list. This is called "disjunctive normal form", or OR_OF_ANDS.

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Offline user data job

A job containing offline user data of store visitors, or user list members that will be processed asynchronously. The uploaded data isn't readable and the processing results of the job can only be read using GoogleAdsService.Search/SearchStream.

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User Activity API

The User Activity API allows a Google Analytics property owner to retrieve all analytics measurement data associated with a single user. Specifically, the API retrieves all of the measurement data associated with a particular User ID or Client ID.

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A single source of truth in all your tools

Census is the easiest way to share a consistent view of your data across your entire business. Define your models, metrics, and business logic in your data warehouse and sync them to all your operational tools.

Create trust in consistent metrics
Automate confidently with clean data
Simplify your data integration strategy
Improve data security and visibility

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Advantages of Census

Build once. Reuse everywhere.

Once you define your models in dbt or in Census, you can sync them to all your tools, so every team is using the same data to achieve their goals.

No more CSV files & Python scripts

Focus on improving data quality and collaboration, not writing custom code to integrate with Go-t0-Market tools. Census takes care of getting the data into the hands of your business team. No engineering favors required.

It just works. At scale.

Whether you sync 100 records or 100 billion, we will keep your data in sync across your warehouse and your business tools. Census automatically navigates API failures and monitors errors to keep you aware of worst case scenarios.