Server-Side Tracking: GA4 + Meta CAPI Without Losing 40% of Your Conversions

<h2> TL;DR </h2> <p>If you're a SaaS founder running Google Ads with Smart Bidding, and your conversion event sends the nominal plan price as <code>value</code>, you're optimizing

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<p>You can't optimize what you don't measure. Every blog post about conversion optimization, A/B testing, or paid ads assumes you have reliable tracking in place. But most

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<p>I build <a href="https://www.gscwizard.com" rel="noopener noreferrer">GSC Wizard</a>, an SEO analytics tool. A while back I added an MCP (Model Context Protocol) server so

<p>I review a lot of webhook handlers. Roughly <strong>3 out of 5 either have a subtle signature-verification bug</strong> — or someone disabled verification entirely "to make it