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Microsoft test: the result

Water-heater searches on Bing, Copilot and Edge, on theStacc's account from Sun 3 Jan. On day 21, Sat 23 Jan, the stop rule you approved paused it. $630 of your $840 spent.

Decide

Stop it. Bing brought no real water-heater lead for $630, and your page, phone and tracking all worked.

Spent

$630

of $840, over 21 days

Real leads

0

2 enquiries, neither real

Chance a lead costs under $265

Under 1 in 10

From this test's own numbers

Where it fell short

✓Delivering

$630

Full budget on all 21 days

✓Clicks

134

About $4.70 each

!Enquiries

2

1 call and 1 form from 134 clicks. Google gets about 1 from every 14

×Real leads

0

The call was outside your area. The form was a sales pitch

Money kept

$210 of your test money comes back within 7 days of Microsoft's last charge.

Google keeps bringing water-heater leads at about $71 each. The $630 bought a clear answer, and it never touched Google's budget.

Not at this setup: your Google water-heater ads copied to Bing, $30 a day, landing on your water-heater page. We won't suggest Microsoft for water heaters again before July, unless the idea, the offer or the line changes, or Google's water-heater leads get much dearer.

The 2 enquiries it brought

×

Form · 14 Jan

A company selling water softeners to plumbers, not a customer. You marked it not real.

×

Caller ··3391 · 22 Jan · call 1m 40s

Asked about a water heater in Marion, outside your service area. You marked it not real.

What to do

Stop the testTalk to a person

Next: the $840 of test room is free in February's plan. Meta with video is next in your ranking, for March.

Checked before the stop

✓

Calls answered

The one call to the Microsoft number was answered.

✓

Page loads and sends

A test form every morning, all arrived. 1.5 s on a slow phone.

✓

Tracking firing

Click ID saved on 132 of 134 visits.

✓

Counted generously

Any lead Microsoft touched, even one shared with Google, would have counted. None came.

So this is an answer about Microsoft at this setup, not a page or phone problem.

How the stop was decided

From day 14 we checked each morning whether a Microsoft lead could still cost under $265, your water-heater line. With no real lead, that chance falls under 1 in 10 once about 2.3 times the line is spent, about $610. At $30 a day that was day 21.

When you approved the test we said many tests end in a stop. That answer is what the capped price buys.

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