Skip to content
Illustrative search advertising workspace with keyword bids, query mining and budget pacing dashboards

Services / Microsoft Advertising

Add another high-intent search channel.

Search campaigns on Bing and its partner networks—planned around the people who actually search there, with clean UET tracking and reporting you can reconcile.

  • You own every account
  • Ad spend kept separate
  • Honest, reconciled reporting

01 / Diagnose

Check the demand

Confirm search volume, competition and audience fit before any spend.

02 / Prepare

Fix the signals

UET tags, conversion goals and structure set up deliberately.

03 / Scale

Grow what's proven

Move budget to the queries and audiences that convert.

Why a second search channel

Cheaper clicks only matter if they become customers.

Microsoft Advertising is often treated as a copy of Google Ads. Imported campaigns meet different search behaviour, smaller volume and separate tools, so performance quietly disappoints.

We review where Bing and its partner volume actually exists for your market, import and build deliberately, wire UET conversion goals properly and judge results by sales and qualified leads rather than cheap clicks.

Automated bidding works best with the right inputs.

Microsoft's delivery system optimises toward the conversion goals you define. We make sure the UET tag fires correctly, goals match real outcomes and budgets have room to learn, so automation and reporting work from the same truth.

What the work includes

Six parts of a well-run Microsoft Advertising account.

The proposal defines campaign types, budgets, targets and approvals. Every workstream ends with a concrete output.

01

Channel & audience fit

Confirm the volume and audience exist before spending.

  • Market-level search and partner-volume review
  • Competition and cost context
  • Where Bing properties actually appear for your queries

What you receive

A go / no-go channel assessment.

02

Account & import discipline

Use imports as a starting point, never a copy.

  • Account structure and naming conventions
  • Import settings, bids and budgets reviewed
  • Shared negatives and seasonal adjustments

What you receive

A campaign plan adapted to the platform.

03

Measurement & UET

Fix what the platform can see before scaling it.

  • UET tag installation and firing checks
  • Conversion goals and value mapping
  • Consent and analytics overlap review

What you receive

Verified conversion tracking and a goal map.

04

Structure & bidding

Give bidding room to learn without overspending.

  • Campaign and ad group structure
  • Bid strategy selection and guardrails
  • Budget pacing and approval limits

What you receive

Documented builds and settings.

05

Audience & B2B targeting

Use company and industry targeting where the offer suits it.

  • Targeting eligibility and qualification criteria
  • In-market and remarketing audiences
  • Exclusions and combined-audience rules

What you receive

An audience plan with qualification criteria.

06

Review & optimisation

Weekly decisions based on sales and qualified leads.

  • Query mining and negative keyword work
  • Platform vs analytics vs sales reconciliation
  • Scale, pause or restructure decisions

What you receive

Weekly notes and a monthly review.

Your main goal

Different goals need different Microsoft campaigns.

Choose what matters most right now. It shapes the structure, audiences and tests we plan first.

Sell products online

Reach shoppers the Google auction misses or prices too high.

For retailers with product data and evidence that demand exists on Microsoft properties.

  • Validate shopping feed eligibility on Microsoft
  • Review query and device behaviour after import
  • Compare imported and native structures before scaling

What we review

New-customer revenue, contribution after ad spend and reconciled sales.

From audit to scale

A search process with no surprises.

Budget changes beyond agreed guardrails need your approval. Every change is logged.

  1. 01

    Audit

    Review demand, current accounts, tracking and offer fit.

    Stage output

    Audit findings and agreed targets.

  2. 02

    Prepare

    Fix UET and conversion goals, then plan imports or builds.

    Stage output

    Signal fixes and a campaign plan.

  3. 03

    Launch & test

    Launch with guardrails and review query and audience behaviour weekly.

    Stage output

    Live campaigns and weekly read-outs.

  4. 04

    Review & scale

    Monthly reviews decide what to scale, restructure or stop.

    Stage output

    A monthly review and next priorities.

Concept search advertising dashboard with bid tables, query mining and pacing charts
Illustrative concept imagery—not a client dashboard or team photograph.

Inside the review

Every import starts with a question, not a copy button.

Each change states what we expect, where it applies and how we'll judge it.

The demand check
Whether meaningful search volume exists for your market before spend is agreed.
The adaptation
What we change after import—bids, budgets, negatives, messaging and structure.
The decision
The metric and threshold that decide whether we scale, restructure or stop.

Choose a sensible starting point

Support that fits your team's next step.

Start with clarity, commission defined improvements, or build an ongoing programme. Standalone fees are scoped to your requirements; there is no fixed price published here.

Microsoft Advertising audit

For advertisers already spending who want an independent view.

Demand review, account, UET and spend analysis with an action plan.

Agree before starting

Accounts in scope, access and the period reviewed.

Structured import & launch

For Google Ads advertisers adding Microsoft deliberately.

UET setup, adapted imports, conversion goals and launch checks.

Agree before starting

Objectives, test budget, structure and duration.

Ongoing management

For teams needing weekly optimisation and clear reporting.

Query mining, bidding, audiences and reconciled reporting.

Agree before starting

Targets, spend range, reporting cadence and approvals.

Discuss your Microsoft Advertising

You keep ownership of all ad accounts and data. An enquiry is not an order or payment. Ad spend is paid directly to platforms and never bundled into our fees.

Measurement you can trust

Results, reconciled honestly.

Our scorecard compares platform, analytics and sales data so you see what spend really achieved.

Microsoft Advertising reporting metrics and their interpretation limits
SignalWhat we reviewWhat it cannot prove
Microsoft-reported conversionsPurchases or leads Microsoft attributes to ads.Attributed and partly modelled; includes view-through and some sales that would have happened anyway.
Impression shareHow often ads show against eligible volume.Share is not demand; small markets can be profitable or unprofitable at any share.
Cost per click & per conversionAuction cost against measured outcomes.Cheaper clicks are not better customers; margin and lead quality must be applied.
Query qualityThe searches triggering ads and their relevance.Long-tail volume varies by week; small samples can mislead.
Channel overlapComparison with Google and analytics-reported sales.Double counting is common when both platforms claim the same sale.

We never promise a fixed ROAS or cost per lead. When platforms disagree, we show the gap and explain which figure we use to decide.

Grounded in official guidance

Built on documented best practice.

Independent Microsoft documentation—not an endorsement of Slashside or an agency performance claim.

Microsoft Advertising Help Centre

Microsoft's own documentation covers campaigns, bidding, UET tags and reporting.

Read official guidance

About the UET tag

Microsoft documents how the UET tag records website actions for conversion tracking and audiences.

Read official guidance

Microsoft Clarity

Microsoft provides free behavioural analytics that can support landing-page review alongside campaign data.

Read official guidance

Before you decide

Your Microsoft Advertising questions, answered.

Clear answers on imports, budgets, tracking, ownership and what this channel can—and cannot—guarantee.

Your next channel

Let's make your second search channel accountable.

Share your website, current search setup and goals. We'll tell you where Microsoft Advertising fits—and where it doesn't.

Discuss your Microsoft Advertising

No passwords or sensitive customer information needed.