Topic guide

Measurement and attribution

Make campaign decisions from reconciled events, revenue, and experiments.

Measure AI search visibility, referrals and leads without mixing them upBuild a practical measurement plan for Google AI search, ChatGPT referrals, Bing citations and Grok observations. Separate visibility, visits, resource use and accepted leads.Moving domains without losing track of Search Console and GA4A practical domain-migration checklist using GaaS's Versaunt-to-trygaas move: redirects, DNS verification, sitemap receipts, retained GA4 history and honest post-launch checks.A UTM naming convention your paid-media team can keep usingBuild a campaign naming dictionary, distinguish sources from placements, handle auto-tagging carefully, and keep a usable campaign register through reporting and handovers.Recover from a conversion-tracking outageDiagnose and recover a conversion-tracking outage by tracing business events, containing unreliable automation, repairing the failing stage, and reconciling recovery.QA GA4 purchase events with an order ledgerValidate GA4 purchase events against known orders, checking transaction identity, values, currency, items, duplicate triggers, and reporting freshness.Build a refund-adjusted advertising reportConnect purchase cohorts with full and partial refunds to separate attributed purchase value, retained revenue, and contribution in advertising reviews.Plan a geographic holdout test for paid mediaPrepare a geographic advertising experiment with a defined treatment, comparable regions, power analysis, spillover review, and a prewritten decision rule.Is your data ready for marketing mix modeling?Assess marketing mix model readiness through consistent outcomes, media variation, time and geography, confounders, missing data, and calibration evidence.Audit Pixel and Conversions API deduplicationTrace one purchase through browser Pixel and server Conversions API events, checking shared identity, multiple senders, retries, and platform diagnostics.Use attribution and incrementality for different decisionsSeparate advertising credit assignment from causal lift, and choose reporting, experiments, or modeling based on the budget question you need to answer.Reconcile advertising spend and sales currenciesBuild a paid media currency bridge that preserves transaction amounts, reporting currencies, exchange-rate policies, refunds, and comparable spend totals.Build a paid media metric dictionaryDefine paid media metrics with explicit numerators, denominators, attribution rules, currencies, time bases, exclusions, and data owners.Reconcile ad reports across time zonesDiagnose paid media reporting differences by aligning time zones, event timestamps, day boundaries, date bases, and export maturity.What autonomous advertising can teach you about market behaviorLearn which audience, creative, and demand hypotheses advertising data can support, where automated allocation confounds interpretation, and when to run a controlled experiment.