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It's Time to Re-Evaluate Your Email Marketing Reports
By Dana DiTomaso May 13, 2026Your email click rate is probably inflated by bot activity — here's how to find out how much, and what to do about it. -
Impression Share by Funnel Position: A Better SEO Funnel Reporting Framework
By Dana DiTomaso May 5, 2026Read your GSC impressions through a funnel-position lens to diagnose where your search visibility is heaviest and where you're invisible to buyers. -
What's the Job of This Page? A Framework for Tagging Pages by Purpose
By Dana DiTomaso April 28, 2026Site-wide conversion rate hides the signal you need — here's a framework for tagging pages by their job, and using that to ask better reporting questions. -
Before You Go Server-Side: What You Actually Need to Get Started With Server-Side Tagging
By Dana DiTomaso April 22, 2026Thinking about server-side tagging? Let's untangle the five things people confuse, determine your starting point, and figure out what you actually need. -
We Are Not Data Accountants
By Dana DiTomaso April 15, 2026A reframe for analysts and marketers who've been pressured into treating analytics as a reconciliation exercise — and why reasoning from imperfect data is both more honest and more useful. -
Which Google Search Console Table Should You Use in Looker Studio?
By Dana DiTomaso April 8, 2026The GSC Looker Studio connector offers two tables — Site Impression and URL Impression — with no explanation of the difference. Here's how to choose the right one. -
How to Use Redirects and UTMs to See If Your Offline Ads Are Actually Working
By Dana DiTomaso March 18, 2026Learn how to use redirect URLs and UTM parameters together to track offline advertising campaigns — flyers, radio ads, transit — in GA4, with a platform-by-platform setup guide. -
The Quality Traffic Metric: Building a Better Signal for Google Ads, Meta, and Other Ad Networks
By Dana DiTomaso March 3, 2026Learn how to build a composite quality traffic metric in GTM that combines time on page with scroll depth and deploy it as a micro conversion across Google Ads, Meta, and other ad networks. -
Data-Driven vs. Data-Informed: Why the Distinction Matters
By Dana DiTomaso February 25, 2026Data is directional, not authoritative — here's why "data-informed" leads to better marketing decisions than "data-driven" and what that shift looks like in practice. -
How to Predict Whether Clients Will Hit Their Targets
By Dana DiTomaso February 18, 2026Learn how to use linear regression in Google Sheets and Looker Studio to predict whether clients will hit their monthly targets with a live forecast chart that updates automatically. -
Referral Exclusion vs. Cross-Domain Tracking in GA4: Which One Do You Actually Need?
By Dana DiTomaso February 11, 2026Not sure if you need a referral exclusion or cross-domain tracking in GA4? This decision framework walks through attribution scenarios so you can pick the right one for your setup. -
How Cookieless Tracking Actually Works (And Why Your Numbers Look Different)
By Dana DiTomaso February 3, 2026Learn why your Plausible and GA4 numbers don't match—and what each tool is actually measuring when cookies aren't involved.