Tips and tricks for GA4 not just for Shoptet users
A recording of the public webinar we hosted with Marek Čech for Shoptet. The main topic was practical recommendations for evaluating campaigns in GA4 in connection with the upcoming Black Friday and Christmas season.
The main topic was campaign evaluation in GA4. We went over campaign tagging, including the new UTM parameters that weren’t available in GA3 (starting at 4:04). We also focused on which dimensions (similar to GA3’s source/medium) to use for evaluation and in what context, since GA4 offers many new dimensions compared to GA3, and users often find it difficult to navigate them (starting at 9:03).
A significant part of the webinar was dedicated to proper campaign evaluation — not just using last click, but also looking at a longer time frame (starting at 14:21). Unfortunately, the current reality is that if you're a small online store without enough conversions to support the data-driven model, GA4 only offers last click attribution in the interface. The other attribution models have been removed, meaning you can forget about doing any more complex retrospective evaluation.
Personally, I find this a bit unfair — GA4 is essentially saying: either you have enough conversions and trust the data-driven model (which, for 99% of users, is a black box that outputs something), or you're out of luck.
In the next part of the webinar, Marek demonstrated funnel reports (42:47) and answered questions on a number of practical issues, including not set, tracking across domains and subdomains, cancellations in GA4/Ads, and more.
The webinar is available on YouTube (link).