Corsa Media House

Analytics

Know which of your numbers are real.

Google Analytics, Search Console and conversion tracking, installed so that what you read is what happened. The common outcome of bad measurement is not a missing number. It is a confident one that is wrong.

What you get

Deliverables, not capabilities.

Why this way

A traffic total is not an audience.

On one of our own properties the dashboard reported roughly 150 unique visitors a day. That figure was arithmetically correct and completely wrong about demand.

The single most requested path on the site was an exploit probe for a platform the site does not even run, and it alone drew more requests than the home page. Most of what remained were declared crawlers. The interior pages, which is where real people go, were in single digits. The unique-visitor count was inflated precisely because the traffic was automated, since a distributed scanner presents one address per node and each is counted as a unique.

No total tells you that. Only the distribution across paths does, and reading it took ten minutes. The difference between those two readings is the difference between deciding you have a conversion problem and knowing you have a traffic problem, which are opposite pieces of work.

On this site

Every enquiry this site receives is stored with the source, medium, campaign, referrer and landing page that produced it, written at the moment of submission rather than reconstructed later. Attribution added afterwards can only ever describe the next campaign, never the one that already ran.

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Locally

Numbers are only worth having next to the floor.

Corsa Automotive’s site does not just count form fills. It routes its own leads and talks to the shop management system the front desk actually uses, so a lead can be followed from the page it came from to whether the car ever arrived. That integration is linked from the work page and it is the difference between a conversion count and a job.

Getting there means understanding how the business books work, and for an owner-operated business in Orlando or Winter Park that is a conversation at their counter, not a questionnaire. Analytics installed without it produces numbers that are technically correct and answer nothing anyone asked.

Questions

Asked and answered straight.

How is this different from your SEO work?

Search work is about being found. This is about knowing what happened once you were. They are usually bought together and they are genuinely separate jobs, which is why they are separate pages. If you only want one, start with measurement, because search work you cannot measure is indistinguishable from luck.

We already have Google Analytics. Is it working?

Often partly. The common failures are a property that records page views and no conversions, tracking that was installed once and never checked after a site rebuild, and internal traffic that was never excluded. Any of those produce a report that looks fine and cannot answer a business question. We check before we change anything.

Do you promise more traffic?

No. This work does not create traffic, it tells you the truth about the traffic you have. Sometimes that truth is that there is far less of it than the dashboard suggested, which is unwelcome and is the most useful thing we can hand you.

Who owns the accounts?

You do, the same as everything else here. Analytics, Search Console, Tag Manager and any ads property are opened in your name and administered by us. If we stop working together you remove our access and the history stays with you, because the history is the part that cannot be rebuilt.

Can you fix tracking that broke during a rebuild?

Yes, and it is a common request. A rebuild that drops the tracking is usually discovered a quarter later when someone asks a question the data can no longer answer. The history from before is not recoverable, so the sooner it is caught the less of it is lost.

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