Most business owners know their website is working — or not working — based on gut feeling. The phone rings, or it doesn’t. The inbox has inquiries, or it’s quiet. But gut feelings don’t tell you why, and they certainly don’t help you make smart decisions about where to spend your marketing dollars.
That’s where conversion tracking comes in. When you know exactly how many people clicked your phone number, submitted a contact form, made a purchase, or downloaded your brochure — and when you can see all of that data in a single, clean dashboard — you stop guessing and start growing.
In this post, we’re going to walk through why tracking website conversions matters so much, what kinds of actions are worth measuring, and how tools like Google Analytics and Data Studio (Formerly referred to “Looker Studio” and “Google Data Studio”) can be combined to give you a dashboard that shows you only what you actually care about — no data science degree required.