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by shanebellone 1401 days ago
Point noted. I'll be careful with my language. Thanks for reiterating.

This system is focused on the source of the hit and the page views that led to the conversion. It could be used to measure organic search ROI for individual content pages. You could justify content spend based on performance data and plan future content based on past returns. I find this use case particularly interesting.

It is capable of multi-session attribution. From a product perspective, the tradeoff is timeframe for efficiency. The longer the historical perspective, the more costly feature becomes. This represents a current personal debate about tradeoffs.

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You will probably quickly run into asks from customers about 'attribution modelling' concepts and multi touch attribution, you now probably created first touch attribution?
I'm currently showing first touch but can add a section that depicts last touch too. It's just a question of presentation. It would take ~15 minutes to make the change.

Edit: Took 25 minutes but I pushed an update to the example report to highlight this point.

Nice! There are quite a few other ways that advanced marketers want to analyze this if you google for attribution modelling, but first and last touch is already a great start