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Google Analytics 4 Setup

You cannot improve what you cannot see. We set up Google Analytics 4 properly, with call and form tracking, so you finally know which marketing brings in jobs and which is wasting your money.

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What it is

Stop guessing where your leads come from. Start measuring.

Google Analytics 4 (GA4) is Google's free tool for tracking what happens on your website: where visitors come from, what they do, and what turns them into leads. Set up right, it turns your website into a source of real answers.

In plain terms

Right now your website is a cash register with no receipts. GA4 is the receipt tape: it tells you what sold, where the customer came from, and what you should do more of.

Clear answers

See which marketing actually brings in calls and jobs.

Smarter spending

Put money into what works and cut what does not.

Real reporting

Simple numbers you understand, not a confusing dashboard.

Why 'installed' and 'set up right' are different things

Plenty of sites technically have GA4 — a snippet someone pasted in years ago — and it answers nothing, because out of the box GA4 counts visits, not leads. Knowing 400 people visited last month is trivia. Knowing that 12 of them called you, 9 came from Google search, 3 from your Google Business Profile, and 0 from the directory you pay $80 a month for — that is a business decision waiting to be made.

The difference is conversion tracking: wiring up phone-call clicks, form submissions, and the actions that mean money, then connecting Search Console so you see which searches bring people in. That configuration work is what you are buying — the software itself is free.

What changes once you can see

The first month of clean data usually surprises owners: marketing they believed in produces nothing, and something ignored — often the Google Business Profile — turns out to drive most calls. From there, decisions stop being arguments: renew what produces jobs, cut what does not, and watch whether this month's changes moved the number that matters.

We also solve the problem that kills most analytics setups: nobody looks at them, because the default dashboards are genuinely confusing. You get a simple report showing the handful of numbers a business owner actually needs — leads, sources, trend — readable in two minutes without a tutorial. Data you look at beats data you have.

Sound familiar?

Signs this is for you

If any of these ring true, this is exactly what fixes it.

You cannot say which ad, post, or search actually brought your last job.

You spend on marketing but have no idea what is working.

You have no tracking, or old analytics that stopped collecting data.

How it works

Simple, start to finish

01

Install

We set up GA4 cleanly and connect it to your site and Search Console.

02

Track

We add tracking for calls, form submissions, and key clicks.

03

Report

We give you a simple report you can actually read and use.

See the difference

Before and after

Before

You spend $500 a month on marketing and honestly cannot tell if a single job came from it.

After

You can see 7 calls came from Google, 2 from Facebook, and 0 from the thing you were about to renew.

What you get

What is included

Clean GA4 installation, configured for your business

Conversion tracking for calls, form submissions, and clicks

Traffic sources so you know what channels bring leads

Google Search Console connected for search data

Spam and internal traffic filtered out

A simple report you can actually read and use

Why it matters

Why this is worth doing

Without tracking, marketing is a guessing game. With GA4 set up right, you see exactly which sources bring in jobs, so you can double down on what works and stop paying for what does not.

Part of our local seo service

What it costs

Pricing, plainly

GA4 with proper call and form tracking is included in every site we build, and it is how the Local SEO Plan ($950/month) reports results. As a standalone setup on an existing site, it is a small fixed-price project — quoted upfront, done within days.

FAQ

Google Analytics 4 Setup: common questions

It shows where your visitors come from and what turns them into leads. Without it, you are guessing which marketing works. Set up right, it tells you exactly where your jobs come from.

Let's talk

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Tell us about your business and we'll send back a free, no-pressure review of your current site (or a plan for a new one). We reply within 1 business day.

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