customer relationship management), often only have one field to store measurement data. attribution. Unfortunately, attribution to first or last contact essentially ignores any channels that may have influenced a customer or prospect in the process. If you want to use a model that assigns some level of credit to all channels that may have had an influence along the way, consider a fractional attribution model, such as linear or time decay. Linear attribution gives equal credit to all influential channels, while time decay gives the most credit
to the newest channel and the least to the oldest channel for that customer or lead. However, to track the fractional attribution for each lead or customer, you'll likely need a new field created in marketing automation and/or CRM. I've often created what fax number list I call a "current lead source" field, which adds the latest lead source to the end of the field whenever a new channel is encountered by that lead: running lead source I can then download my leads into an excel spreadsheet and separate them and look at the table of data
in that field. I also find this approach useful for reviewing content items that impacted the prospects' buying cycle. Configure Google Search Console Ideally, your website(s) already have Google Search Console (GSC) set up. And I expect that for many, it goes without saying that GSC is an essential SEO tool, helping you understand metrics you typically can't verify on your own. For example, when we advertise using Google AdWords or other paid search platforms