with Faisal TusherSEO · Measurement
Google Analytics for SEO
Search Console shows how people find a site; GA4 shows what they do after they arrive. SEO reporting needs both to connect rankings to business outcomes.
Try the interactive tool The building blocks
What goes into Google Analytics for SEO
Channel Mix Explorer
Demo data. Toggle channels and switch metrics to see how organic compares.
How I do it
The process
- 1
Audit tracking
Tags, events, cross-domain, consent.
- 2
Configure
Key events, content groups, custom dimensions.
- 3
Report
Organic landing pages × key events.
- 4
Explore
Paths and funnel explorations.
Principles I follow
- Validate tracking and consent before trusting any organic trend.
- Report organic by landing-page group (category, product, blog).
- Link GSC to GA4 for query-to-landing-page views.
- Attribute value to organic with data-driven attribution, and show assisted value too.
Measurement
The numbers I watch
Organic sessions
Trend and share of total.
Organic key events
Leads/purchases from organic.
Engagement rate
engaged sessions ÷ sessions
Quality of organic visits.
Tools I use
- G4Google Analytics (GA4)
- TMGoogle Tag Manager
- SCGoogle Search Console
- LSGoogle Looker Studio
What you get
- Measurement plan
- Organic performance report
- Content group configuration
Organic looks flat but leads grew
Traffic flat, but form fills rose.
Report landing-page quality and key-event rate, not sessions alone.
Illustrative exampleWhat replaced Universal Analytics bounce rate?
GA4 uses engagement rate; bounce rate is now its inverse.
Related
Continue exploring
- Google Search ConsoleUsing Google Search Console: performance reports, query analysis, index coverage, sitemaps, Core Web Vitals and CTR by position, with an interactive CTR curve.SEO Center
- Google Tag ManagerGoogle Tag Manager implementation: tags, triggers, variables, dataLayer events, consent and QA for GA4, Google Ads and Meta — with a dataLayer event builder.SEO Center
- Marketing AnalyticsAnalytics hub: measurement, dashboards, attribution.Analytics
- AttributionMarketing attribution explained: last click, first click, linear, time decay, position-based and data-driven models, with an interactive model comparator.Analytics
