5 Mistakes I Typically Find in GA4 Setups


Hi, Reader!
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Most of what goes wrong in a GA4 setup isn’t advanced. It’s the basic stuff: UA still half-migrated instead of a clean G- property, a separate property for every offer instead of one for your whole business. Basic things can break, and can break constantly, whether you set it up yourself or paid someone on Fiverr or Upwork to do it for you.

I just published a new post walking through the five GA4 setup mistakes I see most often, in the order they tend to show up. It ends with the one usually creating the other four, and isn't always obvious.

​You can read the full post here.​

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Ashley Clayton

Ashley Clayton

Marketing Ecosystem Strategist

Because marketing is an ecosystem, not a tactic

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Ashley Clayton is the Architect of Measurable Marketing Ecosystems™ and Founder of Iterateology — helping coaches, consultants, and done-for-you providers build measurement strategies that reflect how their business actually works, not just what the platforms make easy to count. With 15+ years across tech, marketing, and analytics, she created the Measurable Marketing Ecosystem™ framework to give service providers the upstream thinking they need before touching a single dashboard. She is also a Google Women Techmakers Ambassador and certified business coach.

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