Day 2: Analytics & Paid Media

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Day 2

Analytics & Paid Media

ACAMIT Digital Marketing Bootcamp

Measure and promote yesterday's live URL

Open your published site

If it is still a draft, publish it now.
Ads and analytics need a real URL.

Paid media is a megaphone

It does not fix a weak page. It shouts whatever you already built.

Two ways to reach people

Google Ads

People search “momos Lagankhel”.

High intent. You pay per click.

Meta Ads

People are scrolling Instagram / Facebook.

You interrupt. Creative matters more.

Search means someone is looking

“hotel near Patan Durbar” is already shopping.

Social means earning attention

A plating reel can stop the thumb. Then the site must close.

Three numbers. That’s enough today.

CPC

Cost per click

CTR

Clicks ÷ impressions

Conversion

Did they WhatsApp?

NPR 500

A weekend test. Not a US case study.

If CPC is NPR 25, you bought ~20 visits.
Where did they land?

Wrong landing

Ad → Instagram bio

Link in bio, then a busy grid of posts.

Ad → your Google Site

One offer, one button, and a destination you control.

Analytics is a health check

Who visited, where they came from, which page they saw, and whether they left.

What GA4 will show you

  • Reports → Realtime (did my test hit?)
  • Acquisition (Google, direct, social)
  • Pages (Home vs Contact)

Your ID looks like this

G-XXXXXXXXXX

That string is what you paste into Google Sites.

Google Sites caveat

Sites supports GA4. It does not support a Meta Pixel in the header.

To retarget on Instagram later, you graduate to WordPress or a proper host.

UTM = a name tag on the link

?utm_source=classroom&utm_medium=qr&utm_campaign=day2

When classmates click, Analytics can tell you it was class — not magic.

Lab: install GA4 (no ad spend required)

  1. analytics.google.com → start measuring
  2. Create account + property (your mock brand)
  3. Platform: Web → paste your live Sites URL
  4. Copy Measurement ID
  5. Sites → Settings → Analytics → paste → Publish again

Workshop clock

Same published URL as Day 1.

0–15 min

Create the GA4 property. Copy G-….

15–35 min

Paste into Google Sites Settings → Analytics. Hit Publish.

35–50 min

Open the live site on your phone. Watch Realtime. You should appear.

50–60 min

Sketch a NPR 500 test: keyword or interest, headline, URL = your site. Do not spend unless the instructor says so.

Done when

  • Measurement ID is on the live site
  • Realtime showed your visit
  • You can say where a paid click would land

Two Nepal sketches

Café

Search: “best momo Lagankhel”

Land: Menu page + WhatsApp

IT desk

Meta: 18–24, Lalitpur, “laptops”

Land: Services + price range

The journey you are tracking

See ad or search → open site → scroll → tap WhatsApp

If Realtime is empty, the tag is not live yet.

Tomorrow

Make something people actually share.
Then republish the same site.