Emily searches for something on google and clicks on your blog. She then reads some of the blog, bookmarks it to read later, & shuts off her laptop. A few days later, she sees one of your company posts on LinkedIn & then signups for the product. How do you attribute this lead to your blog efforts? Since that was influential in her signup.
Now, most blog readers don’t convert on their first encounter with a post. They may convert later that day, a few days later, or months later, so you need to be able to account for that. Most marketers don’t do this because they rarely track signups (they are more focused on vanity metrics like traffic, newsletter signups, etc.)
So how do you attribute a conversion if a user touches multiple pages or parts of your business before they convert (& a blog post is only one of those touch points). (more in threads)