Customer Journey Mapping: Google Search Console + GitHub
What do customers do before they call or book? askotter reads Google Search Console and GitHub together and answers it for your business, by text.
How does customer journey mapping with Google Search Console and GitHub work for a small business?
askotter reads Google Search Console and GitHub side by side so it can map the path customers take across your accounts. The whole path in one view, with every visit and decision point on it.
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The owner asks follow-up questions by text.
- From Google Search Console
- Search queries and impressions, Click-through rates by query, Average position by keyword.
- From GitHub
- Commits and pull requests, Deployment events, Release tags.
- Status
- Both connect today.
- Not for
- Replacing Google Search Console or GitHub. Both keep working exactly as they do now.
What do customers do before they call or book?
On paper the path is simple: someone sees an ad, visits the site and books. In real life they search twice, read reviews and come back days later on a different phone. Each tool sees only its own piece.
How askotter handles it
askotter reads Google Search Console and GitHub side by side, so it can map the path customers take across your accounts.
A person checks the result before it reaches you. This is part of our local SEO services work.
How Google Search Console and GitHub records line up
Google Search Console and GitHub share no customer or visit identifier. askotter puts them on one timeline instead, so a change in Search Console clicks can be read against what GitHub recorded in the same hours.
What customer journey mapping uses from each
Customer journey mapping needs the order of events for one person.
From Google Search Console that means the queries that bring first-time visitors to each page. From GitHub it means deploys that changed a step in the funnel.
These two tools hold no shared customer identifier, so per-customer answers need a third connected tool that each side can match, such as GA4 or your CRM. Daily totals work with these two alone.
What each tool sees on its ownShow less
Google Search Console on its own
Search Console sees the search up to the click and stops there. It cannot say whether that visitor booked, bought or left.
Timing. Search Console numbers usually arrive two to three days behind, reported as daily totals per query and page.
Access. The Search Console API with read access to the property.
GitHub on its own
GitHub knows what code changed and when. It cannot tell you whether that change cost you leads or sales.
Timing. GitHub timestamps every commit, merge and deployment to the second.
Access. A GitHub App or token with read access to the repositories you choose.
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