Mikalai Sasau

Mikalai Sasau is CEO of Marketlab Analytics and a metricfixer author focused on web analytics, conversion tracking, PPC, technical diagnostics and AI workflows.

Mikalai Sasau

Mikalai Sasau is CEO of Marketlab Analytics and one of the authors and technical leads behind metricfixer. Mikalai’s work focuses on web analytics, conversion tracking, PPC measurement, analytics audits, end-to-end measurement, advertising effectiveness, and professional AI-assisted workflows for marketing and analytics teams.

Editorial focus: practical measurement problems at the point where analytics, advertising platforms, websites, consent systems, and business data meet. The goal is to explain not only what a platform reports, but what actually happens between a user action, a tracking request, platform processing, and the final business result.

About Mikalai Sasau

Mikalai’s professional background combines entrepreneurship, media management, sales-driven businesses, web development, digital advertising, and analytics. The career started in 1999 in Minsk while Mikalai was studying at Belarusian National Technical University, first as a manager and producer at the Radio BA International production center and then through an independent concert and event business.

From 2001 to 2005, Mikalai was a co-founder and executive director of a printing company in Minsk. From 2005 to 2010, Mikalai ran a real-estate business focused on premium country properties, followed by work from 2010 to 2012 as a residential real-estate broker and expert with Grinwich Group, Tekta, and Domostroy in Moscow. From 2012 to 2014, Mikalai served as director of RBK Belarus.

From web development to digital analytics

In 2014, Mikalai founded Marketlab Media, a Minsk-based company focused on website development for small businesses. From 2015 to 2021, Mikalai led Marketlab Group and specialized in web analytics and PPC advertising. This period established the measurement and advertising focus that later became central to Marketlab Analytics and metricfixer.

In 2021, Mikalai moved to the European Union and expanded the work to the international market. Since 2022, Mikalai has served as CEO of Marketlab Analytics and as one of the authors and technical leaders of metricfixer.

Areas of expertise

  • Web analytics and measurement architecture: designing and auditing how websites, analytics platforms, advertising systems, and business data exchange measurement signals.
  • Conversion tracking and attribution: diagnosing missing, duplicated, delayed, or misattributed conversions across browser, server, advertising, analytics, and CRM layers.
  • PPC measurement and advertising effectiveness: evaluating campaign performance through reliable conversion data rather than platform metrics in isolation.
  • Analytics and end-to-end measurement audits: finding breaks between acquisition, on-site behavior, leads, CRM stages, purchases, and reporting.
  • Technical implementation and diagnostics: translating tracking and advertising requirements into workflows that developers, analysts, and marketing teams can test and maintain.
  • AI-assisted professional workflows: developing metricfixer Special Workflows and pilot analytical products that use AI to support audits, diagnostics, measurement setup, and advertising-performance analysis.

Editorial work at metricfixer

At metricfixer, Mikalai writes practical research, implementation guides, and diagnostic frameworks for analysts, performance marketers, developers, and business owners. The publication work covers topics such as GA4 and Google Tag Manager troubleshooting, Google Ads measurement, Meta advertising and conversion tracking, consent implementation, CRM reconciliation, and technical SEO where measurement and website architecture intersect.

The editorial approach is deliberately system-oriented. Instead of treating a green tag status, a platform conversion, or a dashboard number as final proof, the analysis follows the full chain of evidence: browser behavior, network requests, tag execution, platform processing, attribution, CRM data, and reporting. This makes the material useful both for specialists debugging complex implementations and for readers who need to understand why advertising and analytics systems sometimes tell different stories.

Current focus

Mikalai currently leads development work around metricfixer Special Workflows and pilot projects in advertising-efficiency management, analytics auditing and implementation, end-to-end measurement, and professional analytical products built with AI. The objective is to turn recurring technical and measurement problems into repeatable workflows that can be checked, explained, and improved in production environments.

Publications by Mikalai Sasau

65 publications

Oct 11, 2026

GA4 Cross-Domain Tracking: Keep One Session Across Landing Pages, Apps, Booking and Payment

A practical GA4 cross-domain implementation and testing guide for landing pages, web apps, YCLIENTS, payment processors, redirects, and server-side purchases.

Oct 9, 2026

Google Vacation Rentals Leaves EEA Search: Why It Happened and What Owners Should Do

Google has withdrawn its vacation rentals unit from Search for users in the EEA, not removed rental websites from Google. We explain the DMA dispute, the uncertain return prospects and the practical response for property owners and rental businesses.

Oct 8, 2026

Country Domains or One Global Website? International SEO, Costs and ROI

Separate country domains can support local growth, but more websites do not automatically mean more sales. Compare ccTLDs and regional subdirectories through technical SEO, real-world evidence and a transparent break-even model.

Oct 2, 2026

Russia in Google Ads Location Targeting: What It Actually Enables

Russian locations can appear in Google Ads while domestic ad serving remains paused. An audit, Google's support reply and earlier advertiser reports explain location interest, VPN limits and useful overseas demand.

Oct 1, 2026

TCF v2.4 Explained: What Website Owners and Advertisers Need to Know

A cookie banner is only the visible part of consent management. Learn what TCF v2.4 changes, when advertisers need it, what benefits it can realistically deliver, and how to check your current setup.

Sep 23, 2026

Inbound and Outbound Links for SEO: Beyond the "Link Juice" Myth

Not every backlink is an asset, and linking to a useful source is not automatically an SEO loss. Learn how to evaluate link quality, qualify paid and user-generated placements, audit destinations, and measure outcomes without relying on link-juice myths.

Sep 22, 2026

Offline Conversion Tracking: Testing, Attribution and Smart Bidding

Learn how to test CRM and offline conversion tracking, investigate missing or duplicate events, reconcile advertising reports with real sales, and choose reliable bidding goals.

Sep 22, 2026

Offline Conversion Tracking: CRM Integration, IDs and Consent

Connect CRM, payment, call and in-store outcomes to advertising platforms. Understand integration options, matching identifiers, consent and secure data handling.

Sep 20, 2026

Meta Conversions API: When It Helps and When It Just Repeats Data

Meta Conversions API can recover missing purchases, add useful identifiers, and report CRM outcomes. But repeating the same data is not automatic enrichment, and Gateway does not guarantee longer-lived Safari cookies. Learn which setup addresses which gap.

Sep 17, 2026

OpenAI Ads September 2026 Update: oCPM, Attribution, Integrations, and Sponsored Agents

OpenAI Ads adds oCPM conversion optimization, flexible attribution windows, platform targeting, Event Quality Score, Shopify and HubSpot integrations, AI-assisted creative, and Sponsored Agents. See what changed and what early advertisers report.

Sep 2, 2026

Meta Ads Learning Phase for Low-Volume and Limited-Time Campaigns

Meta's learning phase is often reduced to a rule that every ad set needs 50 conversions in seven days. This guide explains why that benchmark is not a mandatory purchase quota, campaign duration, or universal minimum budget, and shows how to structure ticket, high-ticket, seasonal, and other low-volume campaigns around signal quality and real business economics.

Sep 1, 2026

Google Tests Channel Prioritization in Performance Max: What the New PMax Channels Alpha Means

Google is alpha-testing a new Channels setting in Performance Max that lets selected advertisers tell Smart Bidding to value some channels more or less. It is not a fixed budget split, has no public general-availability date, and should be tested carefully because channel-level CPA can hide cross-channel assists.

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