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 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
52 publications
Jul 5, 2026
Website Consent Signals Around the World: Cookie Banner Requirements, Opt-Out Signals, and CMP Logic
A practical global review of website consent signals, cookie-banner requirements, opt-out mechanisms, and CMP logic across Europe, the U.S., Latin America, Africa, Asia, Oceania, and selected former USSR jurisdictions.
Jul 4, 2026
Meta Ads Dynamic URL Parameters for UTM Tracking: Practical Guide for Advertisers
A practical guide to Meta Ads dynamic URL parameters for UTM tagging: supported tokens, campaign compatibility, recommended GA4 mapping, ready-to-use templates, CRM capture, troubleshooting, and validation rules.
Jul 2, 2026
Manual UTM Tagging in GA4: Recommended Values That Preserve Default Channels
A practical GA4 UTM taxonomy for clean acquisition reporting: recommended source, medium, campaign, content, and term values that preserve Default Channel Groups and avoid source/medium fragmentation.
Jun 29, 2026
Which Google Ads Format Works Best for Promoting Content on an Informational Website?
A practical guide to choosing Google Ads campaign formats for promoting articles, guides, research, checklists, and other content on informational websites without optimizing only for cheap low-quality clicks.
Jun 28, 2026
Making a Website Indexable, Usable, and Recommendable for AI Systems
AI visibility starts with the same foundations that make a website easy to crawl, parse, trust, and cite. This article explains how to align technical SEO, structured data, content architecture, crawler controls, rights management, and measurement for AI-assisted search and recommendations.
Jun 23, 2026
Cloudflare Configuration for Crawlability, Ads Delivery, and AI Bot Access
A practical Cloudflare configuration guide for SEO and marketing teams: how to keep search crawlers, ad bots, Merchant Center checks, and selected AI search bots accessible without weakening protection for checkout, account, API, and other sensitive paths.
Jun 19, 2026
Google’s Shopify Measurement Shift Is Bigger Than a Tag Update
Google is moving Shopify measurement toward the Google & YouTube app. What merchants should know about GA4, Ads, GTM, custom pixels, consent, deadlines, and duplicate cleanup.
Jun 16, 2026
GA4 Consent Changes and Server-Side GTM: What Analytics Teams Should Check Now
Google’s 2026 GA4 data-control changes make Consent Mode the practical gate for Ads-linked measurement. This review explains what server-side GTM teams should audit before conversion tracking, modeling, and reporting are affected.
Jun 14, 2026
Google Retired FAQ Rich Results: What to Do With FAQPage Markup Now
Google has retired FAQ rich results in Search, but FAQPage markup is not automatically dead. This guide explains how to classify existing FAQ schema, avoid QAPage misuse, clean up mainEntity modeling, and update Search Console reporting workflows.
Jun 13, 2026
Google Expands Limited Ad Serving to Search: Implications for Advertisers
Google is extending Limited Ad Serving logic to Search, making advertiser identity, user feedback, brand clarity, and verification more important for Google Ads visibility.
Jun 10, 2026
Lowercasing URLs Without Redirects Does Not Help SEO
Changing a visible URL to lowercase without a real redirect is not SEO canonicalization. It can leave duplicate URL signals in place and, worse, corrupt case-sensitive advertising identifiers such as gclid and gbraid.
Jun 7, 2026
Google Tag Manager and the New Prefix Logic: GTM-, GT-, G-, AW- and DC- in 2026
Google’s 2026 tagging updates turn container prefixes into a runtime-governance issue. This review explains what GTM-, GT-, G-, AW-, DC-, and UA- mean, how Google tag and Google Tag Manager unification changes deployment assumptions, and what analytics teams should audit before restricted and full-capability modes drift out of sync.
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