How to Remove Emails and Other PII From URLs in Google Tag Manager
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Google Analytics (GA) is a great tool that allows you to collect a lot of data and help extract valuable insights from it. However, some information that makes its way into your reports can be l…
Google Tag Manager Guide: Container Audit
Auditing a Google Tag Manager (GTM) container can be tough. Whether the container is managed internally or by a third party agency, ensuring that an implementation is set up correctly both functionally and structurally can be a tall order for any analy…
Introduction to Consent Mode in Google Tag Manager
The world was rushed into a society-level digital transformation in 2020, with more people purchasing goods and services online than ever before. This has given businesses tremendous opportunities to connect to a growing online customer base. But at the very same time, we have seen sweeping restrictions around cookies and user identifiers, vital tools for today’s advertiser.…
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Four ways to use your website data to discover missed sales opportunities
Master these four core KPIs that should be studied to understand why visitors leave your site without making a conversion
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Review: GTM Preview Mode
If you’re not familiar with Google Tag Manager (GTM), check out our guide here before reading this post.
Introduction
In recent months, Google has released a new version of GTM Preview mode for analysis of your tags/triggers/variables in real-time as you interact with elements on the site with tracking active.…
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Server-Side Tagging in Google Tag Manager: What is It?
What is Server-Side Tagging?
In today’s world effective measurement, integration, and use of customer behavior data is critical to success. A large portion of this measurement happens on websites, apps, or some combination of the two. To capture this data, businesses generally turn to inserting JavaScript code (aka third-party tags) onto their website.…
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How to Prepare Your Analytics for a Domain Migration
Prep Your Analytics for a Domain Migration
When migrating your site to a new domain, adding a new subdomain, or adding redirects to your site, there can be various implications on your SEO rankings and page authority.
Additionally, If you use Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager, and other tools to analyze your data with, it’s likely that your site’s domain is involved in the configuration of your analytics tools.…
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How to Quickly Leverage Your Data Layer for Enhanced Site Tracking
What is the Data Layer?
The data layer is basically a vehicle to pass information from your website into a tag management system (TMS), such as Google Tag Manager (GTM), and pretty much anywhere you want after that. This blog post is to be a “Data Layer 101” if you will.…
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How to Track Scroll Depth & Element Visibility in Google Tag Manager
Like the name implies, scroll depth tracking is a method of tracking how users scroll throughout your site.
Scroll tracking can be applicable to almost every site, and provides insight into the non-interaction behavior of users on your site. In other words, it’s a way to understand how users move throughout your site, even if they don’t click anything.…
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How to Use CSS Selectors with Google Tag Manager
While HTML is the basic building block of the content you see on the internet, CSS is traditionally responsible for styling (colors, fonts, sizing, etc.) that content. If you’re new to CSS, check out the resources below first:
CSS Selectors can also be used to target HTML elements for tracking purposes.…
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A Google Tag Manager Wishlist for 2019
Over the last few years, the Google Tag Manager product team have done an incredible job responding to requests and developing the platform. From enterprise functionality like Zones to time-saving features like RegEx table variables and element visibility triggers, the past 18 months have seen GTM go from strength to strength. That said, in the […]
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Levelling Up Your Google Tag Manager/Data Studio Game For Free
Want to take your GTM and Data Studio reporting skills to level up to the next level? Chris Green gives you some free templates to get you started.
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Analytics Best Practice Guide: Going Through a Redesign
Redesigning even a single website can have a major impact from an analytics perspective, and should be prepared for, evaluated on, and acted on from multiple aspects.
The objective of this post is to detail how your website or brand can 1) prepare, 2) …
What is Google Tag Manager and What Does It Do?
If you don’t have organization when working with analytics, you’re gonna have a rough time.
Analytics tracking at its core is largely technical and this can elevate the barrier to entry for those that are unfamiliar. However, tools like Google Tag Manager (GTM), make the tag management process much, much simpler.…
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Enhanced Tracking for Analyzing Your Content’s Impact
If many people view life’s value in relation to its impact on others, what if you viewed the content your company creates in the same way?
How does your content actually impact your end users, and what value does it provide to their decision making process?…
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Making better decisions with a collaborative approach to GTM
Many of the benefits of using a tag management platform are well known. Marketing teams can deploy tags without waiting on development resource, and the need to make on-page code changes for minor changes to tracking is all but eliminated. But by gearing your implementation around a Data Layer – and by working with your […]
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How to implement semantic markup using Google Tag Manager
Structured data is a core SEO tactic. Not only does it remove a layer of ambiguity for search engines (they don’t have to infer what a piece of data is; you’re telling them outright), it’s also the engine that drives rich results, which are taking up an increasing amount of real estate in the SERPs.
7 Google Tag Manager courses to prioritize in 2018
If you love data (and what marketing expert doesn’t?), then learning Google Tag Manager should be high on your priority list this year. But getting started with GTM isn’t always an intuitive process. Here are seven courses that can help you get the hang of it, and take charge of your data.
5 Secret Ways You Can Use Google Tag Manager to Boost Your SEO Strategy
Boost your SEO strategy with these 5 hacks using Google Tag Manager: classify your blog posts, implement structured data, rel canonicals and others.
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