Best Free Google Tag Manager Courses Online

Updated: December 2, 2023.  Are you just starting with GTM and looking for ways to learn it with a free Google Tag Manager course? I used to be in your situation too – googling for a solution, searching for the best and most accurate tutorials/webinars/courses. Here are my several picks of free Google Tag Manager […]
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How to Migrate a Basic Website to Google Analytics 4

With the processing of Universal Analytics (UA) data ending on July 1, 2023, it is imperative to migrate any of your existing UA properties to Google Analytics 4 (GA4). While data is still being processed in Universal Analytics for 360 customers, UA360 will no longer process data after July 1, 2024. The sooner you migrate […]
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Recommended Events in Google Analytics 4

Updated: October 11th, 2023 There’s a lot to cover regarding event tracking in GA4. But since the platform is now event-based, it’s natural that I have a bunch of guides related just to events. In this quick guide, we’ll take a closer look at one group of events, recommended events. The list of recommended events (in […]
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Missing Link Text of Outbound Clicks in GA4?

Updated: October 10th, 2023 Even though Google Analytics 4 can track events automatically (not just page_views), there are also some problems. One of the challenges is missing Link Text (link_text) of outbound link clicks. If you try to build a report using the Link Text dimension with the click event, you won’t succeed (at least when I write this […]
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Missing Google Analytics 4 Configuration tag

Updated: September 18th, 2023 This might have caught you off guard. You open a Google Tag Manager container, but the Google Analytics 4 configuration is missing. How can that be? Well, there has been an update in Google Tag Manager, and the process of how Google Analytics 4 tags are managed has changed.   What happened? […]
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7 Ways to Track Form Submissions in Google Analytics 4

Updated: September 14th, 2023 If you use Google Analytics (GA) to analyze web traffic on your site, you may also want to track contact form submissions, right?  A question I hear frequently is “can I track form submissions in GA?”. The answer is yes, and I’ll show you how. To make Google Analytics form tracking […]
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3 ways how to turn off Google Tag Manager Preview mode

Updated: September 4th, 2023. Google Tag Manager’s widget keeps popping up at the bottom of the screen, huh? If yes, you’ve come to the right place. In this guide, you’ll learn how to turn off Google Tag Manager debug mode (or, in other words, exit it), including some standard and not-so-common options. Option #1. Click […]
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How and Where To Get Google Tag Manager Help?

Updated: August 3rd, 2023. (Although Simo Ahava has posted a blog post of this very same topic long before me, I feel like this needs to be addressed multiple times.) Stuck with Google Tag Manager? Relax, we’ve all been there. Not even once. Not even ten or twenty times. It’s not easy to master GTM […]
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GTAG vs Analytics.js

When you want to install Google Analytics on your website, one of the options is to add its code directly to your website. That JavaScript library is called gtag.js (a.k.a. global site tag). But what if you are working with an older project and you see that the GA code it’s using is not gtag.js? […]
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