How To Track Single Page Web App with Google Tag Manager

Updated: August 30th, 2019. Tracking page views on regular websites is fairly easy: you just add a tracking code to every page and done! Every time a visitor clicks an internal link, a browser window refreshes, and a new page view hit is sent to Google Analytics. But when it comes to single page websites (or […]

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How to Track HTML5 Audio Player with Google Tag Manager and GA

I guess that the majority of the GTM community is familiar with a custom event listener that probably already has the status of legendary. Even this Twitter (that I saw today in my feed) confirmed this: Yes, I’m talking about David Vallejo’s HTML5 video listener that is used to track almost any other video player that is […]

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Trigger Groups in Google Tag Manager: 6 Use Cases

In the first quarter of 2019, Google Tag Manager team released a new feature, called Trigger Groups. Initially, I was planning to write a guide about them as soon as the feature was released but seeing other authors doing the same, I decided to wait and think of some additional use cases/examples. Now I feel […]

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How to extract part of the URL path with Google Tag Manager

This blog post might sound similar to the one that I’ve recently published, How to extract a query parameter of the URL, but this time a bit different issue is solved. In that blog post, I was working with query parameters. For example, I was able to fetch the value of productId if the Page URL […]

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What’s this? “No tags were evaluated because there was no event in the selected message”

So here’s a scenario that probably brought you to this page: you have enabled GTM preview and debug mode and see a Message in it. When you click it, you see the following message: no tags were evaluated because there was no event in the selected message. What does it mean? What are its implications and how does […]

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What is Google Tag Manager Noscript?

Updated: August 13th, 2019. After you create a new Google Tag Manager container, the interface asks to place two codes on your website, one in the <head> and the after right after the opening <body> tag. But have you ever wondered why are there two codes instead of one? Usually tracking tools, like Google Analytics, Mixpanel, or […]

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Youtube trigger isn’t working in Google Tag Manager? 6 ways to fix it

Updated: August 13th, 2019. This is an updated version of the blog post posted back in 2016 (when the built-in Youtube trigger was not a thing in GTM yet). In the autumn of 2017, Google Tag Manager team released multiple awesome features and native Youtube trigger was one of them. Before that happened, the industry […]

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Google Analytics Cross-domain Tracking with Google Tag Manager. The Guide.

Updated: July 25th, 2019. There are already plenty of resources online that explain how to implement Google Analytics Cross-domain tracking. However, it feels that the questions of this topic are still one of the most popular ones in the community (source of this statement: my gut). And that’s no surprise. Sometimes people just blindly follow guides […]

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Top 23 Google Tag Manager Extensions and Tools for Fast and Efficient Work

Updated: July 24th, 2019. A lot of new things have happened in the industry since the first time when I published this blog post (back in early 2017). Almost three years have passed and a lot of new tools were developed (or discovered). The time has come for the 5th version of this list. If […]

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Google Tag Manager Tutorial + Free E-Book for Beginners

Google Tag Manager is an amazing tool. I’ve been running this blog for more than two years now and 98% of all blog posts are about GTM. It has saved me, my colleagues and my clients so much time that I can’t even imagine how I could live now without it. Need to add a […]

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