Page Variables and Pageview Triggers in Google Tag Manager

Updated: March 30th, 2025 As you probably already know, Google Tag Manager is a fantastic tool that lets you manage your tracking codes and activate them whenever needed. With GTM, you can fire your tags whenever a visitor submits a form, clicks a link, etc. But the most basic (yet still very crucial) is when […]
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Path Exploration report in Google Analytics 4

Updated: March 30th, 2025 Exploration reports in Google Analytics 4 are a suite of features that allow you to dive deeper into your data. In the past, I have explained how to work with Free Form reports and Funnel Exploration. This time, let’s look at another type of report, Path Exploration. In the older versions of […]
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How to Track Custom Events with Google Analytics 4

Updated: March 30th, 2025 Google Analytics 4 has a steep learning curve. In one of my previous blog posts, I explained how GA4 event tracking works in general. But if you understand the basics of Google Analytics 4 and want to dive deeper into custom event tracking, you’ve come to the right place. In this […]
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Google Tag Manager Best Practices: 24 Tips

Updated on March 30th, 2025 Google Tag Manager (GTM) is a powerful tool that lets you add and edit tracking codes (tags) without much intervention from the IT department (although there are some nuances, and the classic “it depends” plays a significant role here). It is also much more convenient to control all your tags […]
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Google Analytics 4 Explorations: a Complete Guide

Google Analytics 4 may not hold its strength in the built-in standard reports that it provides, but it does make up for it with its Explorations feature. Google Analytics 4 explorations allow you to dive deeper into your data to get insights through customizable and interactive reports tailored to your business needs. For example, you […]
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Google Analytics 4 cross-domain tracking not working? Here are the fixes

Cross-domain tracking in GA4 is a built-in workaround that allows you to send user information from one domain to another, preserving session data across domains. This makes sure that the same user is consistently tracked across multiple websites, enabling more accurate and unified analytics. If you’re reading this article, chances are you already know this […]
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Exit Pages in Google Analytics 4

Updated: March 29th, 2025 When a visitor browses your website, some pages will eventually become the last page of a session. If you are running a blog or a news website, then reading a single article and leaving afterward is pretty normal. But if many people leave your e-commerce site at the checkout, that is […]
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21 Most common Google Tag Manager mistakes

Updated: March 29th, 2025 If you’re reading this article, you’ve probably been in this situation: you open Google Tag Manager, set up your tags, triggers, and variables correctly (at least you thought so), and then it doesn’t work (or doesn’t work how you expected)! You even retraced every line in that 12-step tutorial, but still […]
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Google Tag Manager and Multiple Domains: How to Configure?

Updated: March 29th, 2025 So, you have probably landed on this article because you are working with multiple domains (e.g., domain1.com and domain2.com) and have some doubts on how to handle Google Tag Manager. Should you use one GTM container on all domains? Or should you use one container per domain? In this guide, I’ll […]
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