Google Tag Manager DataLayer Explained

Updated: July 12th, 2019. The Data layer is one of the key concepts in the world of Google Tag Manager. It ensures maximum flexibility, portability, and ease of implementation. Remember, GTM works best when deployed alongside the data layer (in fact, broken data layer = severely crippled GTM). At first, Google Tag Manager Data Layer […]
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Exploring the Click Element Variable in Google Tag Manager

Google Tag Manager offers a whole bunch of variables that are at your disposal, built-in and user-defined ones. While I have posted many blog posts about user-defined variables (and I mean many, many, many, many…), this time, I’d like to put a spotlight on the unsung hero of built-in variables, Click Element. To keep you […]
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How to Extract a Query Parameter with Google Tag Manager

Google Tag Manager can help you do a lot of useful things and extracting query parameters is one of them. If a URL of the page contains a query parameter (it comes after the question mark in the address), you can turn that into a variable in Google Tag Manager and reuse in tags, triggers or […]
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Google Tag Manager Custom Event Trigger Explained

Updated: June 23th, 2019. I have to be honest with you. I’ve tried hard to come up with some interesting and intriguing introduction for this blog post and I guess I failed. But this does not mean that Custom Event Trigger is a boring and rarely used concept. Actually, this can’t be farther from the truth. […]
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Google Tag Manager Click Tracking: All You Need to Know

Updated: June 14th, 2019. As a feature, click tracking in Google Tag Manager is a perfect bait for a beginner. It’s fairly easy to get started: read one or two blog posts, maybe watch a video and done! You can track buttons, outbound link clicks, etc. However, what I’ve noticed among GTM beginners is that they do not […]
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How to track WIX website with Google Tag Manager

WIX is one of the most popular website builders that positions itself as “easy to use” and “allows to build gorgeous websites”). Even though such builders take away a lot of flexibility from you (especially when it comes to SEO-or-GTM-related modifications), their popularity is still solid. When the owners of such websites start realizing that they […]
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A Guide To Google Tag Manager Debug Mode

Updated: May 28th, 2019. Why doesn’t my tag fire? What data can I send to Google Analytics? Why didn’t this trigger work? When it comes to Google Tag Manager, we sometimes run into trouble that requires further investigation of what’s going on. One of the most important, yet commonly overlooked steps in the GTM process is debugging. It allows us to ensure that […]
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How To Track Single Page Web App with Google Tag Manager

Updated: May 19th, 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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