Complete Google Tag Manager Data Layer Tutorial

Updated: October 17th, 2025 Data Layer is one of the main Google Tag Manager concepts, which ensures maximum flexibility, portability, and ease of implementation. Without it, there would be no variables or triggers in GTM, no tags would be fired. It keeps your tag management running properly and is the key to unlocking Google Tag […]
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Conversion rate in Google Analytics 4

Updated: October 17th, 2025 Important: Conversion rate has been renamed to Key event rate. You can learn more about it here. ===== When Google Analytics 4 was introduced, it was missing one very important metric many people relied on in GA3, conversion rate (CR). Even though we could see the total number of conversions, that was not […]
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Track Gravity Forms With Google Tag Manager and GA4

Updated: October 17th, 2025 Gravity Forms is a customizable WordPress plugin that enables you to add simple or complex forms to your website, blog, or whatever you’re running on WP. However, just like any important interaction, tracking form submissions is necessary to understand visitors’ behavior better. In this blog post, I’ll show you how to […]
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A Guide To Google Tag Manager Preview Mode

Updated: October 16th, 2025 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. Debugging is one of the most important yet commonly overlooked steps in the GTM process. It ensures […]
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Google Tag Manager vs Google Analytics explained

Updated: October 16th, 2025 When I first heard about Google Tag Manager (GTM) in early 2013, I felt a bit confused. At that time, I had no idea that tag management was a thing, so naturally, I found myself questioning what Google Tag Manager is. What’s the difference between Google Analytics events and GTM events? And nowadays, I still notice […]
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How to Track File Downloads with Google Analytics 4 (including PDF)

Updated: October 16th, 2025 If you’re running a website where people can click and open/download files (like PDF or Excel Spreadsheets), you would probably want to know which links are clicked the most and whether your visitors/users care about those resources. Maybe that document you spent countless hours on last year was clicked just 10 […]
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How to check if Google Tag Manager is Working?

Updated: October 15th, 2025 Google Tag Manager. The thing that makes the lives of marketers and web analysts easier. However, the purpose of this blog post is not to convince you to start using it (I have another one that explains all GTM benefits). Today, I assume you have already decided to give Tag Manager […]
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Google Tag Manager Tutorial for Beginners

Updated: October 15th, 2025.  Google Tag Manager is an amazing tool. Need to add a particular tracking pixel to a website? Not a problem! Want to track submissions of a newly created form? Consider it done—all thanks to GTM. Google Tag Manager is a free tool that allows you to manage and deploy marketing and analytics […]
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