Google Tag Manager vs Google Analytics: What’s the difference?

Updated: December 30th, 2019. 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 at all, so naturally, I found myself questioning what Google Tag Manager was anyway? What’s the difference between Google Analytics events and GTM events? And nowadays I […]

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Google Analytics Cross Domain Tracking with Google Tag Manager. The Guide.

Updated: December 28th, 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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Google Analytics Real-time Reports Not Working? Here’s How To Fix It

Updated: October 23rd, 2019. Here’s a situation. You have just set up Google Analytics tracking, open a GA Real-time reports and nothing. You don’t see anything. No page views, no events, nothing. Sounds familiar? Relax, you’re not alone. In fact, this issue is getting more and more popular these days as people have been contacting me through various […]

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Track Elementor Form with Google Tag Manager and Google Analytics

In today’s blog post, we’ll take a look at how to track forms that were built with the Elementor Pro WP plugin. I got a bit familiar with it just very recently, so I cannot tell whether it is VERY popular or not. Although, scratch that. I just took a look at Builtwith and it looks […]

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Google Analytics Form Tracking – Complete Guide

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. In order to make Google Analytics form tracking happen, you’ll […]

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A Guide to Google Analytics User ID in Google Tag Manager

If you’re looking at Google Analytics user metrics you need to understand one thing: the number of users does NOT represent the actual number of people visiting your website. It’s the number of different browsers that were used to visit your website/shop/etc. That’s because when a visitor lands on a page for the first time, […]

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How many Google Tag Manager containers do you need?

This time the guide will be indeed shorter than usual. First of all, this blog post will not talk about multiple GTM containers on the same page. I’m answering a bit different question. Say, you have 3 websites. How many GTM containers do you need here? One? Two? Three? The reality is that there is […]

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[VIDEO] Track the Initial Traffic Source of the Visitor with Google Tag Manager

This week, the format of the content is a bit different. I did the 2nd guest video on Julian’s MeasureSchool channel (I’m pretty sure that no introduction is needed here and every one of you has watched at least several of his videos). This time, I’ve explained a technique that will be useful if you […]

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How To Unlock (not provided) Keywords in Google Analytics

A long time ago, when SEO was much easier, webmasters, bloggers and other creatures of the Internet were much happier because they knew much more about their visitors’ search behavior. All they needed to do is go to Google Analytics reports and see which organic keywords were driving most of the traffic. But the winter […]

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15 Most common Google Tag Manager mistakes

Updated: Feb 11th, 2018. We’ve all been there: you open Google Tag Manager, set up tags, triggers and variables properly (at least you thought so), but that new implementation doesn’t work. You read that super awesome 5-step tutorial few more times, but it doesn’t help. You feel stuck, irritated and decide it’s enough GTM for today. The next […]

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