Track Many Forms with One Thank You Page with Google Tag Manager

Here’s a situation: you want to track form submissions on a website. There are multiple forms and they all redirect the visitor to the same “Thank you” page. The built-in Form Submission trigger in GTM is not working, thus you could try implementing the Thank you page tracking method. But how can you distinguish which […]

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Google Analytics Limits: 10M hits & 500 hits/session. What to do?

If you are reading this blog post, there are two possible reasons for that: you stumbled upon it by following your curiosity or you have recently hit certain limits in Google Analytics (or maybe you are about to hit them). Anyway, here’s a situation. One day, when you are about to make a coffee, you […]

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16 Ways to Reduce Direct Traffic in Google Analytics

Updated: July 24th, 2020. Direct traffic in Google Analytics is often misunderstood. If you think that direct traffic is the one that enters your website’s address in the address bar or accesses it via bookmarks, I have some bad news. In reality, that is just a fraction of what direct traffic really is. The first reason […]

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

Updated: July 16th, 2020. 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 is Google Tag Manager? What’s the difference between Google Analytics events and GTM events? And nowadays I actually […]

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

Updated: June 5th, 2020. 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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Track PDF Downloads with Google Tag Manager + Template

Updated: June 4th, 2020 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 at all. Maybe that document that you spent countless hours on last year was […]

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A Guide to Google Analytics User ID in Google Tag Manager

Update: May 31st, 2020. 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 […]

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Google Analytics Real-time Reports Not Working? Here’s How To Fix It

Updated: May 23rd, 2020. Here’s a situation. You have just set up Google Analytics tracking, open 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 channels […]

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Google Analytics Goals Not Working? Here’s How to Fix That

Updated: April 22nd, 2020 In today’s blog post, I will not rant about how important goals are in Google Analytics and that every GA setup MUST use them. If you landed on this blog post, chances are that you are already trying to implement them. Kudos for that! In Universal Analytics, sometimes goals are not […]

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5 Ways to Track Site Search with Google Tag Manager and Google Analytics

Site search tracking has always been a hidden gem for me when it comes to analyzing visitors’ behavior on a site. Why? Because you can quickly identify what your visitors are looking for on your site and whether you have to offer something relevant. Google Analytics offers built-in Site search reports that you can make […]

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