Click Element “contains” not working in Google Tag Manager

Have you ever set up a trigger using the Click element and Google Tag Manager, tested your tag, and found that it wasn’t working? You double-check that you’ve followed all the right logic, but it’s still giving you issues! Clearly, this must be a bug in GTM, right? Well, before you drive yourself crazy, let […]
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How to copy Google Tag Manager tags between containers?

Updated: September 16th, 2024 I occasionally receive the following question: how can someone copy Google Tag Manager tags between containers? And that’s a totally valid question. Instead of manually copying field by field from one container to another, you could simply hit Copy-Paste and move assets between containers. In this blog post, I’ll look at […]
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DOM Scraping with Google Tag Manager

Have you ever set up an event and thought to yourself, “It would be great if I could include some more information with this event, but I’m not sure how to capture it”. DOM scraping might just be the solution you need. DOM scraping enables you to collect additional details about user actions directly from […]
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Google Tag Manager in View Only Mode? Here’s the fix

Here’s a situation. You open a Google Tag Manager container but there is no Preview or Submit buttons at the top right corner of the GTM interface. What is happening? How to fix this? In this quick blog post, I’ll explain that. The reason why you are not seeing the Preview and Submit buttons is […]
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Google Tag Manager Conversion Tracking

If you are running marketing campaigns (and you want your audience to complete certain goals on your website), you have to measure the effectiveness of your marketing efforts. Which ads/posts/content are performing better? Which ones are doing worse? Which keywords of paid advertising are expensive but drive little to no results? All of these (and other) […]
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JavaScript for Google Tag Manager: 5 topics to learn

You might not know it, but when using Google Tag Manager, you’re essentially configuring JavaScript code that is looking for website interactions and fires tracking codes. Google Tag Manager just provides an easy UI to do this, so no coding experience is needed! However, the more you work with Google Tag Manager, the more you […]
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