[VIDEO] Track When Website Element Appears in the Viewport with GTM

Apparently, making video tutorials is really hard! When Julian from MeasureSchool contacted me regarding a video collaboration, I thought that this would be a piece of cake. Why would it be difficult? You just start recording, say everything you want and hit the Stop button. Right? Wrong 🙂 This is so far from the truth! Videos require […]
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How To Add a Copyright Notice to the Copied Text (with GTM)

Last week, I had a live Google Tag Manager training session and was showcasing the library of 30+ GTM Recipes to my students. When I mentioned the Copy text recipe by Daniel Carlbom, a student asked: is it the recipe which adds a copyright notice when someone copies and pastes the text? I said “no”. “Is […]
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How To Write a GTM Auto-Event Listener with No Coding Skills

I’ll repeat myself once again. Auto-event listeners are one of the key concepts in Google Tag Manager. Just like a trigger, variable, tag, or data layer. In fact, more than half of my Google Tag Manager blog posts mention auto-event listeners one way or another. Auto-event listeners are these super useful JavaScript functions which track particular […]
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How To Track AddThis Social Shares with Google Tag Manager

In one of my previous blog posts, I explained various nuances of how to monitor the default social sharing buttons created by Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, and Linkedin. However, those tracking methods do not support 3rd party social sharing solutions, like Sumo or AddThis. But that does not mean it’s impossible. In this blog post, I’ll demonstrate […]
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The Ultimate Google Tag Manager Glossary (160+ terms)

To make your life a little easier, I’ve assembled a huge list of Google Tag Manager (GTM) terms to help you avoid confusion in the future. Whether you’re looking to understand the language of GTM or help train someone else, this Google Tag Manager glossary should be your best companion. It should not only make you smarter, […]
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Change Chrome Address Bar Color with Google Tag Manager

Today’s blog post will be a quick one. Yesterday, I stumbled upon Simo Ahava’s old blog post – Dynamically Added Meta Data Indexed By Google Crawlers. It describes how you can inject SEO metadata to website’s <head> with Google Tag Manager, such as description or keywords. So I thought, what about changing Google Chrome address bar color?
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