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jackthomas087
09-23-2016, 04:55 AM
Hello to all,

What Is Google Tag Manager? And How Does It Work?

Rational
09-23-2016, 05:27 AM
It's best to use goals in GA when the interaction is vital to your business. For instance, if your "thank you" pages are some of the more important interactions, keep them as a GA goal. If they aren't as important or if you're running out of space for goals, create an event for each page you need to track.

If there's a pattern to your pages, you can use regular expressions to capture an entire group of "thank you" pages in order to consolidate goals or to create rule-based events.

pablohunt2812
09-25-2016, 12:02 PM
Google Tag Manager is a code management platform that fires all of your other tags according to triggers you specify in the Google Tag Manager interface. Google Tag Manager is platform neutral and handles 3rd party tags with ease. Once the container snippet is deployed on your site or mobile app, little to no IT or web developer involvement should be necessary to deploy new tags or edit existing tags.

At a high level, Google Tag Manager works like this: You place a small snippet of code on your website or mobile app. This code connects your app to the Tag Manager servers. You then use a web based user interface to install tracking codes on your site or mobile app, such as Google Analytics tags. You can configure triggers to fire when an event occurs. An event could be a page load, a form submission, or a tap on a screen. When the trigger fires the tag, the tag's code executes.

Here's an example sequence: Tag Manager detects a page load event. The tag is set to fire when the page loads, and fires a Google Analytics tag. The Google Analytics tag then sends its data back to the Google Analytics servers.

The advantage of this is that once Tag Manager is properly set up on your website or mobile app, you usually will have to write no additional code to deploy or modify tracking codes for your marketing or analytics campaigns. It's all done through Tag Manager's web interface.

Google Tag Manager doesn't reduce the number of tags on your site or app, but it does simplify the task of managing them. For websites, Google Tag Manager executes asynchronously and can be configured to fire tags only when they are needed, helping your pages to load more quickly.

Google Tag Manager keeps track of which tags should fire and the triggers that have been set up to cause those tags to fire. Each time Google Tag Manager is engaged, the most up-to-date tag configuration is sent to the visitor with a set of tags and triggers. As the user interacts with your content, triggers are evaluated based on the events you have specified, and tags will fire accordingly.

othername0104
09-25-2016, 12:20 PM
A common misconception is that Tag Manager is the same thing as (or the latest version of) Google Analytics. This is not the case! In actuality, Google Tag Manager is a completely separate tool.

RH-Calvin
09-27-2016, 01:04 AM
Google Tag Manager is a free tool that makes it easy for marketers to add and update website tags -- including conversion tracking, site analytics, remarketing, and more—with just a few clicks, and without needing to edit your website code.

benben1
09-30-2016, 11:07 AM
For quite some time, Google Analytics (GA) has been around to help you collect, process, configure, and report website and mobile app data that results in actionable insights. Then in 2012, Google announced the release of its new groundbreaking product, known as Google Tag Manager (Tag Manager or GTM). :D