In our previous post about Google Tag Manager’s Server-Side Container (SSC), we started to look at how it works. We also compared various tools for server-side tracking. In this post, we look at some key advantages and some potential downsides that the Server-Side system will give you. We also draw …
Companies risk losing access to valuable digital data due to the technical precautions of many browsers (for example Safari and Firefox default cookie blocking) as well as the explicit lack of consent from users. This loss of data has been a concern for many years and is accelerating due to …
Tealium is a tag management system (TMS) that allows organizations to manage and deploy marketing and analytics tags on their website or mobile app without requiring manual code changes. In other words, Tealium helps digital marketers and website owners manage the various third-party tags (such as Google Analytics, Facebook Pixel, …
As website owners and managers, understanding how users interact with our webpages is essential to improving user engagement and driving conversions. Traditionally, scroll tracking has been a popular method of monitoring user behavior, but a newer alternative is gaining popularity: viewport tracking. What is viewport tracking? Viewport tracking is a …
Google Analytics has been under a lot of criticism in recent months. Several data protection authorities such as the Austrian, French, Dutch, Italian and Danish have now classified Google Analytics as non-compliant with the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). We explain what this means and whether Google Analytics can …
What is Google BigQuery? BigQuery is Google’s data warehouse. As part of the Google Cloud Platform tool suite, BigQuery allows you to host – and exploit – large databases for a very reasonable price and with very good results. In fact, BigQuery can be used for many other things, such …
In 2020 Google released the Server-Side Container (SSC) for Google Tag Manager. While it requires significantly more technical input to implement than the Web containers we are used to, it does have some large benefits. In this post, we will look at how the SSC works. How The Server-Side Container …
In Part 3 of our updated Google Tag Manager Tutorial, we covered form tracking with the Form Submit Trigger, which is an easy approach to master contact form tracking. However, depending on the form’s code and its technology, this might not always work. This can be linked to on-site JavaScript …
In Part 2 of our updated Google Tag Manager Tutorial, we covered the tracking of download links. If you missed it, you may want to start here. In this third part, we will take a closer look at a very popular topic – Form submissions. Most marketers will be interested …
In Part 1 of our updated Google Tag Manager Tutorial, we covered the tracking of outbound (external) links. If you missed it, you may want to start here. In this second part, we will walk you through the process of setting up tracking for file downloads from your website. If you …
External links are links on your website that do not point to other pages on your site and users that click on them will be redirected away from the site. Often, we have no insight into exactly why someone leaves, however, we can get an idea of where they go …
If you are using Google Tag Manager (GTM), Scroll Tracking can be accomplished in a few quick steps with the GTM built-in Scroll Depth Trigger making this a really simple task. Having implemented this many times over the last years, we discovered that the out-of-the-box GTM Trigger has some limitations. …
