Google Tag Manager Update

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Google has refreshed Tag Manager’s user interface which makes the tool more powerful and easier to use. Here are 6 facts you need to know about the update. 1. Only New Accounts The new UI is only usable for new accounts. You can access the new UI at http://tagmanager.google.com/, which …

Event-driven Notifications with Google Analytics

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If you are responsible for the Google Analytics accounts, you know you cannot have Google Analytics open in the browser and actively monitor the activities 24/7. But you would like to stay posted on traffic spikes or conversion drops so you can react quickly. In Google Analytics there are “Custom …

Google Tag Manager: Tracking of AJAX Forms

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If you want to track forms that are loaded and sent through AJAX, you will face two obstacles: You have to wait for the elements that are loaded through AJAX The default action of buttons and links is prevented We show you how you can track such forms using Google Tag …

Google Analytics Benchmarks: Comparison With Your Competition

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Did you ever wonder what the web analytics data of your competitors might look like? Then, you might be interested that Google has announced to make benchmarks for many industries available. But these benchmarks are only disposable if the option “Anonymously with Google and others” in the Basic Settings (under …

Measuring Only Real Visitors in Your Google Analytics Profile

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Beside the “real” visitors coming to your website also automated bots and spiders hit your site. These bots can come from search engines indexing your website or are other automated services checking if new content was added to your site for example. The problem is that these bots can increase …

You Need Google Tag Manager

Web Analytics with Google Tag Manager

Here at Amazee Metrics our clients are increasingly curious about Google Tag Manager. What is it? Why do we need it? What is Google Tag Manager? Put simply, it eliminates the pain of setting up and maintaining web analytics. It allows non-programmers to change the way analytics tracking works in …