Practical Google Tag Manager and Google Analytics Tips and Tricks
What if you need a trigger that checks if X days passed since the first visit of your returning visitor? It’s very specific trigger, but it could be used in a lot of situations (triggering surveys or polls for returning visitors, triggering discount codes, using it in custom remarketing lists, etc…).
On first sight it seems impossible to create such a trigger (Yes, GA has this information, but there is …
Often there are situations where you are checking some user events and are wondering how to check which one was first, which was the next one, which was the last. Although there are several options to do that – they are all too clumsy to use them on regular basis (for example – using the GA User Explorer or even the worst option – using 3 extra dimensions in custom …
When you start using GTM for the first time you may not need this, but with time you’ll start implementing more and more events, do more testing and debugging, and this will seriously disrupt your data. While this is easily fixed if you just filter your traffic in GA – it’s always better to have a backup plan. Another reason to use a separate property for your testing is to …
The Constant Variable is the most underrated variable in GTM. It’s there for you, but most probably you don’t use it. And you should!
If you want to start using Google Tag Manager your first action should be creating Constant variable (Yes, even before the GA pageview tag). Why? Bear with me and you’ll understand!
There is one thing you need to include in every single GA Event tag – …