Facebook Conversion API for Bigcommerce
In this article, I want to show you how to set up a Facebook conversion API on BigCommerce. This method works for the Stencil theme and optimized one-page checkout. Recently, one of our clients asked to move all his Facebook events to the server-side. We were not able to find a pre-built solution and had to design everything from scratch.
April 17, 2021Integrate Klaviyo with your website using Google Tag Manager Server container
Klaviyo Tag for the Google Tag Manager server container is a custom tag that will help you to add new users, send events and parameters from your site to Klaviyo. With this tag, you don’t need to ask your developers to set up the integration. Using this custom tag for the Google Tag Manager server container, you can integrate Klaviyo using the server container events and parameters. The power of Klaviyo cannot be underestimated when it comes to how much revenue it can make for your business, which is why we want you to know about this latest development from us.
April 01, 2021Sending Data From the Google Tag Manager Web Container to the Server Container
In this article, I want to show you how to use Data Tag. This custom tag sends parameters from the Google Tag Manager Web Container to the Server Container. When used together with the Data Client for the Google Tag Manager server container, it allows sending data layer variables, custom parameters, and other data from the web to the server container. As a result, Data Client retrieves information from the Data Tag into the Google Tag Manager Server Events.
March 12, 2021How to set up Facebook event deduplication in Google Tag Manager
Using Facebook server-side tracking (Facebook Conversions API) is getting more popular due to its ability to prevent tracking pixel blocking by ITPs and AdBlockers. Another massive benefit of Facebook conversion API is that it increases FB cookie lifetime. If you haven’t yet implemented FB Conversions API on your site, follow this guide. In this article, I will describe how to set up Facebook events deduplication if you are using both browser and server tracking methods for your site.
February 28, 2021Google tag manager server-side: How to set up server Tag Manager, Universal Analytics, GA4, and Facebook conversion API
Server-side tagging has been one of the main trends in web analytics for the last couple of years. Ad blockers, Intelligent Tracking Protection, 3rd party cookie restrictions, regulations like GDPR made analytics and advertising companies start worrying about how and what information they collect about site visitors. Server-side tagging allows moving third-party tags off your site and into a cloud server. In this case, third-party pixels are loaded directly from the could server rather than your site. In this article, I will explain and demonstrate the basics of setting up Google Tag Manager server container, server Universal Analytics, GA4, and Facebook Conversion API.
February 11, 2021How to Setup Facebook Conversion API + Events Deduplication & Hash User Data
Facebook Pixel allows you to track what users are doing on your site, collect remarketing audiences and create lookalikes. If the Facebook pixel is implemented correctly, it will feed relevant information to FB machine learning algorithms. FB ML will use pixel data to show your ads to people who are most likely to convert. For several years now, we could track events on the site via javascript code, Facebook SDK inside apps, or upload offline events. But how can you track users who installed Ad Blocker or track events outside the site? Or how can you extend a cookie lifetime? It can be done by implementing Facebook conversion API. This article will show you how to set up Facebook conversion API via Google Tag Manager Server Container.
February 06, 20213 Easy Steps to Test Server-Side Universal Analytics/GA4 and Facebook Conversion API
Google released a Server-Side version of Google Tag Manager in 2020. Server-side tracking is more complicated than the web container set up, at least for now, since the idea and technology behind server tagging are entirely different from what we used to have on the web. But server-side tagging will give your site huge benefits. Server-side tagging is getting more popular due to its ability to track people using AdBlockers, browsers with ITPs, and other tracking restrictions. The purpose of this article is not to convince you to start using server-side tagging (there is another blog post that describes the main benefits of server-side tracking). I assume that you’ve already decided to implement server-side tagging on your site. This blog post will show you how to check whether Server-Side tracking for Universal Analytics, GA4, and Facebook conversion API was set up correctly.
January 22, 2021Server-side conversion tracking in Google Ads (Adwords)
Want to track the results of your Google Ads (AdWords) campaigns? Then you need to see what users were doing on the site after they clicked on your ad. The typical user actions include submitting a contact form, adding something to a cart, or completing a purchase. What if you decided to move your tracking to a server-side? In this article, I’ll show you how to set up Google Ads (AdWords) conversion tracking using Google Ads tag for the Google Tag Manager server container.
January 10, 2021How to add Google Analytics and Facebook pixels to WordPress using Google Tag Manager server-side container (WordPress plugin)
Looking to set up a Google Tag Manager Server container on your WordPress site? Not sure if you need server-side tagging? If so, then this article is right for you. I will show you how to correctly set up Server-Side Tagging in WordPress (including WooCommerce stores) and explain the benefits. I will guide you on how to push Universal Analytics and Facebook tracking from the server-side.
December 24, 2020How to prevent your Google Analytics data from being blocked by ad blockers
You’ve probably noticed that data about your website users and conversions collected by different analytics tools might vary. Most of the time, you’ll see that the purchase number in Google Analytics is lower than in your CRM. Where this data discrepancy comes from, why is it happening, and how to fix it?
December 18, 2020Improving Website Page Speed With The Help of Google Tag Manager Server-Side Tracking
Website page speed optimization was one of the essential benefits that marketers and web developers saw when the first version of Google Tag Manager was released. It was supposed to happen because tracking scripts would no longer be hardcoded but would be added through Google Tag Manager. So, does the GTM web container speed up your site? This article will showcase how moving to the GTM server from Google Tag Manager Web Container can speed up your website. Please note that you won’t see any pagespeed improvements if you’ll combine server and browser tracking. For example, your site’s pagespeed won’t increase if you use both Facebook pixel and Conversion API. In this case, FB pixel will still work in user’s browsers and slow your site.
December 18, 2020How to setup GTM Server Side on Shopify
Shopify allows changing “transportUrl” in GA settings. It means that you can set up a Google Tag Manager Server container on Shopify instead of a GTM Web container. I hope that this will help you solve all your tracking problems.
November 26, 2020How to export Google Universal Analytics raw data to BigQuery
For Google Universal Analytics, Google still has not provided free options to export raw data to BigQuery or any other database for that matter. But what if you don’t have plans to migrate to GA4 and want to get the benefits of BigQuery raw data? I decided to solve this question with GTM Server Side tagging and created this how-to article for you.
November 25, 2020How to send all GA event data to your URL/Site/CRM
A common issue for data analytics and sales managers is the accurate tracking of user behavior and conversions. And often, they might face a problem that seems to have no solution. Or alternatively, there are no developers who can do this, and the next update of the site is planned only for next month.
November 24, 2020Facebook Tag for Google Tag Manager Server Side
Using Facebook Conversions API, you can send events to Facebook Event Manager. That is the perfect alternative to Facebook SDK because Conversions API speeds up page loading and helps track users more accurately. We created a Facebook tag for the GTM Server-Side container that uses Facebook Conversions API to track events.
November 22, 2020How to Filter Google Analytics Spam With the Help of Google Tag Manager Server-Side Tagging
What if you are faced with spam in Google Analytics reports? Does it mean that someone can access your Google Analytics accounts? Or maybe someone can modify data inside your GA? How can you prevent it? There are two main types of Measurement Protocol spam: referral traffic and events spam. More rarely you can see spam in languages, keywords, URLs, transactions, and so on. In this article, I will explain what Measurement Protocol spam is and how you can prevent it with the help of Google Tag Manager Server-Side tagging.
November 12, 2020How to Set Up GA4 Tracking Using Google Tag Manager Server-Side Container
In this article, I will describe the advantages of using GA4 and GTM server tagging. You can use it as a step-by-step guide on how to send events to GA4 via the GTM server container. As for eCommerce/enhanced eCommerce, I will cover it in another article.
October 25, 2020Google Tag Manager Server-Side Tagging as an alternative to Zapier
Zapier is the most popular software that helps connect your apps and automate workflow. It became the number one tool in this niche, but using Zapier may be too expensive for some businesses since it limits the number of tasks and events you can send in each plan. This article will explain how you can use Google Tag Manager Server-Side container to replace one of the most popular Zapier features – automatic Slack notifications.
October 16, 2020How to Add Google Tag Manager Server-Side Tagging to WordPress
Looking to install Server-Side Google Tag Manager in WordPress? If you want to integrate analytics software and marketing applications with your WordPress website without losing any data (due to AdBlockers or ITPs), then Google Tag Manager Server-Side tagging is what you want to use. It allows you to add and run tracking codes via the server environment. In this article, we’ll explain how to add Google Tag Manager Server-Side Container in WordPress using our plugin.
October 07, 2020How to set up Google Analytics with Google Tag Manager Server-Side Container?
Google Tag Manager server container has close integration with Universal Analytics. When you set up GTM server tagging, you will see that Universal Analytics Client is created by default. In this article, we will discuss the benefits and possibilities that server-side Google Analytics offers. And also, how to configure Google Analytics in your Google Tag Manager Server account.If you don’t have a GTM server container yet, please follow this instruction on how to launch it on your website. If you are still not sure what GTM server tagging is and how it can benefit your website tracking system, please read this blog post.
October 06, 2020How to add a custom domain to the Google Tag Manager Server container
In this article, I will describe how to set up a custom subdomain within your Google Tag Manager server container. The main advantage of a custom subdomain inside the Google Tag Manager Server container is that it helps to bypass Intelligent Tracking Preventions, AdBlockers and increases cookie lifetime for users browsing in Safari. Pixels will be loaded from your subdomain and run as the first-party.
October 04, 2020How to set up Google Tag Manager Server Container
Collecting data about your website visitors is critical for analyzing and improving the online business presence, reaching users, and converting them into customers. However, collecting data is becoming more problematic because of Intelligent Tracking Prevention, AdBlockers, and a decrease in cookie lifetime. Google Analytics and other similar tools will start seeing fewer data about your website visitors and giving you less information to analyze.
September 30, 2020What Is Google Tag Manager Server-Side Tracking?
In this article, I want to tell you about a new feature from Google Tag Manager – Server-Side Tagging. GTM server-side is a hot topic right now for all marketers, website owners, and developers. The main change in this technology is moving tracking from client-side to server-side. This functionality allows you to hide business logic in the server code, speed up website loading, and improve the protection of user data by restricting access to third-party scripts.
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