Send data from CRM to Facebook conversion API using webhooks
The Facebook conversion API is a powerful tool that allows you to track your website’s visitors and their activity on your site. This data can then be used to create custom audiences, test out different versions of ads, or even provide insights into who might be interested in the product. The most popular way of integrating Facebook conversion API is using the Google Tag Manager server container. But there are other ways to do that: using Zapier, direct integration, integration with the CRM using webhooks, and much more.
Updated Oct 24, 2022Facebook conversion API errors and how to fix it
Setting up the Facebook conversion API may be confusing. But after you did the tremendous job of moving FB tracking to the server and think that job is done, you might log in to your events manager the next day and see red and yellow warnings. In this blog post, I will describe the most popular Facebook conversion API errors and warnings. Plus, share some tips on how to fix it.
Updated Apr 11, 2024Create a user profile and track website activity in Klaviyo using server Google Tag Manager
Email marketing is one of the most important aspects of any eCommerce site. It’s essential to keep your database updated and track user activities on-site in order to make sure that you are targeting an accurate audience with relevant content, which will lead them back into purchasing from your online store. So how do you keep your Klaviyo user profiles updated? This guide will show how to create a new customer profile and track website activity in Klaviyo with the help of the server Google Tag Manager.
Updated Oct 24, 2022How to set up TikTok Events API
In 2021, TikTok is the hottest social media app with over 1 billion monthly active users. That is why most marketers decide to bring it into their advertising strategies. People use TikTok on their mobile phones more than anywhere else. For quite a while, only Facebook was talking about Apple’s recent privacy updates. Only this time, new iOS tracking restrictions will also apply to TikTok ads. Because of the iOS restriction, TikTok custom audiences and events do not include people who opted out of tracking in iOS 14.
Updated Mar 27, 2022How to connect your site with Hubspot using server-side tracking
HubSpot is an excellent tool for marketers. One of the best features I like about HubSpot is having customer data collected in a single place. It allows tracking your campaign success and customer journey without any problems. It is no secret that one of the crucial customer data sources is the website. But creating a complete user persona one step before the purchase can be challenging, especially without the HubSpot integration. Fortunately, we can help you find a way around it.
Updated Apr 25, 2024Third-party cookies are about to expire. Will server-side tracking help?
By the end of 2024, Chrome and Chrome-based browsers will be done with third-party cookies. Safari and Firefox already implemented Intelligent Tracking Algorithms that can block trackers. That leads to the next point: digital advertising methods that rely on third-party cookies to target consumers might become ineffective or even stop working altogether. This change in how advertisers track users will hurt many publishers and ad networks that rely on these third-party companies to display ads and collect data from site visitors to understand their audience. In this blog post, I will explain what a third-party cookie is, why it matters, and how server-side tracking can help businesses transit to the world without third-party cookies.
Updated Oct 24, 2022Facebook Event Match Quality – What it is and how to increase it
Using Facebook conversion API, you can send events from your server to the Facebook server. Server-side tracking with configured custom subdomain helps to bypass ad blockers, ITPs, and iOS 14 restrictions.
Updated Feb 5, 2022How To Prepare Your Facebook Campaigns for the iOS 14 Privacy Update
The latest Apple announcement had many marketers worried about how to prepare their Facebook campaigns for iOS 14. The new mobile operating system limited the ability to use third-party cookies — a significant feature for most marketing and advertising campaigns. That means that marketers will have to find alternative methods for measuring conversions, tracking data, and using good old pixels on the websites. This blog post will explain what advertisers should expect from the iOS 14 update and explore how to prepare Facebook campaigns and set up tracking so that all your efforts are not in vain.
Updated Oct 24, 2022Facebook Conversion API for Unbounce
Accurate tracking is getting more problematic because of privacy restrictions. With Apple’s iOS 14 update, users will be asked to opt out of or opt in for tracking on iOS devices. Studies show that around 90% of users will choose to opt out of tracking. It means that tracking pixels won’t work for 90% of iOS users. This article will describe how to set up the Facebook Conversions API for Unbounce so that Facebook and Instagram tracking still work accurately.
Updated Oct 24, 2022Send Telegram notifications using Google Tag Manager Server container
Checking conversions inside Google Analytics can be time-consuming. So what is the best way to send information about user activity on your site or orders from specific traffic sources? We created a Telegram tag for the Google Tag Manager Server container that can send notifications about user actions on the website to the Telegram channel. We also have a similar tag for Slack notifications. The Telegram tag for the Google Tag Manager server container allows receiving real-time Telegram notifications on every conversion and user action on the site. The notifications can be sent to multiple recipients.
Updated Oct 24, 2022Send Slack Notifications Using Google Tag Manager Server Container
We created a tag for the Google Tag Manager server container that sends a notification to Slack. With the help of this tag, you can send any information about user actions on your site to the Slack channel. This tag allows adding variables, such as product and user information, inside the notification. You can notify your team about a new purchase, abandoned cart, or a new quote request from clients. One of the use cases of this tag is to send notifications to the sales team Slack channel about new orders immediately. You can also use this tag to monitor your site stability.
Updated Nov 8, 2021How to integrate ActiveCampaign with the website using Google Tag Manager Server container
We created an ActiveCampaign tag for the Google Tag Manager server container to help connect websites with ActiveCampaign. The benefit of using this tag for the server container is that you can fully integrate your website with ActiveCampaign without the help from developers. Now, you can set up the integration using the Google Tag Manager Server container. The ActiveCampaign tag for the Google Tag Manager server container allows tracking events, creating or updating contacts, or both.
Updated Oct 24, 2022Connect your website to Mailchimp using Google Tag Manager server container
We created a Mailchimp tag for the Google Tag Manager server container to help you connect your site to Mailchimp. This tag allows you to utilize the Google Tag Manager server container to track events, create and update contacts or even do both simultaneously. The main benefit of using this tag is that you can add new users. Previously, it was only possible with the help of backend developers. It means that you can connect your site to Mailchimp using Google Tag Manager. No developers required.
Updated Apr 11, 2024Set up Klaviyo website event tracking using server Google Tag Manager
Klaviyo has extensive pre-setup integrations for websites built using popular CMS (like Shopify or woo-commerce). But what if you want to track additional events or have a custom site? In this case, there are two options: set up tasks for the developers or send website events through the server Google Tag Manager. This guide will show how to use a server GTM container to set up Klaviyo website event tracking.
Updated Feb 5, 2022Facebook 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.
Updated Apr 11, 2024Integrate 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.
Updated Oct 24, 2022Sending 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.
Updated Feb 29, 2024How 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.
Updated Feb 23, 2024Google 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.
Updated Apr 24, 2024How to Set Up 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.
Updated Oct 24, 20223 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.
Updated Dec 1, 2023Server-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.
Updated Oct 24, 2022How 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?
Updated Nov 8, 2021Improving 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.
Updated Oct 24, 2022How 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.