Today is a big day!, I finally managed to put some of my internal debugging snippets within a single Chrome Extension and I’ve just released it on the Chrome Webstore so everyone can try and use it. To install it you will need to visit the extension page on the…
I’m finding a lot of people lately complaining about their Facebook Pixels throwing an infamous “duplicate pixel” error: This error is thrown because we’re trying to initialize a pixel ID twice and therefore FB complains about it. And nope you are not alone 🙂 For example you may have a…
I know … It’s been a while since my last post, but I’ve been saving myself for something big. Over the last months I had the chance to run a big migration from Google Tag Manager over Tealium that had taken most of my time. Along with this extension release…
You may need to know if the current page has any Google Optimize Experiment running, to track that info on any tool, or to fire some vendor tag based on the current experiments statuses. The following snippet will take care of sending a dataLayer push if there’s any active experiment…
I’ve been attending lately (and having) to some talks about the logs parsing from the SEO perspective, (from @David Sottimano on Untagged Conference and Lino Uruñuela during some dinner time), and I’ve decided to publish a WordPress plugin that I started to work on some years ago, and that for work reasons…
I’ve been told by a lot of clients that the way that Google Analytics cross-domain tracking works is “ugly”, referring to having the linker param attached to the URL. I must admit is not elegant having all that long hash on the url, thougt it won’t affect the page functionality.…
Universal Analytics removed the utm_nooverride=1 functionality, still we can define a list domain referrals to be treated as direct visits within our properties configuration section, but what about when we can’t control the source domains?, for example for emailings, or some display campaign that we don’t want to override our users original…
Sometimes we may be in the situation that we need to know if some info had been already pushed into Google Tag Manager’s dataLayer in order to take some action. For example we may need to know if some custom event it’s already in the dataLayer in order to prevent…
When we’re switching a site domain name we always have in mind some basic steps to take in mind so the migration doesn’t end being a mess. One of those steps is usually 301-ing our old domain content to the new one, but we never think on how will this affect…
On the last #tip we talked about how to debug/qa our data attributes , and now we’re going to learn about how to natively track events/social interactions within Google Tag Manager . We’re going to learn it, basing our tracking on Google Analytics Events and Social Interactions. Of course this can be…