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…
Some months ago I asked some friends to test a new tool I was working on and past week I released something close to an open alpha, today after pulling some details, a new UI redesign 100% mobile compatible. I’m announcing the GAUPET release. At first I named it as GA…
With the years I learned that using CSS selectors to track user actions is really great but sadly I learned too that it’s really dangerous too. It’s true that we won’t need to ask the IT team to add some dataLayer or ga pushes into the page, and therefore saving…
I’ve been thinking about doing a Google Analytics related hackaton for a long time. Some months ago, I started to take a look about how Universal Analytics Plugins work and I decided that coding a plugin to all the data to a secondary property using just a plugin would be…
In JavaScript when you want to copy an object into another variable is not an easy as doing var myVar = myObjectVar; and you should be really careful when working with your dataLayer info in your customHtml Tags and your Custom Javascript Variables. Let’s try to explain this is the best way I…
This time I’m writting down some tips for when you guys are playing around with the custom HTML tags or custom JavaScript variables not only for Google Tag Manager, but for any other TMS or website. Most times due the projects deadlines or maybe just lazyness, the code we use…
In Google Analytics the urls are case sensitive, therefore in our content reports /index.html will be different to /Index.html, and querystring values will make Google Analytics to think that even if it’s the same page it will recorded as a new one, /index.html?cache=off and /index.html?cache=on will be recorded as 2 different pageviews for…