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In this Beginner’s Guide, well go over how to use one of the most powerful Tag Management Systems out there, Google Tag Manager.
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Getting Started with Event-Driven Analytics feat. Hussain Mehmood
Getting Started with Event-driven Analytics feat. Hussain Mehmood Analytics is entering a new age. Pageviews are out, Events are in. So what do you need to know about this new Event-driven Analytics world? How does an Event-driven data model work? What are the best practices for creating Events? In this video, Hussain Mehmood from Marketlytics will dive deep into Event-driven Analytics
How to use a Data Layer Variable to Pull Data from the GTM Data Layer [Quick Tip] – old
If you have GTM dataLayer on your website you can extract data from it and make it available in a Variable in Google Tag Manager.
In this video, let’s look out how we can utilize the data layer variable to pull out values from a data layer by knowing the key and the nested values.
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Hey, there measure geeks. Julian here. Back with another quick tip video. Today, we want to talk about how you can pull out data from the data layer variable. Now, if you’re familiar with data layers, you know, you can push them in the background of a page and they look a little bit something like this in terms of the code so the user wouldn’t see a data layer push actually happening. But this data is now available within the data layer which is Google Tag Manager’s central repository of structured data. And we can send information into the data layer by different methods. Once they are in the data layer, you should be able to see that information in different ways. So for example, if you have the preview and debug mode open if you go to the data layer, you should see the information that was pushed into the data layer here under the data layer tab. You should also be able to see a push, depending on how it was pushed in the developer tools under elements.
Let’s look here for data layer, we have different data layers here. And here we go. This is the formation that we pushed earlier on this page. Actually, it’s here. And so you should also be able to see it in the console. If you simply type in data capital layer. In here, we open up the data layer array. And here we have our different objects. Now each object has key and then value pairs. So you always have this pair of a key, which in this case, would be event. And the value, in this case, would be blog post view. Now what if you wanted to pull out one or the other value from the data layer and make it available to your tags or your triggers, you would need to utilize a data layer variable. For that, you will need to know the key in order to pull out the value in our case it would be the author, and we should be able to pull out the value of admin. So let’s go over to Google Tag Manager on the variables, we simply going to build a new data layer variable, I’m going to name this with pretending DMV, and then my data layer would be for the author.
And now I’m going to go into the configurations and choose data layer variable. And here I will put in the data layer variable key. It actually says name here. But I find this a little bit confusing. I would rather remember this as key. And this key needs to be corresponding to whatever we have in the data layer as this first key that is tied to our value. So in our case, it would be author. And we can put in different configurations. You don’t really need to care about those unless you have a specific reason for it. Let’s go ahead and save and try this all up. We’re just going to refresh our previous debug mode, and then go back to our page. Reload that. And now under variables, we should be able to see our key. Now it’s always important variables are resolved based on these events. And the events are really like little checkpoints that you have on the page. So if you want to utilize your variable, your author variable upon page view, you would see that this is still undefined. On the second event here, we would see that now the dlv author is actually filled and it will stay filled unless it’s overwritten by the later events.
So if you would like to use this later in a trigger or a tag, be sure to fire it on the right event. So your data layer variable gets filled. Now it’s as easy as that, you will just need to know the right key, and then input that in your data layer variable to pull data out. But not all the data layers look like this. This is a pretty flat data layer. So you will just have a key and then a value. But you can actually nest these data layers within each other. So here we for example, have the GTM key which holds an object and I can see this in these curly brackets. And within this object, there is another key value pair. You might be familiar with a data layer that comes from an order received page, for example. Here we have the enhanced ecommerce tracking data layer. And this is pretty nested already. So we have our data layer object of first one, then we have within that our data layer ecommerce within ecommerce. Within that we have another data layer object, and then we have different keys. And within that, again, data layer object. A little bit hard to read within the preview and debug mode. So let’s open up our JavaScript console here.
And I’m going to look into the data layer by simply inputting again data layer, so we have four objects right now. And we want to look at this ecommerce which is up here. So we have this triangle which we can click on to open up. And here we can see the nesting pretty well at work. We have an ecommerce data layer object and we can open that up. We have within that a currency code and a purchase. Within the purchase, we have an action field within the actual field, we have, for example, the order ID in this case, it would be 309. If we wanted to pull out this 309, it would not be enough to just know the key here, the ID. We would actually need to utilize a special notation which is the dot notation. In order for Google Tag Manager to go down the tree and find the ID within our object. What would this dot notation look like? Or if you hover over it, you already see here, ecommerce purchase action field ID. And in between those days I was a dot. And this is exactly what we would need to write into our data layer variable if you wanted to pull out the order ID. So let’s try this out. Let’s go over two variables and build a new data layer variable for order ID.
And we go again to data layer variable. And we’ll start out with our first object here which was ecommerce. And I will separate this with a dot further into this ecommerce object, which the next object would be purchase. dot and here again, action field. And here we get to our ID. So we’ll put this one in here as well.
Let’s test this all out, Save and refresh, I’m going to reload this page, unfortunately, I will need to go through another another order right here. And here we go get to the next order receipt page. And if I click on the right event here, let’s go with the page view and I go to variables, you should be able to see now our dlv order ID was filled with our 315, which should be our new order ID that we can see right here. So it pulled out the right ID by using the dot notation to get into the nested values of this data layer object. Now, there is one last specialty about these nested object you might encounter that you want to pull out a value from a key pair that is actually inside of an array. What is an array? In JavaScript terms, it’s simply a list that is marked by these square brackets. So depending on how many products I bought here, so we have exactly two products, we should have a list of two products with some information in there. And here we go. If we had three products bought or have four products bought, this list would obviously get longer.
Now, you will need to tell Google Tag Manager explicitly that you want to pull data from the first product or the second product. So for example, if you wanted to get the product price here, we would need to access this array. And this would be done again with the dot notation. But this time, we will use numbers in order to find the right member of this array. Let’s try this first out in inside of our developer tools. Under console, I’m going to put in data layer again and go to our ecommerce object. We’re going to click once and then purchase, then we get to product. And here you can already see this special notation here. If I click on those, we have these numbers up here zero and one. And this is how our area is actually counted the first numbers zero, the second number is one. So if I wanted to get the product price for this first product, I would need to use the dot notation with zero and then our price key. So let’s try this out. Go again into our data layer variables, create a new one, product price of product number one and go with the data layer variable. Put in the same thing again, it begins with ecommerce dot purchase dot product this time.
And then as with the dot notation, we’re going to go into the first product which is zero and get to our price. See if I didn’t make any mistake, that should do it. Yes, save this and refresh. And I’m going to go through another order here.
And we get to our order receipt page. Our happy ninja one is the price is $35. So now if I go to the variables, if you done everything correct should see our $35 right here. It pulled it out out of the data layer for this first product. Obviously, you will need to repeat this for your different other products if you want to pull out the price of those. And that’s already with our little quick tip video. You now know how to utilize data layer variable to pull out values from a data layer by simply knowing about the key and then the nested values that might be within the data layer and how to structure your key in order to find the right product within a nested data layer.
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Short Google Analytics 2018 Tutorial for Beginners
Why should you be using Google Analytics on your website? Google Analytics is a powerful web tracking tool that provides real time reports and insights about the traffic and general behavior of users in a website. In this video, I will show you the Core reports in Google Analytics to give you ideas on the appropriate optimization to focus on.
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In this video I’m gonna give you a quick introduction into Google Analytics, and why you should be using it on your website. A little more, coming up. Hey there and welcome back to another video of Measureschool.com. Teaching you the data driven way of digital marketing. My name is Julian, and on this channel we do marketing tech reviews, tips and trick videos, and tutorials just like this one. So, if you haven’t yet consider subscribing, and also click that bell notification icon, so you stay up to date with what we do here on this channel. Now today I wanna give you a quick introduction into Google Analytics. Now I condense it down to really show you the Core Reports and why you should be using this tool on your website, to get more insights about the traffic, and what is generally happening on your website, so you can optimize accordingly. So, let’s dive in.
Alright, so here we are inside of Google Analytics. Now this might be a little bit of confusing to you with all these numbers, but bear with me, we’re gonna break it down in the most important reports that you want to look at. First up, before you get started, make sure your Google Analytics is set up correctly. You need to have the tracking code installed, that you get at the beginning, when you installed Google Analytics. So, if you go back here in the admin section, you can look at our tracking code that we need to install on our page, and then also install goals. If you wanna find out more about how to install goals, you have some tutorials on this channel as well. Once you have that set up, you are all good to go. If your account has been running for a while, you will see data here in this home screen. Now this is the Google Analytics demo account, so if you wanna get access to that, I’m gonna link this up in the description below. So inside of Google Analytics, what can we do here actually? You see a lot of numbers, but all you need to care about, is your questions that you have for this tool.
Google Analytics measures your data, reports on it, and then helps you to analyze it. So all you need to have is a good question. Google Analytics itself, gives you already, some good questions on the home screen. So where do your users visit? How do you acquire users? And so on. So you can just look at these different reports here, and already get a lot of insights on the behavior of your users that visit your website. On the left side here, we have different report tabs that actually go deeper into these reports, and we can get a lot of insight if we know what we are asking for. So, what do you I usually look for when I go through these reports? Let me give you some examples. For example, here in the Real-time reporting, we can get an overview, what is happening on our side right now. The users that are on our side, how many there are, and the active pages that they are looking at, really help for when it comes to starting a new marketing campaign, and you want to know if this is effective, if users are flowing in, where they’re coming from, what they’re doing right now, and if the tracking that you have set up is working correctly. Next up, let’s take a look at an Audience report.
Now an Audience report, as the name already implies, is all about the users who visit your website. We can have a look where they’re coming from. So, let’s go over here to the Geo report, and if I wanted to decide where I should focus my marketing efforts, for example. In this chart I will see that most of the users come from the United States, and therefore my money would probably be well spent, as I’ve already have an audience in the United States. But you can have a look at all the different countries that your users come from. The host of other reports here, about the technology that users are using, the browser for example, and demographic state as well, but this is really something that I use on a ad-hoc basis when it comes to, as I’m trying to figure out who I should target in my advertising, for example. Then we get to the Acquisition report, and the Acquisition reports are all about where does your users actually come from, and the report that I normally look at is the Source/Medium report. Why do I look at the Source/Medium report? It’s one of my favorite reports because I know how the Source/Mediums are put together. If you wanna find out more about this then check out our video on UTM parameters. That lets you control how you send the data into these reports. Here it can get the most important data about how my marketing campaigns are performing. So on this account there is a lot of YouTube referral traffic. We can see how many people come in a given period.
Now if you wanna change the period, up here we have the date picker, that we could change around and, let’s look at the last month here. We also see the Bounce Rates. So how do users behave on our website once they come to the website, and a Bounce Rate simply states how many people, just look at one page, and then leave already. So, that way we can determine the effectiveness of our marketing campaign, how deep people go into our website after they enter, and how long they stay. And that gives us a good comparison to the different traffic sources, and which might be more effective in terms of engaging users on our website. Then if you have Goals set up, you’d be able to see how many people actually convert. And this is super powerful because we get a conversion rate per channel, and if you can compare that against other channels, we can see for example, this deals site at Googleplex, is providing us really high quality traffic that converts really well and makes us lot of money. This is all built in with Ecommerce Tracking, if you have goals you will be able to also choose them right here. So, the Source/Medium report is really a great example of a Google Analytics report that I look up very often. Moving on, once the users are quiet and have found their way onto our platform, we wanna know what they do. And this is where the Behavior reports come in. The Behavior reports will tell you all about the pages that are visited on your website. So here we have a great overview on the different pages that are visited most frequently, how many people have viewed this page, how long they stayed on a page, and what they have done afterwards. If they have exited a page, or clicked on to another page. We can also see the value of that page, if we have Ecommerce Tracking installed.
So how many people have actually visited this page prior to their purchase. That lets me identify pages that actually help me to convert people better. So this page right here, is super valuable for us, and maybe I should spend more time optimizing that. Although just three people have viewed this page, so might now be that relevant after all. Better take a page like, the your info page, that has a lot of traffic, makes us money, and therefore should be worth another look at making sure this page is optimized correctly. Now one other question is how do people actually flow through our website from page to page. We have this Behavior Flow report here that lets us see just that. So right here you can choose your pages and events, and this gives us a nice overview where users start their journey, and leave through the website, to get to their page where they exit a website. So, also great report to see how people flow through our website. And then last, but not least, we have Conversion reports, and Conversions reports are all about these goals that you have implemented in your Google Analytics account. It will let you know that the user actually complete the action, or visited the page that I wanted him to visit. So that might be a auto-confirmation page, like here, or a form completion page, or maybe a block post, that he or she, should of read. Once you have implemented goals, you will be able to see if that user reached that goal, within your website.
If you have an Ecommerce side running, and you have Ecommerce Tracking installed, you’ll have many more reports available that let you analyze how people flow through your page, and if they bought products from you, and which products in particular, which how much money these products have made, and so on. So Ecommerce Tracking is really something you should install if you have a Ecommerce website running. With that short overview, I leave you with the homepage screen and I encourage you to click around in these reports and find out more about how your users behave on your website.
So there you have it these are the Core Reports of Google Analytics and why you should be using it on your website. It’s really an awesome tool, and if you get more into it, you an get more out of it as well. So if you’re ready to dive into Google Analytics we have a beginners playlist right here on this channel, that gives you much more information on how to install Google Analytics correctly, how to analyze the data that you get from it, and then optimize your website accordingly. So if you wanna dive into that, click on the video card right there. And if you haven’t yet, and please also, subscribe to our channel because we’ll bring you new videos, just like this one, every week. Now my name is Julian, see you in the next one.
Google Analytics 2018 – What’s new?
Google Analytics is shifting and changing. What is new in 2018? Let’s take a look at the first changes we can see.
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Adwords Conversion Tracking with Google Tag Manager
Adwords Conversion Tracking is an important part of any AdWords Campaign. With Google Tag Manager you can easily deploy the code on your website without having to place it in your website code.
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How to Install Google Analytics with Google Tag Manager – Step by Step
Rarely it is recommended to install the Google Analytics Tracking Script directly onto your website anymore. Nowadays Google Tag Manager is used to deploy tracking codes across your website.
In this video I’m going to show you how to install GTM onto your webpage and then deploy Google Analytics pageview tracking through it.
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Google Analytics Beginner Guide
Google Analytics is the standard Web Tracking tool for website owners. It is very powerful for measuring, analyzing, and reporting on your data.
Google Data Studio Beginner Guide
So you want to build dashboards that inform decision making, lead to more insights and inspire your audience to take action? In this beginner guide I’m going to show you how to build a dynamic data dashboard in Google Data Studio.
Google Tag Manager Shopify Installation
Is an installation of GTM on Shopify possible? In this video, we are going to explore options. Shopify is mainly closed-sourced so it’s not as easy to implement third-party tracking tools such as GTM.
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So you want to install Google tag manager on your Shopify store, well in this video I’m going to show you how you can place the GTM snippet on all your pages including the check out pages of your Shopify store coming up right after this. Today, our journey starts in a Shopify store where we want to install Google tag manager on all Pages. Now in order to make sure this all actually works we would need to check the actual no more pages the homepage for example the product pages but then everything through the cops and through the checkout now the official Shopify documentation says you can install Google tag manager via the theme code editor. So in your back end that would be under your online store, themes, we can go to actions and edit HTML/CSS. Specifically we are looking at the theme.liquid file. This is where you would place the snippet. Now you can find the snippet of Google Tag Manager once you have opened up an account by clicking up here on the GTM ID. This will prompt you with the 2 snippets you should install Snippets that you should install the head section on the body section The HTML of your Shopify store so that would be one time here in the head section and one time in the body section manager would not be installed on all the pages namely the checkout Pages. Now in the documentation it says that you should place your code in a checkout.liquid file , but this is actually not available to normal Shopify uses only to Shopify Plus users.So I’ve come up with a little work around and that would look like this. So we would take the body portion of the tag, the no-script portion, copy that and go over to your theme.liquid file on Shopify and go down to the body section and place that right after the opening body tag. Let’s save this.
And for the head section we won’t use this integration we would actually go over to the preferences and here we can enter custom JavaScript to add to our Google Analytics code so let’s click on this and enter our head code right here, copy that and enter that here. Now this is already surrounded by Script tags as you see so no HTML allowed. So we will get rid of the script tags at the beginning and the end and we are left with just the script tag and we can save this.Go over to our store, reload, now we can see all ready and in our tag assistant for Google Chrome that we have Google tag manager installed. Another easy way to see if GTM is installed on all the pages is by entering the preview and debug mode. So now we are in the preview and debug mode and let’s refresh this page and we can see that Google tag manager is on this page. So let’s check our other Pages. We are going to the homepage, the product pages and each time we see that the console opens so Google tag manager is installed. Let’s checkout, also on the checkout page it’s installed. Let’s check out and you see Google tag manager is installed on all the pages including the checkout pages and thank you page.
Now, I must warn you that there a downside because you wouldn’t install the actual no script tag on the checkout pages with this work around. You would only install the head tag on the checkout pages. So if you go to the checkout page and open the source here. You find the head code but not the no script tag. That would only be installed on all the other Pages. Now what does the no-script tag actually do? It is for browsers do not have JavaScript enabled. In my experience that is a very rare case so the tracking difference would be very low or negligible so I wouldn’t worry about it too much. The other thing I would recommend is not to install Google analytics through Google tag manager because Shopify already has a very good direct integration with Google analytics and we can also use the enhanced eCommerce tracking features which wouldn’t necessarily work if you deployed Google analytics through Google tag manager because you would need to set up very specific data layers for this to work. But other than that you can go ahead and add your tags to your Google tag manager account and I think it’s very wise to do for any retargeting or conversion tracking or any other marketing tags that you want to deploy. It would make a lot of the tracking much easier to handle with Shopify stores. Now don’t forget if you’re ready to set this live for all your website users we have to publish all changes and it will go live to all your users.So now you have Google tag manager installed on all your pages on Shopify. So there you have it, this how you can install Google tag manager on your Shopify store completely if you want to see a few more examples on how to implement tags with Google tag manager on a Shopify store then leave us a comment down below and subscribe to the channel because we bring you new videos like this one every week now my name is Julian till next time.