Finally someone qualified to accurately show GTM and GA4 flow. What about linking to Google Ads? I would be happy for a more detailed presentation of the connection between Google Ads and GTM + Remarketing. Thanks for the great posts!
I failed to setup Google Analytics with GTM using intuition (I've done it in the past), then reading Google support pages, I don't know if it's misleading or plain wrong. I didn't know where to get the tag ID. This tutorial saved me. Thanks!
Thank you for the tutorial! Crazy how opposite of user friendly this setup process is for the average user, feels like you should study the setup process for half a year to really feel confident that you've got a grip on it.
Hi! great video! Question regarding the triggering part at 28:29 since you said the current recommendation is "initiallization - All Pages" and then on the testing tags part you said it should be fired on "container loaded" 29:12. when I did it and choose initiallization - All Pages it fired only on initiallization. is this correct? and whats the diffrent between initiallization - All Pages and All pages option?
Thanks for replying to this!! I also got stuck for like an hour. You can see in cuts that at 28:25 it show "type" - Tag, but then then in the next cut it shows "type" Google Analytics... @@AnalyticsMania
And google's instructions say to check if it's working in the Initialization tab not container loaded tag. Just for anyone else who gets stuck. But thank you for this awesome tutorial! I've been taking google's own Skillshop course and this really fills in some gaps that they skip.
Thank you so much for this! The Google training is light on the important details. Their approach is, "Do x and it just works" but it is much more complex than that. For example, they suggest using Purchase events but provide no more detailed background, as if simply enabling the purchase event automagically provides purchase information without being set up and configured for the correct triggers and variables on your website.
Julius, all I have to say is, Google must drive you nuts with all of the changes and updates, that force you to keep re-doing the same or similar tutorials over and over. LOL But we all appreciate your work and help tremendously. I was on one of your tutorials, then it said .. go here for a new one .. then it said, wait .. go here for the newer "new" version. I was just laughing. If it seems to drive us crazy, I can only imagine you having to keep up with all of this. I hope you're laughing as these changes occur instead of getting frustrated. Thanks again bud. Wonderful job. 😀
Very much appreciated for sure! This channel is definitely one of the absolute best and always keeping updated with all the crazy and confusing changes is so very much appreciated for sure 😊 Thank you so much!
I had exactly what I wanted to get in terms of data from my website. After watching this video, I can map out exactly that and move forward in achieving my goals. This was an absolute game-changer. Thank you!
Thank you for the video. I am a digital marketer, SEO specialist and web designer. I did study the fundamentals in GTM but never got to use the knowledge so this video is a great refresher.
28:22 you select Initialization - All Pages (as per the current recommendation) 28:44 the selection conveniently changes to All Pages Not mentioning this made my life harder as a noob as I kept wondering why my tags were not firing. Went back to the tag and chose All pages, then it started working. Great video though.
This helped me prep for an interview so I can sound at least somewhat knowledgeable….you described things very clearly with super helpful visuals thank u so much
This was awesome, the step by step walk through Creating "Triggers", then "variables", then "tags" was super helpful for someone with minimal coding experience.
Great job! I'm following this tutorial step-by-step for the second time - amazing! Thank you! By the way, in the case of Tag set up "Initialisation ...." didn't work for me. The "All pages" setup worked. Did anyone have the same issue?
what we need is a tag manager tutorial for intermediates. Everyone has the beginner tutorial (I still watched this whole thing, because you drop gems. Came here from the sGTM setup tutorial you did!
I found a thing that can be a bit confusing for a beginner. When you add a GA4 config tag, you first set the trigger to initialization, but when you are testing the tags (28:40) you have it set to page view.
Thank you for taking the time to put together the tutorial, I followed along but ultimately could not get it to operate correctly. I will continue researching so that I can get a better understanding.
Thank you for the video! I use Shopify and at 14:23, you said to add the code in every page. How to add the code in every page? or every liquid? Thank you!!
30:54 When I click on the tag detail I have : Type, Firing Status (succeded), measurement ID. But no "send a page view" , "send to server" and i have nothing in Analytics after this. Do you know why ?
Hey Julious, I am really excited to have dropped on to your channel. I thought all you really needed top do was to copy and paste the Google tracking code into the head, and BINGO, all the info reports would be there to view. O how was I wrong. You really take time giving the steps to actually understand this process, and i really enjoyed this particular video , even though it is my first dive into this topic. I have a very important website and all this data needs to set up so improvements can be made to get the full knowledge for traffic and conversions . I will be your student from now on. My name is Mark.
Omg I finally understand it now. A tag is for each action. I was trying to use a single tag for each platform and adding multiple triggers to it for different events. So I need a new tag for each event on each platform with a trigger of custom event. Thank you
Thank you for the video, however it got me a bit more confused, why in 28:44 you have in Type column: Google Analytics: GA4 Configuration, when in 28:36 you had Google Tag as your tag type. Did you change anything and forgot to comment?
Thank you so much for your video :) Can you tell me why tags that i pasted in my pages worked, but then when I created a new tag and checked in preview it says tag not found? I added the tag extension.
in 51:30 you just go and paste measurement ID from a clipboard which isnt possible, as you had there in the clipboard the variable from link clicks. Can you show where do you go to get the measurement ID again ?
Excellent work Julius, thanks for your work! One follow-up question ... I didn't hear anything about Data Layer mentioned in this video. But in some of your other videos you mention how Data Layer is a critical piece of the GTM implementation puzzle. So my question: Are we able to make all of the changes you outlined in this video without making any changes to the code in the Data Layer snippet?
I am not getting the same results after following this video. 1. When I create a trigger and preview it (around 45:11) i cannot see any of the clicks that I do on my site. 2. When I go to cerate a tag later in the video (51:11) where am I getting the Meaurement Id from? Thanks for any help on this!
Hey great video man as always! I have done everything perfectly, when I try to test my Debug later in the video it is inaccurate, when I go on the website nothing comes up on the debug, my tag is firing successfully however, so I do not know why it is not updating. Any advice?
hi ! Google Tag says : "" Paste this code as high in the of the page as possible "" , than why did you pasted it before the closing tag and not after the ? Many thanks in advance. Your is the Best video in TH-cam of the topic !
what would you do if you are using clickfunnels and you have multiple upsellls. Would dynamic conversion value under 1 converion pixel accurately collect all the upsells. Or would you create multiple conversions ?
Hey! what is your thoughts on using sitekit for wordoress to have like GA4, GTM, and google ads all setup? or wouldit be better to just add the gtm code manually?
Just as a note here for those that do not code. Many CMS services have a dynamic structures to render pages. Typically the content is injected into your highest level file. For the example he was showing was a Shopify theme.liquid file. The theme.liquid file to be clear is not your home page rather it is a file that nests all your other pages/components that you want to render to the web. Why this matters - you can indeed just put Google tag manager in your theme.liquid file and every page does have access to GTM. What he is talking about with pages only matters if all of your pages are individual .html files that are only linked to the homepage. So for example you would have your homepage as something like index.html and then your about me page as about.html and then on your home page nav you may have a link to your about me page. If your setup is like this, then yes you need to put your Google tag on that about page. I am only pointing this out because the vast majority of modern websites do not use this file structure anymore but rather they use dynamic rending of pages all sourced within the highest level file. Therefore, all of the pages then do have access because the header is used for every page on your site. We do it this way now so that we do not have to repeat the same code over and over again for the things that are constant across your site such as your nav and footer. If your site was not dynamic you would have to copy that code to every single html page and that just gets super clunky and slows down the site. This can be super confusing because theme.liquid in some ways is very similar to the index.html in the way that we do treat it as the homepage often and sometimes even code up static information within the file. I wanted to make this clear as I imagine some people might be confused if they are trying to figure out where to put the GTM for their other pages when they probably don't need to do that.
@AnalyticsMania I do the same thing as you do when we talk about GA4 initialization code - all pages (30:10 timer) but my container loaded is not firing. Initialization works, but other than that no - any thoughts? GA4 in Debug View shows the events correctly on the other side
Hello, how are you? You are doing a good job. I searched your channel, which is wonderful and full of events, but I noticed that there is no video talking about how to retarget the dynamic through Google Ads Remarketing and how it works. Please explain. Thank you.
Hi, on minute 30:32 under container loaded my is showing Tags Not Fired, but under Initialization it is Tags Fired > GA4 config is it good or bad? Also on GA in DebugView it show some tracking.
Hey guys, I've just read some comments in this thread and I'm assuming this is a mistake in the video. If you check the "Initialization" folder instead of "Container Loaded" - GA4 config should be firing in here. It's showing for me in this folder which makes sense because we set it up as initialization! Hope this helps! :)
Appreciate this tutorial! We have an issue with GTM where all pages are marked as "Not Tagged" but the Tag Assistant tool verifies that the tags are installed and we can see the triggers firing. Any ideas? Thanks
Hi, I just came across your channel and appreciate your explanation. I've a query related to the same. I need help setting up Google Analytics & GTM for multiple websites(for different clients) under one hosting plan. All the websites are independent of each other and cater to different businesses. Would you recommend creating separate accounts or separate properties for each website under Google Analytics? Similarly, would you recommend creating separate accounts or separate containers for each website under Google Tag Manager? (It would be great if you can explain to me the difference of how it would work)
Thanks for your video's! While watching the GA4 configuration video with a single GTM container for multiple environments, I noticed the update where the GA4 config was exchanged for Google Tag. So I am wondering how can I implement a single GTM container for multiple environments and connect it to the live and staging GA4 properties.
Hi, the video is very good, thanks! But I wanted to ask what a digital agency does? I work with my clients through MCC but I don't know how to work with them with GTM... is there a tag arena? Is there a similar platform like MCC? The customers don't know how to open the GTM account and they also don't want to share their email details, what do we do?
Hi! I’m having an issue with testing tags at 29.26. First it tells me To improve the quality of your testing, enable your Tag Manager container for debugging in the Tag Assistant window, then return here. Next clicking bag, it tells me not found . So frustrating ! I disabled the cookies consent form on my website so it should allow me to track, not really sure how to proceed.
I want to track conversions on my youtube video. How do I set it up there? And also: why doesnt youtube already have the Google Tag on there, so I dont need to set it up?
You putting this up for free is actually clutch - praise to you
I love that you explain everything in detail, slow and patiently like teaching a toddler, EXACTLY WHAT I NEED! lol, thank you!!
Finally someone qualified to accurately show GTM and GA4 flow. What about linking to Google Ads? I would be happy for a more detailed presentation of the connection between Google Ads and GTM + Remarketing.
Thanks for the great posts!
I failed to setup Google Analytics with GTM using intuition (I've done it in the past), then reading Google support pages, I don't know if it's misleading or plain wrong. I didn't know where to get the tag ID. This tutorial saved me. Thanks!
Thank you for the tutorial! Crazy how opposite of user friendly this setup process is for the average user, feels like you should study the setup process for half a year to really feel confident that you've got a grip on it.
Hi! great video!
Question regarding the triggering part at 28:29 since you said the current recommendation is "initiallization - All Pages" and then on the testing tags part you said it should be fired on "container loaded" 29:12. when I did it and choose initiallization - All Pages it fired only on initiallization. is this correct?
and whats the diffrent between initiallization - All Pages and All pages option?
Editing mistake. Sorry. The current recommendation is on initialization. It fires a bit earlier than container loaded
@@AnalyticsMania this messed me up for almost 30 minutes. Thanks for the video but man this was frustrating.
Thanks you! This really confused me @@AnalyticsMania
Thanks for replying to this!! I also got stuck for like an hour. You can see in cuts that at 28:25 it show "type" - Tag, but then then in the next cut it shows "type" Google Analytics... @@AnalyticsMania
And google's instructions say to check if it's working in the Initialization tab not container loaded tag. Just for anyone else who gets stuck. But thank you for this awesome tutorial! I've been taking google's own Skillshop course and this really fills in some gaps that they skip.
Thank you so much for this! The Google training is light on the important details. Their approach is, "Do x and it just works" but it is much more complex than that. For example, they suggest using Purchase events but provide no more detailed background, as if simply enabling the purchase event automagically provides purchase information without being set up and configured for the correct triggers and variables on your website.
Julius, all I have to say is, Google must drive you nuts with all of the changes and updates, that force you to keep re-doing the same or similar tutorials over and over. LOL But we all appreciate your work and help tremendously. I was on one of your tutorials, then it said .. go here for a new one .. then it said, wait .. go here for the newer "new" version. I was just laughing. If it seems to drive us crazy, I can only imagine you having to keep up with all of this. I hope you're laughing as these changes occur instead of getting frustrated. Thanks again bud. Wonderful job. 😀
True! And Julius updates these instructions for free every time. Thank you!
Very much appreciated for sure! This channel is definitely one of the absolute best and always keeping updated with all the crazy and confusing changes is so very much appreciated for sure 😊 Thank you so much!
Love, love, love what you are doing! Thanks for sharing your knowledge!!❤
The best teacher ever!
謝謝！
Everything is clear. Brief and clear. No water. Thank you)
I had exactly what I wanted to get in terms of data from my website. After watching this video, I can map out exactly that and move forward in achieving my goals. This was an absolute game-changer. Thank you!
Extremely useful and detail step-by-step explanation! Huge appreciation!
Thank you for the video. I am a digital marketer, SEO specialist and web designer. I did study the fundamentals in GTM but never got to use the knowledge so this video is a great refresher.
The structure of this tutorial is excellent. Keep the good work up.
You are amazing, I watched every step and you made it super simple. Please never stop creating!! thank you thank you thank you!!!!!
The best of the best. Finally understood how GTM works!
Appreciate the non-fluff straightforward approach. Was a great review for me. Thank you!
Thank you for keeping the guides updated
Thank you for explaining everything so clearly. Everything is very clear. Like for the explanation.
28:22 you select Initialization - All Pages (as per the current recommendation)
28:44 the selection conveniently changes to All Pages
Not mentioning this made my life harder as a noob as I kept wondering why my tags were not firing. Went back to the tag and chose All pages, then it started working. Great video though.
It's a pleasure to watch.
Thank you for such in depth tutorial, much better than UDemy courses out there.
amazing! Finally understood how GTM and GA4 work together. Thanks for the great video tutorial.
You have a truly exceptional talent for instruction. Phenomenal.
This helped me prep for an interview so I can sound at least somewhat knowledgeable….you described things very clearly with super helpful visuals thank u so much
Merci beaucoup pour toutes ces explications approfondies.
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✨✨ The best and the most comprehensive video about the GTM, Thank you so much 😍😍
Excellent video!! A little advanced for beginners, but really great if you have prior knowledge. Thank you for posting this!
This was awesome, the step by step walk through Creating "Triggers", then "variables", then "tags" was super helpful for someone with minimal coding experience.
this
Your video was so helpful! I was flailing around going from tutorial to tutorial learning bits and pieces until I found this. Thank you!
Great job! I'm following this tutorial step-by-step for the second time - amazing! Thank you!
By the way, in the case of Tag set up "Initialisation ...." didn't work for me. The "All pages" setup worked. Did anyone have the same issue?
what we need is a tag manager tutorial for intermediates. Everyone has the beginner tutorial (I still watched this whole thing, because you drop gems. Came here from the sGTM setup tutorial you did!
Intermediate/advanced stuff is here www.analyticsmania.com/courses/intermediate-google-tag-manager-course/
learnt everything i needed to know in an hour. god bless you for this. thanks
You're a legend 💙
"This content is incredibly insightful and well-researched!"
Thank you for letting me know this today, I deeply appreciates.
Clear and understandable, I wish there was more information like this.
I found a thing that can be a bit confusing for a beginner. When you add a GA4 config tag, you first set the trigger to initialization, but when you are testing the tags (28:40) you have it set to page view.
Thank you so much for the video Julius , really helped me to understand the basics of google tag manager
wonderful tutorial you explain really good, well done ❤
Thank you for taking the time to put together the tutorial, I followed along but ultimately could not get it to operate correctly. I will continue researching so that I can get a better understanding.
EXACTLY WHAT I NEED! lol, thank you!!
Thank you for the video! I use Shopify and at 14:23, you said to add the code in every page. How to add the code in every page? or every liquid? Thank you!!
Thank you so much!! I Highly appreciate all the effort you put in this video! Great work :)
Super instructive, thank you!
Where did you get the measurement ID from in 51:35?
Exellent tutorial, very helpful, thank you!
Thank you for such in depth tutorial
30:54 When I click on the tag detail I have : Type, Firing Status (succeded), measurement ID. But no "send a page view" , "send to server" and i have nothing in Analytics after this. Do you know why ?
Hey Julious, I am really excited to have dropped on to your channel. I thought all you really needed top do was to copy and paste the Google tracking code into the head, and BINGO, all the info reports would be there to view. O how was I wrong. You really take time giving the steps to actually understand this process, and i really enjoyed this particular video , even though it is my first dive into this topic. I have a very important website and all this data needs to set up so improvements can be made to get the full knowledge for traffic and conversions . I will be your student from now on. My name is Mark.
Omg I finally understand it now. A tag is for each action. I was trying to use a single tag for each platform and adding multiple triggers to it for different events. So I need a new tag for each event on each platform with a trigger of custom event. Thank you
This video was extremely helpful. Thank you.
Fantastic tutorial
Very useful video, thank you!
Thanks much
very helpful
worth watching the entire video : )
was hoping you show this 1st before showing the dashboard on google analytics. 28:00 but anyhow, thanks for this.
You are doing a great work, thank you so much, subscribed you!
greate helpfull video
Big thanks to you, very helpful
Thank you for the video, however it got me a bit more confused, why in 28:44 you have in Type column: Google Analytics: GA4 Configuration, when in 28:36 you had Google Tag as your tag type. Did you change anything and forgot to comment?
Google changed. Configuration tag became google tag. Ignore this difference in the video.
Thank you so much for the video, really enlightening 💡
Very informative and easy to follow
Thank you so much for your video :) Can you tell me why tags that i pasted in my pages worked, but then when I created a new tag and checked in preview it says tag not found? I added the tag extension.
I learned more about Google analytics than anywhere else
Great info! Thanks for the video, it's well appreciated!
in 51:30 you just go and paste measurement ID from a clipboard which isnt possible, as you had there in the clipboard the variable from link clicks. Can you show where do you go to get the measurement ID again ?
Ga4 admin > data streams > select website data stream > copy measurement id
Very helpful - thanks
Excellent work Julius, thanks for your work! One follow-up question ... I didn't hear anything about Data Layer mentioned in this video. But in some of your other videos you mention how Data Layer is a critical piece of the GTM implementation puzzle. So my question: Are we able to make all of the changes you outlined in this video without making any changes to the code in the Data Layer snippet?
I am not getting the same results after following this video. 1. When I create a trigger and preview it (around 45:11) i cannot see any of the clicks that I do on my site. 2. When I go to cerate a tag later in the video (51:11) where am I getting the Meaurement Id from?
Thanks for any help on this!
Hey there! I think the Measurement ID you can get it from your GA4 (Admin->Data stream-> your measurement ID)
Very informative
Hi Julius, tag doesnt fire when i put trigger "initiaization - all pages". even you changed at 28:45 trigger to "all pages"...is it possible?
Hey great video man as always! I have done everything perfectly, when I try to test my Debug later in the video it is inaccurate, when I go on the website nothing comes up on the debug, my tag is firing successfully however, so I do not know why it is not updating. Any advice?
hi ! Google Tag says : "" Paste this code as high in the of the page as possible "" , than why did you pasted it before the closing tag and not after the ?
Many thanks in advance. Your is the Best video in TH-cam of the topic !
No big difference
@@AnalyticsMania Cool ! Many many thanks ! 🙂
what would you do if you are using clickfunnels and you have multiple upsellls. Would dynamic conversion value under 1 converion pixel accurately collect all the upsells. Or would you create multiple conversions ?
The best video tutorial, thank you
Hey! what is your thoughts on using sitekit for wordoress to have like GA4, GTM, and google ads all setup?
or wouldit be better to just add the gtm code manually?
Just as a note here for those that do not code. Many CMS services have a dynamic structures to render pages. Typically the content is injected into your highest level file. For the example he was showing was a Shopify theme.liquid file. The theme.liquid file to be clear is not your home page rather it is a file that nests all your other pages/components that you want to render to the web. Why this matters - you can indeed just put Google tag manager in your theme.liquid file and every page does have access to GTM. What he is talking about with pages only matters if all of your pages are individual .html files that are only linked to the homepage. So for example you would have your homepage as something like index.html and then your about me page as about.html and then on your home page nav you may have a link to your about me page. If your setup is like this, then yes you need to put your Google tag on that about page. I am only pointing this out because the vast majority of modern websites do not use this file structure anymore but rather they use dynamic rending of pages all sourced within the highest level file. Therefore, all of the pages then do have access because the header is used for every page on your site. We do it this way now so that we do not have to repeat the same code over and over again for the things that are constant across your site such as your nav and footer. If your site was not dynamic you would have to copy that code to every single html page and that just gets super clunky and slows down the site. This can be super confusing because theme.liquid in some ways is very similar to the index.html in the way that we do treat it as the homepage often and sometimes even code up static information within the file. I wanted to make this clear as I imagine some people might be confused if they are trying to figure out where to put the GTM for their other pages when they probably don't need to do that.
@AnalyticsMania I do the same thing as you do when we talk about GA4 initialization code - all pages (30:10 timer) but my container loaded is not firing. Initialization works, but other than that no - any thoughts?
GA4 in Debug View shows the events correctly on the other side
Sounds like your dsta layer is broken www.analyticsmania.com/post/pageview-trigger-not-working-in-google-tag-manager/
Great video. You are awesome
amazing content and explained in such detail and structure. hardly you get so motivated to comment someone after a tutorial -- great work
I was waiting for this
Hello, how are you? You are doing a good job. I searched your channel, which is wonderful and full of events, but I noticed that there is no video talking about how to retarget the dynamic through Google Ads Remarketing and how it works. Please explain. Thank you.
This is quite insightful, thank you
Hi, on minute 30:32 under container loaded my is showing Tags Not Fired, but under Initialization it is Tags Fired > GA4 config is it good or bad? Also on GA in DebugView it show some tracking.
Following! Also happening to me. Checking "container loaded" and it shows my GA4 under "Tags Not Fired"
Same exact issue here and I’m stumped!
Hey guys, I've just read some comments in this thread and I'm assuming this is a mistake in the video. If you check the "Initialization" folder instead of "Container Loaded" - GA4 config should be firing in here. It's showing for me in this folder which makes sense because we set it up as initialization!
Hope this helps! :)
Yes, i think it’s mistake in a video GA is working fine
Appreciate this tutorial! We have an issue with GTM where all pages are marked as "Not Tagged" but the Tag Assistant tool verifies that the tags are installed and we can see the triggers firing. Any ideas? Thanks
Hi, I just came across your channel and appreciate your explanation. I've a query related to the same. I need help setting up Google Analytics & GTM for multiple websites(for different clients) under one hosting plan. All the websites are independent of each other and cater to different businesses.
Would you recommend creating separate accounts or separate properties for each website under Google Analytics? Similarly, would you recommend creating separate accounts or separate containers for each website under Google Tag Manager? (It would be great if you can explain to me the difference of how it would work)
Thanks for your video's! While watching the GA4 configuration video with a single GTM container for multiple environments, I noticed the update where the GA4 config was exchanged for Google Tag. So I am wondering how can I implement a single GTM container for multiple environments and connect it to the live and staging GA4 properties.
Awasome tutorial
Fantastic course thank you man!
Best 👌👌
Great tutorial!
At 29:19 should we only have three tags? One for GTM and one for GA4 and one for the Gtag? I seem to have more. I don’t understand why
You can have more. This is just a tutorial for beginners
@@AnalyticsMania oh ok cool thanks
you just earned another subscriber
Hi, the video is very good, thanks!
But I wanted to ask what a digital agency does? I work with my clients through MCC but I don't know how to work with them with GTM... is there a tag arena? Is there a similar platform like MCC? The customers don't know how to open the GTM account and they also don't want to share their email details, what do we do?
Julius you’re the best!
Thanks bro, you made it look easy
Hi! I’m having an issue with testing tags at 29.26. First it tells me To improve the quality of your testing, enable your Tag Manager container for debugging in the Tag Assistant window, then return here.
Next clicking bag, it tells me not found . So frustrating ! I disabled the cookies consent form on my website so it should allow me to track, not really sure how to proceed.
HEy did you solved this. I am facing the same , it says my google tag not found
I want to track conversions on my youtube video. How do I set it up there? And also: why doesnt youtube already have the Google Tag on there, so I dont need to set it up?