Google has announced a new tool Google Tag Manager for Tag management. It will ease to tracking and marketing optimization tags. User can add or manage the AdWords, Google analytics, Flood-light and non-Google tags using the GTM. This free tool is very helpful to Marketers and Developers both.
Marketers would have control of their digital marketing activities for campaign or add/edit tracking tags. Marketers can implement and deploy a new tag using GTM in minutes. They don’t need Programming knowledge to manage tag when you are working with a user-friendly web interface.
It’s useful for third-party developers where they have to add new tags/code but they are not allowed to update the existing code structure. Developer can put all the code in a container and site owner will add the container just after the <body> tag starts, that’s it. Now developer can update the code from the container and site owner can add/remove the container code.
How it works?
Followings are main components of the GTM:
Account
Each account can contains multiple containers
“One account per company”
Container
A container includes the tracking tags (e.g. Google Analytics, AdWords Conversion Tracking tags) that you want to use on the website.
“One container for one website”
Tags
Tags are snippets of code on your site that collect data
“A tag must have at least one rule in order to fire”
GTM supports following tag types which can be use directly:
- AdWords Conversion Tracking
- DoubleClick Floodlight Counter
- DoubleClick Floodlight Sales
- Google Analytics
- GDN Remarketing
There are other two custom tags available which allows you to implement custom tags which are not available in above list:
- Custom Image Tag
- Custom HTML Tag
Rules
The rule(s) attached to a tag govern when the tag is fired or not fired.
“A rule that blocks a tag from firing always overrides a firing rule”
Syntax: [Macro] [Operator] [Value]
Example: url equals example.com/index.html
Macros
Macros supply dynamic data to tags and conditions.
“Macros are name-value pairs for which the value is populated during runtime”
Types of Macro
- Constant String
- JavaScript Variable
- Data Layer
- DOM Text
- Dom attribute
- URL
- Custom Event
- HTTP Referrer
Following is video shared by our Team which shows how easy to implement it.
And we are one of the GTM Specialist announced by Google. Please feel free to share your opinion or questions regarding the GTM.
