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#GTMTips: Setup IAM For Manual Installation Of Server-side GTM
If you want to manually install server-side Google Tag Manager on App Engine in the Google Cloud Platform, you are of course welcome to do so. The main benefits of doing this are that you get to choose the region where App Engine is deployed and that you can use existing project resources instead of having a new project automatically created for you.
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#GTMTips: Preview Requests In Server-side Google Tag Manager
Server-side Google Tag Manager has an excellent Preview mode, which lets you inspect incoming requests, monitor the event data object, view console messages, and identify outgoing requests, among other things. To enable this Preview mode on the web, you simply need to click the Preview button in the container, after which any requests sent from the…
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#GTMTips: Preflight Requests in Server-side Google Tag Manager
With certain types of HTTP requests, the web browser might first dispatch a request with the OPTIONS method, also known as a preflight request. The purpose of the preflight request is to “check” with the web server that it’s equipped to handle the type of cross-origin request the browser wants to dispatch. If the server doesn’t handle this preflight request, or if it returns a response that doesn’t agree…
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#GTMTips: Use GA4 Schema In Universal Analytics Ecommerce
With the sunset announcement of the Universal Analytics service, it certainly does seem like a waste of time to write articles about it. However, a recent update to Google Tag Manager is an interesting one and should provide relief to those Google Analytics users who are set on double-tagging their sites for both Universal Analytics and Google Analytics 4 and…
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#GTMTips: Override Google Analytics 4 Fields In Server-Side GTM
Server-side tagging is all about control. Being able to intercept, modify, and even block requests as they come in before they are dispatched to their actual endpoints is extremely valuable. The built-in Google Analytics 4 tag template has options for modifying event parameters and user properties in the Google Analytics 4 request, but did you know you can use these options to modify some of the…
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#GTMTips: Prevent SGTM From Setting The FPID Cookie
The FPID cookie is what server-side Google Tag Manager would prefer to use for your Google Analytics 4 tracking. It’s a cookie set in the HTTP response from the server, and it’s flagged as HttpOnly, which means it’s only accessible by a web server running on the domain on which it was set. There’s nothing wrong with the technology, and I do recommend that server-side setups toggle it on by default.
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#TIL what the little colored circles, diamonds and squares mean in Google Tag Manager's preview mode. You can have multiple preview sessions going at the same time on different screens. Each session has it's own shape and color....who knew? Not me.
🔵🔸🟩
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#TIL what the little colored circles, diamonds and squares mean in Google Tag Manager's preview mode. You can have multiple preview sessions going at the same time on different screens. Each session has it's own shape and color....who knew? Not me.
🔵🔸🟩
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My latest article covers a "cookieless" scenario on server-side #GoogleTagManager, where you might want to prevent the #GoogleAnalytics4 Client from accessing the FPID cookie under certain conditions.
For example, you might want to support FPID only for a subset of all GA4 measurement IDs collected by server-side GTM, or you might want to prevent FPID access when a custom consent setting requires so.
This article is a walkthrough of how to do that.
https://www.simoahava.com/gtm-tips/prevent-sgtm-from-setting-fpid-cookie/
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My latest article covers a "cookieless" scenario on server-side #GoogleTagManager, where you might want to prevent the #GoogleAnalytics4 Client from accessing the FPID cookie under certain conditions.
For example, you might want to support FPID only for a subset of all GA4 measurement IDs collected by server-side GTM, or you might want to prevent FPID access when a custom consent setting requires so.
This article is a walkthrough of how to do that.
https://www.simoahava.com/gtm-tips/prevent-sgtm-from-setting-fpid-cookie/
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✨ New Simmer Clips video/article is out! ✨
How do I safely override #GoogleTagManager dataLayer.push() method?
(and why?!)
▶️ YouTube: https://youtu.be/4YAzZ52kuYM
Subscribe to our channel at https://www.youtube.com/@TeamSimmer
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✨ New Simmer Clips video/article is out! ✨
How do I safely override #GoogleTagManager dataLayer.push() method?
(and why?!)
▶️ YouTube: https://youtu.be/4YAzZ52kuYM
Subscribe to our channel at https://www.youtube.com/@TeamSimmer
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Very useful cost calculator for server-side #GoogleTagManager running on Google Cloud Run:
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Very useful cost calculator for server-side #GoogleTagManager running on Google Cloud Run:
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Mr. Sebastian Pospichil of TRKKN fame authored a guest post on my blog (www.simoahava.com).
This article shows you how to setup "Enhanced Link Attribution" for GA4. With just a single #GoogleTagManager tag and some variables, you can track each and every navigation event with metadata on which link / link-like element was clicked. You can use this to build heatmaps of the most used navigational elements on the site, for example.
https://www.simoahava.com/analytics/track-and-categorize-all-link-clicks-on-the-site/
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Mr. Sebastian Pospichil of TRKKN fame authored a guest post on my blog (www.simoahava.com).
This article shows you how to setup "Enhanced Link Attribution" for GA4. With just a single #GoogleTagManager tag and some variables, you can track each and every navigation event with metadata on which link / link-like element was clicked. You can use this to build heatmaps of the most used navigational elements on the site, for example.
https://www.simoahava.com/analytics/track-and-categorize-all-link-clicks-on-the-site/