Google Tag Manager and Friends
by Lon Koenig | at MinneBar 14 | 10:20 – 11:05 in New York | View Schedule
Google Tag Manager can drastically reduce the time you spend managing marketing code requests for websites and apps.
This is based on a presentation for non-developers, but with a more technical focus for the Minnebar crowd.
This presentation assumes a basic understanding of Google Analytics
The focus will be on web and PWA implementation, although most features are available to apps as well.
GTM Can:- Make your life easier
- Make your non-developer coworkers happy
- Make you more popular at parties
- General web implementation
- WordPress
- Apps
- Migrating from existing Google analytics
GTM comes with many sorts of marketing and conversion tags already defined. You simply need to fill in the templates
Workflow, roles, version control and testingWalk through the process of creating a tag, testing and deploying.
Teaching an old site new tricks- GTM can help enforce roles, permissions and accountability for code changes to an existing site
- Add new sorts of tracking and even new features to existing site elements
Show techniques for deploying a single customized container across multiple properties
Best friends forever- Google Analytics events
- Google AdWords
- Google Optimize
- … and the rest
Lon Koenig
Lon Koenig is a communications technologist with a broad background in education, advertising, and games.
And he’s been at this awhile; writing his first programs on a teletype.
By day, he creates websites that scale, and manages Google Analytics and other integrations for commercial clients.
By night, Lon uses the constrained-resources skills he picked up “in the early days” to develop for Arduino and similar IoT microcontrollers.
Links:
- GitHub
- Twitter: @schnoggo