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Unlock powerful marketing insights with advanced Google Tag Manager

6h 19min | 12 lessons

In this course, you will learn how to:

  • Implement advanced GTM setups that deliver accurate data.
  • Create custom solutions to track complex user behaviors effectively.
  • Streamline tag management, significantly speeding up your workflow.
  • Confidently debug and resolve complicated GTM configurations.
  • Integrate GTM with analytics platforms seamlessly, without depending on developers.

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Basic tag management skills only get you so far

A lack of Google Tag Manager skills means your marketing decisions are held back by incomplete or inaccurate data. To fully leverage GTM, you need to move beyond fundamentals and master complex tagging scenarios. This course pushes you forward, equipping you to confidently handle advanced GTM tasks and deliver marketing data that makes a genuine business impact.

Master advanced Google Tag Manager skills to automate workflows and maximize tracking capabilities

Course Length:
6h 19min. 12 lessons.

This course goes far beyond the basics. You’ll learn to solve challenging tagging scenarios, confidently track user actions that matter most, and optimize your GTM setup to ensure data accuracy. Gain practical knowledge of the GTM API, dataLayer, and advanced tools like customTask and hitCallback. Get ready to become your company’s GTM expert, capable of turning complex tracking requirements into simple, reliable solutions.

After completing this online course on advanced Google Tag Manager, you will be able to assist your team and company with:

  • Designing and deploying advanced GTM configurations without developer bottlenecks.
  • Capturing deeper, more accurate user insights through advanced tagging.
  • Diagnosing and swiftly resolving complex tagging and data-accuracy issues.
  • Optimizing your website’s tag setup to maintain site speed and performance.
  • Ensuring your analytics deliver actionable insights aligned directly with business objectives.

This course is for you if you are responsible for:

  • Managing complex marketing analytics and tag deployments.
  • Capturing and analyzing detailed user behavior insights.
  • Ensuring data accuracy and reliability across digital marketing channels.
  • Optimizing site performance through effective tag management.
  • Providing your marketing team with precise, timely, and actionable data.

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Course Curriculum

Advanced Google Tag Manager

Welcome to the Course

Introduction to the course topics and content. Lesson 1 slide deck

Event Tracking Under The Hood

In the first lesson, we’ll start with Google Tag Manager’s event tracking model. You’ll learn about GTM’s data model, how the dataLayer interacts with GTM’s complex data structures, and how automatic event tracking makes use of these interactions to he

Custom Event Listeners

Using Google Tag Manager’s auto-event tracking is great when you want to measure clicks and form submissions. But what if you want to measure interactions with your form? Or when the user hovers over an image but doesn’t click it? Or how much time the

The Tracker Object

Google Analytics uses a tracker object data structure to make sure that interactions on the website are compiled into well-formed Google Analytics requests and hits. In this lesson, we’ll discuss how this tracker object works, and why it has some serio

customTask

customTask is the greatest tool at your disposal for customizing your Google Analytics implementations. In this lesson, we’ll discuss why this is so, and how you can do things like PII removal and hit multiplication with ease when using customTask. Thi

Enhanced Ecommerce

Enhanced Ecommerce is one of the most interesting reporting models in Google Analytics. However, implementation is not straight-forward, and many of the quirks with Enhanced Ecommerce are poorly documented. With this lesson, many of these features beco

API Outline And Resources

Google Tag Manager’s API can save your organization hundreds of hours of manual labor, as you learn how to write scripts that automate many of the menial tasks. If you’re struggling with dozens of containers that require constant upkeep, the API will s

Build Your Own API Tool

We’ll take the learnings from the previous lesson, and put them to practice in this one. You’ll learn how to build a simple but extendable Google Sheets extension, which pulls in data from the Google Tag Manager API. Set yourself up for success with: H

Templates Introduction

Custom Templates in Google Tag Manager allow you to build branded user interfaces for the custom scripts that would otherwise need to deployed with Custom HTML tags and Custom JavaScript variables. In this lesson, we’ll cover: Why you should get into t

Build Your Own Custom Template

You’ll put the learnings from the previous lesson to good use as you build your own Custom Tag Template. You’ll also learn the end-to-end process of building and distributing a template. In this last lesson, we’ll cover: How to build the fields, the co

Wrapping Up

Lesson 11 slide deck

Simo Ahava

Co-Founder @ Simmer Oy

Simo Ahava is a recognized expert on customizing web analytics and tag management solutions to improve the entire “life cycle” of data collection, processing, and reporting. His main areas of expertise lie with Google Analytics and Google Tag Manager. Google has appointed him as a Google Developer Expert in these fields.

Simo holds the position of Co-Founder at Simmon Oy. He also writes a popular blog on all things Google Analytics and Google Tag Manager development at www.simoahava.com.

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