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Gain advanced skills for Google Tag Manager

6h 19min | 12 lessons

In this course, you will learn how to:

  • Master the GTM data model and automate tasks using the GTM API.
  • Customize event tracking for more precise measurement of user interactions.
  • Enhance your Google Analytics setup with advanced tools like customTask and hitCallback.
  • Gain a deeper understanding of the dataLayer and how to leverage it effectively.
  • Build custom templates and automate workflows to streamline tag management.

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Optimize tag management for precise tracking and advanced analytics

Many teams struggle with setting up advanced tracking, missing out on valuable data that could improve performance insights. This course equips you with advanced skills in Google Tag Manager, allowing you to automate workflows, customize event tracking, and maximize the power of your analytics setup. By mastering advanced tools like customTask, hitCallback, and the dataLayer, you’ll be able to optimize your entire tracking process, ensuring more accurate and actionable data for better business decisions.

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

Course Length:
6h 19min. 12 lessons.

This course dives into the advanced features of Google Tag Manager, enabling you to automate tasks, customize event tracking, and optimize your entire analytics process. You’ll gain practical knowledge of the GTM API, dataLayer, and advanced tools like customTask and hitCallback. By the end of this course, you’ll be equipped to implement more precise tracking, streamline tag management, and enhance your analytics setup for better decision-making.

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

  • Automating GTM tasks using the GTM API.
  • Customizing event tracking for precise data collection.
  • Enhancing Google Analytics setup with advanced tools.
  • Optimizing the dataLayer for more efficient tracking.
  • Building custom GTM templates and workflows.

This course is for you if you are responsible for:

  • Managing advanced tracking setups for marketing campaigns.
  • Implementing and maintaining web analytics systems.
  • Optimizing Google Tag Manager for large-scale businesses.
  • Improving data accuracy and tracking consistency.
  • Tag deployment and management processes.

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Course Curriculum

Advanced Google Tag Manager

1 Welcome to the Course

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

2 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

3 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

4 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

5 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

6 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

7 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

8 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

9 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

10 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

11 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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