How to Build Your Own Event Driven Timer Trigger in Google Tag Manager

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GTM has a built-in timer that starts when a user enters the page. With this trigger we cannot control when the timer trigger actually starts.
In today’s video, I will share with you how to build our own timer trigger that starts based on user’s interaction in our website, so we can check error or success messages at a later stage.
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OUTLINE:
00:00 - Intro
2:15 - Build a Timer Trigger in GTM
3:34 - Get the Text Value Your Button (Before Click)
5:43 - Set Up a 2 Second Listener Tag
8:27 - Create Custom Trigger Using Variable Button Text
8:30 - Create a 2 Second Timer Trigger
9:00 - Create Tag to Fire After 2 Seconds
9:45 - Testing
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Пікірлер: 18

@najvahabibi7782 Ай бұрын

It works magically. I tried to use element visibility but didn't work, Thanks for your help. always amazing 🥰🥰

@dannycherniack2571 5 жыл бұрын

you are the best!!

@joshsilverbauer6170 5 жыл бұрын

This was an amazing vid, saves me such a headache I was going through yesterday. Question, at 7:02 it looks like you push a shortcut .iffe which populates function, was this edited or is there such a shortcut? I had no luck when recreating.

@MeasureSchool 5 жыл бұрын

no... I use a text expander - very useful if you write codes often into GTM. There are several out there.

@maraprayogo1085 5 жыл бұрын

Thank you for this lovely videos. What if i want to track time duration on each image of a slider...?

@MeasureSchool 5 жыл бұрын

I would always suggest to actually think the final goals of your website, and track the most important event first, like the conversion. The engagement like the time duration on each image is the event that hard to track and have little effect to give you insights to improve your final goal.

@romulo_gomes 5 жыл бұрын

Hi Julian. Do you know if there's any free wordpress theme with built-in stuff on the datalayer so I can play with? I want to do some tests to learn faster but I don't have a website with events and a decent datalayer to test. I hope you can help :) thanks!

@MeasureSchool 5 жыл бұрын

you can try out the GTM for Wordpress plugin that will fill your dataLayer automatically

@MeasureSchool 5 жыл бұрын

no, I don't know of such a theme. Just get a free theme and download a plugin to fill the dataLayer

@axelax809 5 жыл бұрын

Thank you for your tips as always! I have a problem with the timer: I tried the Timer Tag with a slide show. I want to get the new image src after a "Next"-Button Click into a GTM-Javascript-Variable. In debug mode, when the timer tag fires the variable has the correct value. But when the data is sent to GA via a UA-Tag its always the old value. The Timer-Tag is fired first and then the UA-Tag as a cleanup tag.

@MeasureSchool 5 жыл бұрын

are you variables correctly filled upon your tag firing? It really depends on what data is inside of the dataLayer at that point and how it fills the variables

@axelax809 5 жыл бұрын

You are right, both the Timer and the UA-Tag fire at the same time so that the UA-Tag still got the old values. Thanks for your reply.

@axelax809 5 жыл бұрын

Now i got it. As soon as i fire the UA-Tag on a custom event trigger everything is fine.

@alexandervoit7871 5 жыл бұрын

Can you make a video on how to pass url parameters from one page to another? I want to be able to extract the data I stored in a cookie and send the data via url parameters to another page

@MeasureSchool 5 жыл бұрын

interesting, yes - I'll put it on my list