New Google Tag and Settings Variables in GTM (Missing GA4 configuration tag)

Рет қаралды 65,499

Analytics Mania - Google Analytics & Tag Manager

Күн бұрын

Google has released a new tag template - Google Tag, which replaces the GA4 configuration tag. Also, they introduced two settings variables:
* Event settings variable
* Configuration settings variable
This means that the process of GA4 installation in Google Tag Manager is also changing.
So if you are wondering why is your GA4 configuration tag missing, this video will answer that.
=== LINKS ===
Subscribe to our KZfaq channel / @analyticsmania
⭐⭐ Google Analytics 4 course ⭐⭐
www.analyticsmania.com/course...
📕 Free e-book: Getting Started with Google Analytics 4
www.analyticsmania.com/p/gett...
📕 Free e-book: 8-step migration to Google Analytics 4
www.analyticsmania.com/p/goog...
✭ Documentation: Reuse configuration settings in Google Tag Manager
support.google.com/tagmanager...
✭ Documentation: Reuse event settings in Google Tag Manager
support.google.com/tagmanager...
✭ Documentation: Set up your Google tag
support.google.com/tagmanager...
✭ Simo Ahava: The Google Tag Template in Google Tag Manager
www.simoahava.com/analytics/g...
✭ Missing Google Analytics 4 Configuration Tag:
www.analyticsmania.com/post/m...
=== CONNECT WITH JULIUS & ANALYTICS MANIA ===
✭ Facebook / analyticsmania
✭ Twitter / fedorovicius
✭ Linkedin / fedorovicius
Subscribe to our KZfaq channel / @analyticsmania
#googleanalytics #googleanalytics4 #googletagmanager #googletag

Пікірлер: 118

@DanCross-yi3js 8 ай бұрын

you literally captured exactly what I have been fighting with in GTM re: our SPA sites. This makes my life dramatically better. Thank you.

@Getfoundmadison 10 ай бұрын

Huge thanks for this. Got thrown off trying to set up GA4 for a client today and this helped me fix it.

@aleksandragorska2372 6 ай бұрын

I was looking for the shortest video as I only wanted specific, I thought yours would be too love but I gave it a go and I found what I desperately needed in the first 2minutes - thank you!! as always great video.

@mikesalami7 9 ай бұрын

Great video as always. Also pleased to report an update that the Google tag validation works when selecting the constant variable so that bug has been fixed since you made this video :)

@huiangus5002 8 ай бұрын

this is a life saver! The user properties is really a mess, it's a shame there is no good official documentation on it. Thank you again.

@clyde19788 8 ай бұрын

google is a nightmare. they have no idea on how to keep products easy to use, and customers happy

@stephanhokanson9682 10 ай бұрын

This is super. Thanks for even more great content, Julius!

@user-cpen.ilona24 10 ай бұрын

Feels good that I do not need to change something right away. It feels like taking my attention so often to the technical things while I focus on data analysis, digging into insghts.

@MHDCHA 10 ай бұрын

Thank you for keeping us updated :)

@RonaldSurya 10 ай бұрын

Thank you for the updated tutorial. Iwas confused why the GA4 Configuration has gone from the list

@MdSohelRana-ct8pf 10 ай бұрын

Thank you,

@furkansimsek33 10 ай бұрын

Great introduction, thank you for sharing :)

@shyamthakur1201 9 ай бұрын

Thanks for explaining the things ...great help 🙏

@hostmasterfinati Ай бұрын

Very clear the explanation, congrats

@rip182 9 ай бұрын

You just got 1 count of subscribed user, Thank you for your Your Vids Great help

@hatemone 10 ай бұрын

Hello, and thank you for this helpful video,,, One question: Some codes are required to be placed in the section or in the section, how to do that in GTM? Thank you

@FromTheDeep2481 7 ай бұрын

Thanks so much for your help with this!

@remusomega 10 ай бұрын

For meta pixel/CAPI integration, should "x-fb-ck-fbp", "x-fb-ck-fbc" be inherited from google tag or should I set these as Event Settings? And is it correct to place "event_id" in Event Settings?

@satisfiedcleaning 10 ай бұрын

Please explain also how can we integrate the Google Ads tag with the new Google tag.

@LatticeVibes 9 ай бұрын

you are the best!

@juliofebres6145 9 ай бұрын

Nice video, I didn't know about the change until yesterday. I'm having problem with the scroll depth, can you do a Scroll depth tutorial?

@user-mo7qy6qj7b 10 ай бұрын

Is there a way to get the new Google Tag in an older container now? I have an older container but I'm trying to connect it to GA4 for the first time today and the legacy connect doesn't work yet the Google Tag isn't yet showing up.

@hellocourage 10 ай бұрын

Thanks for the clear video. =) I see that just by installing Google Tag code on website, it also gives useful events. Wouldn't that be sufficient compared to using GTM method, which is much more complicated ?

@ltroya 9 ай бұрын

I have the same doubt

@centermira42 10 ай бұрын

Cool

@Juampidelmundo 9 ай бұрын

Hi Julius, thanks for the Updated video. I have my site with GA4 configuration, and as i understand and i also see at GA , the data still is being collected properly. Thats good. But now, for future configuration of new events/convertions should i configure Google Tag in GTM? To measure this events/convertions should i follow this new step by step video?

@GauravKumar-kb1id 8 ай бұрын

Hey, Thanks for the entire series it's great and helpful. I am migrating the mobile app but cannot see the GTag option for iOS and Android apps. Whoever shows me the GTag configuration for the website, do we need to select something else for Mobile apps in GTM?

@santoshiyer2159 6 ай бұрын

Hey Julius, great video. Thanks! One quick thing, even after firing the Google tag again on the custom event, the automatically collected events do not receive the latest values. They are still stuck with the old values. Any thoughts?

@gabz1989a 10 ай бұрын

what are the chances that I did your other tutorial and I got this exact error! thank you for the videos, You're have been the most informative, and I very very much enjoyed the tutorials It helps me a lot as I am very green to Google Analytics and always stayed away due to being so complex with setups and reviewing the data! as a PS I would add missing as a keyword "Google analytics: GA4 configuration" or missing Google analytics: GA4 configuration as I searched for exactly that and no videos came up

@user-nq4ke2gk7n 10 ай бұрын

I can't seem to see engagement rates and engagement scores for content groups, is there a way to resolve this?

@nicolaskeith8945 2 ай бұрын

Do you set the send_page_view parameter to false in the Google Tag and create it as an event on the side?

@martinburkhardt4353 14 күн бұрын

Thanks for the great tutorial going deeper as all other. My question. If there is a cookie banner, where do you consider to fire the google tag. on the same event, for example "consent_updte" where noninteraction events fires, or before to avoid timing problems. or does it depend on the way the cookie banner is implemented (basic / advanced consent mode, etc.)?

@thisiswilson 10 ай бұрын

Shouldn't you refire the Google Tag on all pages + virtual pageviews anyway? That way the inheritance and set vars take precedence, much easier to do event (incl. pageview) tracking. Thanks for the video, haven't dug into this as of yet.

@AnalyticsMania 10 ай бұрын

On some websites GA4 will be able to properly track virtual pageviews. But on many sites it won't. So you still need to handle that.

@FedericoSposito 9 ай бұрын

In case of a single page application isn't it possible to just use history change events as a secondary trigger next to the initial load for the Google Tag? This way the values of the variables should be updated every time the URL changes. Or am I missing something here?@@AnalyticsMania

@javi.decasas 10 ай бұрын

What is new setting variable for? just for SPA sites? and what is replacing in regards of the old version of GTM?

@AnalyticsMania 10 ай бұрын

I just gave an example of SPA. You can use it for various situations. It's similae to the UA settings variable.

@bluedesire5758 8 ай бұрын

Thanks so much. Just wondering why no longer have pageview tag

@AnalyticsMania 8 ай бұрын

The new google tag is the pageview tag

@anthonykol 10 ай бұрын

For the accounts which have the GA4 config, do we have to change them to google tag Id?

@AnalyticsMania 10 ай бұрын

I said it in the video. Config tags will be migrated automatically.

@yeti402 10 ай бұрын

Julius, I appreciate you and all of your efforts and I just have so many questions since I am now completely lost on this whole G Tag thing. First, Google is telling us we don't have to do any configuration b/c it's automatic. But from this video it looks like I have to reconfigure everything from front to back? Is that correct? I don't understand this "update" at all.

@AnalyticsMania 10 ай бұрын

It looks like you haven't watched the video till the end

@yeti402 10 ай бұрын

I'm sorry, but I watched this video 3 times from start to finish before reaching out & I just watched it again, and I'm still completely confused at to what specific actions I need to take in existing GTM containers, b/c of this update. From all of your actions in this video, it seems as though I'll now need to stop everything I'm working on and completely reconfigure everything from top to bottom for all GA4 events in every single GTM container, of which I don't even understand. It also seems that our data is now completely not viable at all until all of these changes are made to accommodate this Google tag update. Is that correct@@AnalyticsMania?

@moleculemarketing9284 7 ай бұрын

Yes I have the same question@@yeti402

@user-vf1cr6de2n 6 ай бұрын

Is it better to use a Constant variable instead of the "Google Tag: Configuration Settings" variable? Wondering if this is a newer variable type that would be better to use than Constant.

@abdallahhamdy6987 8 ай бұрын

so if i added campaign name and source in the tag configuration, i can read their data in GA4 without needing to attach utms in the campaigns ? If so this would be the greatest thing i have came a cross since long time

@psissemarangfans4020 10 ай бұрын

How to setup GA4 for AMP page sir?

@accesoriociclismo1230 10 ай бұрын

if i'm running google ads campaign should i create the form sent tag as a google ads conversion or google analytics event?

@AnalyticsMania 10 ай бұрын

I would create google ads conversion tag

@accesoriociclismo1230 10 ай бұрын

and does that count the forms sent from other channels like social, direct, organic... and see them in analytics? @@AnalyticsMania

@DenisSokol-f1t 14 күн бұрын

I've installed the initialization for all the pages. But my site designed in such a way, that when I go to another page, from sign up to log in for example, it doesn't create a page view. Only historical change can track that? shall I remove the google tag with initialization at all? and add a custom page view tracker?

@FidelHimself 10 ай бұрын

I don’t see this in GTM yet but I am seeing some bugs related to the old config tag

@AnalyticsMania 10 ай бұрын

It's a gradual roll-out. At some point, your old containers will also start seeing this

@marritt1 10 ай бұрын

I don't have the new Google Tag but I have a banner saying its changing and I don't need to do anything

@Daniel-mg4bw 10 ай бұрын

@@marritt1me too

@jama3021 4 күн бұрын

After migrating to GTM as per your steps. do I need to remove old GA4 setup from the HTML?

@emericpetitgenet3512 9 ай бұрын

Hi ! New on the channel. Such a great content. Think i'll join GTA4 course. I have a question, what if the click event is recorded in G.Tag assistant, but not in Analytics debug-view ? take care

@AnalyticsMania 9 ай бұрын

Hi, difficult to answer without troubleshooting the situation. You might find some ideas here www.analyticsmania.com/post/debugview-in-google-analytics-4-not-working/

@emericpetitgenet3512 9 ай бұрын

I was on the article ! Everything is ok now, in GTM I deleted the custom variable (GA4 measure ID), delete some browser plugins. After what, I didn't have to wait long before the event appeared in GA4

@karolkrajcir 9 ай бұрын

Where did the user properties go? Do we need to re-configure them at the event level? Since Google Tag now doesn't support user properties and our Config tags have automatically been transferred to Google Tags... Thanks

@AnalyticsMania 9 ай бұрын

User properties are in the event settings variable. You can use it in the google tag

@sohagahmed7340 9 ай бұрын

Awesome but server-side tracking is not showing where this can you tell new video present

@Christina_AVM 9 ай бұрын

I'd like to track navigation bar clicks, but when inspecting my site, I do not see "site-nav_link" in the header... what should I do for click classes instead?

@AnalyticsMania 9 ай бұрын

Maybe click id. If that is not available, then learning CSS selectors will be useful. Or ask a developer to add IDs (or other attributes) to the elements you want to track

@mana2k1 9 ай бұрын

I can't understand the point of the Google Tag, what does it do? Cant I just use the event tag to send a page_view event along with all event settings? I used to fire the old config tag on every event anyway..?

@bojanmaric7139 10 ай бұрын

So.... Need to reinstall this for GA4 to work? What about my historical events data?

@AnalyticsMania 10 ай бұрын

You didn't watch the video till the end, did you? :) No action required. Data collection does not affect historic data

@bojanmaric7139 10 ай бұрын

@@AnalyticsMania haha just finished it. ❤️

@yeti402 9 ай бұрын

Julius, have you noticed that the GA4 DebugView mode is no longer working properly since Google deployed the "Google tag" into GTM?

@AnalyticsMania 9 ай бұрын

Working fine for me. However, debugview has been slower than usual lately

@yeti402 9 ай бұрын

It's not working at all & I can no longer trust Google as a viable source of data b/c of this. And they won't acknowledge it@@AnalyticsMania. How can I get this fixed?

@samuelrobertson8354 5 ай бұрын

Why would we not select google ad for conversion tracking. Thats what we are using it for

@DavidSevilleUK 10 ай бұрын

When I click at the top for my tracking code, I get asked whether I want to use Automatically provision tagging server of manual, there is no code to code. Please advise, many thanks.

@AnalyticsMania 10 ай бұрын

You are in the server container. You need to go to your web container instead.

@DavidSevilleUK 10 ай бұрын

@@AnalyticsManiaI don't think so, I have the GTM- code there, and when I click the drop down at the top showing all my accounts, the container name is selected?

@DavidSevilleUK 9 ай бұрын

Now resolved, many thanks.

@user-ko6pd1fi4f 10 ай бұрын

If someone wants to test the new release and isn't ready in your current containers create a new container and you will find the new changes.

@thevloggingsoul6949 9 ай бұрын

So to track each page we have to install Google tag for each page. Is the right or wrong can anyone help me?

@ninaharlach4000 9 ай бұрын

I'm in the middle of the beginner GTM course currently. The Google Tag is not available yet for me to configure, but also my GA4 config tag has disappeared. What should I do?

@AnalyticsMania 9 ай бұрын

GA4 config tag should be available in Tags > Google Analytics > Google Analytics 4 config (legacy)

@ninaharlach4000 9 ай бұрын

@@AnalyticsMania It looks like the Configuration Tag disappeared from all of my GA4 event tags as wall. So I'll have to manually go in and update that once I create a new GA4 Config tag?

@galaxycleaningegypt 4 ай бұрын

Why google analytics stream automatically creata tag outside of the container? Its really confusing

@user-tq9yt9lj4t 8 ай бұрын

What exactly does having "page_category" as a data layer mean in terms of html code? I need to have a .. ? And if so where does one set its value to homepage/articles etc.?

@AnalyticsMania 8 ай бұрын

No, it must be in the dataLayer.push

@user-tq9yt9lj4t 8 ай бұрын

@@AnalyticsMania sorry but I'm very new to this. Could you please clarify where that is, and where i can adjust it?

@cblaze22 6 ай бұрын

I have same question, specifically how this works with SPA concept which I really didn’t see as it seemed you were just opening new tabs

@TrackingAcademy 10 ай бұрын

Why not the “all page” triggers and using “consent initialization trigger”

@AnalyticsMania 10 ай бұрын

It was just an example. The focus of this video is not the trigger, it's on the new tag and the new variables

@ismatsalmanov7574 10 ай бұрын

Because of GDPR

@Maksitto 10 ай бұрын

@@ismatsalmanov7574 what does that mean?

@ismatsalmanov7574 10 ай бұрын

@@Maksitto google it)

@shmarkin 8 ай бұрын

When doing the “just links” variable. Can you just select the page url from the beginning and skip a lot of these steps ?

@AnalyticsMania 8 ай бұрын

Hi, sorry, I don't understand the question. "Just links" is a trigger.

@user-fn7pr5kr4y 10 ай бұрын

The Gtag TAG is not available under the Tag types. Why could this be?

@AnalyticsMania 10 ай бұрын

The rollout still hasn't finished. New GTM containers have the google tag

@mirkono 9 ай бұрын

I dont have google tag under "tags" when creating the new one

@AnalyticsMania 9 ай бұрын

The rollout is still in progress

@hanasovea 9 ай бұрын

And where does the User_ID Tracking now go?

@user-ev2vy1jt6q 8 ай бұрын

What's the code for page_category in data layer?

@user-tq9yt9lj4t 8 ай бұрын

Same question!

@blank.haruka 9 ай бұрын

Why don't I have the "Message" and page_category on my preview? Ty!

@AnalyticsMania 9 ай бұрын

Because it was an example and I made it custom on my demo site

@blank.haruka 9 ай бұрын

@@AnalyticsMania i see, thank you so much for your help!

@alekssiroki8131 5 ай бұрын

02:18 While testing Google tag On the frontend - Tag Assistant Connected. I click finish, return back it's saying - not connected. No tags were evaluated in this container. WTF

@AnalyticsMania 5 ай бұрын

Don't click finish. Finish means "end debugging"

@ipsvirk 10 ай бұрын

Previous setup will work or not??

@AnalyticsMania 10 ай бұрын

I never said that. Watch video till the end.

@ipsvirk 10 ай бұрын

@@AnalyticsManiaI have seen it completely... but my concern is... if we define measurement ID as a constant now... does it affect the previous setup or overwrite the previous configuration automatically? Or I am asking it too early? Do I need to wait for migration as you said at the end of this video? 🙂

@gabz1989a 10 ай бұрын

for some reason I still continue to have no events on the debugview, I turned off the internal data traffic settings, but still don't see events in the debug view

@hollycow8171 3 ай бұрын

i want to add ADWords code to gtm but how to

@edtruman3794 9 ай бұрын

I always fired the config tag on every event anyway .*

@Maksitto 10 ай бұрын

In your video kzfaq.info/get/bejne/q8WoaM-Hr7OvimQ.html you tell us that basic installation includes "All Pages" trigger. Here you choose "Initialization -All pages"

@AnalyticsMania 10 ай бұрын

No big difference in most cases. But now, Google's recommendation is Initialization.

@oral9735 10 ай бұрын

Thanks for the information, still having some issues thou. You are moving like a bullet, would be nice if you don't move the pages as fast, some of us are beginners please take it slow we have to look at what you are doing as well not just listen. Thank you

@michelbryant2668 Ай бұрын

Sometimes you forget we are following you. Where you are giving instruction, then all of a sudden you go into these 3-5 second speed-mumbling while clicking stuff and I'm left with what the hell just happened? Then I do what the hell I thought you did, and it doesn't work. Example: The 4:29 mark, What the hell kind of instruction is that?