In Part 1 of our updated Google Tag Manager Tutorial, we covered the tracking of outbound (external) links. If you missed it, you may want to start here. In this second part, we will walk you through the process of setting up tracking for file downloads from your website. If you …
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SEO for E-Commerce: The Most Important Rich Snippets
Stand out in search results: Rich Snippets contain special elements such as rating stars, pricing information or product images. This additional information can help you differentiate your site’s search results from those of your competitors. As a result, this means better click rates and those lead to more visitors. Especially …
GDPR Update: Browser Cookie Blocking – The Current Situation
Over the last few years, we have seen an increased focus on user privacy online with reports of the US Presidential and UK Brexit votes being heavily influenced – both legally and illegally – by user targeting on Facebook. The 2018 rollout of the EU’s GDPR laws and people’s general …
Our 6 Favorite Community-Built Visualizations in Google Data Studio
Since late 2018 Google Data Studio has added features that allow its users to create their own charts, graphs, and other visualization. These can then be shared with all other users to use as if they were built into Data Studio to begin with. This means that the ways in …
Google Ads vs. Amazon Advertising: What is best for your e-commerce?
Welcome to the duel of the giants: Introducing first, the reigning, defending champion, the most visited site in the world, the heavyweight among search engines, the Goliath of Internet traffic: Gooo-gle! But now the challenger steps into the ring: The titan of online mail order, risen from the books, the …
Google Tag Manager Tutorial Part 1: Tracking Outbound Links – Update 2020
External links are links on your website that do not point to other pages on your site and users that click on them will be redirected away from the site. Often, we have no insight into exactly why someone leaves, however, we can get an idea of where they go …
Other Countries, Other Online Marketing Strategies
Online marketing strategy plays a decisive role in the expansion abroad. After all, different target markets require different online marketing measures. User behavior can vary greatly from country to country. Using the following four examples, we show you how to make your brand and products known outside your local region. …
Visitors, Conversions and Sales: Google Data Studio Reports Provide Important Key Figures
Anyone running an e-commerce business should ensure that their site is performing, is always available, and is secure for the end-user. Numerous reports and dashboards can be built in Google Data Studio to support this. Google Data Studio also presents your data in an easily digestible format. Where do visitors …
“Ok Google, How Do I Optimize for Voice Search?”
According to a study from 2019 (in German), 40 percent of those surveyed have already used voice search in the previous year. Another study predicts that by 2020, more than half of all mobile search queries will already be attributable to voice searches. And: the trend is rising. Reason enough …
RPA Robots, the Most Efficient Employees for Marketing Dashboards
Marketing dashboards are an indispensable tool for monitoring and controlling marketing activities. Instead of separate reports for each marketing channel like Organic Search, Google Ads, and Facebook Ads, the dashboard shows the most important KPIs at a glance. If you would like more information, you can see our blog post …
12 Tips on How to Increase Your Site’s Trustworthiness
The importance of the trustworthiness of websites is not a new issue. In the light of recent developments in the field of search, it takes on a new meaning. Both the Google Core Update in September 2019 and the subsequent Google BERT Update have shown that the trustworthiness of websites …
Smart Scroll Tracking with Google Tag Manager
If you are using Google Tag Manager (GTM), Scroll Tracking can be accomplished in a few quick steps with the GTM built-in Scroll Depth Trigger making this a really simple task. Having implemented this many times over the last years, we discovered that the out-of-the-box GTM Trigger has some limitations. …