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

[@DanCross-yi3js]

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

[@clyde19788]

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

[@huiangus5002]

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.

[@RonaldSurya]

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

[@user-cpen.ilona24]

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.

[@nicolaskeith8945]

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

[@alekssiroki8131]

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]

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

[@RainaChristlieb]

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.

[@aleksandragorska2372]

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.

[@Getfoundmadison]

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

[@HatemOfficial]

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

[@hostmasterfinati]

Very clear the explanation, congrats

[@DenisSokol-f1t]

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?

[@martinburkhardt4353]

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.)?

[@satisfiedcleaning]

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

[@rip182]

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

[@AxelIBKR]

The download of your ebook " Free e-book: Getting Started with Google Analytics 4" doesn't work :/ ^^

[@FidelHimself]

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

[@AnalyticsMania]

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

[@marritt1]

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]

​@@marritt1me too

[@jama3021]

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

[@furkansimsek33]

Great introduction, thank you for sharing :)

[@zakariaelou]

Please, Do consent mode settings have to be configured one time at Config Tag level, or we have to set consent mode on each Event Tag? Thanks in advance

[@mikesalami7]

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 :)

[@mayankkumarpant]

@AnalyticsMania I got an account where Google tag was installed without a GTM container. I have moved the gtag to the new container now but hesitant to delete the old gtag as it says your tag has been moved to trash, recover now in GA4 data stream window. Please help

[@stephanhokanson9682]

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

[@samuelthedude]

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

[@RomanMiranda-t4r]

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.

[@mana2k1]

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..?

[@ttl.music.channel]

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

[@AnalyticsMania]

The new google tag is the pageview tag

[@galaxycleaningegypt]

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

[@abdallahhamdy6987]

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

[@gabz1989a]

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

[@AbbieHettle]

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

[@danigarci1000]

This channel is the best discover ❤ty

[@FromTheDeep2481]

Thanks so much for your help with this!

[@cassandrat5558]

Thank you for the video! Adding these custom dimensions to the shared variable setting, does this setting also applies to session scope dimensions, for example, would it be accurate if add page_category to landing page dimension?

[@AnalyticsMania]

You can't add page_category as a session scoped dimension, thus you cannot build a report with page_category only of landing pages

[@santoshiyer2159]

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?

[@remusomega]

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?

[@GauravKumar-kb1id]

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?

[@TrackingAcademy]

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

[@AnalyticsMania]

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]

Because of GDPR

[@Maksitto]

@@ismatsalmanov7574 what does that mean?

[@ismatsalmanov7574]

@@Maksitto google it)

[@IvanRadišić-s6g]

What's the code for page_category in data layer?

[@DoraJambor-p5m]

Same question!

[@hollycow8171]

i want to add ADWords code to gtm but how to

[@shyamthakur1201]

Thanks for explaining the things ...great help 🙏

[@psissemarangfans4020]

How to setup GA4 for AMP page sir?

[@Volggaming1]

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?

[@DavidSevilleUK]

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]

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

[@DavidSevilleUK]

@@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]

Now resolved, many thanks.

[@MHDCHA]

Thank you for keeping us updated :)

[@DoraJambor-p5m]

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]

No, it must be in the dataLayer.push

[@DoraJambor-p5m]

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

[@cblaze22]

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

[@shmarkin]

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

[@AnalyticsMania]

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

[@hellocourage]

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]

I have the same doubt

[@hanasovea]

And where does the User_ID Tracking now go?

[@mirkono]

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

[@AnalyticsMania]

The rollout is still in progress

[@Juampidelmundo]

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?

[@yeti402]

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

[@AnalyticsMania]

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

[@yeti402]

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?

[@Christina_AVM]

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]

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

[@Humanrightsj]

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

[@accesoriociclismo1230]

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

[@AnalyticsMania]

I would create google ads conversion tag

[@accesoriociclismo1230]

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

[@ninaharlach4000]

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]

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

[@ninaharlach4000]

@@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?

[@thevloggingsoul6949]

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

[@pythonogrencom]

How do we make changes on the server-side? In your old video we were connecting to server-side with ga4 configurain tag.

[@EduardoCabrera-m6e]

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

[@AnalyticsMania]

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

[@blank.haruka]

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

[@AnalyticsMania]

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

[@blank.haruka]

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

[@thisiswilson]

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]

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.

[@fespobb]

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]

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

[@AnalyticsMania]

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

[@yeti402]

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]

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

[@yeti402]

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]

Yes I have the same question@@yeti402

[@karolkrajcir]

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]

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

[@seomagento2]

Hello, where is section : " Message " or how to set this ? ( in API call ) from where is this API Call visible (where is it set)?

[@anthonykol]

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

[@AnalyticsMania]

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

[@bojanmaric7139]

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

[@AnalyticsMania]

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

[@bojanmaric7139]

@@AnalyticsMania haha just finished it. ❤️

[@emericpetitgenet3512]

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]

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]

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

[@JulenMartínez-c6q]

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.

[@ipsvirk]

Previous setup will work or not??

[@AnalyticsMania]

I never said that. Watch video till the end.

[@ipsvirk]

@@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? 🙂

[@MdSohelRana-ct8pf]

Thank you,

[@LatticeVibes]

you are the best!

[@gabz1989a]

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

[@edtruman3794]

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

[@michelbryant2668]

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?

[@centermira42]

Cool

[@houseofgraceworship]

I’m lost 😂

[@Maksitto]

In your video kzbin.info/www/bejne/q5DbZp-Mf7J-kJI you tell us that basic installation includes "All Pages" trigger. Here you choose "Initialization -All pages"

[@AnalyticsMania]

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

[@oral9735]

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

[@RahulSutreja]

Nice job brother but I'm still confused about how to configure User ID tracking with Google Analytics 4 and Google Tag Manager as per your video "kzbin.info/www/bejne/maG9fnehj5egfaMsi=3gh4CxxjtuD6hHNY" So can be done with this new settings can you make another video or provide me some guidance about it?