Button click tracking with Google Tag Manager || Track clicks with GTM

Learn how to track button clicks with Google Tag Manager and send that data to Google Analytics 4.
By measuring button click interactions, you will know whether website visitors are engaged and interested in your offers.
When you track button clicks, don’t forget to also send additional data with them, such as link_url and link_text (if possible).
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UPDATE: Google just changed how GA4 tags are managed in Google Tag Manager. GA4 configuration tag is no longer available. Learn more about the update here kzbin.info/www/bejne/Z4GymmR4j92Lrck

[@Kapataru]

You make it so clear after 4 hours of watching orher videos !! Thank YOUUUU

[@ShakstudiosAu]

Great tutorial! Thank you. One thing that might help those who were in the same situation as me. Using elementor you need to set the ID on the button under advanced & set to "Just Links" for some reason it didn't work with All Elements.

[@arthurgomes-canva2349]

Bro, you are a savior. Here in Brazil we have a lot of content, but not so much about Tag Manager. Mostly are online courses. In the end, with this video and some others I was able to save something like $100, that here is a lot of money

[@charlescaison4376]

Very helpful. Very clear and useful. Exactly what I was looking for. Thanks, Julius.

[@user-bi1in5ed4c]

finnaly get this video, the only video tell me how to track clicks to purchases on GA4, big thank you!

[@linconyudi3388]

Great tutorial man! It helped me a lot! Thanks!

[@MsBooboom]

Thank you! made my day

[@emibla8571]

Thanks for the video!

[@hemingwaythegreat645]

Man, you are gold, so much value in each video.

[@NeoNeo-ly4ks]

Hurrey to the best Google Analytics Tutorials !!! You're the real MVP

[@alexander.starbuck]

Hi Julius! Thanks so much for sharing this great tutorial for free, much appreciated! Do you have (or know of a resource) how to create a custom html tag which would dynamically extract event category, label, action? It might be interesting to see not only how many clicks certain advertising campaign brought, but also which clicks users are... well... clicking :) . Cheers!

[@cristinaelopez_]

Excellent video, thank you, so clearly! Will this event work for different landing pages of the same domain? for example, I have the same cta button but I have a different landing page for each country I work with.

[@College-Knowledge]

Hi Julius, First of all thank you for what you are doing, incredibly helpful! My question: does button tracking work the same for a mobile website vs a desktop site? Also, how can I use preview mode in tag manager on a mobile version of the site? Thanks in advance. Niall

[@nayan_hmmbiz]

Hey, Thanks for the video. I've a question for you: What if I use the in-built event parameter(E.g. page_location and/or page_referrer instead of using link_text) in GTM? Do I need to create the custom dimension for the same or not? Does it shows me the page_location and/or page_referrer data in the mentioned event's(cta_click) report card in GA4 ?

[@FactologyFlux]

thanks for helpful video

[@sahadpadannaatt457]

you make me clear about the topic after 2 days of video watching.

[@swethaaaaaa]

Hi Julius! Thanks so much for sharing this. It was really helpful. You mentioned in the description about sending additional data while tracking the button clicks. How to do it?

[@henriquecampos1893]

nice tutorial. Easy to understand and apply.

[@delitbee]

you rock! thanks for sharing your knowledge

[@rudythorns8411]

Thanks i was enlightened

[@amirfiroozi7780]

Great tutorial buddy! it's very very helpful

[@mmajr]

Finally I understood this tool :D thanks a LOT! great content 🙌🙌

[@user-ew3nz7th3o]

Thank you Julius!

[@fabiovitorio1815]

Thanks for the video! Help me a lot.

[@AnthonyHowed21]

Much appreciated. Super helpful!

[@TheKingCoyle]

I would really enjoy a video especially for lead generation tagging and analytics. For example all of the most effective tags and reports to create to maximize google ads efficiency

[@aidanparente2046]

Hey Analytics Mania, what do you do if you go to preview & click on the button but, nothing shows up on the left-hand side, so you can't find the relevant variable. I've set up ga4 configure as well as event as all clicks as well as configured all clicks like you showed in the video. I would really appreciate some guidance. Thanks for all your video's :)

[@rafael-lins]

Thanks man!

[@abedelkadersabbagh274]

Hello thank you for this toturial , i have one question that if i want to track diffrent buttons like "call us" and "find us on map" in the website ,should i add one event tag for every button or one event tag for all buttons?

[@DamianRushton-ub9hu]

fantastic video my friend.

[@gabrielewiestadvocacia]

From Brazil...Tks a lot for this video, helped a lot !

[@wordpressaccuratehelp4278]

Thank you

[@eslammadany5182]

Awesome Explaination

[@mdvulakhan4110]

Amazing,I am waiting for TikTok pixel conversation tracking API for all events

[@ylna]

thanks a lot, thanks man!

[@miracreisoglu3500]

your contents very vey usefull thank you for sharing these info with us. can make a video abouth how to set up tiktok ,facebook pixel events?

[@jamessmith-qy7fk]

That was a great video! But I wanted to ask: If my website has different pages that promote different product and each page has it's own Unique button to that specifc product. Then I'll need to do this process for each individual button to be able to track which product was clicked on, right?

[@vikiRana]

Hi Julius, what should we use to track multiple buttons clicks that uses same ID or Class.?

[@axessi]

very useful and clear thank you

[@maximogomez5613]

Great video, just a quick question, nothing shows up on the summary page. Just the name of the page itself. And on the right side it just says " no hits sent by this container" any ideas why the info is not populating?

[@user-jn2pv2lt8i]

Is this the same process for tracking all banners on websites?

[@user-fs7wu1ys3c]

Thanks man found exactly what i needed

[@iamleoh]

thank u this helped me a lot!

[@bangunpratama]

Thanks man... With GTM can use simple landing google sites page can tracking all activity user, do you still need parameters pixel FB for ads in FB and IG?

[@NomadicEdyl]

it so helpful man thanks

[@larazijlstra3776]

Thanks for the video! I'm running into an issue where button clicks are only tracked when part of a button is clicked (i.e. clicking on the button label doesn't work, the space between the text and border does. Any solutions for this problem?

[@overcomeridemudia3199]

Thanks for sharing.

[@NeryRotzank]

What if I want to trail the clicks of a purchase button along with the numeric value of the price of each purchase? Can I summarize all of them in one event?

[@jonnathanmcaza]

Thank you!!

[@ezequielmaciel2864]

hi, friend! One question, if I have the tag configured to activate with "press text" after pressing a button, does it work for both computers and mobile phones? Thanks in advance

[@carsoncraig6394]

Very helpful. Thanks

[@imlakdawala]

Awesome...

[@manishdhadve7705]

Thanks for this video

[@LatinoWebStudio]

Thanks for the video! Just to clarify, for the event to be tracked, I don't actually need to create the event in GA4, right? Once the tag with the trigger and the variable have been configured on Google Tag Manager it will automatically be created and shown in GA4, correct? Do you have a video that shows how to also display these button clicks in Google Ads? So I know that the person who clicked on my ad clicked one of those buttons? As opposed to those who clicked on it organically.

[@rastovicfilip]

have you found the answer? do i have to create an event in ga4?

[@AdrianBota1]

It works except on mobile, it cannot catch the click event. What can we do for a whatsapp click on a floating button in wordpress on mobile?

[@adityapatra9183]

Hi Julius. Did you create the event "cta_click" on GTM or GA4???

[@AnalyticsMania]

GTM of course. The tutorial is about click tracking with *google tag manager*

[@adityapatra9183]

@@AnalyticsMania what I meant was did you also create the same event on GA4 too? Cuz I am unable to see the event that I created on GTM on my GA4 account

[@adityapatra9183]

Can't thank you enough for this man!!! I have a quick question - I created a trigger to capture the CTA button I have on my Landing Page. On opening GA4 on debug view I can see that the trigger is getting fired but I can't trace the custom event that I created in GTM (for example Whitepaper_DownloadButton) on GA4. If I am clicking that button then GA4 should display the number of times this button has been clicked isn't it?? Where can I find it?

[@rastovicfilip]

have you solved this? I assume i have to create that event in ga4 in order to extract it from data?

[@PrabhuShreeRamKiJai]

Hi there, the thing is I want to analyze the click text and how it affects user behaviour,... But for that I have to count each click event, I made one parameter called "Count_Number" and the value of that parameter is "1", so each time when trigger fired the value is sent to gtm as "1" But When I connected GA4 with Data Studio to analyze how many times that specific text was clicked it shows only data 1,0,1,1,1, data... For example I have two columns one is "Click Text" other is "Count_Number" so the data in the row is presented like ("Buy now", 1) ("inquire now",1) ("Contact us",0) Tried to change the aggregation also, tried to convert "Count_Number" from "Text" to "Number" Type, Choosen a Lnger Date Range but clicks shows ambiguous data always...IDK why.. If Anyone can help?

[@AnalyticsMania]

Register count number as a custom metric, not custom dimension in ga4

[@stardrix]

@AnalyticsMania i dont find the video u are saying at 03:48 can u help "Css"

[@steezyflips]

thanks

[@anahitkhachatryan1648]

Thank you for great tutorials Julius! Are you doing private consultations?

[@AnalyticsMania]

Hi, yes. www.analyticsmania.com/call

[@windev2859]

I can not find configure menu in my google analytic account

[@HelloWORLD_Verlag]

TTTTHHHHHAAAAaaaaaxxxxx. Great Vid. thnx so much.

[@brendawilliams5946]

I set up the GTM tag for Add to Cart event 6 months ago, and it appears I did everything correctly. But I can't figure out how to find the data in GA4. I went through your steps (after I make sure I had done everything correct in GTM with the tag and trigger), and then did the steps in Explore, but there is no data. I'm assuming it will take 24 hours to appear. But does that mean only from here on out and not the past 6 months?

[@wardavis]

can this data be sent as a facebook conversion event using the same tag?

[@user-jj5mt7qn3l]

But what if is a cms site wich url do i use? because the url is diffrent depends on wich cms site the customer is :D and i have 1000 cms pages. Do i need to track all by one?

[@JuanIgnacioLX]

As usual an amazing video! Quick question: How can we define a Click ID value if there is none? Also, do you think that "Click URL" is precise enough to define the trigger?

[@AnalyticsMania]

If click ID is not present, you could ask a developer to add it. Click url can be a part of the trigger. But it depends on a situation

[@JuanIgnacioLX]

Perfect, I will get in touch with them. Thank you!

[@vaibhavgoel9084]

Can we capture ENTER press ?

[@Stjerneoptik-jy6gl]

Hi. Thank you very much for this content. But I do not understand why I cannot see a Click ID. Can you help me with that?

[@bootstrapmarketing]

I added a CSS Class ID

[@user-zt8lc7ii6x]

how did the element get the click ID call-to-action-btn in the first place? skipped something

[@AnalyticsMania]

A developer coded a button like this

[@hernan_galvez]

My website doesnt show the Click ID, how can I create or add the Click ID as a Variable? or change an existing Click text variable called undefined to a different word?

[@dannygrio]

For me it didnt work as the button I use is part of a plugin and it has a unique URL. In addition, I can see the link click, but I cant see the variables menu to click like you did.

[@user-tc2oc2sh4b]

Hi, I followed the instructions give in this video, Eventually it shows "firing status still running" Please help me to fix this

[@nguyenbaongoc7951]

Hi Julius, I have one issue: I have set up all button clicking events like in this video but I don't see those events in GA4 debug view (cta-event like you show in this video). Could you please help? Thank you so much.

[@nguyenbaongoc7951]

@Analytics Mania

[@christianrietbroek910]

In my experience GA 4 registers a doubleclick as two conversions where UA just registers one conversion. Both tags are installed to fire once per event. Is there something I'm missing?

[@AnalyticsMania]

If a conversion happens several times per session, every conversion is counted. "once per event" in GTM means "once per click". Two clicks = two conversions. If you want to limit that, you could select "once per page".

[@tmazightcom]

Can be triggered by country???

[@tiannamamalick3228]

Hey, I don't have the configure option on my account do you have a video on how to turn that on?

[@AnalyticsMania]

It was moved to admin

[@nissanben-tura7767]

what if i dont have a Click ID? i see "" as my click ID. is there a way to set a custom click ID?

[@nissanben-tura7767]

NVM, i figured out how to set a custom Click ID

[@dobles.official]

How did you do that? @@nissanben-tura7767

[@nogardsiete]

Got stuck on the GA4 configuration tag selection since I don't have one. is it in another video?

[@AnalyticsMania]

Look for "install GA4 with GTM" tutorial

[@deepkumarnag244]

show on unique button track

[@user-gg9bm7es3s]

What do you use if the "Click ID" is empty?

[@tiaraputri499]

Yes what do we do if Click ID is empty? How do we add rename that Click ID so it can correspond to each unique CTA button?

[@kensleylewis]

how can we track all button clicks from a specific page URL

[@AndreaCinnamondCreative]

Can I measure a button click that goes to an external site like PayPal? Thank you

[@AnalyticsMania]

If that button is on your site and it is not in the , yes

[@wildheartranch]

Hi, i do not see the same interface in my Tag Manager. There is no Preview or Submit option for example. Did google change the interface?

[@AnalyticsMania]

Sounds like you don't have enough permissions in that container

[@kberwager]

what if it's a call button that doesn''t load to another page?

[@yaminirawat7610]

Just one doubt, Is it only for buttons tracking or we can track links also?

[@AnalyticsMania]

For link tracking, I have another tutorial on my channel

[@growsocial6438]

At around 6:32 i get a wordpress critical error! It now messed up my site after configuring everything!

[@user-ho5nx5hq4h]

Why not capture all clicks and filter on the report?

[@AnalyticsMania]

Too much noise/mess in reports

[@zdenekbalhar4587]

Hi, please where is the link to setup click id or click class trigger?

[@AnalyticsMania]

Not sure I understand your question

[@RivalD666]

@@AnalyticsMania i believe he is asking about the link to a video about the CSS selectors you mentioned at 3:53

[@bkstudio1990]

Holy Hell, OK! If you get to the point where the firing FAILED and it won't show up in GOOGLE ANALYTICS, its because when you got to Tags > [your event] you will see s pot for the measurement ID. That ID is in your google analytics page Admin> Data Streams> [your website], you should see your measurement ID.

[@rudythorns8411]

dang gtm is so complicated i only used it last month and now I already forgot how to use it it is so complicated

[@isabilas]

Can't believe I actually made it

[@Duriel1000]

yooo slow down when talking. And sounds like you are saying google tick manager.

[@benjibo9476]

just great!

[@Hugo-xj2mj]

Thank you

[@VideoNash]

thanks

[@saifeldeinnehad8189]

What if I don't have Click ID on my button?