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How to track form submissions with GTM

December 6, 2024

Tracking form submissions allow capturing valuable leads and associating visitors with their contact details. However, configuring a trigger correctly, and recording values of fields essential for enhanced tracking and attribution such as customer email or phone, can be challenging. This post explains how to create a trigger for such forms in Google Tag Manager (GTM) and send a custom event to Able CDP.

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What is cookieless tracking and how to implement it?

April 29, 2024

Ad Tracking and Attribution
Cookieless Tracking

Web cookies, introduced in 1995, have been a fundamental tool for tracking user behavior and maintaining online sessions. Recent legal restrictions and browser policies have challenged their use, leading to the development of alternative tracking methods. These include device fingerprinting and first-party data collection through customer data platforms. Cookieless tracking solutions aim to provide user journey analytics and conversion attribution without relying on browser-stored identifiers. Implementation methods vary based on website architecture and can include server-side tracking, form submissions, and integration with e-commerce platforms.

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Tracking Conversions in Stripe Checkouts

April 12, 2024

Server-Side Tracking
Ad Tracking and Attribution

Accurately track Stripe checkout conversions and attribute them to the correct sources using unique identifiers, sign-up forms, and Able CDP's comprehensive tracking solution. Set up webhook handlers, integrate with ad platforms, and leverage server-side tracking for reliable attribution across devices. Gain valuable insights into customer behavior, optimize your marketing efforts, and make data-driven decisions to grow your online business.

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Client-side and Server-side Tracking: Whether to Collect Data on the Client or Server

April 10, 2024

Server-Side Tracking

Tracking user behavior and interactions is crucial for understanding customer journeys, optimizing campaigns, and making data-driven decisions. With the rise of privacy concerns and the increasing complexity of user interactions across multiple devices and channels, different client-side and server-side tracking methods are available, each suitable for its own case.

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Tracking conversions from Stripe Pricing Tables

January 31, 2024

Ad Tracking and Attribution

In today's SaaS business, understanding your customer’s journey from initial interest to final purchase is crucial. The integration of Stripe’s embeddable pricing tables on your website not only simplifies this journey but also, when paired with Able Customer Data Platform (CDP), provides a toolkit for tracking conversions and optimizing your sales funnel.

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Import Conversions Into Google Ads

December 14, 2023

Ad Tracking and Attribution

Tracking offline conversions is crucial for understanding the true return on ad spend (ROAS) from Google Ads campaigns. While Google Ads does allow uploading customer lists, this method has limitations – conversion tracking relies on Google matching imported customer details to existing user profiles. The match rates tend to be low.

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How to track Stripe Payment Link conversions

November 20, 2023

Server-Side Tracking
Ad Tracking and Attribution

Stripe Payment Links are a powerful tool for online businesses to accept payments. However, tracking them poses a problems due to checkout being hosted on Stripe servers and not available for tracking, as well as cookie restrictions in modern browsers. To fully leverage these links, it's crucial to have effective tracking in place to understand where your sales are coming from. This article will explain how to enhance Stripe Payment Link tracking to provide you with actionable insights.

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Navigating Marketing Analytics in a Cookieless, GDPR-Compliant World

July 23, 2023

Ad Tracking and Attribution

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) has transformed the way companies can track and analyze user behavior, particularly when it comes to cookie usage. Many of us are grappling with this change, trying to reconcile privacy regulations with the need to measure marketing campaign success.

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Primary and Secondary Conversion Actions in Google Ads

July 18, 2023

Ad Tracking and Attribution

Understanding conversion actions is key to optimizing your ad campaigns. In Google Ads, these actions, which are the steps you want your customers to take, are grouped into conversion goals. To help further refine this process, Google introduces the concept of primary and secondary conversion actions. So, what are they, and how do they differ? Let's explore.

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How to Create Facebook Ads Audiences Based on Customer Lifetime Value: a Step-By-Step Guide

July 15, 2023

Ad Tracking and Attribution

As marketers, we all strive to target that elusive most profitable customer segments with our ad spend. This is where the concept of Customer Lifetime Value (LTV) comes into play. LTV is a crucial metric, providing insights into the total revenue a business can reasonably expect from a single customer account. It considers a customer's revenue value and compares it to the customer's predicted lifespan. By integrating LTV into your Facebook Ad strategy, you can optimize your ad spend and increase ROI. With Able Customer Data Platform (CDP), it's easier than ever to integrate LTV into your Facebook Ad audiences.

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How to prevent your analytics from being blocked

June 21, 2023

Server-Side Tracking
Ad Tracking and Attribution

Modern marketers are facing challenges in capturing and analyzing user data due to ad-blockers, privacy concerns, and regulations. The data blockage from ad-blockers is often overstated and protentional data loss is mainly driven by the cookie-based tracking design. To improve data capture, two possible solutions are available: directing all paid traffic to Call-to-Action pages and integrating with ad platforms' APIs using server-side conversion tracking. Lastly, the ad saturation due to high competition may impact Return on Ad Spend. It's crucial to understand these nuances and deploy innovative solutions for informed decision-making.

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Creating a Google Analytics 4 Report for Conversions Based on Date of Acquisition

May 1, 2023

Ad Tracking and Attribution

Google Analytics 4 (GA4) offers a powerful way to track and analyze user interactions on your website or app. With GA4, you can create custom reports that focus on different aspects of user behavior. In this blog post, we will guide you through the process of creating a GA4 report that displays conversions based on the date of acquisition, rather than the date of conversion. This approach provides valuable insights into how well your marketing efforts are performing in terms of acquiring new customers and driving conversions over time.

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How conversions can be tracked without third-party cookies

February 26, 2023

Server-Side Tracking
Ad Tracking and Attribution

With the ever-changing landscape of online tracking, it can be difficult to keep up with the latest developments. In this article, we explore how third-party cookies, first-party cookies, and other tracking techniques are used to track and attribute conversions and how browsers are responding to these techniques. We also look at how these techniques are affecting the way advertisers and social media networks are able to reach their audiences.

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Everything you need to know about conversion APIs

October 31, 2022

Server-Side Tracking
Ad Tracking and Attribution

In the recent years ad platforms such as Facebook Ads (Meta) and Google Ads began to introduce and promote use of the conversion APIs, allowing advertisers to send more details about their conversions. This article describes how conversion APIs work, why their use is essential and how different implementations can affect their performance. It describes common pitfalls why conversion APIs may not have delivered the desired result and documents approaches to fixing this.Facebook's study has shown that correct use of Conversions API results in increase of CPA by 13% and lead to sale conversion rate by 20% on average; the average is misleading as the figure is funnel dependent. Some funnels may already track all conversions correctly without Conversions API. Others may gain up to a 7x RoAS (return on ad spend) increase and doubling number of tracked conversions in other funnels in our experience.

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How to import offline conversions into Google Analytics

October 13, 2022

Ad Tracking and Attribution
Server-Side Tracking

Importing offline conversions is essential for understanding customer journeys, sales sources and ROI and reporting on multiple touchpoints in many funnels. Google Analytics 4 allows to report such conversions by uploading them. This can be done using manual offline events import or using an API integration. This blog post outlines both approaches.

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SaaS Conversion Funnel Tracking

September 29, 2022

Ad Tracking and Attribution

SaaS businesses present unique set of challenges for tracking conversions in a sales funnel. This report breaks down a typical SaaS conversion funnel into common stages, highlighting common challenges on each and discusses tracking implementation that is able to resolve these challenges

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How to automate Google Ads Customer Match with Google Ads API and forget about manual uploads

July 15, 2022

Ad Tracking and Attribution

Automating Google Ads Customer Match using Google Ads API simplifies managing Google Ads audiences and improves effectiveness of Google Ads targeting optimization. This post summarizes different ways Customer Match is used, which is better for an ongoing campaign and provides step-by-step instructions to automate Customer Match using Google Ads API.

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Google Ads Customer Match November 2021 Updates

December 21, 2021

Ad Tracking and Attribution

Google announced updates to Google Ads Customer Match availability and Google Ads API during the last few months. These updates aim to improve reporting that was affected by the April update, which removed unique click identifiers from IOS traffic to comply with Apple App Tracking Transparency restrictions. This post explains what changed, how Google improved reporting by the Customer Match roll-out and Google Ads API v9 changes and what advertisers can do to understand sources of their sales while staying compliant with Apple tracking restrictions.

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Two Reasons Why Your Facebook (Meta) Conversions API Integration Doesn't Work

August 21, 2021

Ad Tracking and Attribution

Conversions missing from Facebook (Meta) Ads Manager is a common issue that many Facebook advertisers are facing. In this article we try to highlight two most common yet obscure reasons why transactions may be missing from Facebook and offer ways to solve Facebook tracking and attribution.

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WBRAID and GBRAID: Google Ads Conversion Tracking Post IOS 14 (updated May 2023)

May 20, 2021

Ad Tracking and Attribution

To comply with Apple App Tracking Transparency restrictions, Google had to start sending WBRAID and GBRAID parameters instead, providing anonymized way to track ad conversions. In this post we discuss the implications, what it means for tracking and how Able CDP can be used to keep tracking conversions for Google Ads traffic without GLCIDs.

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First Click Attribution In Google Analytics 4

May 13, 2021

Ad Tracking and Attribution

Google Analytics 4, also known as GA4, is a new version of Google Analytics. A major difference many website owners and web marketers notice is its sole reliance on last click attribution. It results in unexpected traffic sources shown for meaningful conversions that happen later in the funnel such as purchases.

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How to Track Conversions Outside of 7 Day Window

January 29, 2021

Ad Tracking and Attribution

Changes to website conversions' tracking introduced in IOS 14 and WebKit browsers in 2020 affected many businesses with longer sales cycles. Luckily, their impact is limited and improved sales attribution allows to keep reporting sources of sales correctly in most cases, even when conversions happen weeks or months after the initial website visit.

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