Tagmate is an effective Saas tool that helps you to perform your analytics automatically and also tracks your marketing tags or code effectively in lesser time.
As a website holder or a business person, you might have found that it is quite a complex task to manage your analytics and track your marketing tags. It may be laborious and expensive as you might need a tech specialist to handle it.
Web owners and Marketing agencies spend hours together manually tagging their websites and campaigns to achieve better traffic for their websites.
When you have a number of domains and want to track the communication with all of your websites, it becomes an extremely challenging task if you don’t get help from your tech team.
There comes a necessity for a tool that removes all the hassle and expense of manual tagging. Tagmate is the solution that understands all your difficulties and helps to save your time and money by automating the process of web analytics and tag management.
What is Tagmate?
Tagmate is a Saas tool that helps you with managing and tracking all your tags in an automated way with readily available and predefined industry templates.
With the help of Tagmate, you can automate the process of web tagging with 100% accuracy. It helps you to save 82% of your development time and automate the implementation of tracking tags for your website.
The low-code solution allows complete control over your tag management and website tracking even without the necessity of any web developers.
What are the Factors to Choose Tagmate?
- You can work with Tagmate even if you have zero knowledge about coding, as it allows you to perform your work with minimum coding.
- It has an easily configurable UI that allows even non-technical users to work with tag management in a much easier way.
- It supports tracking for numerous analytics and marketing platforms with 40+ prebuilt tracking templates.
- It allows your primary data tagging assistance for a quick data analysis.
- It syncs with your GTM account for quick implementation and migration of your analytics and marketing tags.
- It is a DIY tool that helps you to track your tags and do the analytics without the help of any developers or tech experts.
- It also helps you to manage the track of your multiple websites and analytics in a much simpler and quicker way.
Features of Tagmate:
a. Universal Analytics Implementation:
It helps you to implement fresh universal analytics by choosing a particular industry template from a prebuilt set of templates for a specific task.
b. UA to GA4 Migration:
You can migrate your UA pageview and event tags to GA4 with a flashing speed and accurately with a few clicks.
c. Google Analytics 4 Implementation:
You can easily implement the latest version of google analytics, i.e., Google Analytics 4. You can select from predefined templates and start implementing them for your specific events.
d. Tagmate Tracker for your GA or GA4 Events:
It is a chrome extension that helps to track your user interaction on your website.
e. Google Ad Marketing Pixel Set-Up:
If you are an SEM expert or running a marketing agency, Tagmate helps you to configure your Google Ad Conversion.
f. Facebook Ads Marketing Pixels Setup:
If you are a Facebook media specialist, this tool helps you to track and attributes conversion events.
For Who the Tagmate is Best Suitable?
The Tagmate is best suitable for:
- Web Developers
- Web Analysts
- Product Marketers
- Product Managers
- Web Agencies
- Marketing Agencies
- Analytical Agencies
- Performance Agencies
The Alternatives for Tagmate:
The Tagmate is an alternative for the following Apps:
- AgencyAnalytics
- Ortto
- CleverTrip
- Factors.ai
- ActiveDEMAND
- Measured
- Singular
- Whatagraph
What are the Benefits of Tagmate?
- With Tagmate, you can easily automate the process of your web tagging with 100% accuracy. You can set up your analytics and marketing tags automatically and with 24/7 monitoring.
- You can quickly and easily migrate and implement your tags.
- By the use of prebuilt industrial templates, Tagmate helps to reduce the errors while configuring your tags and data layer development.
- It helps you to minimize the effort required for the migration of your tags manually. Tagmate helps you to set up your tags with a few clicks.
- It saves your time and expenses and improves your productivity as it reduces human errors and easy implementations.
A Guide on How to Use Tagmate:
Following are the various steps to work with Tagmate for implementation and migration.
1. How to Set up UA(Universal Analytics) Implementation Project?
When you land on Tagmate URL, click the Sign in with Google option and select the account that you want to use. Be sure that the account you are using is the same one that is connected with your Google Tag Manager (GTM) and Google Analytics (GA).
On the Homepage, you will have the three modules that are –
- a. Universal Analytics – Implementation
- b. Google Analytics – Implementation
- c. UA to GA – Migration
Now, as your purpose is to track the Universal Analytics event, click on the 1st option. Click on Start Project.
You will be directed to Tagmate Dashboard. On the left navigation menu, you can see the Project Name. When you are logging in for the first time, you will see the Project Not Selected option. Otherwise, you will see the default project name that you created earlier.
Click on the Project Name to add your first project and you will be getting the list of your projects added to the screen. You may be seeing a blank screen with no project has been added yet message if you are using it for the first time. If you are an existing user, you will notice all your projects being listed on the screen.
You can either switch between the projects or can add a new project. Your project here refers to the website that you want to track in Google Analytics.
Click on Add New to proceed. A form will open up. You need to fill in the UA implementation project details. The first step is to fill in the primary details. Add the project name to identify the tracking website that you like to work with. The target platform selected is the webpage by default that will run for both web and mobile pages on your website. Add your Industry type based on your pitch. These all are the compulsory parameters to be filled.
The next step is to provide your account details, where you want to configure your UA events. As you have already connected with your GTM account, you will see a list of Tag Manager accounts in the dropdown list. Select the appropriate Tag Manager account or if you want to create a new account for Tag Manager select Create New option, which will land on the Google Tag Manager UI screen, where you can create the account in the container name and workspace. Once done, click on create account option.
Return to your Tagmate UI and click the refresh icon at the edge of a dropdown list. After selecting a tag manager account, you can see the container option and also a list of containers that are connected with the selected Tag Manager account.
Select the specific container name or create a new container by clicking on Create New option. You can also have the workspace option and will find the list of workspaces connected with the container. Select the workspace that you opt for and you are done with the configuration.
The last step is to fill in the details of the platform identifier. Go to destination and select Google Analytics. Enter your tracking ID (Unique Identifier of your UA). It collects the data of your website and can easily find the ID from Google Analytics UI.
After you have done filling in all your details, the next step is to improve your data collection. It is optional but better to add your custom details for advanced analysis and remarketing use cases. You can deselect it and opt-out. It will auto-configure the details created in UA property to the Tagmate project. Select the variables that you want to track like client ID, User ID, timestamp, session ID, etc. You can input the custom dimensions index by checking your UA property settings.
Click on Know more to understand the process and fetch the index from Google Analytics UI. Click on Create button. You will get a congratulation message saying that your implementation is successful in Tagmate.
Close the pop-up message and you will be redirected to the dashboard to start implementing the prebuilt templates.
2. How to Set up GA Implementation Project?
Go to the Tagmate landing page and select the Sign in with Google option. Select the account that you want to use. Be sure that the account is the same as your GA account and GTM account.
As said earlier you will be having three modules, UA implementation, GA implementation and UA to GA4 migration. Select the second option as you want to track your GA4 event.
Follow the steps mentioned in UA Implementation Project but instead of UA details, you need to fill in the GA4 implementation details and configure your GA4 events.
Lastly, you need to fill in the platform identifiers for the destination platform GA4. You have to mention the measurement ID which is the unique identifier of the GA4 property that will collect all the data of your website. You can easily find the ID from your GA4 UI Admin Panel under the properties section and Data streams.
Once done, you will be seeing a module, Improve your Data Collection. It is an optional step but will be better to add your custom details for advanced analysis and remarketing use cases. You can even deselect and opt-out.
It will auto-configure the custom dimensions created in your GA4 property with the Tagmate project. Select the variables that you want to track. Input the dimensions by checking your GA4 property settings.
Click on Know more to understand the process and fetch the index from Google Analytics UI. Click on Create option. You will be notified with a congratulatory message which says your GA4 implementation is successfully created in your Tagmate.
Close the pop-up message and you will be redirected to the GA4 dashboard where you can start to implement the prebuilt templates. You can even add the additional projects by clicking on the project name and then start to proceed.
3. How to do Tag Migration from UA to GA4?
After you land on the Tagmate URL, click on the Sign in with Google option. Select the account that you want to use for migration and make sure that the account is linked with your GTM and GA accounts. Once connected, click on the continue option.
On the home page, you will be seeing three modules as mentioned earlier, i.e., UA implementation, GA implementation and UA to GA4 migration.
Since you want to migrate from an existing UA Tags to GA4 Tags, click on the third module which is UA to GA4 Migration. Click on the Start Project button.
You will be directed to the Tagmate Dashboard. On the left, in Navigation, you will see that Check pr Set your GTM account and you can also change your link account. You can check your Workspace and you will notice all your existing UA tags listed which you wanted to migrate to the GA4 account. You can change your workspace link. Click on the Workspace option for doing so. You will be seeing the list of GA4 config tags on the dashboard and you can even create an additional tag.
There are 3 kinds of Tags on your Dashboard for the migration process
- Standard Tracking Tags
- Advanced Tracking Tags
- Miscellaneous Tags.
You can choose standard tracking tags if you want to track the standard tags and once you have migrated your standard tags, you can go for advanced tracking tags.
Click explore to see all the standard tags or advanced tags on your workspace based on your option. You will be directed to the Tag listing screen, where you will be noticing the status of migration for all your Standard/Advanced UA tags.
On the top, you can see the number of available total tags, the tags that have been migrated to GA4, the tags that have been published and the pending tags.
In the Tag listing, if your tag status is pending, you will see it in the action tab as migrate and if it has been already migrated it will show in the status as migrated.
Select Migrate, if it is a pending tag. You will be getting a form pre-saved based on UA event tag configuration. You can alter the details of pre-built configuration tags.
When you scroll down, you will see the event parameters. It uses various variables to be tracked in GA in the form of custom dimensions such as user ID, and custom metrics.
Click on Add GA account. It will open up in a new tab. Click allow to authorize the integration. Once it has been successfully added, you’ll be getting the confirmation message. Close the window. You will be redirected to the original page.
Go to the listing screen. You will get the option to select a GA account. Then select the Analytics account and select the Properties and App button.
Go to the Event Parameters listing which is predefined. In UA event action, Event Label and custom events will translate to Event parameters in GA4.
In the User properties, you can edit the name and value of parameters. You can also add any properties if you want to add them.
Once you have checked the naming conventions and values to be migrated, click on Migrate. You will be redirected to the original dashboard and the tag shows migrated status on the dashboard.
You can verify whether the tag has been migrated or not in your GTM. Select the workspace, search for new GA4 tags and check the migrated tag configuration. You will see that it has been migrated successfully.
You can also check for custom dimensions in the same way.
Final Views:
Tagmate is a Saas product that helps businesses to implement and migrate analytics and tracking tags. It helps to perform the analytics and web tracking management in a much better way.
It automates the work of implementation of UA, GA and migration from UA to GA4 in simple and easy steps.
It reduces the time and cost of your web tracking and you can do your analytics with minimum coding knowledge and can track your web tags and manage them easily.
If you find it hard to manage your website tags and also to work with the analytics, go for Tagmate which automates the process of tracking your tags and managing them and also makes the analytics work easier for you.