What is Google Tag Manager?
Google Tag Manager (GTM) is a free tag management system created by Google that allows you to quickly and easily implement tracking codes and pixels used for marketing and analytics purposes. It provides a user interface that helps you organize, manage, and deploy tags on your website or mobile app without having to edit code.
Some key benefits of Google Tag Manager include:
- Easily add or update tracking tags and code snippets like Google Analytics, Facebook Pixels, or remarketing pixels without coding
- Preview and test tags before public release to ensure proper setup
- Organize tags into reusable containers for simple implementation across multiple web properties
- Manage tag permissions by user role
- Integrate with Google Optimize for A/B testing
- Improve page load speed by reducing the number of tags directly embedded in site code
- Quickly roll back changes or revert to older container versions
GTM helps streamline implementation and management of marketing, analytics, and advertising tags across web properties. Rather than having to edit site code to deploy every tag, they can be configured via GTM's intuitive UI and deployed instantly. This saves considerable development and testing time, provides more flexibility to add/remove tags, and reduces the risk of site errors from coding changes. For marketing teams and developers managing multiple tags, Google Tag Manager is an invaluable platform.