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Custom events opt you out of the platform's pre-trained conversion models - so they learn slowly and pay hotter CPMs, even though the event "fires fine." Here's why standard events win, when custom is justified, the action-to-event mapping table, and a 10-minute Events Manager audit.
CAPI recovers conversion signal lost to ad blockers, ITP, and consent - but only if you deduplicate and forward standard events. What it fixes, what it doesn't, and how to verify it.
Google is auto-migrating the GA4 Configuration Tag to the Google Tag with Destinations. The dual-ID deployment model, a pre-upgrade audit, staging tests, and a rollback plan.
We audit 10-15 sites a week. In more than half of them, the banner is there, the UI looks great, and zero scripts are actually being gated.
Your campaigns look busy but the data feeding them is broken. Here are the five patterns we see in every audit that signal your tracking needs attention.
Your client asks every month and you spend hours trying to reconcile. The issue is almost always conversion action misconfiguration, not platform differences.
A national homebuilder spending $514K/month across 221 campaigns. 99.85% of their bidding signal was noise. Here's what we found and how we fixed it.
Client-side cookies are dying. But server-side tagging isn't free. We break down the real costs, benefits, and when it actually makes sense for your business.
Everything we check when auditing a GA4 implementation. From data layer architecture to conversion configuration to consent mode verification.
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