Tracking form submission on a website or a blog is popular among marketers. It can reveal a lot about the forms you have on a site to convert users into members and in the long-run into customers.
In this article, I will create a tag for tracking form submission via Google Tag Manager. I will use my blog’s homepage form.
Refer to the image below.
So, let’s get down configuring tags to track forms.
You should be aware of Google Tag Manager Lingo. Moreover understand what a trigger, tag, and the built-in variables available are.
The next is, you should have a Google Tag Manager for tracking site’s traffic in Google Analytics though it isn’t a must. We will still need to have the Google Analytics Property ID to send scroll depth data to Google Analytics.
If you aren’t sure, refer to my article – How to Connect Google Analytics With Google Tag Manager first and then continue with this article.
Note: As we can see in the above screenshot, Wait for Tags and Check Validation being true, this can be a time-consuming process and so it is recommended to enable them only on the landing/contact pages where we have forms or on particular pages where this trigger is particularly needed.
So we define the exact page url of the page where we want to track form submission using
Page URL > equals > (URL of the page that has a form)
Event Tracking Parameters
Preview the tag before making it live.
Log in to your Google Analytics account and locate the Affiliate Link Clicks event under Behavior > Events > Overview. Look for the category that we assigned in step 2 which is New Subscriber. It will show the form submission data.
Note: Do not try to send user data (name/email) to Google Analytics for privacy.
Check out affiliate link clicks, external link clicks, page scroll depth and google ads conversion using the Google tag manager.
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