How To Add Google Tag Manager To A Squarespace Website

Welcome to another Momentum Monday! Today we’re going to look at how to add Google Tag Manager to your Squarespace website. Google Tag Manager allows you to oversee all of the tags featured on your website under one platform. Using features called containers, GTM can track data on your website such as conversions, remarketing, site analytics, and the like.

Getting Started with Google Tag Manager

To begin, you will need to create a Google Tag Manager account. You can easily do so using an existing Google Business account or Gmail account. If you already have an account, simply login. Once inside GTM, you will see that it gives you the ability to have multiple manager accounts. You can make different accounts based on what you intend to use them for. In this tutorial, we’re using an account to place, what is called a GTM container, on a Squarespace website. A container is code that includes all of the tags, triggers, and variables on your website.  You will be placing a GTM container on the backend of your Squarespace website.

To create a new account, select the Create Account button in the top right corner. When creating your account, be sure to fill out the information, such as account name, location, and container name. Since you are creating this for your website, when choosing the target platform, select Web.

Finally, hit the Create button, and accept the GTM Terms and Conditions. Immediately after accepting the Terms and Conditions, the GTM installation code should pop up. This will need to be copied and pasted into your website’s header and footer.

Finally, hit the Create button, and accept the GTM Terms and Conditions. Immediately after accepting the Terms and Conditions, the GTM installation code should pop up. This will need to be copied and pasted into your website’s header and footer.

Installing GTM on Your Squarespace Website

Login to your Squarespace website, navigate to Settings, and then Advanced. From there, navigate to Code Injection. On the left sidebar, you should see the header and footer of your website. To install the GTM container on your website, copy and paste the header code from GTM into your website header box. After, copy the body code from GTM into your website footer box. Finally, save your Squarespace website.

Testing Your GTM Code

To make sure the container is up and running, you want to test it. There are two ways you are able to test if the Google Tag Manager container is working properly. 

Head back to your Google Tag Manager account. Navigate to Workspace, and select the Preview button in the top right corner. Now, simply refresh your website page. You should see the Google Tag Manager preview on your website, which means the container has been properly installed.

You can also test the container by using the Google Tag Assistant Chrome extension. This allows you to verify Google tags that have been placed on pages. Download the Tag Assistant extension. This only works on the Google Chrome browser. Once the extension has been downloaded, make sure to enable it. Refresh your website page. The tag assistant should display that the GTM container is active.

We hope this helped! If you have any questions or comments, be sure to leave them down below. 

Happy Monday!

Thanks for taking the time to read and learn How to Add Google Tag Manager to a Squarespace website. This is part of our SEO marketing blog series with our Momentum marketing blogs. If you have any questions, comments, or concerns, feel free to leave them in the comment section, or contact us.

Happy Monday! 

Mac Frederick

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