Cross-Domain Tracking with Google Tag Manager

Cross Domain Tracking for Google Analytics needs to be installed if you have two separate domains you want to connect to one Google Analytics account. We will utilize GTM to install this on our website and test if it's working.

OUTLINE:
0:00 - Introduction
0:55 - What is Cross-Domain Tracking?
2:51 - When to Install Cross-Domain Tracking?
8:18 - Setup for Multiple Google Analytics Installed in GTM
10:53 - Testing





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[MeasureSchool]

One step I forgot to mention in this Video: You also should add the Domains you are cross-domain tracking into your Google Analytics Referral Exclusion list. Go to your Admin section in GA and click on Tracking Info. There you will find your Referral exclusion list. Add the domains you entered into the Auto Link Domains field just like we did it at 7:34

[azdigitalmarketing]

Hey Julian,
Can you please show, how it needs to be done on GA4 and all the events that I have in GA4.

Thanks in advance.

[OrtakHesap]

Should i set cross-domain tracking from GTM (linker parameters) and from GA4 interface together, or just one setup is enough?
Conversion linker is used by google ADS remarketing tag, if i don't set this link, would my google ads work fine? What if i make this setting with the GA4 cross domain tracking together?

[MattFordyce]

Way better than Google's resources. Thanks!

[Pkkhyu]

Thank you Julian! But, how to make it works with "events"? I follow the instructions and it works only if I use "Pageview" as the Track Type of the Google Analytics property in Tag Manager. If I use "Event" as Track Type, it doesn't works and it counts the same users twice. How can I do if I want to tracks my users actions with events in 2 different domains sites?

[Abadiania]

Julian, I am truly in love with you and your awesome videos. Thanks for saving my life again! :D

[berkkalyoncu]

Thank you very much @measureSchool . It perfectly solved my cross domain tracking problem. You are the men

[ruizhang]

My client insist using his webstie for products category and checkout at his shopify! such a headache, thank you so much. One question please, you mentioned 1-way cross domain & 2-way cross domain tracking, how to acheive the 2-way?

[emiileinpnw]

So helpful. Thank you for the tutorials as always. One question: I’m currently setting up different GTM container for each microsite and domain but they’re part of one brand. Is it better to use the same GTM container for cross domain tracking to work? Thanks for your help!

[niklas-pedde]

Hi @MesureSchool, do you have a solution for Form Submissions. So when the Form gets submitted the Visitor gets redirected to f.e. the Payment Processor that the Google Analytics Session ID will also gets transferred? So same case as in your video but instead of a normal link click, its a form submission?

[lifesabbq]

Awesome thank you! One issue I'm noticing is that for 'Active Page', regardless of what website the user is on, GA shows '/' as the active page. Any way to fix this?

[bimleshbisht]

Thankyou so much for posting this tutorial. You solve just the problem I was trying to solve.

[marcbislin]

Hi - very good video, thanks! we have a case where we have various domains and as well as that for every domain a different google tag manager. So we tried to follow the same steps on every GTM container, but somehow it does not work. Do you know, if we would need that case differently?

[Gluxable]

HOL' UP. You mention our domains have to use the same tracking ID? But will this not mess up the whole website reporting for each domain? Audience overview etc? Will it not treat 2 domains as 1 website?

[HarshaVardhan-jfsd]

How do we do cross domain tracking with GA4 considering universal analytics is gonna be deprecated soon

[SharonEspinal-qbqo]

Hi! I have a question.... I have two different domains. A user arrives to one site, then checks out in my other business in a different site. I was to track the purchase in the different site, but both have different Measurement ID and data streams. How and can I still track this?

[tejastank]

3:12
You said subdomain tracking doesn't need to track.
So why don't we need to track it?

[Ecristaldi]

Thanks! Will this work with affiliate marketing campaign?

[patricktunkl]

Hey Julian!
What about the 👉 Conversion Linker Tag 👈 ??
If I use it, and have cross domain tracking activated there, that should do the trick, right?




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[bibizulaikha]

Dear Julian, We have a domain where users click on a button and land on a different domain (with a different UA tracking code) to complete the bookings. How do we track the conversions in this scenario?