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Pushing DataLayer Values in Adobe Sitecatalyst variables via DTM

October 14, 2016 by YiannisG

Quick post this week on Adobe DTM and dataLayer values.

Once your SDR is setup and your dataLayer implemented on your web site, the first steps you need to make is push all the dataLayer values into the relevant Props and eVars so you can start populating your Sitecatalyst and Workspace reports with data.

The first step you need to take is create your data elements in Adobe.

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Filed Under: DTM, Tag Manager Tagged With: Adobe Sitecatalyst, dataLayer, DTM

Setting up Adwords Conversion Tracking with Adobe DTM

September 10, 2016 by YiannisG

adwords script in Adobe DTM

Quick post this week on how to fire Conversion tags (Adwords, Facebook, etc) with Adobe’s DTM.

For those who do not know this, DTM is the default tag manager solution adobe offers alongside Omniture. It used to be called “Satellite” and was part of a marketing agency called Search Discovery.

Adobe acquired the company years ago and offer that particular solution as a default/out of the box TMS for Adobe SiteCatalyst implementation.
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Filed Under: DTM, Tag Manager Tagged With: AdWords, DTM

Adobe DTM : Finding Attributes from Clicked Elements using CSS Selectors

September 3, 2016 by YiannisG

Adobe DTM’s built-in element capture for onclick event listeners are pretty useful. One of the most useful resources on the internet around this topic is Jim Gordon’s amazing infographic, where you can find a list of all possible variables you can use with DTM.

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Filed Under: DTM, Tag Manager Tagged With: Adobe Sitecatalyst, CSS Selectors, DTM, Event Tracking

Optimizely API initialisation via Adobe Analytic s_code & DTM

June 8, 2016 by YiannisG

I was recently asked – due to some issues with Adobe T&T – to run a test with Optimizely, one of the most popular AB Testing and Personalisation platforms in the digital space right now. While implementation with Google Analytics is pretty straightforward, there were some challenges I had to face with Adobe Sitecatalyst (as expected) and deployment via DTM.

Optimizely offers an integration feature for Adobe Analytics (Screenshots below) from which you can activate the tool and use its interface in order to push Experiment Names into Prop and/or Evar, similar to AAs for Target (A4T) plugin and to custom dimensions for those using Google.

Deploying code via DTM is fairly straightforward, but Optimizely documentation seems more tailored to native JS deployments of Adobe Analytics and hardcoded RSIDs which caused a couple of issues with our current setup.

Thanks to the help of our awesome Adobe Specialist Alex Brown, we managed to come up with a solution:

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Filed Under: DTM, Tag Manager Tagged With: A/B Testing, Adobe Sitecatalyst, DTM, Optimizely

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