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Custom Event for Embedded YouTube Video

Jon Loomer

When someone plays an embedded YouTube video on my website, an event fires. That event captures: • URL it was on, • Title of the video, • Percentage of the video that was watched • Total time watched in seconds I add a column to my Ads Manager to see how often people are watching these videos from my ads.

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Differences Between Custom Events and Custom Conversions

Jon Loomer

I use Google Tag Manager to manage my pixel, which helps me create custom events that fire based on a timer (how long someone spends on a page), scroll depth, engagement with embedded YouTube videos, and more. You can also refine it by URL or parameters (if you pass them) to help focus on a specific segment of people who performed this event.

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Custom Events vs. Custom Conversions

Jon Loomer

Watched an embedded YouTube video Beyond using these actions for optimization and reporting, you can also create website custom audiences based on this activity. They rely on URL or parameter rules, which limits what you can create. Amount of time spent on a page 2. Scroll depth down a page 3.

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A Guide to Standard Events, Custom Events, and Custom Conversions

Jon Loomer

You can create a custom conversion based on URL alone by leaving Event at All Website Traffic and setting a URL rule. Pick an action source of either Website or Physical Store. When Should You Use Each? For the purpose of reporting and optimization, you can use any of these three. A good strategy utilizes all three.

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Embedding Latitude, Longitude and NAP Data into Image Files to Help Local SEO

Bill Hartzer

Then, right-click on the photo and select “properties” You will see all of the data that I saved/embedded in the image file. For this test, I made up a word and embedded or “saved” that word in the EXIF data in the image file itself. I recently ran a test using an image that I uploaded to the Google+.

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[Solved] Getting The Pinterest Embed Feature To Work In WordPress

SocMed Sean

Embedding A Pinterest Board In Your WordPress Blog Post Is Not As Easy As It Should Be. Enter the URL of the board I want to embed. Enter the URL of the board I want to embed. View the post with the Pinterest board properly embedded. Enter the URL of the board I want to embed. Publish the post. Publish the post.

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Create a Custom Facebook Event for a Watched YouTube Video in Google Tag Manager

Jon Loomer

Imagine you have an important YouTube video embedded on a page of your website. Then go to an embedded YouTube video on a page of your website. Refine by “URL/Parameter.” Have you experimented with custom events for people who watched your embedded YouTube videos? I made some alterations.

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