PSA: My Google Ads conversion tracking broke for 3 days because of a single missing tag on a thank you page.

I spent over 20 hours checking analytics, server logs, and the tag manager before a freelancer in the Facebook group spotted the missing GCLID parameter in the URL redirect from our payment processor.

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wyatt13511d ago

A buddy of mine lost a whole week to a similar issue. His form submissions were going to a test server no one remembered setting up. Sometimes you just need a fresh pair of eyes on the problem.

kaigibson11d ago

Man, that hits way too close to home lol. Spent a whole afternoon once because our thank you page was loading in an iframe and stripping all the UTM parameters. The fix was one line of code but finding it felt like forever. It's crazy how the smallest thing can just break everything.

reesej2711d ago

Honestly, that sounds like a normal Tuesday. Three days of broken data is annoying, but it's not the end of the world. You found the fix, now move on.