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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Google Tag Manager

    Score9.5 out of 10
    N/AFrom Google, the Google Tag Manager is a tag management application that facilitates creating, embedding, and updating tags across websites and mobile apps. It is a free option, vs. the company's enterprise-tier Google Tag Manager 360.

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    Unbounce

    Score8.3 out of 10
    Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
    Unbounce is a landing page builder for marketers. Marketers can use the drag and drop platform to create customized, responsive landing pages for their marketing campaigns.

    $99

    per month

    Pricing
    Google Tag ManagerUnbounce
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    Build
    $99
    per month
    Experiment
    $149
    per month
    Optimize
    $249
    per month
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    Contact Sales
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    Google Tag ManagerUnbounce
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
    Additional Details—All plans include: Unlimited conversions, Unlimited subdomains, 1000+ integrations, Built-in AI copywriting, and Customer support. Discount available for annual pricing.
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    Community Pulse
    Google Tag ManagerUnbounce
    Considered Both Products
    Google
    Chose Google Tag Manager
    As far as I know, Google Tag Manager is the only program that provides this service.
    Incentivized
    Unbounce
    Chose Unbounce
    As far as landing page builders go, in my opinion, Unbounce is the best and easiest to use.
    Incentivized
    Chose Unbounce
    Unbounce is slightly different from Optimizely, Visual Website Optimizer and Google Content Experiments because it is essentially a tool for building landing pages rather than testing any aspect of your website. Unbounce solved a problem for us because we wanted to build …
    Incentivized
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    93%
    Would buy again
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    71%
    Would buy again
    15 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    83%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    86%
    Happy with the feature set
    18 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    100%
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    74%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    14 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    93%
    Implementation went as expected
    13 Answers
    90%
    Implementation went as expected
    18 Answers
    Features
    Google Tag ManagerUnbounce
    Security
    Comparison of Security features of Google Tag Manager and Unbounce
    Feature
    Google Tag Manager
    8.9
    58 Ratings
    5% above category average
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    Ratings
    Role-based user permissions8.958 Ratings00 Ratings
    Tag Management
    Comparison of Tag Management features of Google Tag Manager and Unbounce
    Feature
    Google Tag Manager
    8.8
    68 Ratings
    8% above category average
    Unbounce
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    Ratings
    Tag library9.263 Ratings00 Ratings
    Tag variable mapping8.955 Ratings00 Ratings
    Ease of writing custom tags7.367 Ratings00 Ratings
    Rules-driven tag execution8.162 Ratings00 Ratings
    Tag performance monitoring10.056 Ratings00 Ratings
    Page load times8.849 Ratings00 Ratings
    Mobile app tagging9.334 Ratings00 Ratings
    Library of JavaScript extensions8.838 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data Management & Integrity
    Comparison of Data Management & Integrity features of Google Tag Manager and Unbounce
    Feature
    Google Tag Manager
    7.6
    69 Ratings
    7% below category average
    Unbounce
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    Event tracking8.666 Ratings00 Ratings
    Mobile event tracking9.347 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data distribution management8.841 Ratings00 Ratings
    Universal data layer8.358 Ratings00 Ratings
    Automated error checking3.045 Ratings00 Ratings
    SEO and Conversion Optimization
    Comparison of SEO and Conversion Optimization features of Google Tag Manager and Unbounce
    Feature
    Google Tag Manager
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    Ratings
    Unbounce
    7.7
    18 Ratings
    25% above category average
    Landing page A/B testing:00 Ratings9.117 Ratings
    Dynamic page text replacement00 Ratings8.612 Ratings
    Real-time analytics dashboard00 Ratings5.817 Ratings
    SEO tools00 Ratings6.915 Ratings
    Optimization recommendations00 Ratings7.915 Ratings
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    Google Tag ManagerUnbounce
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    Adobe Experience Platform Launch
    Score8.4 out of 10
    Instapage
    Score9.8 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Adobe Experience Platform Launch
    Score8.4 out of 10
    Instapage
    Score9.8 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Adobe Dynamic Tag Management (discontinued)
    Score10 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Google Tag ManagerUnbounce
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.7
    (73 ratings)
    7.9
    (55 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    7.0
    (7 ratings)
    8.0
    (10 ratings)
    Usability
    7.1
    (18 ratings)
    8.5
    (7 ratings)
    Availability
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    2.0
    (12 ratings)
    1.0
    (5 ratings)
    Online Training
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    9.8
    (2 ratings)
    6.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Google Tag ManagerUnbounce
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Google
    I have found Google Tag Manager as the go to solution for managing all of your event and conversion tags for your website. Not only does it make it easy to manage all of your tags in the one place, it is fairly intuitive to use and there is plenty of videos and help documentation online to help set up what ever you need. No scenarios come to mind at the moment on where it is less appropriate to use.
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    Unbounce
    As I am using this platform for a long time, I believe I am happy with the services I am getting from this outstanding software. It has made my landing page experience better than ever without any coding knowledge to apply. It has upgraded my business in a positive direction and I believe I am using this software for many years to come.
    Incentivized
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    Pros
    Google
    • Selecting elements on a site [object, class, cookie, etc] (to later fire an event, send some data, etc) is very easy with triggers. Want to add an event when someone clicks on a button? Super easy. It was many many DOM selectors and you can even add custom functions if you need to do something more specific
    • In general, firing events in different circumstances is very easy mixing triggers and tags. You can track almost any element of the DOM and do whatever you want with it.
    • Testing is a great functionality. Only you can see what's on the site and you can debug it easily by seeing which events or tags were triggered and all the DOM elements involved (and why they matched the trigger).
    • Working in environments (staging, production) and versioning is easy to do, deploying changes in 2 clicks.
    Incentivized
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    Unbounce
    • AB testing is simple to set up. Clone a page make your changes and pit one or more against each other. Set the number of views and you're told the winner once the test is done. Simple
    • Tracking code is easy to add. Follow the straightforward instructions in the back end
    • Easy to add multiple domains to your account. So you can use the landing pages you build on numerous sites if you so desire
    Incentivized
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    Cons
    Google
    • There are several good integrations, but there can always be more. Native tracking for call tracking solutions, analytics providers, non-Google advertisers would be top of my list.
    • Documentation is just dreadful. Luckily there are some awesome folks out there doing crowdsourced tutorials (shout out to Simo Ahava) but by and large the Google Tag Manager instructions are worth what you pay for them.
    Incentivized
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    Unbounce
    • One of the cons of Unbouncewas the learning curve. We are very familiar now with the ends and outs but in the beginning, it would have been super helpful to have some sore of learning up front.
    • The pricing structure is not great for our particular organization. We will never need unlimited page views but we do often need more landing pages we make it work but the pricing model could be improved.
    • The reporting could be a little better. We supplement with some of our own trackings but for the most part, the reporting from Unbounce is a basic level understanding of how the page is performing.
    Incentivized
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Google
    I haven't found another option for us to use especially one that is free. Down the road we may go a different route but for now GTM is a good option and does what we need it to do. It'd be nice to get more support or more integrations but with the free version there's only so much one can expect to get I suppose.
    Incentivized
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    Unbounce
    The nonprofit discount makes it so affordable that my client was happy to continue their subscription all year round. They have used it to build landing pages to capture expressions of interest for their next recruitment window. It hasn't quite produced the sort of results we were hoping for, but I'm not sure that's Unbounce's fault.
    Incentivized
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    Usability
    Google
    No difficult obstacle to overcome but Google Tag Manager can still be difficult for many users to deploy. Sure the basic HTML script can be deployed quite easily, but when you start to require triggers, variables, etc, it can be a little daunting.
    Incentivized
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    Unbounce
    Unbounce made it easy for my team to build landing pages for website and email. We gained valuable A/B testing insights and gathered information from visitors effectively converting them to leads. The Editor is straight forward and I was able to learn to use it on my own without instruction. CRM integration was easy and consistently worked.
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    Support Rating
    Google
    GTM does not provide support. This is one of GTM's biggest issues but it's due to the level of customization for each website. If your team thinks they would heavily rely on the need for a support staff it is probably better to invest in a paid service with a team that can support your needs.
    Incentivized
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    Unbounce
    Unbounce customer support is very strong. We have been able to connect with them via email and telephone mediums. They are very knowledgeable and can effectively help resolve difficult problems that are slowing us down. Overall Unbounce customer support is very professional. Our wait times have always been small or at least reasonable.
    Incentivized
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    Online Training
    Google
    I thought there was a little bit too much emphasis on AdWords stuff, not enough on the generic application of GTM.
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    Unbounce
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation Rating
    Google
    Planning and communication will help greatly with an in-house implementation. If there are large teams, try to limit the number of people involved to 1-2 developers (back-end dev may be necessary depending on your platform), one analytics marketer and one project manager.
    Incentivized
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    Unbounce
    Choose a subdomain that is appropriate for multiple types of pages. You don't want to have to keep changing it. Think about using Google Tag Manager to manage your Google Analytics code and event tracking. Build one landing page to completion. Then make a copy of it if you need to create variant pages.
    Incentivized
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    Alternatives Considered
    Google
    We moved to GTM from a standard Google Analytics implementation. GTM is much more flexible and easier to make changes, especially as the changes relate to multiple sites and environments. While there is a learning curve when figuring out how to use GTM, I believe the change has been worth it because it helps us understand at a more fundamental level how our tracking works and gives us a lot more control over what we track and how.
    Incentivized
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    Unbounce
    Despite my review for unbounce being not the greatest review or score in the world, when stacked up against its two biggest competitors, I'd prefer Unbounce over Leadpages and Instapage. Leadpages drag and drop editor, integrations, and overall UI/UX is 10x worse than unbounce and unbounce really leads in the category of nice templates and quickness to a production landing page with much better options and integrations.
    Incentivized
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    Return on Investment
    Google
    • GTM is very useful to determine if a particular element on the site is useful (i.e. is it being watched, is it being clicked, does it help customers navigate through more pages). As an SEO person, I can use this information to decide what to optimize for but also to track progress and see improvements in engagement.
    • With the use of Google Tag Manager, I was able to easily inject an A/B testing tool which lead to several improvements in lead generation.
    Incentivized
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    Unbounce
    • Unbounce has positively impacted PPC Director's ability to provide clientele with the service of building informative, relevant, and high-converting landing pages. For instance, the traceable effectiveness of landing pages built by PPC Director in Unbounce remains directly correlated to long-term client retention.
    Incentivized
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