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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4 Comments

wyatt1352mo 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.

kaigibson2mo 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.

reesej272mo 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.

lily571mo ago

Oh so we're just supposed to shrug off three days of missing data now? @kaigibson knows the struggle tho, that thank you page iframe thing sounds like a nightmare honestly. Like yeah I get it, sometimes bugs happen and you move on, but three days of wondering if your leads are even real or if you accidentally emailed a test server is peak anxiety lol. But sure, normal Tuesday, definitely didn't lose any sleep over it or anything.