31/03/2026
One of the most misleading moments in tracking is this:
The tag fired.
But conversions still show zero.
That usually sends teams into the wrong kind of debugging.
They see activity in GTM and assume tracking is working.
But firing a tag and recording a conversion are not the same thing.
The request may have been sent.
That does not mean Google accepted it.
Sometimes the issue is not performance.
It is validation, attribution, or setup logic quietly breaking in the background.
That is the kind of problem that can make a healthy account look worse than it is.
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