Took 4 weeks to solve a Google Ads conversion tracking issue

I spent a whole month chasing a bug where my client's leads showed up in the dashboard but not in their CRM. Turned out the Google Tag Manager had two conflicting tags firing at once, something I overlooked during setup in February. After 30 hours of digging through forums and testing, I finally fixed it by merging the tags into one clean configuration. Has anyone else had a simple setup mistake eat up that much time?

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tara6421mo ago

Wait, 30 whole hours just to find two tags fighting each other?

seth_singh201mo agoTop Commenter

Did your buddy end up just deleting and remaking the tag, or did they actually figure out a clean merge? Ngl, I watched a friend spend two weeks on the same thing before their developer buddy just rebuilt it in 20 minutes.

bennett.evan1mo ago

@seth_singh20 I get what you're saying but deleting and remaking isn't always the cleanest fix. A buddy of mine had this same headache and remaking the tag left some old data references broken. Merging them properly actually saved him from redoing all his tracking history.