A cornerstone of any enterprise tag management solution is the ability to conditionally load tags based on select criteria. Within the Tealium solution, this is referred to as “Load Rules”. Conditional load rules can be used to reduce the number of times tags are loaded and eliminate the redundant pixels. Examples include:
In order to demonstrate this capability, consider a web site deploying five different vendor tags on its confirmation page – as shown below. With traditional tagging, all 5 tags or pixels will load on the confirmation page regardless of the source of traffic.
Conditional tag loading on the other hand lets you decide under which circumstance to load each tag on the confirmation page. As a best practice, you can create rules that let you load the AdWords tag on the confirmation page only if the source of traffic is AdWords, and do the same with other marketing tags. This alternative is shown below.
Conditional loading of tags offer several advantages:
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