Comments on: One Tag To Rule Them All

By: SEO India

SEO India — Sun, 02 May 2010 08:00:04 +0000

One tag will free us from proprietary data structure. It will also ensure that one data structure is taken care of by other applications too.

By: ebusinessuk

ebusinessuk — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 11:29:55 +0000

One Universal Tag does seema far-fetched idea. But if it works, it would be quite a boon.

By: Document Management Software

Document Management Software — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 11:18:53 +0000

A Universal Tag may seem outlandish now, but it will become ubiquitous as its an idea whose time has come.

By: Hajj Umrah

Hajj Umrah — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 11:02:14 +0000

Its definately a very good idea but a very ambitious one. I believe it will take a long time before it actually sees the light of the day.

By: Myrtle Beach

Myrtle Beach — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 12:55:55 +0000

A universal Tag is a revolutionary and unique idea. It would make implementation a cake-walk.

By: Chad

Chad — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 01:48:14 +0000

Good stuff here. Interesting concept and all, but the title you chose for this post is even better.

By: DVI Online Income

DVI Online Income — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 19:48:51 +0000

It’s an interesting idea.

By: Captain Blackbeak

Captain Blackbeak — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 13:14:44 +0000

Hi Barry,

Nice to hear from you. Hope you enjoyed DesignForConversion.

Your point about Paranoia is a good one. That would be one factor we’d have to build into any release of universal tags. Education of the market.

By: Barry Adams

Barry Adams — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 12:27:36 +0000

Paranoia. I’m working with a customer now that refuses to implement Google Analytics because they’re paranoid that Google will learn too much about them and may, in the future, abuse that information. Of course the customer doesn’t have the resources to implement anything that’s not free, which makes my job exceedingly difficult (if not impossible).

A universal tag for web analytics may worry other companies like this customer that still cherish the illusion of data obscurity.

By: Captain Blackbeak

Captain Blackbeak — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 14:34:46 +0000

@Akin,

Let me be the first to congratulate you. The first vendor to show enough backbone to comment publicly on the idea.

In response to the concern, yes I agree with you. SC, WebTrends and Core would not be tagged to any high level of sophistication but a middle layer tag could help with implementation issues.

Indeed an open source solution which CMS vendors and e-commerce vendors got a hold of would be very useful as it could be simply selecting variables from a list and presto.

The point is that the vendors wouldn’t have to make any alterations at all.