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Spent 4 hours tracking down a broken pixel tracking code that was just a missing forward slash
Working on a client's Google Ads campaign last Friday and noticed conversions were showing zero. Checked everything. Tag manager, event setup, real-time reports. Nothing. Finally looked at the actual page source code around 8pm and there it was. The URL in the tracking pixel had two slashes instead of three. One tiny character. Four hours of my life. Has anyone else had a stupidly simple fix that took way too long to find?
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olivia_chen351mo ago
Did you stare at that slash for a full minute before you actually saw it?
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amy8581mo ago
Oh wow I totally missed that! I was so focused on the main part I didn't even register the slash until you pointed it out. That's wild how our brains just skip over little details like that. I swear I looked right at it and my mind just... blanked it out or something. Makes you wonder what else I'm missing when I'm reading stuff.
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