You can track any onsite or offsite advertising channels through DealFindersFunnel.
Onsite sources are advertising channels that drive traffic to your website, and thus a tracking number will dynamically appear on your website when visitors come from one of those sources. You need to install our dynamic tracking code in order for tracking numbers to dynamically appear on your website. You can find that code here.
Offsite sources are advertising channels where tracking numbers appear OFF of your website-– in a TV ad, in a postcard, on a flyer, etc. You do not need to install our tracking code on your website if you are just tracking offsite sources.
You will find that most of the onsite and offsite sources you want to track are already pre-programmed in our system and you can choose from them in the “tracking source” dropdown when configuring new tracking numbers on the buy numbers page.
You can always update/change the source for a tracking number by going to the manage tracking numbers page and clicking edit in the tracking source field. If the source you want to use does NOT already exist in our system as a pre-programmed source, you can add it on the tracking sources page and then associate tracking numbers to it.
Pre-Programmed Sources Available:
Ad Extension
Place these tracking numbers in your Adwords Ad Extensions. Once you have purchased the numbers in our system and associated them with this source, go into Google Adwords and add these tracking numbers as extensions. This is an “offsite” source because the numbers are appearing in the actual ads.
Bing Paid
Will display tracking number to visitors to your website clicking through from a Bing Ads ad. You will need to ensure that auto-tagging is enabled in Bing Ads.
Bing Organic
Tracking numbers associated with this source will display dynamically to visitors coming from a Bing search. You will be able to see the search queries that each of these visitors used in the call reports—> calls by search term.
Direct
Tracking numbers associated with this source will display dynamically to visitors to your website who go directly to the URL (i.e. they type the URL into their navigation bar).
By default, this is an “offline” source, which means the tracking number won’t be dynamically showing on your website– but rather its a phone number that you can place in your emails.
If you would like to have a tracking number that dynamically appears on your website when someone clicks through from your email links, then you should edit the email source to be an onsite source and program the source based on how the click-through URL’s are programmed in your email client. (for example– we recommend using something like utm_medium=email in the Landing URL field). You can typically control the tagging for your email links within your email client.)
By default, this is an “online” source, which means that the tracking number will be displayed to visitors to your website who have landed there from Facebook.
If you would also like to place a tracking number directly on your Facebook page, then you should purchase a separate number and set it up with a new Offsite source named (Facebook).
Google Adwords
Tracking numbers associated with this source will display dynamically to visitors to your website clicking through from a Google Adwords ad.
Make sure you have Auto Tagging enabled in your Google Adwords account to use this source as we look for a gclid id in the landing URL.
Google Maps
Place these tracking numbers in your google maps business profile. This tracking number will appear in the actual business listing. This is an “offsite” source as the tracking number is not dynamically appearing on your website. If someone clicks through to your website from your Google Maps/Local listing, they will see your Google Organic tracking number on your website if you have set one up.
Google Organic
Tracking numbers associated with this source will display dynamically to visitors coming from a Google organic search. You will be able to see the search queries that each of these visitors used in the call reports, found under Reporting > Call Reports > calls by search term.
Do not place these numbers in your Google Maps/Local Business Listings. If you wish to use a tracking number in your Local Listing, you should instead choose “Google Maps” as the source and then program that tracking number into your Google business profile.
Referral
Tracking numbers associated with this source will dynamically display to visitors to your website from another website. If you are tracking other sources, they will trump this source. The referral can be thought of as a catch-all source for referral sources of traffic to your website. We would recommend breaking out major referral sources like Google Organic, Adwords, Bing, etc separately for data quality purposes.
Television, Radio, and Print
Place these tracking numbers in your ads so that as visitors see or hear the ads, they can call the number. They are off site sources so they are not designed to appear dynamically on your website.
Tracking numbers associated with this source will display dynamically to visitors coming from Twitter to your site.
YouTube
Tracking numbers associated with this source will display dynamically to visitors coming from YouTube to your site.
Website
Tracking numbers associated with this source will dynamically display to all visitors to your website– direct or through another website. Calls that come in through this tracking number will be recorded as the source website. If you want to have more granularity in calls by source reports, then we would recommend using additional sources as described herein.