Comments on: How to track customer phone calls generated through Adwords

By: rob

rob — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 09:07:58 +0000

Good point Nick - I’ve added in the errant apostrophe now. It should work with that in place - let me know what further problems you are seeing if it doesn’t.

By: Nick

Nick — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 03:11:15 +0000

This is a great post, but I’m not having any luck getting this to work for me. In the second code snippet, I noticed that there is no closing ‘ in $_COOKIE['Believe_Adwords].

I added the ‘ and it still didn’t work for me anyways. I’ll keep plugging away at it.

By: Admin

Admin — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 06:50:44 +0000

if (isset($_COOKIE['Believe_Yahoo])) echo “555-0968-5566“; // no. for Yahoo visitors

else echo “555-8979-4567“; // no. for everyone else

By: Admin

Admin — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 06:49:58 +0000

For your error, it’s not really possible to work out what the issue is without seeing your code - if line 83 doesn’t have a problem on it, check out the lines of PHP before this line for any missing ” ‘ ; , or } !

For tracking yahoo, you can use the same approach - I’ve never advertised with Yahoo but I guess that when someone clicks through on an ad in Yahoo, they will add something to the URL just like Google add “?gclid=”

For the purposes of dem:oing, lets say they add ?yclid=

if ($_GET['yclid']) {

$expire=time()+60*60*8;
setcookie(”Believe_Yahoo”, $_GET['yclid'], $expire);

}

and then

By: Ray

Ray — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 16:33:28 +0000

I’ve tried to implement the above code and I am getting the following error. Cany suggestions. Thank you in advance.

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING, expecting ‘,’ or ‘;’ in /services9/webpages/l/o/lonestarreversemortgage.com/public/thankyou.php on line 83

By: ray@corpmark.net

ray@corpmark.net — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 13:51:41 +0000

Tracking phone responses from Google Adwords is extremly helpful in determining how to focus your pay per click campaigns. I am wonder if there is a way to do the same thing in Yahoo. I there a code or cookie available for Yahoo?

By: Admin

Admin — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 16:46:55 +0000

Hey Adam,

As long as the cookie is being set before your call to display the phone number, then it should display the correct one immediately.

Is this the case?

Otherwise you could try posting your code up here, so I can take a look?

Rob

By: Adam

Adam — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 05:33:24 +0000

If I put the cookie on the landing page I have to refresh the page to see the changes made by the cookie on the page? Am I doing something wrong?

By: PHP Newbie

PHP Newbie — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 05:21:09 +0000

I’ve tried your php phone number cookie however when you navigate to another page on the site the original (non-google) number seems to be displayed. Do you have a work around for this problem?

I’ve taken it a step further and used it in a php include which displays the number in my sidebar navigation sitewide. Maybe this is the problem?

Otherwise it works fine if you stay on that first landing page.

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Tue, 21 Apr 2009 12:23:28 +0000

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