Pay Per Click (PPC) advertising has changed the way businesses drive traffic to their website. In addition to generating web traffic to a site, PPC also offers a number of tools to measure online analytics. PPC becomes most optimized when a lead conversion can be associated with a specific campaign, ad, keyword, and landing page. While Adwords and other PPC channels offer some very valuable tools to measure campaign efficacy, often what is most forgotten, is the most integral portion of the lead conversion process—the phone call.

So you’ve finally decided to purchase some call tracking numbers.  Let’s say you have one on your website and one on a billboard just above the old town square (yes, some towns still have them!)  Both numbers will forward to your main business line, and callers will be none the wiser.  But

Call tracking is increasingly used by small business to measure ROI on advertising pipelines. Its application as a metrics-gathering tool for advertising makes it an ideal marketing solution. The information that can be garnered from call tracking software also makes it an invaluable call center solution.

here are so many places where online traffic comes from. It is fairly typical, however,  to list only one phone number on the landing page. Putting a unique phone number on a website just won’t suffice when web traffic is coming from so many different sources.