Get a Leg Up On Local Search with Call Tracking

July 13, 2014
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Get a Leg Up On Local Search with Call Tracking

Make It Ring
To understand which PPC search campaigns, ads, keywords, and landing pages are generating the strongest responses, you should be keeping track of all marketing activities and analyzing the results based on initiative, channel, conversion rate, etc. Only with extensive data collection, reporting, and analytics will you gain actionable insight into campaign performance and overall ROI. So how do you do this? One common answer is with Google Analytics and Google AdWords. It seems natural, right? These programs are designed to monitor your brand’s activity and campaigns across multiple platforms. These tools, however, may be lacking one key component to your modern local search: voice data. That’s right, I said it. Voice. You may wonder why voice is so important to campaigns designed around online local search activity. Let me break it down for you:- Google reports about 50% of all searches conducted on mobile devices have “local intent” and mobile search is set to surpass desktop search by the end of this year.
- If more local searches are being conducted on smartphones, that means searchers are out-and-about when they are inquiring about a company, product, or service. These consumers are seeking information to aid in an immediate action such as: visiting a store, contacting a company, or making a purchase.
- Local search marketing campaigns should be designed with mobile searchers in mind, especially when looking to convert each search into a sale. To do so, information provided in local search results should encourage immediate action be taken.
- It is more natural for a mobile searcher to call a company from a local search rather than browse a website or fill out a form on their device’s small screen. Therefore, local search ads and landing pages should not only be mobile-optimized but also offer an easy, one-click way to call a company from the device.
Okay, It’s Ringing…
So you understand the importance of phone calls from local search, now what? Once the phone is ringing you will need the proper tools in place to track each phone call coming in to pinpoint the exact marketing effort that generated the lead. Call tracking technology does exactly that. Call tracking solutions enable you to attribute each phone lead to a specific marketing effort such as:- Keyword search
- Local search ad
- Landing page
- PPC ad