Number compatibility with Google Adwords

  • Resolved rds91

    (@rds91)


    7 years, 6 months ago

    Hi, I really like your plugin and how it looks, but I just wanted to know if you know of any success or failures of compatibility with google adwords conversion call tracking. For example, google has me input a google tracking script where if anyone clicks on my ad, the script fires, and when they go to my webpage, google changes all of the numbers on my page that match my number, to a google forwarding number. This way you can track conversions from the ad. Just wanted to know if you know if your script will change as well.

    Thanks!

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  • Plugin Author David Sword

    (@davidsword)

    Thanks for the feedback.

    The button is built with a standard <a href='tel:555-555-5555'... link. I assume Google’s script would easily find and change it – however I haven’t tested it and can’t say for certain. We’ll look into this in the next version. Thanks for bringing it up.

    Thread Starter rds91

    (@rds91)

    Hi David,

    So I investigated deeper, and your plugin probably *would* work for google’s script, however, the phone number I have on my website for conversion tracking is in the format (999) 999-9999. The google script looks for *exactly* that to appear to change the number. When I input my number in my format in your plugin settings, it forces it into 999-999-9999. On the page source (what google’s script can see) it becomes 999-999-9999. Is there a way I can over ride it to create (999) 999-9999? I tried to change your code in myphp, but it ended up hiding the script, so I had to change it back. Hopefully, you can fix this, because it’s an otherwise awesome plugin and I would give it 5 stars after the fix ??

    Thread Starter rds91

    (@rds91)

    So I tried to change the code around but I think the sanitize function is messing up the google script because Google is looking for the number, but you have an algo to “treat” the number before it ever makes it into the code. I have a feeling that causes it to miss it. Is there anyway to preserve the features of your plugin (have these two awesome buttons on the bottom of mobile) and just put our phone number in the format (999) 999-9999 if we choose? I suppose you had a reason why you avoided spaces and “(” “)” from being entered?

    Plugin Author David Sword

    (@davidsword)

    Thanks for looking into that.

    We’ll revisit the sanitizing, andor make a bypass option for it.

    Plugin Author David Sword

    (@davidsword)

    I’ve added an option to bypass sanitizing of the phone number in 1.4

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