how to add Google adwords conversion tracker in updated contact form.

and sorry, this link did not help explain it well since it’s for google analytics.

https://contactform7.com/tracking-form-submissions-with-google-analytics/

A step by step explanation would be appreciated. Thanks.

Thank you for posting this, thalespanagides.

I need help with this as well. I have never been able to get Google AdWords Tracking code to work properly with Contact Form 7.

This is exactly what I need as well: “A step by step explanation would be appreciated.”

~ Angela

FYI, I found a help page that I can no longer find that said to enable AdWords conversion tracking for Contact Form 7 you had to go to the ‘Form’ tab and put the javascript code in the form itself above the form input code.

Then under the Additional Settings tab you put the jQuery code snippet.

However, I have yet to have an AdWords conversion tracker that works with Contact Form 7.

I’m currently searching for other forms that have AdWords compatibility.

Thanks for your input Angela. Amazing how nobody seems to have an issue with this. Can Takayuki Miyoshi help us with this? Would really appreciate if you could at least guide us in the right direction.

Well, let me say this before I submit a solution.

What I do is track all CF7 Form Submissions as an “event” in Google Analytics.

Then, I tell Google Analytics to create a Goal from this Event.

Then, since my Google Analytics and AdWords are linked, you should be able to to see the Goal Conversions/Form Submissions attributable to AdWords in AdWords and/or in Google Analytics…

So, the idea is to FIRST add some javascript to CF7 that sends the event into Google Analytics.

ADDING THE CODE TO CONTACT FORM 7
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1. Enter Contact Form 7 in WP.

2. Select “edit” which form you want to track

3. There are 4 tabs at the top of your form labeled: Form, Mail, Messages, Additional Settings.

4. Select the last one labeled “Addition Settings”

5. Add this line of code:

on_sent_ok: “dataLayer.push({‘event’: ‘contact-form-submitted’});”

Now, when a form is submitted the event “contact-form-submitted” is sent into Google Analytics (assuming you use Google Analytics)

6. If you do a test submit or two you should see this in Real Time Events in Google Analytics or after testing…wait a few hours and check your Events in Google Analytics. Look under Event Label and you should see “contact-form-subitted”

7. In your Google Analytics under Admin…select the View you use to monitor your traffic. Click on Goals to create a new Goal based on this Event Label…

Goal > +New Goal > Custom > “Give it a Name” >

and then set the Event Conditions to

Label – Equals to – contact-form-submitted

Save and you should be done.

Then in AdWords, after a short while you should be able to Import this new Goal “Give it a Name” and those AdWords Conversions attributed to any submissions will be registered.

Hope this helps.

T

Wow, Tyano. Thank you very much. Seems logical and I will put it to the test and report back in a day or two when conversions start being recorded. Thanks for the detailed explanation.

Hi tyano,

Thank you for your reply and for such a detailed, thorough response! It is greatly appreciated!

Do you know if this would this work for the Fast Secure Contact Form plugin as well?

I’m having other issues with Contact Form 7 since their last upgrade, so I’m trying out other contact form options.

Thanks again!

~ Angela

Interested to hear if tyano’s solution works for you, thalespanagides.

Angela, I’ll let you know. I’ve linked analytics with Adwords and followed Tyano’s steps. I expect it takes about 24 hours before I see any results. I’ll let you know.

I;ve never used Fast Secure Contact Form…is there an “Additional Setting” options under the Settings…or something like a “Post Submit HTML” like in Square Space?

Regarding CF7 Response…

If it doesn’t work…as for sending events into Google Analytics…try the code snippet from this post:

https://contactform7.com/tracking-form-submissions-with-google-analytics/

on_sent_ok: “ga(‘send’, ‘event’, ‘Contact Form’, ‘submit’);”

The reason I may be slightly incorrect is I use Google Tag Manager…

so, if you used this…then in Goals you’d modify the setup a bit using either:

event category is equal to Contact Form

(remember, it’s literal and case sensitive in setting up Goals in GA)

T

This totally sucks, the bigest form plugin cant manage to fix such a simple yet usefull issue….

Ill set my coder on hacking the plugin.

After I Added the on_sent_ok: “dataLayer.push({‘event’: ‘contact-form-submitted’});” in Additional Setting… the form stopped sending emails. It didnt even displayed the “thank you mesaage” it does nothing.

Bingo. Finally works. Lesson learned. After countless hours and vowing not to give up even though I’m a non techie I managed to get Adwords to record conversions generated in Analytics in the new Contact7 form.

IMPORTANT: Link your analytics account with your Adwords account. Go to google analytics and you will be guided under the Admin Tab

I can’t remember every step but here are the basic ones which I hope will offer some guidance.

As Tyano member wrote (but with slight modifications)

1. Enter Contact Form 7 in WP.
2. Select “edit” which form you want to track
3. There are 4 tabs at the top of your form labeled: Form, Mail, Messages, Additional Settings.
4. Select the last one labeled “Addition Settings”
5. Add this line of code:
on_sent_ok: “ga(‘send’, ‘event’, ‘Contact Form’, ‘submit’);”

DO NOT ADD THE OTHER CODE AS IT WILL NOT DISPLAY THE THANK YOU MESSAGE AS JBLANCARTE MEMBER POINTED OUT.

then again

6. In Google Analytics under Admin…select the View you use to monitor your traffic. Click on Goals to create a new Goal based on this Event

Goal > +New Goal > Custom > “Give it a Name” >

and then set the Event Conditions to:

a) Contact Form
b) submit
c) Label – I Left this field empty because if I didn’t it would not verify.

then you should see a link below to verify. Click to test it.

Save and you should be done.

Then in AdWords, after a short while you should be able to Import this new Goal “Give it a Name” and those AdWords Conversions attributed to any submissions will be registered. More how here –
https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/1034306/?hl=en&utm_id=ad&authuser=1

Give it about 24 hours to start recording conversions, meanwhile go to Real-time in analytics to test that it is recording.

I hope this helps. Good luck.
Thales

Hi Thales,

thanks for your post.

I managed to record my contact form completions on Google Analytics following the instructions of the plugin author, however the result does not show on Adwords unless the contact form is on the landing page itself.

Now I have quite a few landing pages, so using multiple contact forms does not work out for me, I want to use one contact form which is on my contact page.

I am trying to find solution and came across with your post. Could you please help me out and answer my questions before I make any unnecessary changes on my account?

1. In your step 6a, you say:

“and then set the Event Conditions to:
a) Contact Form”

What do you mean, where do you set it exactly? At Goal Details/category?

2. Do you have your contact form on your landing page or on a separate page?

Thank you, your help is much appreciated.

Hi Sojtv, I’m not a techie and it was 4 months ago but to answer your questions, yes, type “Contact Form” …under the Goals details. I have my contact form on a specific Contact page and not a landing page.

hope this helps and wish you the best of luck,
Thales