Comments on: 'Roll Your Own' Phone Call Tracking Program – It Is Easy!

By: anon

anon — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 01:43:11 +0000

galvanize is now at http://sourceforge.net/projects/galvanize/

By: Todd

Todd — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 18:35:05 +0000

I’m loving this tutorial I have to tell you and can’t wait to implement. I was all but giving up on the call tracking because of cost issues and then came across this. Fantastic!
Thanks in advance Mike.

By: Mike Belasco

Mike Belasco — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 21:11:57 +0000

Chris if you want you can email me your code and I will take a look, I haven’t had those problems with IE or not passing variables….. mike at seoverflow dot com

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 19:39:35 +0000

Yea it isn’t getting passed at all. I am getting the “0″ from the $num = 0; in twiml.php

Also, I noticed the javascript isn’t working at all in IE…I don’t use it so it took me a while to find…lol but any idea as to why?

Thanks for the help,

Chris

By: Mike Belasco

Mike Belasco — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 22:38:46 +0000

Chris,
Check that your variable for source is getting passed correctly. The URL should be diffferent and is auto created from the call source. Should be no problem. Also of course when you take this live you’ll need to modify the rules in the JS so that you are changing the number based on keyword (which is available already in the code) rather than just source.

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 19:32:41 +0000

Is there a way to make the analytics customizable for each twilio number. Basically if you have multiple numbers tracking different KWs with an individual number per word or group, to show up in google as different calls.

Like if I am tracking flooring and contractors. I tried the following unsuccessfully:

http://www.mywebsite.com/calls/twiml.php?callsource=GoogleFlooring for one number
http://www.mywebsite.com/calls/twiml.php?callsource=GoogleContractors for another.

Both showed as page hits to calls/0

Any ideas?

Thanks for the great post!

Chris

By: Mike Belasco

Mike Belasco — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 16:36:00 +0000

cool Zack, as you may have read in the comments, it is now even cheaper as numbers are only $1 each down from $5 each. Good luck, and let us know if you need help.

By: Zack Katz

Zack Katz — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 16:31:48 +0000

Hi Mike,
It’s funny that I returned to this article just a few months later and read it with a completely different attitude.

I’m looking into different services, and I am definitely intrigued by the article. Thanks for providing the source code, too – I’m going to try it out.

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By: Mike Belasco

Mike Belasco — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 22:15:48 +0000

Hi David,
Basically Mongoose’s pricing structure (buying blocks of minutes) combined with their price, combined with the fact that everytime I spoke with them they wanted to chat about PPC (most of our clients do organic) made me want to go another direction.

Very cool idea with your API and recording the session from the user vs the server. Would you like to spend a few minutes brainstorming this sometime with me?