How do I track phone calls from my ads?

Three layers, cheapest first: Google's call assets and call reporting track calls from the ad itself; a Google forwarding number on your site tracks callers who clicked first; full call-tracking services (dynamic number insertion) tie every call to its source, keyword included.

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Three layers, cheapest first: Google's call assets and call reporting track calls from the ad itself; a Google forwarding number on your site tracks callers who clicked first; full call-tracking services (dynamic number insertion) tie every call to its source, keyword included.

The one setting that separates signal from noise: count only calls over a duration threshold (30-60 seconds) as conversions — wrong numbers and 'are you open' calls otherwise inflate everything.

If calls are your business's real conversion, this isn't optional plumbing: without call tracking, phone-heavy campaigns look like failures in the data while the phone rings — and get optimized into actual failure.

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Everything here is free to use yourself — that’s the point. If you’d rather a senior marketer just handle it, in your accounts and your name: 20-minute call, no pitch deck.

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