Help tracking phone number calls from Google Plus & Yahoo Local

[Luckydtech]

Hi,

I own a business in United States and serving multiple locations around US. I have listings for all my locations in Google Business as well as in Yahoo Local.

To track the phone calls that are made through Google & Yahoo, I have provided a 2 different phone numbers in these listings in order to track it effectively. Recently, I read that even the tracking phone numbers will rise an inconsistent NAP in Google local ranking factors.

If such is the case, how can can effectively track the phone calls separately from these business listing? Does anyone have any better idea for this?

Thank you,

[MiriamEllis]

Hey Victor!

Read these and you'll be totally up-to-speed on this:

http://blumenthals.com/blog/2014/11/25/guide-to-using-call-tracking-for-local-search/

...which is a follow up to Mike's 2013 post on this : http://blumenthals.com/blog/2013/05/14/a-guide-to-call-tracking-and-local/

I think you'll find these to be right on the money

[RyanPurkey]

You could use one number universally on your site and local listings in order to match NAP, but then use the alternate number as a way to do call tracking and set that one as preferred. Other options include survey samplings, extensions, or integrating with a CRM if your business involves inside sales and someone who would be taking down that information.

Trying to track by every different service might be a bit of a headache though, as you could conceivably have a different number for every single site: Yelp, Superpages, Foursquare, and so on... Maybe it'd be worthwhile to just coalesce them all as "online local listings".  Cheers!