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Visual Data Systems is a leader in Internet marketing, technology consulting and World Wide Web design. As a pioneer in Internet business, we've logged more than a decade of achieving customer satisfaction and Internet innovation.

Visual Data Systems offers a wide variety of products and services that can be customized to fit your unique business needs. Let our experienced professionals polish your ideas and dreams to create your distinctive Internet presence.

At Visual Data Systems, there are no barriers. Just Innovations.

AdTracker

AdTracker is a real-time advertising referral reporting tool included in our Premium and Platinum Promotion packages. AdTracker technology shows real-time user access to your web site, broken down by advertising campaign and accessible from the your online administration console.

AdTracker Overview

The Real-Time Ad Tracker is a software tool for tracking the number of visits to a website that are generated by a specific advertisement. Unlike other tracking mechanisms, the Real-Time Ad Tracker provides:

1. Tracking any number of separate ads (up to 50,000 simultaneous ads) with no setup or configuration required for each new ad.
2. Instantaneous results, charted online in real time as visitors arrive.
3. Total visits are recorded per day and summarized by week, month, and year.
4. Graphical and tabular displays with user-selectable time-frames.
5. Comparative display of any number and combination of ads.
6. Ability to change status of each ad as active and inactive.
7. Add your own description to be displayed in the Legend.

How it works:

The Real-Time Ad Tracker allows a URL link to the website to be published in an email, online, or even written in a print ad to be typed in by hand. The link will be the same as the website URL with the addition of three identifying characters that are chosen to be unique for each ad. The three characters can be any upper case or lower case letter or any digit, in any order; however, they will revert to all uppercase in the reporting. This provides over 50,000 distinct combinations that can be used to encode and track any advertisement. For example, the following are all valid ad tracker links and will be separately tracked.

• http://www.your_domain.com/ad1
• http://www.your-domain.com/VDS
• http://www.your-domain.com/411

When an ad link is viewed, the user is immediately taken to your home page while the referral is tracked with reference to your code as follows: http://www.your-domain.com/?ref=AD1. The user's experience of the website is not affected at all by the ad tracking.

To create your ad link, you simply have to specify the unique 3-character code and place the link where it will be clicked on or copied from. As soon as the ad is published, you can login to your Visual Data Systems administration page and see the results as the visitors arrive! (You must refresh your display to see new visitors.)

Once traffic for an ad dies down, the 3-character ad code may be reused for convenience.

Administration

On the administration page, you may change the status of each ad as active or inactive, or delete the campaign entirely. Only the ads that are active will display on the reporting page. You may also assign a detailed description of each ad code, whether it be the web or print publisher, and advertising time period. This will be displayed when you click on "View Active Ad Legend" on the AdTracker Report page.

If you want to direct the visitor to a specific landing page other than your home page, edit the Landing Page field. Note that this entry is for the landing page NOT the complete URL. The Landing Page may be static or dynamic as shown in the examples below:

• rental/house.html?PMSUnitID=AHOYM
• guestadvantage/guest_advantage.html

Contact Us

For more information or pricing, and to hear about the remarkable results that we have produced for other companies in your industry, contact our Brandon Besecker at
(910) 632-7435 or by email at Brandon@vdsys.com.