How To Track Ads

You know, it’s not easy to keep track of things when you have a lot of things to keep track of. That’s why businesses hire accountants and bookkeepers. And that’s also why there are so many word processors and spreadsheet software programs. Keeping an organized accounting system is crucial to any business, especially involving lots of money changing hands.

However, you don’t have time to be an accountant and bookkeeper simultaneously as a small business owner. Fortunately, there are ways you can keep track of your advertising expenses while keeping on top of everything at the same time. It may not be easy, but it’s not that difficult either. Here are some tips on how to track ads:

1. What is Ad Tracking?

Ad tracking is the process of keeping track of all your advertising expenses. As a business owner, you know that advertising is essential to your company’s success. You know you need to advertise for your business to grow and prosper. But what exactly does advertising entail?

While many people think of advertising as billboards and bus stop signs, it includes much more. It has everything from newspaper and magazine ads to radio and television commercials. When you advertise in these media, you are spending money to tell people about your business so they can visit your site or place an order with you. For example, if you were running an ad campaign for your business and it was for June, then you would want to make sure that you kept track of the expenses related to that ad campaign throughout the entire month.

2. How Ad Tracking Works

The best way to track your advertising expenses is using software specifically for monitoring ads. You can find many of these ad tracking programs online. There are also many free ad tracking programs that you can use to track your expenses. However, free programs have the disadvantages of being unable to keep track of the full details and not being able to save your work when offline. Also, many free programs are limited to only a certain number of advertisements. Ad tracking works by adding up all the money you spend on ads. This can include the money you spend on advertising, from billboards to radio stations to television commercials. If a business owner has multiple advertisements, the total amount of money paid will be divided by the number of promotions.

3. Tracking Pixels

A tracking pixel is a tiny 1×1 image space you can add to your website. This is a way of tying the money you spend on advertising your site. The tracking pixel is usually added by using a software program like Google Analytics, one of the most popular ad tracking programs.

For example, if you were running a campaign on radio stations and wanted to track the amount you spent on that campaign, then you would place an image of yourself in front of a microphone and say, “I’m available for radio ads” or something like that. When someone clicks on your ad, it will be recorded as an impression for the radio station. Then when it came time to keep track of how much money was spent on your campaign, all that was required was for the person who ran the ad to add up how many times they had seen each image and add up all of those impressions into one total cost.

4. Tracking URLs

You can track a lot of data to your website by using tracking URLs. A tracking URL is a link that points to a specific page on your site. When someone clicks on the link, they are taken to that page, and then the data is recorded in the ad tracking software. A tracking URL is a unique shortcode you can add to the bottom of your web page. This shortcode will automatically add up all of the clicks on your website and record them in Google Analytics.

5. Tracking Cookies

Cookies are small pieces of information stored on your computer to keep track of your browsing habits. When you visit a website, the website can add a cookie to your computer so that it will remember who you are and what you have been doing on their site. This allows the website to track how much money you spend on their site for advertising purposes. You can also use cookies to track how many times someone has viewed a specific advertisement or how many times they have visited a particular page of your website.


Advertising is a significant part of the Internet economy but can be expensive. If you decide to use advertising on your website, you will have to spend a lot of money to get the right results.