VisitorID uses reverse IP lookup to identify the companies visiting your site and provides you with contact information, including names, emails, and phone numbers. This effectively doubles or triples the number of leads that can be obtained from your existing web traffic. This article will detail how to set up VisitorID.
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Configuring Important Contacts
Before you can use VisitorID features, you will need to configure Important Contacts settings. To configure Important Contacts settings, do the following:
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Configuring Important Pages
In addition, you will need to configure Important Pages settings. Important Pages are web pages you deem important, and they track leads who visit said webpages. To configure Important Pages settings, do the following:
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Configuring Email Settings
You can configure which user roles can receive email results. To configure email settings, do the following:
Be aware that you will need to select to receive an email either daily or weekly in order to receive email VisitorID email notifications. This does not affect other automation notifications. When enabled, these emails detail the following: |
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Note: SharpSpring users that have not opened an email or logged into the application for 180 days will have their system notifications suppressed. This includes VisitorID, billing, and automation-based notifications.
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Important: As the internet evolves, anonymous visitor tracking has become less reliable. SharpSpring is placing greater emphasis on returning relevant leads by omitting anonymous visitor activity in VisitorID emails. You can still review anonymous visitor activity on the VisitorID page.
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- The Receive emails about web prospects for my company option sends emails at a specific frequency about available prospective tracked leads that you should consider investigating.
- The Receive emails about web prospects for my clients option sends emails at a specific frequency to you about available prospective tracked leads for your clients that both you and your clients should consider investigating.
Excluding Domains
You can enter blacklist information and exclude a domain from VisitorID results. To exclude domains, do the following:
Leads with a tracked device will continue to show in VisitorID when they visit a tracked page of your site. Unknown leads from the blacklisted domain will not appear until the point at which they become tracked. |
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Note: Domains match from right to left (example.com would match blog.example.com), and IP addresses match from left to right (127.0 would match 127.0.127.127).
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Segmenting by Site
SharpSpring allows you to see anonymous web visitors on your tracked site through its VisitorID settings. If you have multiple sites in your instance, you might be interested in seeing which anonymous visitors are tied to which site. To segment VisitorID by individual websites, do the following:
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Exporting Results
You can export VisitorID results as a .CSV file. To export VisitorID results as a .CSV file, do the following:
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Note: The .CSV file will be downloaded to your web browser's file download location.
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