How can I track home addresses of website visitors?

Most people are unaware that it’s possible to track the home address of website visitors but it’s easily proven via the free trials I offer.

The majority of businesses are totally unaware that it’s possible to use geolocation to track the home addresses of visitors to their website and, although there are a few limitations, there are many more advantages to be gained over competitors who don’t use such technology.

The software I recommend (initially on a free 30 day trial, then low-cost if continuing afterwards) proves that it’s possible to identify the home addresses of your website visitors.

How does geolocation tracking show the home addresses of website visitors?

Geolocation technology is the backbone of identifying the residential locations of website visitors, and that Who Visits My Website software is the only product in Europe that provides those locations plus what people looked at page by page (and what brought them to the website).

Here’s how it works:

  1. You install a small piece of tracking code on your website. That is a simple and very quick task for you or your web developer.
  2. That tracking code records information about all your website visitors.
  3. Your website visitors will see a pop-up box that asks them if they will share their location. Those that allow it (10-30% of all your website visitors) can have their home address tracked by geolocation, and shows what those people looked at page by page.

Here’s an example of an identifiable home address of someone who went to a website at 22:13 on 4th December, and looked at several pages:

Shows the trackable home address of a website visitor

If you trial or buy the software then you will have access to:

  1. Daily emails showing you the identifiable home addresses that have been tracked as visiting your website.
  2. Access to an online portal that shows you more information about how each identifiable visitor interacted with your website page by page.

Is it legal to track the home addresses of website visitors?

In short: yes.

The software is GDPR compliant because it cannot access the personal data of individual people.

All it knows is:

  1. The addresses of website visitors that opted in via the pop-up box. That’s not personal data. It can’t know which individual person from that address went to the website, nor has it got any information like email addresses or phone numbers.
  2. What those visitors looked at page by page on the website.
  3. What brought those visitors to the website (e.g. a Google search).

Individual people are anonymous, but their address can be legally tracked when they have given permission by the website popup (which 10-30% of people do allow).

Why you may want to track the home addresses of your website visitors

If people have been to your website then it’s likely they’ve also looked at the websites of your competitors.

If you know the home addresses of your website visitors then you have the option to send printed materials to those addresses, 100% sure that someone there is interested in the type of service or product that you offer.

I’ve created a specific page that covers the strategies of what to send to houses that have visited your website.

If you are identifying home addresses of your website visitors, but your competitors aren’t, then that puts you in a great position if you send quality materials to those addresses.

Costs and return on investment

It costs you nothing to take a free 30 day trial of that software.

Within that time you’ll gain a picture of the number and quality of identifiable home addresses that have been to your website.

During the free trial you have hopefully also been hand-posting or sending brochures/promotional materials to those properties of most interest to you, and have been assessing enquiry levels that you gain from those mailouts.

 

After the free trial

If choosing to continue after your free trial then these are the costs to consider:

  1. Costs of postage (if not hand-delivering in your local area).
  2. Costs of each item of printed material (e.g. brochures).
  3. Costs of the Who Visits My Website software ongoing.

If paying for postage then it would likely cost you £2-3 per home that you mail out to, including the cost of the printed materials.   If not paying for postage, that cost would be significantly lower.

The software is charged on a month to month basis and you can cancel instantly anytime.

The costs start from £60 (+ VAT) per month if you have up to 200 identified homes per month, and increase by £10 per month for each extra 100 visitors identified each month.

Your 30 day free trial will make it clear how many identifiable home addresses you would see each month.

The vast majority of my own customers have less than 400 identifiable homes per month and so are spending from £60-80 (+ VAT) per month.

 

Return on investment

During your free trial month you would have the opportunity to mail printed materials to home addresses of interest to you, and, if using the methods I recommend, it will be clear what level of return on investment you will gain.

That allows you to choose whether or not to continue via a paid subscription.

The base costs of the software (from £60 + VAT per month) plus the costs of sending the printed materials are what you should be comparing to the enquiries and sales that you gain.   For most of my customers, the return on investment is huge.

 

What to do next

You’re welcome to take the free 30 day trial but I recommend that you already have printed materials (e.g. a good quality brochure or information pack) ready to send to home addresses that are of interest to you.

If you don’t have that ready then you’ll see the home addresses but by the time you’ve sent them anything they may have chosen one of your competitors.

I’m also available to answer any questions you have about tracking the home addresses of your website visitors.  All you need to do is contact me and I’ll be happy to help you.