Install tracking and the cookie banner

With your site on screen, open Tracking under Customers in the sidebar. The page is called Set up tracking and walks you through a few numbered steps.

Under Cookie banner, choose one:

• Use Obelisk's cookie banner: a simple banner asks visitors before any cookies are set. This is best if you don't have one.
• My site already has a cookie banner: Obelisk waits for your banner's answer.

Either way, before a visitor says yes, we count the visit without cookies and without keeping their IP address.

Obelisk's banner asks "Can we use cookies?" and offers Accept all, Reject all and Choose. Only if the visitor allows analytics do we set Obelisk's visitor cookie, which links their visits together. It lasts up to 390 days, about 13 months. If they say no or change their mind later, we remove it. The banner itself remembers the visitor's choice.

1. Press Create my code.
2. Press Copy code.
3. Paste it into the head of every page, or into your site builder's custom code setting.

Open Using a site builder? for where it goes:

• WordPress: add it with a header code plugin, or in your theme's header.
• Webflow: Site settings, Custom code, Head code, then publish.
• Shopify: Online Store, Themes, Edit code, theme.liquid, inside the head.
• Squarespace: Settings, Advanced, Code injection, Header.
• Google Tag Manager: a Custom HTML tag that fires on all pages.

Open More options to change the Email field name and Name field name we read from your forms, add Your other domains, or, with Obelisk's banner, add Your privacy policy link. The code updates as you type, so copy it again after a change.

We only keep the email and name people type into your forms, and only from visitors who said yes to cookies. We never keep anything else they type.

This step only appears if your site has its own banner. Under Tell Obelisk when a visitor says yes, choose:

• Google Consent Mode: if your banner already sends Google Consent Mode, there's nothing to add.
• Any other banner: add the line obelisk.consent(true); where your banner handles Accept.

The last step, Check it works, shows Waiting for your first visit… Open your site in a new tab to send one. When it arrives, you'll see Tracking is live with the time of the last visit. Press See your leads to open Leads.

• Still waiting: open Still waiting?. Check that the code is on your site, that you saved and published it, and that an ad blocker in your browser isn't stopping it.
• "We're getting visits from another address": the code is on a different site. Put the code on this site, or add that address as its own site.
• "Couldn't save your tracking settings. Try again.": your choice didn't save. Try again.