How can I see the sources of my new patients?

Your Dizzy Care Network shortlink can help patients reach your profile or registration page while also helping you understand where those visits are coming from. By adding simple tracking details to your link, you can better identify whether patients are finding you through your website, email signature, social media, Google profile, referral sheets, QR codes, or other outreach efforts. Seeing this in the patient profile is under construction, but you can start logging this information today!

Why Should You Add Tracking?

You can use this link by itself, or you can add simple tracking details to the end of it. This helps show where patients are finding your link. Tracking can help you understand which outreach efforts are working.

For example, patients may find your link from:

Your clinic website
Your email signature
A social media post
A printed referral sheet
A QR code

How Do You Add Tracking?

Adding tracking is easy. You do not need special software or technical knowledge. In most cases, you only need to add two simple details to the end of your shortlink: where the link was used and what campaign or outreach effort it belongs to.

Let’s start with your short link found in your profile. For Robert Barany, your link might look like this:

diz.care/robert-b-1876

It is super easy to add details onto this base link. Just follow the instructions below.

Adding Basic Information

To add information to your base link, all you need is a question mark!

diz.care/robert-b-1876?

Then we add information after the question mark which we want to report. Two of the most common used are source and campaign.

A source is used for specifying where the link is found. It can be as specific or as broad as you’d like! For example it could just be “facebook” for a simple social media post or it can be as specific as “googleAds2026Button” for a google ads post with a button on it.

A campaign is used to group your sources so you can report on them together. For example, if you are doing several advertisements, social media posts, and handouts that are relate to each other, you can use a campaign keyword. This could be something like “Spring2026Ads” or “SummerSunPress2026” for your collection of sources.

Each of these are paired together with an equal sign. See the examples below:

diz.care/robert-b-1876?source=googleads2026button

diz.care/robert-b-1876?campaign=spring2026ads

Your sources and campaigns will help you organize the simple engagement data from your patients.

Adding Additional Information

When you want to add more the one set of information, you simply connect them with the ampersand sign like this:

diz.care/robert-b-1876?source=facebook&campaign=summersunpress2026

This link now will let you know that you received this patient via a Facebook post as part of your Summer Sun 2026 press campaign. The full working link would look like this:

diz.care/robert-b-1876?source=facebook&campaign=summersunpress2026

You can use this to see how effective your efforts are and where you can optimize for future work.

Best Practices

There are some industry-standard practice to make sure your links work correctly. Follow these carefully.

Do not use spaces or punctuation other than dashes. Stick to letters and numbers!
Use consistent spelling and capitalization. Choose one format and use it the same way every time.
Do not include sensitive medical or patient information.
Keep your value pair names consistent so your reporting is better organized.
Custom value pairs are acceptable if the meet the above criteria.