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24 Apr 10 Learn to Make High-Converting Landing Page for PPC Ads in 30 Minutes

PPC ads are like display windows in front of your store that attracts and pulls visitors to your website where you hope your visitor to perform desired action. But at times visitors do not do what you want them to do because the landing page that you constructed was not good. It was not the kind your visitor expected it to be when he clicked on the PPC ad. For you this means doom. Not anymore. In this article, I will tell you how to make a landing page that converts like crazy.

Landing page that converts like crazy makeover tips

  • Your landing page should be in sync with your PPC ad. Your landing page should continue the theme you set in the PPC ad.
  • Never send visitor to a generic page like home page. This is a surefire way to lose money on your PPC campaign.
  • Do not confuse your visitors. Make it clear at the onset about what you want him to do. Decide before hand what action you want your visitor to take once on the landing page. Focus on one action per landing page.
  • Do not put too many links on your landing page. Links are distraction, and each link works like a road that will take visitors out of the action zone. You will not want your visitor to click the links and leave the landing page. If you have to put links then put it in the footer, and if links are important than put it on thank-you page.
  • Include call to action, and make it obscenely prominent. Do not hide it in the content. Tell the readers about the action you desire from them.
  • Add meaningful call to action. Do not go for easy ones like “add to cart,” “buy now,” “click here,” and “try now,” etc. Use a call to action button that reduces risk in trying.
  • Add USP (unique selling proposition) in your landing page. Tell your visitors why your company is in the unique position to solve the problem your visitor has. Tell them how you are better than other competitors.
  • Make the copy on the landing page easily scannable. Highlight the important stuffs on the page so that people can get the gist even while scanning.
  • Build credibility. Add testimonials, details of your experience, and full contact information, so that your visitors know who is behind the product they are interested in.
  • Must add privacy policy, product reviews, meaningful awards, guarantee, trust seal, certifications, and secure server indicator, etc., on the landing page. This will build trust, and tell the visitors that it is okey to conduct business with you.
  • Do not use a template design that has been overly used for landing page. Design also matters a great deal in decision making. Research says half of the consumers (46%) judge the landing page on the basis of its design. Do not go for a landing page design that is not current. Old design tells the visitors that your offer and product has aged.

Follow these tips and you will get a landing page that converts like crazy.

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22 Nov 09 SEO Tips – Optimize Your E-Commerce Website – II

This is the second post of the mini-series that talks about how to optimize your e-commerce website, and in this part, I will talk about title tag, meta keyword tag, and meta description tag.

Title tag

A unique title tag for each of the product pages is very essential. Use non-repetitive keyword in the title. Sounds simple, isn’t it?

Well, it does, and actually it is quite simple, if you have just 3-4 products to promote, but writing unique title tags start becoming more and more complicated when you have 100 or 200 or more products to sell. And even more complicated if you have to sell 20-40 products with different specification of same make; such as 1, 2, 4, 8, and 16 GB pen drive of XYZ brand.

Now how will you write title tag for each individual pages? Should you include the brand name? I will suggest not using the brand name as you may run the risk of duplication.

Meta keyword tags

Do not use the same set of meta keyword tags for all pages. Be more specific, and as suggested previous post, add commercial keywords in this place. Keyword tags should be taken from the keywords you entered in the database while entering the product details, as suggested in previous post.

Meta Description tags

The meta description tag on the product page of an e-commerce website may contain the brand name. Your meta description tag should work as a short, sweet and succinct sales letter that will ascertain that only those visitors are coming to you who has intention to make a purchase.

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04 Oct 09 SEO Simplified: Writing Titles

Page title and titles of blog post play a crucial role in search engine optimization process. Generally, when write a blog we tend to use the same title for the blog post title and the page title, which in my view is a good practice. This makes a title even more important; therefore, it is imperative for us to know the right way to write a page title. Let’s see how we can write a search engine optimized page title.

Length of the title

Google displays just 67 characters including spaces for a title in its result pages, and yahoo and MSN displays the first 70 including spaces characters of a title. Hence, we need to keep our title length below 67 characters including spaces so that our titles are optimized for all three search engines.

Do not use stop words

Stop words are those words that thwart the flow of a title. Never use any stop words in your titles. Question mark (?), colon (:), and any other special characters are considered stop words for SEO. Avoid using them; if you have to use one then limit your use to hyphen or dash (-).

Keyword first

As the length of the title has been limited by major search engines, it is important for us to use our important keywords as early as possible in the title. If you do not do that then you always run a risk of keywords being missed out by search engines. Ideally, the first word of a title should be the main keyword of the article.

Duplicate titles

Duplicity is never regarded in high esteem by any one nor even by search engines. Do not use the title that has already been used by someone somewhere in the world. Do not write duplicate titles. After writing a title for your blog posts, make sure to check it in all major search engines to ensure that none of the indexed articles have used the title you are going to use.  Use the quotation marks around your titles when searching for it in search engines to get the exact match.

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