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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In the last two articles, we have been talking about Black Hat SEO, and about the techniques that are out-and-out classified as Black Hat SEO techniques. The thing we are going to talk about in this article will tell you that there is no such thing as absolute Black Hat SEO technique, at least not in theory. Black Hat SEO may mean one thing to one group of people while something else to another group of people depending upon the SEO school of thought they subscribe to. In the course of next two articles we will try to analyze what these SEO schools of thoughts are. Let’s begin with The Search Engine Policy Approach, and we will also cover The Unnatural Ranking Approach in this article.
The Search Engine Policy Approach
The SEO professionals who follow this approach to classify an SEO practice into either Black Hat or White Hat believe that the SEO technique used by a website should be in sync with the policies and guidelines set by search engines, at least by the ones set by major search engines: Google, Yahoo and MSN.
For an untrained pair of eyes, this approach looks harmless, and more real than any other approach, but there is a slight problem with this approach. And the problem lies in the difference between policies and guidelines set by different search engines, which essentially means, you cannot optimize your website for all the search engines at once. You will need to ask yourself, which search engine you want your website to be optimized for? For example: if you put doorway page (Read about Doorway page here), Yahoo will not have any problem with that, but Google is not friendly to doorway pages. It, instead, suggest using 301 redirects.
The Unnatural Ranking Approach
The subscribers of this school of SEO thought has gone too far in professing that any SEO practice that unnaturally boosts the webpage ranking should be considered Black Hat SEO practice. On the surface this sounds good, but if we scratch the surface even with a coin, the real picture starts emerging.
There are two problems with this school of thought:
- The definition of “unnaturally high” is too vague to be accepted by everyone.
- According to this approach, every SEO practice is Black Hat. Think this over to the end and you will realize the truth behind this claim. This approach of thinking makes all the H1, H2, H3, Alt tags of your website Black Hat.
With this thought , I am concluding this article, and in the next article, we will discuss about The Visitors Value Approach and The Property Right Approach of SEO classification.
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