A 400% Increase In Conversion Rate? Yep, It’s Possible!

The PPC Hero team launched our Landing Page Critique Podcast Series in July. We have reviewed a handful of landing pages/websites in order to help readers generate more conversions and revenue. We received an update from one of our landing page critique subjects and thought we’d share their results with everyone.

In August, the PPC Hero Team reviewed the landing for Video Game Price Guide, submitted by JJ Hendricks. The objective of this podcast was to generate leads for their video game price monitoring service (monthly service sign-up). With this in mind, click here to see their old landing page. And you can click here to listen to the podcast.

Some of the changes we suggested included:

  • Creating a unique landing page for PPC.
  • Strip the site navigation on the top of the page and left side of the page.
  • Re-write the text so that the users are crystal clear as to who VGPG is and what they have to offer.
  • Keep the message clear, concise and conversion-focused.
  • Utilize one, single call-to-action.
  • Write an attention-grabbing headline.
  • Focus more on benefits within the headline and the body content.

Once you’ve reviewed the original landing page and listened to the podcast, you can check out JJ’s new landing page here. So, how has this landing page affected JJ’s PPC performance? Here is what he has to say:

“We ran the test for about a week and then stopped it because the new page was the clear winner. With about 250 visitors to the landing page, the new landing page converted at 14.5% vs 4.8% (conversions were people clicking to start the sign up process). That is a 402% increase in conversions!”

Yes, we can leap tall buildings in a single bound! This is great news from JJ. We are happy to help and hopefully he keeps tweaking his landing page and sees his performance enhance even further!

This should serve as a reminder to everyone that you need to continually review, update and optimize your landing pages. Even small changes can have a big impact on your performance.

Looking to revise/optimize your landing page but don’t know where to start? Submit your landing for the PPC Hero Landing Page Critique Podcast! You can get the details on how to submit RIGHT HERE!

About the Author

Joe

Joe is a former Account Manger at Hanapin Marketing, a search engine marketing firm focused on generating results through pay-per-click advertising.
  • Marc

    The only problem with this type of landing page (the winning one) is that it will most likely suffer from a poor QS.
    It has less copy
    It has no other links to the internal site pages
    Possibly has no links to it from the main site as it is a standalone page

    How to you suggest we counter the effects of a poor quality score for a landing page like this?

  • http://www.pcchero.com Joe

    Hello Marc:
    Thanks dropping us a comment. In regards to your comment:

    It has less copy
    –Yes, the page has less copy but it still has the keywords the client is advertising for so it should be okay.

    It has no other links to the internal site pages
    –We actually prefer our landing pages not to have additional navigation. This way you can keep users on the page and keep them conversion focused.

    Possibly has no links to it from the main site as it is a standalone page.
    –This speaks to the last note, not having links for the main page should be just fine for this landing page.

    Thanks!

  • Marc

    Hi Joe,

    This is exactly my point.
    We have always been told that google likes the landing page to have some other links on the page going to internal pages to help the quality score.

    It just seems like a page like this is great and will convert great, but the QS will be low so the campaign will be short lived.

  • http://www.pcchero.com Joe

    Hello Marc:

    I just reviewed Google’s documentation on the Quality Score here:

    http://adwords.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=46675

    The elements that have an effect on the landing page Quality Score include load time, keyword density and perceived relevance to the search query. The number of links to the page or links to the homepage for the company or brand are not taken into account.

    In regards to organic search, yes – links are absolutely crucial. But not for paid search performance.

    Best,
    Joe

  • http://princecomm.com Tim Prince

    Landing page is less of a factor with the recent QS update (Thank God!)