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Archive for the ‘Landing Pages / Increasing Conversion Rates’ Category

Creating great landing pages isn’t easy. And neither is increasing conversion rates with PPC. That is why PPC Hero is here to provide you with great landing page ideas and other management tips for increasing your pay-per-click conversion rates. Enjoy!

Landing Page Best Practices

July 20th, 2010 | Erin | Landing Pages / Increasing Conversion Rates

You spend the time to develop the right keyword list and write very targeted ads to help increase your traffic, click through rate and ultimately quality score. But that is only one piece of the equation – where are you sending those visitors once they click? Your landing page is the first visual introduction to your brand and it should bring a positive experience to the user. To help make sure you are getting the most out of your landing …

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Landing Page Survey – Win a $50 Amazon Gift Card!

May 10th, 2010 | Jen | Give Aways, Landing Pages / Increasing Conversion Rates, PPC Hero News, Surveys

We need your help!

Landing pages are obviously an integral part of PPC campaigns, and we’re conducting a survey about landing pages to better understand how businesses utilize them. This short survey (15 questions; 5 minutes) will provide us with lots of valuable data about this facet of PPC. We’ll share that data with you after the survey ends so you can benchmark yourself against other PPC Hero readers!

To increase participation, we’re giving away five $50 Amazon gift cards! To be …

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Increase Conversion Rates with Minimal Effort, Time and Money

February 4th, 2010 | Amber | Landing Pages / Increasing Conversion Rates

I’ve always been behind the philosophy that telling customers what to do on your landing pages or website is much better than letting them figure it out on their own. After all, that’s what marketing is, right? We lead them in the direction we want them to take; to see our new product, new offers, new promotions, new content, etc.

However, if you’re working with graphic designers to …

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A Gazillion Ways to Test Landing Pages to Increase Conversions

December 2nd, 2009 | Amber | Advanced PPC Strategies, Landing Pages / Increasing Conversion Rates

We’ve spoken before about using Google website optimizer to test different elements of your landing page to help increase conversion rates. But the other day the team here at Hanapin Marketing came up with a full list of those elements to test using the multivariate testing option in Website optimizer.

The multivariate testing allows you to add in a piece of code to your landing pages and test showing that change 50% of the time to your users.  Meaning, …

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Increase PPC Conversion Rates by Targeting High Volume Locations

November 24th, 2009 | Amber | Geo Targeting, Landing Pages / Increasing Conversion Rates

If you have a PPC account that allows you to target across the Unites States, try adding geo-targeted campaigns for each of the 50 states to help increase your conversion and click-through rates.  In most of my accounts I have inherited, there are several campaigns with very specific keywords that are targeted all across the US or one particular area.

A great way to help increase your CTR and conversion rates is to take your top  performing keywords, and put …

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Landing Page Testing: How to test and what to test

November 17th, 2009 | Joe | Landing Pages / Increasing Conversion Rates

Testing your ad copy and your landing pages can significantly improve your paid search efforts. Of course, building a solid keyword base, creating an optimized account structure, and executing a well-planned bid management strategy are also crucial. However, testing allows you to understand how to optimize and improve your communication with your target audience. Conducting thorough tests on your landing pages can deepen your audience interaction and increase your conversion rate.

If you’re like a lot of companies, running tests on …

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PPC Hero Landing Page Optimization Podcast – KidsCoats.com

September 29th, 2009 | Buki | Landing Pages / Increasing Conversion Rates, Podcasts

Today’s PPC Hero Landing Page Optimization Podcast will focus on the KidsCoats.com PPC landing page, submitted by Alan. Alan submitted the page because he’s looking for ideas to increase his conversion rates.

The PPC Hero team has provided an analysis of the well-formatted elements of the landing page, as well as some ideas which could be tested to continually improve PPC conversion rates. Our discussion focuses on the following areas:

• PPC ads/keywords – Branded terms are pretty much always …

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PPC Hero Landing Page Optimization Podcast – First4Lawyers.com

September 22nd, 2009 | Buki | Landing Pages / Increasing Conversion Rates, Podcasts

Today’s PPC Hero Landing Page Optimization Podcast will focus on the first4lawyers.com PPC landing page, submitted by Lee. Lee submitted the page because he’s looking for ideas to increase his conversion rates, and specifically for thoughts about the website’s overall appearance and calls to action. We don’t have a sampling of the ads and PPC keywords First4Lawyers uses for this landing page, so this podcast is focused on on-page conversion optimization.

The PPC Hero team has provided an analysis of the …

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PPC Hero Landing Page Optimization Podcast – GreensBoro500.com

September 15th, 2009 | Buki | Landing Pages / Increasing Conversion Rates, Podcasts

Today’s PPC Hero Landing Page Optimization Podcast will focus on the Greensboro500.com PPC Landing Page, submitted by Nick. Nick said in his submission that this page is about 8 months old, and conversion rates have been declining since that time. They are geotargeted such that ads only appear to searchers within a ten mile radius of their office.

The PPC Hero team has provided some tips on some elements of the site and PPC account structure that could be modified …

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PPC Hero Landing Page Optimization Podcast – Business Plan Pro

September 8th, 2009 | Joe | Landing Pages / Increasing Conversion Rates, Podcasts

Today’s PPC Hero Landing Page Optimization Podcast will focus on the Business Plan Pro PPC Landing Page, submitted by Nicole. Nicole said in her submission that this page was a redesign of BusinessPlanPro.com. In the initial testing phase, the new page did about 10% better in conversions. However, after implementation the new page showed an overall decrease in conversions, so she switched back to the original page. She would like to know what is wrong with …

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