Archive for the ‘pay per click’ category

Landing Page Advice For Lead Generation

March 27th, 2010

This week I have been working on designing a few landing pages for various PPC lead generation campaigns.
Based on my experience, subject matter research and discussing it with my work colleagues I made a list on what makes a good landing page for lead generation.

Navigation: This should be removed you don’t want to distract the visitor away from the offer and conversion action.
However you should include a link in your logo so the visitor can visit the main site if they wish to.
Include a footer with links so that the visitor and Google can see you are part of a larger site.

Header: This should be clear & relevant to the visitor so that they are encouraged to scan down, using large clear fonts and if possible dynamic keyword insertion to make the page more relevant to the visitor.

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What is Google Quality Score?

November 11th, 2009

After you have set up your PPC campaign Google gives each keyword in your campaign a quality score.

Quality score can range between 1- 10 with 1 being the worst score and 10 being the best.

If you have a low quality score you can end up spending between $5-$10 per click.

Google uses your quality score to determine your ad position and keyword bid price.

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A few PPC Myths

November 10th, 2009

1) You need to be the number 1 advertiser – You don’t need to rank number 1 in order for your advert to get a decent number of clicks and search volume. You should be putting your efforts into optimization, split testing and ROI.

2) You will only pay 1c a click if there are no other bidders – Search Engines set there own minimum bids for keywords & this is partly determined by the quality and relevancy of your landing pages. » Read more: A few PPC Myths