Thursday, December 11, 2008

Using Landing Pages With Pay Per Click Advertising

By David Loren Sullivan

The most important part of online advertising is capturing contact information from your leads. Your chances of successful lead conversion will increase tenfold with good contact information. Before you start an ad campaign, take a look at these few tips to increase your results.

Pay-per-click advertising is an excellent method of online marketing. The charge per click varies by search engine. The more popular the search engines typically have a higher per-click cost, but there are smaller search engines that are less expensive. When you have finalized your ad copy, you can begin to create a landing page.

A landing page, also called a lead capture page, is a one-page website that is used to capture a prospect's contact information. Designing your own unique landing page is essential to building and working your pipeline of qualified prospects that will eventually lead to sales, repeat sales, cross-sales, and up-sales. Your working pipeline of leads is your key to success in the realm of internet marketing.

Connecting your advertisement to your landing page is essential to lead conversion. In addition, write your ad copy with your lead capture page in mind. Does the advertisement flow with the landing page? Does your landing page provide appropriate information with a call to action?

Landing pages are extremely important to your campaign. Lead conversions can double, even triple, with a few stylish updates to color or fonts. These seemingly insignificant updates can have a dramatic impact on your bottom-line.

BlinkWeb is a free internet marketing resource that provides easy website creation using professional, ready-made templates. Customizing your personal website is a snap using BlinkWeb's drag-and-drop tool. You can design opt-in web forms, order buttons, and even monetize your landing page.

Consider personalizing your landing page with pictures, videos, or testimonials. Personal branding is important in online sales because it gives the lead something to connect with that is sometimes missing in internet marketing. If your website is branded and your ad copy flows with your landing page, you will be more successful at converting leads.

Upon finalizing your landing page, use dynamic content and split testing to your advantage in order to stretch your advertising dollar to its fullest. Track what is working well, and not so well, and implement best practices for making changes along the way. Your online advertising and lead generation systems will eventually be fully-streamlined. Start today to build the best business tomorrow.

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