What is a Landing Page? They’re simply the page a searcher is sent to when they click on your Google Ads ad (or Bing/Yahoo Ads, Etc).
One thing that people often forget is that they still need to customize the marketing to the keywords. Most search advertisers just send every person who clicks their ad to the home page. That seems to make sense, doesn’t it?
It does, but if you want to take your ad campaigns to a higher conversion level, you need to start coordinating the landing page to your ad.
For example, a visitor is more likely to stick around if they see the same keywords on the landing page that they used on the search engine.
The unconscious idea is produced in their heads that this page is what they’re looking for; therefore it’s worth checking out. Of course, you still have to provide the copy and content that also fit the keywords’ subject.
What this all means is that you need to create individual pages for different campaigns so you and your individual visitors are talking – on a subtle level, of course.
If they click an ad about #2 pencils, direct them to the page on that product specifically. If they click on an ad about erasers, send them to a page of erasers.
Giving them to a general home page to look at is putting more distance between the visitor and a sale. Take them directly to what they want, what they asked for on the search engine, and your chances of a sale go up.
It’s a simple concept, but requires some work. But that’s what marketing is all about, isn’t it? Working to grease the skids toward a sale.