Terry Dean’s November Newsletter- Landing Pages

Terry Dean is releasing his November Newsletter early this month. You still have time to get it before it goes out by clicking here.

This month he begins by candidly discussing the economy and it’s affects on his own business. He also tells you what price points are the best for your business and how to use the state of the economy to actually make money in your business.

There are more topics in the newsletter like how Google Analytics can help you, however all of this is leading to the importance of landing pages.

Here is an excerpt from Terry Dean’s newsletter about what a landing page is (Used by permission). The newsletter goes into much more detail about tests he’s done on landing pages…and what is working RIGHT NOW.

Everything must be tracked and tested to produce the best selling materials. You’re going to find in your tests that the best pulling website is almost never your normal home page. It’s a unique landing page you develop for the campaign you’re working on.

This is most common with Google Adwords, but it really applies to ALL of your marketing. The more specialized and targeted your landing page is, the higher conversion you can create.

For example, I work with clients who have multiple landing pages for the SAME product. I’m not talking just a few changes. I’m talking about a completely different headline and intro. I’m talking about the benefits we focus on being different. Once you get into bullets, you would see that many of them are used on all landing pages, but they are presented in a different order.

Again, even though landing pages apply to all forms of online advertising, I’m going to use Adwords as the example because it’s easier to explain.

In an Adwords campaign you will be using many different keywords. You’ll find if you research the market (possibly using surveys through Adwords), that they have different mindsets based on what keywords they’re using.

In general the shorter the search phrase, the earlier they are in the buying process. For example someone just thinking about golden retrievers might type in “golden retrievers” so they can learn more information. Someone closer to finding one might type, “Golden retriever Indiana breeder” to find a breeder in their area (yes, I have golden retrievers on my mind since I just got a new puppy recently).

The closer someone is to a buying decision, the more specific and focused they become on their searches.

You may also find that your market has a totally different mindset based on the terms they’re
searching. For example, let’s say you sold a dog training ebook. You could easily write a “general” salespiece to put on your site. But for any better conversion you could target the landing page
specifically to certain dog breeds or problems.

For example if someone was searching for housetraining you could work that into the headline
and the intro of the site (while keeping much of the information the same). For keywords centered around “biting” you could again focus the headline on that subject along with the intro and working into the more general information.

Or you could target specific dog breeds such as a landing page for “golden retriever training” or “rottweiler training.” While 95% of what you have would be the same on both pages, you might change all the photos on the page and the intro to the sales copy.

You might even find that purchasing URLs for each of those breeds ends up producing the best results (so something like “goldenretrieverdogtraining.com” may be one of your many domain names).

Even a slight change in your Adwords ad (such as the URL) can make a huge difference in the clickthrough numbers. This in turn drops your cost per visitor and the conversion you need on the landing page to be profitable.

This is why when doing Adwords you achieve your best results with small very targeted ad groups. If you have a keyword phrase in one of your ad groups that’s worth the time you will even want to break it out and put it in an ad group all by itself. This way the ad used can be specific to that keyword only.

You will find the same rule applies to the landing page. If you’re using one single landing page for ALL your Google ads, you’re likely throwing away money somewhere in the process.

This also means you could have different landing pages for all your ads. Are you running an email special to your customer only list? Well you could set up a vip.html version of your landing page with
the discount featured (and instructions for your customers not to share that link with anyone else).

Have you purchased advertising on a specific blog? If so, your headline on the landing page could mention the blog the visitor just came from and tie in your offer to that site.

We talk a lot about personalization in online marketing, and it really applies here. The tighter you can focus your site and make it appear relevant to your visitor the better you’re going to do.

That’s what landing pages are all about!

Don’t waste any more time and money on worthless advice.

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