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You cant afford to throw money away on inefficient tactics in the paid advertising space. Keeping your campaigns cost-effective is
a must. To streamline your paid campaigns, there are many different landing page best practices you can employ. We've seen the
most significant of these results often come from optimizing your call-to-action.
Now, optimizing your CTA can include a few different factors. Not only is there placement, copy, design, and the usual list of CRO
check boxes there's also the psychology of the interaction itself to consider.
To truly optimize your individual paid campaigns, you should get far more granular with your CRO. This will include taking your
actual value proposition under investigation. Here are a few questions you may want to ask yourself regarding the psychology of
your landing page and CTA:
You'd be surprised how often your CTA issue is offer-related as well as copy-related. Too many marketing managers are focusing
on fixing their landing page copy, when they should be asking their CMOs to consider changing what they offer in the first place.
What we found in the study is that most CTA issues fall under one of four categories:
1. Clarity
The main issue here is that the goal conversion of the page is unclear. This can be because you are using vague copy (like "click
here") on your buttons. Or it could come from your landing page lacking the necessary information to educate your user on their
need for your service.
As you can see in the screenshot below, the landing page may look clean but it lacks any helpful information to educate the user
on why they should convert. Especially for early-stage searchers, this page might as well be a black-hole of mystery and friction.
Make sure that your landing page has any necessary information your user needs to be adequately informed on your
product/service. Here are a few things to focus on:
2. Timing
Here we saw that many landing pages were offering assets to the user that were not appropriate for where they were in the
buyer's journey. For example, if a user hasnt been given the right contextual information to understand their need for your service,
offering a free trial in your CTA is a bit misplaced.
The same goes for offering digital assets with zero explanation of what they are:
Make sure that your offer properly aligns with where your user is in the buyers journey.
Top-funnel offers just ask for contact information
Mid-funnel offers can push branded experiences like email subscription
Bottom-funnel offers get to focus on scheduling meetings and calls
Lastly, whatever you offer, make sure you explain what they heck the user is downloading so they arent blindly clicking spam.
3. Friction
Whenever you're asking for contact information from a user, you need to walk a fine line between value and friction. The more
information you ask for (name, email, business, competitors, etc.) the more friction you're going to force on your landing page.
If your forms are asking for every bit of information your user could possibly supply, they're probably bouncing off en masse. Make
sure what you ask for is equal to what you offer.
The majority of B2B search marketers report that the form field sweet spot for conversions is somewhere between 35. Any
more than that and you start pushing users away.
4. Placement
This has been, and always will be, an issue for CTAs. Online readers aren't known for their attention spans and you only have a
few seconds to grab and hold their attention.
This means that your goal conversion (your CTA) should be highlighted and attention-grabbing. At the least, it should be visible
immediately when you land on the page. You'd be surprised how many sites we still see with nearly invisible CTA buttons buried
under a forest of irrelevant images:
Pro tip? Make sure your buttons are easily found... that is, only if you want your users to click them.
These are just the common issues we ran into while studying an entire industry. While these prove that there are many common
CTA issues that can be easily fixed, it doesn't prove how impactful fixing them can be.
To see just how powerful optimizing your CTAs can be, keep reading.
Through this, we've been able to test some aggressive CRO strategies with our clients' campaigns. What we've seen is that the
most impactful changes come from addressing either:
B2B search marketing is all about understanding the nuances of your end customer and where to ideally place your brand in order
to convert them. If you really want to streamline your buyer's journey, you'll dive deep into these CRO puzzles.
We were able to drastically increases this clients conversions by optimizing their CTA. In this instance, "optimizing" refers to
making the conversion more convenient for their users.
The goal of their landing page was to fill their pipeline with qualified leads interested in scheduling a demo. This is a great lead-
gen tactic, and the landing page was a clean, streamlined experience.
But what we realized was that "scheduling" a demo can cause serious hesitation in users. Scheduling requires them to go into
their own calendar and consult when theyre free and can match your company's schedule.
To make the conversion more convenient, we created a demo video that was available for download. Luckily, the client already
had a great video asset that we could use.
This way, instead of trying to consolidate two calendars (user's and company's), the user could download the video and watch at
their discretion. (On the left: Schedule a Demo Today! & on the right: FREE 5 Min Demo Video)
When it comes to convenience, it's important that you speak to users not only in terms of dollars, but time. While money is always
a resource that we want to save, time is an invaluable and infinite resource that we are all constantly clamoring for more of. If you
really want to impress users, start speaking to them in terms of time-saving value. You can see from the screenshot below that
doing so will prove worthwhile.
That's right we saw over 738% increase in conversions by making the process more convenient for users. That's some serious
conversion rate optimization which leads to some serious revenue.
Now, if you are running any sort of serious landing page campaign, your CTAs will explicitly state the goal conversion of your
page. For example, a "click here" button simply isn't going to cut it. If you are telling them to read a blog, download an e-book, or
schedule a meeting, your CTAs should read accordingly: "Read now," "Download e-book," "Get in touch."
But copy-focused CRO goes beyond just focusing your CTAs. A/B testing your button copy to see which variants convert more of
the traffic your ads generate is also key. In this case, we tested whether the industry-oriented copy or the value-oriented copy
would convert higher.
Originally, the button read only "Watch the Demo Video" a CTA that we knew worked from the previous test above. We tested
the two screenshots in two different targeted markets.
The first (MES Software) was targeted towards industry experts who would hopefully react to the specific copy. The second (Free)
was for everyone else. The results were quite interesting:
We can see from the results that targeting your CTA copy towards your target market's vocabulary does work quite well. But, as in
most cases, emphasizing that the asset is free of charge eliminates nearly all friction from the experience, which resulted in a
serious increase in conversions.
Thus far we've seen that changing the CTA to cater to your user's convenience results in serious increases in conversions.
Emphasizing a great deal with "free" in your copy also work incredibly well.
The more value you convey through your button's copy (whether it's monetary with "free" or expertise with "MES") the more
success you're likely to see. But what happens when you change your landing page's offer altogether?
What we saw in this third campaign is that oftentimes there are multiple search intents behind the traffic your paid ads are
generating. This means that not everyone who clicks through your ad is seeing relevant material if you're running a blanket
campaign.
But these clicks are still potential leads that you are leaving on the table. Don't let them bounce off. Create a custom experience
for each of your distinct search intents. Dont just stop at niche go all the way to creating custom experiences for singular
searchers!
Previously, this landing page CTA was focused on a singular goal (scheduling a demo), but there were multiple search intents
behind who was clicking on their ad. Because of this we were seeing a lot of bounces.
After we looked at the data, we realized that we could create a custom landing page experience for each of these different search
intents. One of these was focused on a certain industry report, the second with a new cybersecurity threat, and the third with the
actual brand name in mind.
In the screenshots below, you can see how we created three unique experiences for different expected users:
This newly segmented landing page campaign saw a drastic increase in conversions by targeting each of these different buyer's
journeys. The more customized an experience you can provide, the more conversion-prone your user will be.
Instead of hoping that a catch-all ad campaign would generate leads from each of these different intents, try the opposite. Creating
a more customized user experience will rarely come back to bite you. After all, the conversion rates of each of these segmented
pages speak for themselves:
As always, when it comes to digital marketing, segmentation should always yield more success.
This goes for any interpretation of the word "easy" you can think of. The more convenient your offer and the more value-driven
your landing page & button copy, the more enticed your users will be to convert. CRO takes more than just copy and design into
consideration.
To truly master your buyer's journey and become an ROI-driven CRO mastermind, you need to analyze the psychology of your
paid campaigns. You need to dive deeper into the implications of each market interaction. And most importantly you need to
implement changes that will drive leads/revenue, not just empty clicks.
The smoother your CTAs, the smoother the slide straight to your sales team.
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