Need for speed
Since Google announced in 2010 it was going to take into account page load speed in it’s search engine algorithm the web world seems to have gone speed-crazy. It’s a good thing, I remember an A/B test we did back in 2006 showing a 50% improvement by using a 30k Landing Page rather than 150k. This [...]
Look at me
Testing the efficacy of web-forms and landing pages is so ingrained in what we do that frequently we overlook old learnings when new projects along. Recently we were contracted to build a specific landing page/micro-site campaign for a client and the agency usefully provided a number of images (of people) to be included on the [...]
Landing Zone : Dealing with PPC Traffic
How Landing Pages have transformed PPC traffic Since the original specification for the world-wide web was drawn up in the 90′s by Tim Berners-Lee there is, remarkably, a ghost still haunting the Internet. It’s called the “HOME” page; we’ve all heard of it, we naturally assume that the page we land on when we click [...]
Quickies : Web forms that work
Probably the most frequent question we are asked is “how can I make my call-to-action web form convert better?”. Here’s a quickie, 10 minute read to get you started. There’s not much we don’t know about web forms. We’ve been designing forms on web sites since 1996 and were one of the first companies in [...]
Quickies : A/B testing in the real world
£200 million button Most web marketers know the story of how Amazon changed their check-out process; the wording on the button was changed from “Register” to “Continue” and a simple message was added (“You do not need to create an account to make purchases on our site. Simply click Continue to proceed to checkout. To [...]
Landing Pages (Part 4 – Microsites)
Enter the 4th generation of PPC Landing policies. This rolls-up the benefits of single-focus Landing and Deep-link pages. The entrance point from PPC traffic is largely the same as dedicated landing pages but this page is supported by a number of other pages; all focussed around converting the visitor. There are two main approaches used [...]
Landing Pages (Part 3)
In early 2004 conversion rate experts were looking to improve on this and we saw the appearance of dedicated landing pages. These were designed with the single purpose of capturing the first time visitor and getting them to engage a little more so they would read further. Big, bold headlines and USPs around the search term were [...]
Landing Pages (Part 2 – Deep-link pages)
The first generation of thinking on this subject was to take visitors not to the home page but to adeeply-embedded page on the site that was more relevant to the search phrase. For example, a search for ”laser hair removal” on Google could be sent to a product page talking more in-depth about laser hair removal. This [...]
Landing Pages (Part 1)
How Landing Pages have transformed PPC traffic Since the original specification for the world-wide web was drawn up in the 90′s by Peter Berners-Lee there is, remarkably, a ghost still haunting the Internet. It’s called the “HOME” page; we’ve all heard of it, we naturally assume that the page we land on when we click [...]
