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Landing pages: why qualified traffic dies on poor landing pages

An irresistible offer is nothing without a page that presents it. Without one, your traffic leaks. This lesson defines a landing page, explains the upward spiral a better page starts, roasts six real ad-to-page journeys and tears down two pages that get it right.

  • 50 min video
  • 54 slides
  • 3 resources
  • 4-question quiz

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In this lesson

  1. Your ad sets the stage, your landing page closes the deal. One page, one primary objective.
  2. A better page lifts conversion rate, which lifts Ad Quality, Ad Rank, impression share and volume: the upward spiral.
  3. Page work has the highest return on effort, way more than a 1 to 2% gain from search term tweaks.
  4. The issues I see again and again: slow pages, poor hierarchy, mismatched messaging, weak CTAs and missing proof.

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From the lesson

An irresistible offer is nothing without a solid, high converting landing page. You need a proper landing page to highlight your irresistible offer and to explain why people need to reach out to you, to buy your services or your goods.

You could have a really solid, irresistible offer. You could have the best unit economics, solid conversion tracking, and set the best bids possible. If your landing pages are non-existent and you're sending people to your crappy homepage, your traffic won't be able to convert and you will have a lot of conversion leaks.

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Want to go deeper on landing pages? The Landing Page Mastery course in The PPC Hub picks up where this lesson stops.