Archive for the ‘Case Study’ Category

February 27th, 2009

Landing Page Tutorial Update

February 23rd, 2009

Landing Page Tutorial Part 3

Review – Landing Page Tutorial Part 1 and Part 2

Ok people, sorry for the lack of posts the last week or so, things have been busy busy. The private and Free PPC Mentoring section of the forum is alive and well and I will be posting some hot stuff in there this week! I’ve already answered tons of questions that would have taken a lot of trial and error to figure out, so if you haven’t joined our Free PPC Mentoring yet, better hurry. I’ve already talked about finding your targeted demographics and designing your landing pages accordingly. And in part 2 we identified key components in a landing page. In this post I want to cover some basic optimization tips and things you need to continually focus on to improve your landing pages. So let’s begin!

Landing Page Testing and Optimization

Here is a very important tip when you are first about to launch a campaign. You want to create atleast 3-4 different landing page designs. And when I say different, I mean completely different. Each one should have their different colors, header, layout, HEADLINE (the attention grabbing one), different approaches, so instead of saying “Check out these Reviews”, a secondary test would be “The Most Trusted Products are” or whatever creativity you want to put into your market. Try with a picture of your product, try without, try with a video, try without, test it all.

So the Basic Steps Are:

1. Create atleast 3-4 completely different LP designs, with different approaches, colors, looks and headline. (Most of the time you can keep the same body content but it wouldn’t hurt to test different body copy too.)

February 3rd, 2009

Landing Page Tutorial Part 2

In Part 1 of this tutorial we went over a few things on market research and understanding your demographics, that not only applies to landing pages but to your entire marketing efforts. A very important step. Glad to see there were some questions asked and many comments made. You can find the Questions & Answers from Part 1 at the end of todays post. Let us jump right in to today’s topics.

Styles of Landing Pages

1. Review Style – Shows and reviews mutliple products in the same niche.

2. Comparison Style – Similar to review style except you go more into detail on the pros and cons of each product and do a cross product comparison.

3. Single Offer Style – Focused on promoting a single offer or product.

4. Multi-Offer Style – Pitching mutliple offers such as a main offer and a complimentary offer, in an attempt to increase EPCs.

5. Testimonial Style – Usually involves a personal testimony (most of the time its a fictional story) but be careful with fake testimonials, the BBB can come and bite you on the butt.

6. Email Opt-in Style – The main purpose is to develop a list of emails that are related to a certain niche or theme for later email distributions that you will send offers to.

Key Elements of Landing Pages

There are a few very important elements to consider when designing a landing page.

1. Color Scheme – Be sure to use coloring that best fits your demographics of people. For example, if you are targeting elderly people, ages 50+ don’t use a lot of colors that blend really easy together. Instead choose more bold colors with better contrast. We all know that with age comes the deterioration of eyesight.  Make your landing page easy to read and easy on the eyes for your demographics.

January 30th, 2009

Landing Page Tutorial Part 1

I recall many questions and comments were asked in relations to the landing page section of the PPC Case Study videos that I did late last year. So I have decided to begin a landing page tutorial series to help unmask any hidden elements and to better educate you. I just read a post from Chad at CDFNetworks about landing pages and the importance of them, I had already planned for this series and to go a little further in depth than most. There were actually two different workshops at affiliate summit west that spoke on the topic of landing page optimization and I was able to meet the author of the book “Landing Page Optimization” by Tim Ash.

More experienced internet marketers understand the importance of landing page testing and optimizing, however many newcomers fail to grasp how big of a factor landing pages play in determining how profitable or unprofitable a campaign will be. One of the biggest mistakes I tend to find amongst marketers, when they are talking to me about their unprofitable campaign, is they fail to test multiple designs on their landing pages. No matter how many blogs, websites, ebooks they read or experts they talk to, some people just never seem to listen. If you want to find a profitable campaign do two things. First, watch all of the ppc case study videos and follow it word for word, if you have any questions about it you can ask them in the forum. Secondly, follow this landing page tutorial. That’s pretty simple to do right? WRONG! Most of you will read this, you won’t interact with this tutorial by making a comment below, you’ll just read and not take action. However you’ll continue your daily lives working for some job that you are totally disgusted with, making rude comments about your boss and job all day. The other half who isn’t complaining about their job are at  home complaining because they have no job! (I’m sure this doesn’t apply to some of you but MOST of you it does.) Why don’t you just leave the perfectly polished and dust-free TV remote alone for a while and challenge yourself to improve your life and what you get out of it.

November 20th, 2008

CS1 – Questions and Answers Video

Here are the answers to the questions that have been asked concerning specifics of the case study and other various questions. If you have more questions, please feel free to ask.

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Congrats to all those who are having success and good luck in the contest!

November 8th, 2008

CS1.6 – Pay Per Click Case Study Part 6 – Stats Recap and Going Forward

Make sure you guys sign up to those sites via the link here NOT by the banners(unless its Convert2Media or PPC Bully).

Convert2Media
Hydra
Market Leverage
PPC Bully

Ok, so I forgot to talk about a very important piece that I wanted to talk about. It’s been a crazy week/weekend. I wanted to talk about how to know when to get rid of keywords that aren’t being profitable. The answer is pretty simple, when a keyword has cost twice as much as the offer payout and hasn’t converted, that’s when its time to remove that keyword as a non converting keyword. Example: On a $10 payout, and keyword 1 has cost $21 and no conversions, its time for that keyword to be paused or deleted. That will give you a foundation of knowing when to remove keywords. So the process of keyword, landing page and campaign optimizing is simply:

1. Split test ads and landing pages at all times.

2. After a sufficient amount of data has accumulated, remove not performing keywords or keywords that do not produce conversions at double the offer payout or less. So remove keywords that spend 2x(Offer Payout) = No Conversion or Only 1 conversion. As long as your cost/conv is less that 2x the payout, the keyword most probably can become profitable after optimizing. As you continue to weed out not performing keywords, keep testing new keywords. So start with a few hundred keywords, run them for a while and then make changed and repeat the process. Expand on your profitable keywords and the ones that are making conversions. You are able to identify all keywords performance by using the google pixel and Tracking202.

November 3rd, 2008

CS1.5 – PPC Case Study Part 5 – Campaign Update and a Top Secret Tool

A Top Secret Keyword Tool that will Crush Your Competitors!

PPC Bully

What I Didn’t Tell you in the Video

Something I decided to tell you after I produced the video. I put in some keywords of a campaign that ‘i know’ is profitable from a different niche, to double check and see what results PPC Bully produced. I was basically doubting that this tool worked. Well, after about a week of data, literally all of the keywords that I put in showed which ads were profitable and which were not. PPC Bully revealed absolutely ALL of the keywords that I had put in and their ads for a campaign that is profitable.  So you see, this tool is very new and not too many people know about it or have started using it yet. That leaves an opportunity for you.

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If you have any questions please direct them to the FORUM – Thanks.

October 31st, 2008

CS1.4 – PPC Case Study Part 4 – Advice, Tips and Campaign Structure

First off ladies and gents, don’t take me wrong by my blunt and slightly brutal tone on some of the topics. My only intentions are to motivate you and to have an impact on your success. To be completely honest, I haven’t been receiving as many questions as I expected that I’d get. Most places charge a lot of money for what I am showing you how to do. Just surprised more of you aren’t taking advantage of it.

By the way, I wasn’t directly speaking to anyone in particular when I mentioned talked about people just asking ‘newb questions’. I was saying in general, there is so much information on the internet that is free, you shouldn’t have to spend much money on learning materials and the basic questions have answered provided all over. Trust me, there isn’t a completely 100% fail proof guide that holds your hand through each step of the process until you’ve built a profitable business. If there were, you wouldn’t learn anything at all because someone else did it for you. So take my advice and make a change in your life and your family’s.

Next video will be posted next Monday afternoon/evening.

Have a great weekend!