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How to Optimize PPC Ads for Better Conversion Rates

If you’re spending money on Paid Search Ads (PPC), you probably spend a considerable amount of time checking your conversion rate. After all, what’s the point of buying Google ads if it doesn’t convert into paying customers?  Thankfully, there are several ways to optimize your PPC campaigns, get a higher Quality Score in Google, and improve your landing page conversion rate. In this article, we explain how Google defines Quality Score and areas where you should focus to improve your low quality score, which will lead to more conversions. Then, we’ll show you how to utilize SEM competitive insights to fine-tune your strategy.
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The Secret to Wildly Successful Google Local Ads

Perfecting local PPC campaigns with Google Ads is the biggest challenge in search engine marketing (SEM). It’s true whether you’re multi-million dollar agency managing ad campaigns for a nationwide health insurance company or an independent hair salon opening your second shop on the other side of town.
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Dropbox vs ShareFile: Who has the best landing pages in the online file sharing space?

Your landing pages are the moneymakers in your PPC campaigns. Or at least they should be. They’re the deal-closers. The sweet-talkers. Your online, 24-hour digital sales force. Even if your PPC ads are driving high-value traffic, you’re wasting money on every click if your landing pages don't convert that traffic into free trials, paid users, or revenue-generating leads High-converting landing page ideas come from many places-- client interviews, customer feedback, your marketing team, and your competitors.   At iSpionage, we’re big fans of that last one. 
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Is Targeted Traffic the Secret to Effective Conversion Rate Optimization?

If you’ve been in the digital marketing space for a while, you’ve probably heard a lot of talk about conversion rate optimization (CRO). But the question is, do you get better results from CRO or traffic optimization? So…is popular opinion right? Should you focus on conversion rate optimization over tweaking your pay-per-click campaigns? Sure, if you can do both, go for it. But if you’re anything like the average marketer, time and money are limited, so if you can only pick one, which should you choose?
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15 Excellent Resources to Help You Become a CRO Expert

All of us— even those considered to be CRO experts— had to start somewhere. Nobody knows right away how to optimize websites as soon as they enter the digital marketing world. Thankfully, mastering the art of conversion rate optimization is considerably easier now than it was several years ago, and for a very good reason—more learning resources are readily available.
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5 Actionable Ways To Improve PPC Results with Onsite Retargeting

  In order to make the best use of your PPC campaign budget, you need to target people who are interested in your product or service in the most customized way possible. That’s why remarketing is a powerful component of any successful pay per click campaign because it can help you reach people that visit your website yet leave without converting. By using remarketing, a greater percentage of your abandoning visitors will convert, but not all of them will. And that's where onsite retargeting comes in. Here's a quick explanation of the difference between "onsite" and "offsite" retargeting.
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How Vocabla Improved Conversions 218% with an Underused CRO Method

  Conversion rate optimization is a serious business with a lot of tricks and tools in its arsenal. Even small changes can make a big difference, so we try to learn the most we can about our users' behavior by using automated scripts that show what people click on or how far down our website they scroll.
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How to Capture More Conversions with an Irresistible Value Proposition

Your value proposition is probably one of the most important pieces in the conversion puzzle. If you don’t believe me, think about it this way… Online shoppers have literally thousands of websites they can choose from when shopping online. It can become difficult for them to decide where to make a purchase. They’re often looking for that definitive reason why they should choose you over the competition.
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The Science behind Explainer Videos and Why They’re So Effective

I’m sure you’ve seen them somewhere around the web. Whether it’s the one used by Dropbox to fuel their growth from 0 to 100 million users, or any of the other thousands of videos used around the internet to explain SaaS companies and digital products. They’re everywhere. But what you may not know is how effective they are and what makes them so effective.
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