PPC ideally works in conjunction with other marketing channels. When you smartly place it into your digital marketing strategy instead of using it as a stand-alone tactic, it can favorably impact how your brand is perceived among users.
There are several main phases to focus on to ensure you get positive inbound marketing results. The first one is to drive traffic to your site. This works via PPC, SEO, Emailing, Social Media, and so on. Once people reach out to your web page, you’ll want to be as engaging as possible to turn them into happy customers.
As soon as they become part of your community, you’ll try keeping them around. Finally, you’ll use Google Analytics to see how all went and review processes to create even better target-specific experiences for your audience.
All these pieces are tied together, and that’s why it’s worth looking at strategies and tactics from a more complex perspective instead of approaching each one separately.
Let’s see how these two help each other. With email, it’s generally not so easy to test things quickly. You can only check one variable at a time while using A/B testing tools and then adapt progressively. If you only focus on email, it will take much longer to find what works and what doesn’t.
On the other hand, PPC allows speed testing of different messages and calls to action. It also helps with checking performing ads and landing pages. Once the results are clear, you can “import the winners” and transfer them into the emailing campaigns. Based on your PPC results, you can now use the most effective copy in the subject line in the email body text to fastly boost your conversion rates.
PPC is also great in building up your email lists. For example, you can create lead generation campaigns and offer valuable information in the form of white papers or case studies in exchange for more qualified data.
In reality, often seen as competitors, PPC and SEO complement each other. Your PPC ad is a listing designed to induce a user to take action and see your brand. Basically, the SEO headline that is meant for ranking purposes for generating better organic search results and higher CTRs has the same goal as the PPC one. It aims to inform the users about the company and invite them to visit your web page.
The amazing part is that while you can not test SEO headlines, you can test PPC ones. As soon as you find out what works in PPC, you can decide what to use for SEO title tags.
Furthermore, your paid and organic reports from PPC can help you document your keyword strategy for SEO. As all PPC data is transparent, you get access to what terms and expressions drive the most conversions and then support your complementary efforts accordingly.
You can use PPC to amplify your social media attempts while running ads across blog posts or white papers to encourage sharing. You can also use PPC to increase your community, sustaining the most common goal you may have on social media platforms, which is to create brand awareness.
These two belong together. They should absolutely get married. In conversion optimization, PPC helps you direct specific traffic to the appropriate landing pages and allows you to test layouts and messages for all stages of the conversion funnel.
Experimenting with headlines and CTAs enables you to implement only those ideas that work and have a higher impact on your website.
PPC is beneficial for branding. Being in the top ad position can positively impact your brand. Both the search network and the display one are great sources to reinforce your messages in front of your audience.
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