| You can improve your quality score with multiple | | | | Put simply when people search the internet they go |
| landing pages that are more targeted to your | | | | though three main phases:- |
| keywords. In the previous article I looked at how to | | | | 1. Research Phase. Where they are looking for general |
| improve your Google quality score (QS) by creating a | | | | information on a topic. |
| mini-site. Let's expand on that further and look at how | | | | 2. Decision Phase. Where they are looking to compare |
| we can also marry that with the customer buying | | | | different products and are likely looking for more |
| cycle. | | | | information and reviews. |
| First, let's look at what I call my relevancy radar. | | | | 3. Buying Phase. They have come to decision and |
| The Relevancy Radar | | | | wish to buy. |
| We'll use the example 'sausage making'. That's our | | | | So, in our example a customer would find our general |
| broad niche and our headline keyword phrase. That | | | | 'sausage making' mini-site at phase 1, our sub-niche |
| would also ideally be our domain name. Under that are | | | | 'sausage recipes' review page at phase 2 and our |
| 3 sub-niches:- | | | | targeted 'english sausage recipes' landing page at |
| 'sausage recipes' | | | | phase 3. |
| 'sausage equipment' | | | | So what is the best way to market to the customer |
| 'sausage ingredients' | | | | at each phase of the buying cycle? |
| So, our mini-site would have a home page, and a page | | | | The Relevant Marketing Method |
| dedicated and optimised for each of the three | | | | At stage 1 of the buying cycle a customer is unlikely to |
| sub-niches. We would also have a 'contact' and an | | | | buy but they may do. They are interested, so we |
| 'information' page. | | | | would look to capture them using an opt-in form on our |
| Our home page would be a 'welcome & general | | | | mini-site. |
| description of Sausage Making page'. | | | | At stage 2 of the buying cycle a customer more likely |
| Our sub- niche pages would likely be a review style | | | | to buy but they may not. They are more interested, so |
| page of 3 - 4 products satisfying the needs of the | | | | we would look to capture them using an opt-in form on |
| relevant sub-niche, with links to each merchant's page. | | | | our review pages whilst giving them an option to buy |
| All pages are optimised for their relevant two word | | | | via links to our merchant sites. |
| keyword phrase. (Include them in your meta tags and | | | | I would not run an Adwords campaign aimed at the |
| go for 5% saturation across the page.) | | | | first two phases of the buying cycle. |
| We are still too broad and not relevant enough so we | | | | At stage 3 of the buying cycle a customer is likely to |
| need to fine tune our relevancy radar. So, if we take | | | | buy. They are very interested, so we would look to pull |
| the first sub-niche 'sausage recipes' and target that | | | | them directly to our targeted landing pages using |
| further to say:- | | | | Adwords. |
| 'english sausage recipes' | | | | So, when they search on 'buy english sausage recipes' |
| 'german sausage recipes' | | | | they find our 'buy english sausage recipes' Adwords |
| 'italian sausage recipes' | | | | ad which takes them to our 'english sausage recipes' |
| We can now construct separate landing pages for | | | | landing page. |
| each one, optimised for their relevant three word | | | | Our ad is highly targeted and relevant and links to a |
| keyword phrase. | | | | relevant mini site so our QS is great. Our ad costs are |
| Our relevancy radar is much more finely tuned and | | | | low and our ad ranking high. In this way you can |
| you could take that even further depending on your | | | | improve your quality score with multiple landing pages |
| niche. | | | | that are more targeted to your keywords. |
| Let's look at the customer buying cycle next. | | | | In the next article I'll look at how to create an effective |
| The Customer Buying Cycle | | | | landing page that will convert to sales. |