Landing Pages: Why Your B2B Manufacturing Website Needs Them
If you’re looking to improve your B2B manufacturing website's digital marketing ROI and the effectiveness of your paid search and pay-per-click (PPC) campaigns, you need to incorporate landing pages into your strategy. Landing pages allow you to control visitors’ interaction with your site and are a valuable tool in gathering visitor information to convert them to leads.
What’s a Landing Page?
A landing page is where visitors land on your site when they navigate to it from a specific interface, for instance, an ad on Google. More specifically, the term landing page is used to refer to a page that visitors land on where you can capture their information. These pages generally have limited navigation options (to keep visitors from wandering to other areas of your site and failing to provide their information) and offer something in exchange for the visitor filling out the form with their contact information, such as a case study, ebook, or whitepaper, which is called a content offer.
Landing pages are a super-effective way for B2B manufacturers to convert visitors to leads because they simplify the process. A landing page presents the visitor with two options: enter their information in exchange for the content offer, or navigate away from the page.
Why Use Landing Pages?
Directing visitors to a landing page, rather than the homepage of your B2B manufacturing website, ensures that they see content which is relevant to them and that they are directed to the content, offers, or calls to action that you want them to see. If visitors are directed simply to the homepage of your site, you risk having them navigate away.
Target your Buyer Personas
A landing page allows you to be extremely specific in your targeting, as well. For each of your different keyword campaigns, you can have different landing pages with content and offers specific to those keywords—a tactic that is much more effective than something general; visitors will be more likely to enter their information (convert) when presented with a highly relevant offer.
Track your B2B Manufacturing Website Analytics
Additionally, you can track the traffic and conversion rates of these landing pages to determine the effectiveness of the campaign and the content of the landing page itself. You’ll be able to track how many people navigate to the landing page from your ad, and what percentage of those visitors convert. With that information, you can adjust your campaign, landing page content, or content offer accordingly.
If you’re running ad campaigns but directing visitors to your B2B manufacturing website's contact or homepage, you’re missing out on a ton of leads. A simple landing page that provides your visitors with value, a content offer, in exchange for their contact information will incentivize them to convert and will allow you to better calculate the effectiveness of your efforts and marketing ROI, in addition to increasing that ROI.
If you’re interested in incorporating landing pages and PPC and social media advertising into your digital strategy, we should talk. For firsthand experience on how we use landing pages to generate leads for our B2B manufacturing clients, be sure to check out the free case study below:
