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Creating a winning paid search campaign takes strategy, skill, and usually a not-so-insignificant budget. But, even if you have strong ads, you might be making one fatal mistake (in terms of conversions): ignoring your paid search landing pages.
In the world of paid search advertising, you need to consider your full-funnel user experience–because it’s where you could be dropping the ball. Big time.
The truth? A high-performing paid search campaign is only as strong as the landing page it leads to. If a user clicks through and lands on a cluttered, confusing, or irrelevant page, you risk losing that conversion—no matter how compelling your ad copy is or how optimized your bids are. Worse, a poor experience doesn’t just cost you conversions—it can hike your ad spend and hurt your brand perception, too.
That’s why great landing pages don’t just look nice. They’re strategic, streamlined, and built to convert.
Here’s how to ensure your landing pages do the heavy lifting in your paid ad strategy.
Why should you give a hoot and toot about your landing pages? They impact both user experience and Google Ads’ Quality Score–which *hint* impacts your ROAS and placements.
First, let’s run it back from a position of consumer experience. When someone clicks on a paid ad, they’re not looking to browse. They’re in a prime position to convert, aaaand expect an answer to their question or a solution to their problem—fast.
That’s why you should have a dedicated landing page in place that meets that need by removing distractions and focusing attention on a single, compelling call to action (CTA).
While landing pages are vital to ensuring the customer journey isn’t scrambled, they’re also important for the Google Quality Score.
What’s that, you ask? Think of Google Quality Score as Google’s report card for your ads– one that directly affects how much you pay and where your ads show up. One of the biggest factors? Landing page experience. If your page is slow to load, hard to navigate, or doesn’t align with your ad’s promise, Google takes note. And not in a good way.
A high-quality, relevant landing page can help boost your score, lower your cost-per-click, and improve your ad rank. That means more visibility, clicks, and conversion chances—without blowing your budget. Landing pages for the win!
High-performing paid ad landing pages:
If your ad leads to a homepage or generic service page, you’re likely missing the mark (and wasting budget). Homepages are built to support many types of traffic and user journeys.
Remember that landing pages are built for one thing: conversion.
There’s no single formula for creating the perfect landing page. Norms will vary depending on your industry, product, service, and consumer.
However, across the board, successful landing pages tend to follow a few core best practices. Think of them as a framework you can tailor to your audience, goals, and industry.
As a general guideline, your landing page headline and content should reflect the exact language and offer used in the ad.
For example, if your ad promotes a free estimate for radon mitigation, your landing page should repeat that offer up top—preferably in the H1.
Feel too repetitive to you? Now isn’t the time to get creative, it’s the time to get clear and consistent! This consistency (or redundancy, depending on your viewpoint) is worth your while because it helps to build trust, reinforce user intent, and reassure the visitor they’re in the right place.
Landing pages don’t leave room for ambiguity, and the CTA is the place where you should drive home exactly what you want a potential customer to do. That’s why your call to action needs to be three things:
Make your action intuitive–whether it’s scheduling a demo, downloading a guide, or calling your office.
Grab attention with a contrasting CTA banner, a clearly defined button in a hard-to-miss hue, and use text that finishes the sentence. For example, if you’re a car repair shop asking folks to fill out a form with their info, instead of “Submit,” try “Get My Free Quote.”
Finally, remember: this isn’t a blog, so your CTA doesn’t need to “blend.” Nope, it should do the opposite! Make sure it stands out and is repeated throughout the page. Place it above the fold and repeat it further down the page for scrollers.
Did you know that most paid traffic comes from mobile devices? That means your page needs to load quickly, read cleanly, and allow users to take action with just their thumbs!
Prioritize fast load times, legible fonts (don’t make ‘em squint), short paragraphs, and large, tappable buttons.
We’ve covered some basics, but this is truly THE takeaway–if you remember nothing else, please remember this: your landing pages should speak directly to the audience and message the ad targets.
That includes matching tone, addressing pain points, and using language that aligns with the user’s search intent. This is especially important as a quality signal for campaigns in regulated industries, where content must be compliant and trustworthy.
Visuals matter, too. Showing your service in action—through photos, demos, or animations—helps users imagine themselves as your customer and keeps them engaged.
Remember: your landing pages are meant to be easily consumable and to further action from a prospective consumer. Use strong, clear messaging, an authentic and engaging tone, and avoid generic copy.
The more dialed in your content is to the user’s needs and stage of purchasing journey, the more likely they are to convert–and that you are to achieve a high quality score.
Think of your landing page as an elevator pitch. You’ve got about 30 seconds to get them interested and to trust you.
Use clear trust signals that show your business is legitimate, credible, and capable of solving a consumer’s problem.
Good examples of trust builders include testimonials, review widgets, certifications, and security badges. Additionally, social proof—like customer counts or partner logos—can help reduce user anxiety and lend your business credibility.
Relevant trust signals are important for every brand, but they are incredibly powerful and a must-have for industries like healthcare, legal services, and finance, where trust is everything.
Ok, we as marketers absolutely loathe to hear it, but it’s a hard truth we must swallow: users won’t read every word on your page. That’s why it’s critical to write and design for scanning.
Use bold headlines, short paragraphs, bullet lists, and intentional white space to guide the eye. Break content into sections that naturally lead the user toward your CTA(s).
The goal of a landing page is to create a clear pathway where consumers can laser-focus. Your job? To ensure that everything that could be a distraction and that doesn’t serve as a trust signal is eliminated completely.
That means removing anything that doesn’t support the main action you want the user to take. Ditch the top nav, sidebar, footer menus, and unrelated links. Every last on-page element should support the conversion goal.
At GPO, we craft custom landing pages that are:
We also understand the role of topic adjacency—crafting landing pages around your core service and the related questions users are asking. This makes your content more helpful, your ads more efficient, and keeps users on-page.
Whether you’re running lead gen for a home service franchise, promoting legal services, or trying to drive walk-ins to a big-name quick-serve restaurant, GPO’s paid landing pages are built to convert.
And we don’t stop at launch. We monitor performance, test variations, and continuously optimize for better results.
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