No matter what industry you’re in, mobile advertising is most likely becoming one of the best ways to reach the optimal audience for your business. According to Google, as many as 93% of consumers use mobile devices to research or make purchases. If you’re not running mobile PPC campaigns, you’re probably not reaching your advertising dollar’s potential. But for those mobile Google Ads to perform well you have to have a strong, well-placed call to action.
Your call to action, or CTA, represents the “Do or Die” moment for your advertising campaigns. A well-written, well-placed CTA can help spur conversions and improve ad performance. However, a poorly executed CTA can deter otherwise willing prospects from converting when they reach your landing page. Here are 5 best practices for making sure that your mobile landing pages are optimized for conversion.
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Make Your Ads Thumb-Friendly
A significant but often overlooked aspect of mobile marketing is recognizing that your audience is viewing ads in a different format than desktop browsers. Text sizes and links that fit just fine on desktop screens can be frustratingly tiny on mobile screens. Apple’s Human Interface Guidelines recommend touchscreen targets, such as CTA buttons, of at least 44×44 pixels, although a study at MIT found that the average mobile device user needs at least 45-57 pixel-wide targets to comfortable click buttons on touch screens.
Whether you measure your CTA buttons down to the last pixel or not, optimizing your CTA buttons for mobile users is critical to their performance. One of the easiest ways to gauge how user-friendly your ads are is to pull them up on a smartphone and test them yourself; if you have trouble pressing your call to action button, you can be sure that at least a portion of your target audience will have trouble as well.
Design Your Landing Page Around Your CTA
Your call to action has no business being shy — it is the focal point of a well-designed landing page, and it should be as easy to find and as clear as possible. On mobile ads, this often means big, bold text or a button, and (usually) above-the-fold placement. Test your page to make sure that it loads correctly and quickly. Over half of mobile users will abandon web pages that take longer than 3 seconds to load, so ensuring that your landing page isn’t cluttered up with slow-loading or visually distracting elements can help keep your audience’s focus where you want it to be. And remember: stick to only one call to action per landing page. A single, easy-to-recognize CTA that draws the eye should be effective enough on its own. Multiple CTAs will only distract and decrease the chances of a viewer taking action overall.
Keep Your Copy Short, Simple, and Specific
Small screens also mean you need to get your message across faster and more concisely than ever. Short, pithy copy is a must-have for your mobile call to action. Most consumers have seen generic CTAs thousands of times over, and these uninspired CTAs don’t provide any real incentive for readers to act. Focus on crafting your call to actions to be dynamic and action-focused to help boost your CTR. Alternatives to the tired “Click Here” and “Download” include phrases like “Shop Our Collection Now,” “Start Your Free Trial” or “Download Your Coupon Here.” If you cut down your text to the minimum needed to get your message across while keeping your language specific, you can make your intent clear to your audience.
Stay Above the Fold…Probably
When they first load your landing pages, what do your viewers see? Is there a clear focus and intention to the page, and an easy-to-find call to action? If your CTA isn’t visible from the moment your landing page loads, you might want to consider redesigning it. Users spend as much as 80% of their on-page time above the fold. If you want to guarantee that your call to action will have maximum viewing time, placing it above the fold is a fairly safe bet. However, although conventional wisdom holds that CTAs should be above the fold, many companies are finding that that isn’t always the case. As mobile device users become more accustomed to seeing long, scrolling web pages, the fold becomes a less significant barrier. The best way to find the best placement for your CTA is to test variations. Which leads us to the next best practice for placing CTAs…
Test, Test, Test!
We’ve discussed in previous posts how A/B testing is one of the best ways to improve your ad conversion rates. Everything from the color of your text to placement to buttons and links can impact how well your landing page performs overall. Testing variations of copy, layout, and other aspects of your landing page can help you hone in on what style, messaging, and CTA placement will resonate most with your customers. Advertisers who used a large number of landing pages variations generated as many as 12 times more leads than those who maintained only a few landing pages. And you don’t have to start churning out dozens of new landing pages to reap the benefits of A/B testing. Testing how simple changes to the placement of your CTA can have a big impact in the overall quality of your campaigns and can help boost your conversion rate significantly.
Make Your Call to Action Click with Webrageous
Mobile PPC advertising is still a young and evolving segment of online advertising, and it’s not uncommon for advertisers to make mistakes with their mobile campaigns as they venture into this lucrative space. Webrageous has been managing mobile PPC results since mobile advertising became available to marketers, and we’ve been honing our digital advertising strategies over the years to help our clients get the best possible results from their campaigns. If you’re interested in learning how Webrageous can help you improve and maintain your mobile PPC campaigns and boost your business, contact us today for a consultation.
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