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5 Factors for High Performing Landing Pages

Marketing Experiments Journal has made a number of A/B tests on landing pages (the pages people land on after clicking ads or search result links).They found that landing page performance can be improved by the following principles.

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• A site's download time doesn't seem to impact it's usability. Sites that are easy to use, fun and professional are perceived as being fast, whereas time stretches out like taffy when you have a painful customer experience. Source #
• The top four search engines combined — Google, Yahoo Search, MSN (and its new Live search) and Ask.com — account for 98.3% of all searches in the U.S. Sourc #
• An email report from MediaPost states Google's Click Fraud represents only .02% of its total traffic. Source #
• Microsoft Windows Live Search lost market share from 12% of total online searches in November to 8.2%, according to Nielsen/NetRatings. Source #
• A controversial study shows Google's true search market share to be 70%. Source #
• Email market churn could reach 32 per cent, meaning that one in three customers could be switching to a new email provider within the next year. Source #