THE ART OF THE AD: HOW TO DRIVE MORE VISITORS TO YOUR BUSINESS NATURALLY The internet is the perfect medium on which to advertise your business or its products or services. Statistics show that it reaches 98 percent of all 18- to 29-year-olds and 97 percent of all 30- to 49-yearolds. By creating and displaying highly optimized ads, you’ll attract new customers and gain a competitive advantage in your business’s market.
USE MULTIPLE FORMATS Don’t limit your online ads to text format, as you can drive more traffic to your website if you use many different types of ads. Image ads, for example, allow you to use bright colors, flashing buttons and cursor hover-over effects to attract clicks. With text ads, you can only motivate users to click using words. You can use words and visual elements in images, however, to drive better engagement. Video is another effective ad format. According to one survey, 51 percent of advertisers say video offers the highest return on investment (ROI) of all formats. You can create video ads for YouTube by creating an account on the video-sharing website and uploading the video to your channel. Alternatively, you can pay to advertise your videos on YouTube by creating a video campaign in Google Ads. This will place your video ad on YouTube as well as other affiliated web pages.
MAKE ADS LOOK NATURAL
Users are more likely to look at, click and engage with an ad if it looks like a natural element of the website’s content. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has laws regulating online advertising, but you can still create natural-looking ads to achieve better results with your advertising strategy. Designing a banner ad in the same color as the target website’s background, for example, allows it to blend in. Because they feature the same color, users may assume the banner ad is a part of the website, thereby increasing click-through rates (CTRs). Your ads should also be relevant to their intended audience. When creating ads for a website, use copy that resonates with the website’s visitors. If you’re creating PPC ads for AdWords, include the search