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February 17, 2016
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Dynamically populate keyword onto Marketo LPs

  • February 17, 2016
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Hi Community,

We are faced with a challenge of increasing our Quality Score in our Adwords campaigns due to poor landing page relevance (particularly content not being tied closely to keywords).

We want to avoid creating a ton of variations for a single landing page, as it is very manual. We would have to replicate these pages in 3-4 different languages as well.

We use Marketo Landing Pages for our PPC campaigns and are looking to dynamically populate a keyword (through utm_term) into the content, in order to increase landing page relevancy.

I've searched the community but haven't found a clear answer

Let me know what you all think!

Best,

JP

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Jason Long​, I was under the impression that conversions (through conversion tracking) do nothing to impact QS... Am I wrong?

Ideally, we'd like for this mechanism to improve quality score (as the replaced text would make the LP tied more closely to the ad/keyword etc) -- although is there a way to have the spider read the pages code after it has fully loaded (including the javascript)?

Of course, we expect downstream conversion to be nominal as well, but that's a plus.

At the end of the day, we don't have the bandwidth to be spinning up/maintaing a ton of landing pages for every keyword (in every language).


If I could control how Google's spiders read a page, I'd be a very rich man

At the end of the day, this technique will not help your Quality Score with more targeted content on your page, as Google's spiders will not read it. It will make your page more tailored to a visitor's initial search results, which may increase conversions, which while not improving your QS (thanks for clearing that up, it is true that conversions aren't used because advertisers can define a conversion as anything, rendering the value of a conversion moot), it should make the VP of Marketing happy.

I did this at a company I was at a couple years ago and just found the page again; feel free to lift the code: ServiceTrade | Dispatch, Scheduling, and Management Software for Service Contractors

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Anonymous
February 17, 2016

This is doable using javascript.  Simply grab the search term from the utm value and place it in the body of the page

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    Anonymous
    February 17, 2016

    Hi Jamie,

    Assuming that I'm not an expert using javascript, nor in HTML -- where do I go about finding/placing this script on the page?

    SanfordWhiteman
    SanfordWhiteman
    Level 10
    February 18, 2016

    Hire a web developer. While simple to implement, this isn't something that should be supported by a non-technical person.

    It's also pretty doubtful that this trick is going to suddenly spark your SEO.  The Googlebot isn't stupid -- it knows when you're faking relevancy by dropping a keyword into unrelated text.  The right way to use keywords is to write fresh content in a way that straddles the line between natural language and purposeful name-dropping.

      Josh_Hill13
      Josh_Hill13
      Level 10
      February 18, 2016

      Per @Sanford Whiteman

      I would say there are many other tools that can help you manage that situation better, such as Captora. You can certainly tokenize your page to churn out more campaigns faster. You can also hire translation agencies to help this issue.

      I suspect Google has already defended against precisely this sort of situation and would hit you hard for this sort of thing. If your pages aren't relevant, make them relevant the right way.

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        Anonymous
        February 18, 2016

        Hi Josh,

        Thanks for suggesting Captora, I will check them out.

        Tokenizing landing pages won't work since we want to personalize pages to anonymous visitors, not those known to our DB.

        Here is my example:

        We have 1 asset pointing to the demo of product (let's say it's called 'widget' for example).

        If a user searches for and clicks on an ad for the terms:

        "simple widget system" or

        "enterprise widget system"

        Using the URI parameters utm_term=simple or utm_term=enterprise, are we able to pull that value and dynamically insert the text onto the landing page in the headline to say "{keyword} Widget System" etc?

        I hope this clarifies things a bit.

        Let me know what you think.

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        Anonymous
        February 18, 2016

        I've done this in the past, and it does not increase Quality Score *directly* as @Sanford Whiteman​ said. The spider will read your page's code without Javascript, so it will read your page's title as

        <h1><span id="domElementForInsertingTerm"></span> Widget System</h1>

        Not to say doing this won't indirectly increase your Quality Score because your page's content will be tailored to the user's search term, which could increase conversion rates. If you have conversion tracking turned on and reporting properly, this increase could increase your QS because your ad is more relevant (converting better).

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