One page, one job, one action
No navigation bar to wander off into, no six services to choose between. The page makes one offer and asks for one thing.
Sending paid traffic to your home page is how you burn a budget.
A home page has to be everything to everybody. A funnel only has to do one job: take the person who just clicked your ad and turn them into a qualified enquiry. That is why the same ad spend produces completely different results depending on where it lands. Funnels are the landing half of paid advertising.
Five parts of the funnel, each built around the way a paid click actually behaves.
No navigation bar to wander off into, no six services to choose between. The page makes one offer and asks for one thing.
A free paint assessment, a fixed price winter pool check, a same week slot. People do not respond to "get in touch", they respond to something specific with a reason to do it now.
Budget, timeline, vehicle or pool size, postcode. The people who were never going to book filter themselves out before they reach your phone.
Real photographs of finished work, real reviews with names, and a clear price range. Every question you leave unanswered is a reason to close the tab.
Every form is tagged to the ad that produced it. You see cost per enquiry and cost per booked job, not cost per click.
Because a home page is built for browsing and an ad click is not browsing. The same budget will typically produce far fewer enquiries because the visitor has to work out what to do next.
Usually yes, at least for the two or three services you actually want more of. One funnel trying to sell everything converts like a home page.
Enough to get roughly thirty to fifty clicks a week on the offer. Below that you are guessing rather than measuring, and it is better to fix the fundamentals first.
If the same ad spend can produce twice the enquiries, the page it lands on is the place to start.