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A new study reinforces the long-held concept that magazine ads containing URLs can help drive traffic to advertisers web sites. URLs in ads can help real estate agents improve the effectiveness of their ads. Among the various forms of media, including television, newspapers, and radio, magazine advertising leads in prompting consumers to go online. Magazine advertising moves readers to action, including visiting web sites and searching on the web. Magazine advertising also excels at driving brand favorability. (MPA)

Real estate agents should remember to always include a website in their ads, to add lift to their brand, whether they are promoting their own agent site or a single individual property through an agent website or listing product like the Showcase Builder flipbooks offered through Homes Magazine.com.  

The following article from Online Media Daily was written by Erik Sass, Friday, May 30, 2008 7:00 AM ET

Click-Happy Readers Respond to URLs in Magazine Ads

A new study from the Magazine Publishers of America shows that including URLs in magazine ads drives readers to advertiser Web sites. The analysis of 833 print ads in seven magazines, performed by VISTA’s print effectiveness rating service, showed that ads with Web addresses were up to three times as likely to drive readers to a Web site, depending on the magazine category.

The biggest increases came in the home, women’s service and travel categories, where ads including URLs were 103%, 98% and 186% more likely to drive readers to an advertiser Web site. Ads with URLs in the fashion category also did well, producing a 52% bump.

New research from VISTA Print Effectiveness Rating Service, based on an analysis of 833 ads in seven different magazines, reconfirmed that ads with URLs are more likely to drive readers to advertiser sites overall, as well as across the range of magazine genres. Less spectacular gains were found in the financial category, with a 22% lift, and men’s, with a 38% lift.

According to the MPA, the VISTA findings corroborate a meta-analysis of nine earlier studies by Marketing Evolution. This meta-analysis showed that when URLs were included in magazine ads, they boosted the percentage of study subjects who visited the advertiser Web sites 6%, to 19% of the test group.

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