Beginner's Guide to Landing Pages
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Tristan
Heilige rotzooi. Suh-weeeet artikel, jongens.
Ik hou vooral van "Landingspagina's zijn niet de plaats om met je creativiteit te pronken." Zo waar, en dat is iets waarvan ik denk dat de meeste bloggers er rekening mee kunnen houden. Ontwerpen en creatief zijn natuurlijk belangrijk, maar functie en inhoud zijn de echte redenen waarom mensen komen en blijven.
Ik hou ook van wat er werd gezegd over alleen vragen om de meest noodzakelijke inhoud. Ik heb een paar e-mailnieuwsbrieven gezien waarvoor ik * * * zich zou hebben aangemeld ... maar niet omdat ze wilden dat ik mijn telefoonnummer en postadres invoerde. Post heeft genoten en heeft geretweet.
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AJ Kumar
Ja, hoe minder informatie hoe beter! Mensen worden vaak meegesleept door simpelweg omdat ze verstrikt zijn geraakt in hun eigen gedachten. Zodra ze zich realiseren dat het gaat om de gebruikerservaring die er niet is, zullen ze de benodigde wijzigingen aanbrengen om te groeien.
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Melanie Kissell
Ik zal echoën en onderstrepen alle opmerkingen van Tristan Higbee en voeg eraan toe dat ik alle voorbeelden en screenshots die je hebt opgenomen heel erg op prijs stel.
Bedankt, Cameron - geweldig gedaan!
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AJ Kumar
Cameron heeft inderdaad geweldig werk verricht. We zouden graag feedback ontvangen nadat je het op je eigen site hebt geïmplementeerd.
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Uttoran Sen
any form that asks for a phone number will be turned down more often than not, and if that form is on the landing page then it has even less of a chance, after all, how many people will trust you with their phone numbers on a first visit? an email address with a name field is sufficient.
sometimes breaking long pages into multiple ones is good, but the example you gave of the group on, it looks a bit useless to ask city on a page, email id on another page and then name on the last page and finish the form… those things can easily be put on a single page. And seriously, confirm your city? Why not use Geo location and automatically get the city, would have saved a page from the looks of it.
nice guide overall, covers a lot. i do monitor my landing pages, it is important to see the stats and check how many people converts and how many does not, and keep improving the figures.
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AJ Kumar
The geo location doesn’t always work well, especially if the person is on a computer that’s outside of their city.
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Bryan sutton
Landing pages should reflect the website, we have done AB testing and found, people general ( if they don’t bounce) go on to browse the rest of the website.
We have found any removal of navigation and links Increases our bounce rate.Remember these are landing page on to your website and NOT! Landing page to nowhere, from testing I seen and current User experience research the more you restrict a user the more they become defensive and negative users and bounce!!
Plus each product and service is Subjective and requires a completely different design/layout approach.
For example would you use the same landing page guidelines to sell a cheap software product for trying to sell airbus airliners?Plus I would like to see hard data bounce rates before I take this advice as grounded
I have seen Bounce rates and AB testing data that contradicts some of your opinions on good landing page design.
The way I see it you don’t need Landing pages if you have a good website.
Because the same rules apply to why someone is purchasing on your website has on a landing page. Think about it!!The keywords is ‘Trust’ ‘confidence’
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Dhruv Patel
@bryan, you are right with have the same look and feel for the page as the rest of the website to reduce bounce rate, but creating individual landing page that don’t necessarily match the Website’s look and feel is also important when running PPC or Social media campaigns where the sole-focus is on generating more leads or even have users make a purchase quicker without other fluff that may be distracting.
Increase or Decrease of bounce rate could only be measured IF AND ONLY IF the conversion rate is affected. You can have a bounce rate of 60%, yet the conversion rate could be 3% where as some websites may have bounce rate of 28% and conversion rate of 1.6%. Many time it doesn’t have to do with design of the website at all, but rather the intent of the user, clarity of your message and urgency of the user coming to the page.
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AJ Kumar
The quality of the traffic would make a big impact as well. If you’re ranking for keywords that aren’t really connected to your products/services, you can’t expect the conversion rate to go up.
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AJ Kumar
Bryan, like you mentioned it really does vary from site to site. Depending on the type of site you have and the industry you’re in, everything will be different.
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AJ Kumar
I agree with you… it’s interesting how just a few changes here and there can make such a significant difference.
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Toma
Holy sh*t this is a great article! So well written and researched and very informative.
I often wonder about the ‘Buy it now’ call to actions vs the ‘see more’ CTA button. I often find myself put off my buy it now buttons when all i want is to learn more about the product (for now). Buy it now implies i will be taken to a checkout and always leads me to look around more, clicking it only as a last resort.
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AJ Kumar
Yes, sometimes ‘buy it now’ just comes across way to strong. Through some of our testing, we find the word “Get Started" works really well.
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Mike
You criticize The Clickable site, saying “Do they really need a phone number and company name?" But that’s exactly what the Get Started form on this site does!
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AJ Kumar
It depends on your company. For some companies that provide automated products and services, it really doesn’t matter. For something like KISSmetrics, we ask for a phone number because it’s necessary to talk in detail about someone’s website and what their needs are.
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Tanya Fader
Thanks for the great article. Just a quick observation about form fields – with on of our clients in particular we have the challenge of trying to increase the quality of leads rather than the quantity. Having shorter form with less fields definitely does help conversion, but asking for a little more information can sometimes help qualify the lead..are they worth pursuing? Validating the info is also important, we have a double email field in an attempt flush out bogus information.
As the article and the folks who have commented mention, it really depends upon your page goals, industry etc. Would love to see an article dedicated to improving quality rather than just conversions!Reply-
AJ Kumar
I think it’s still better to have shorter forms, but more specific questions to weed out the people that don’t fit your criteria.
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Mathew
Exactly, the main purpose of your landing page should be to make it “call to action" so as to convert your visitors into sales.
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AJ Kumar
Yes, you need some kind of call to action placed on the page or you won’t be able to track your conversion results.
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Marten
Just started a new job and this really helps me to get started with my current project!
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Chris
Where should you put your landing pages in relation to the rest of your website?
Should you be able to browse to them from your main navigation?
Should they be orphaned pages, only by a sitemap?
Should they be 100% orphaned pages that only get traffic through PPC/Social Shares?Free, organic traffic through SEO would be the best, but then Google needs to be able to find your landing pages through your site somehow. That presents a small usability problem though, if there’s no clear way to get back to your core site (aside from the back button).
Just curious what your thoughts were on the subject.
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Raj Mehta
Very helpful tips to design a kick ass landing pages
thanks for sharing this
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Eric
Great article. Does anyone know of a company that has templates exactly like Groupon’s landing page?
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Guest
As a landing page design, this post help me a lot.
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Scottt
Extremely Marvelous… I get lots of info here…
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Matt
Great article! We’ve been stressing the importance of landing pages to our clients and I agree it’s more than just a good design. Check out what our account manager thinks about them @ insivia.com/the-importance-of-using-landing-pages-insivia-insights/
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J.Rommelaars
A very interesting read. I’m about to launch a whole bunch of landing pages for my videoproduction company and these kinds of pointers are exactly what I need in order to finetune the process and get the most out of them. Thanks!
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jason
hey
thanks for the great read. I have been struggling for weeks now of: how many landing pages i should have, what they should look like, plus how to tie them in with my blog. You have answered a lot of my questions.Reply -
Jacqueline
Hi. Being new to the industry, I have found this site very informative (and overwhelming). What will soon be creating a landing page to encourage viewers to sign up for a workshop I will running. So what I am not clear about is if they enter their name and email address what do they then see? and how would I capture this information? so sorry if this is a basic question but I do need clarity and would like to understand the process before creating a landing page.
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Regina
Yes, I think Jacqueline is asking a very good question. I am also new to the landing page creation. So what happens after you get the opt in / information from the person. Where does a person end up?
Very helpful article.
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Guest
Great advice! In addition to everything you’ve said here, wise marketers will also utilize a personalization engine, to ensure that their landing pages are relevant to visitors.
This is also a great way to keep your pages minimal and free of clutter, because with guaranteed relevance, you don’t have to make as many impressions.
The bottom line is that all website are better when they know who is visiting, and show them what they want to see. The future of the web is personalized, so making your landing pages adapt to every visitor is a great way to get ahead of the game.
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Guest
Yeah you are right. In my view and as per my experience, I can say, simplicity, concise but better description of your business and easily availability of ‘call to action’ are three major key factors of Landing Page. If we keep these 3 things in focus, conversion rate will be higher for sure.
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sayon mondal
nice post
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Aria Len
Thank you so much for this! I’ve joined an affiliate training program and I am able to customize sign-up pages but I wasn’t sure where to incorporate them on my site. I always find myself coming back to you when I need answers! Thanks, yet again, for another useful article. I really appreciate it!
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Neil Patel
You are very welcome, Aria!!
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