What is a landing page, and what does it do?
A landing page is a single page hosted on your site which is separate from your main website. It has a single focus and single action you want your visitors to take. The keywords here are simplicity and conversion. You try to give the visitor just enough information and incentive to convince them to take the action, whether it's to sign up for your newsletter or order your eBook.
Due to its singular focus, a landing page can be a highly effective tool to help you to sell your product, gather contacts, or introduce your concepts.
- Get quick results on a short page - visitors won't get lost along the way
- Provide a quick snapshot - what you're about at a glance, just enough of an overview without too many details
- Promote your product - Offer a giveaway - create an incentive to sign up
- Mailing list integration - making followup painless
- Provide testimonials - briefly demonstrate your credibility
- Trackable success - integrates with Google Analytics
Let's begin!
What does an effective landing page look like?
There are many ideas on the matter; in general they include the following elements. We can do A/B testing to see what works best for YOU.
How is it different from a website?
While a website provides a great deal of information and features, it's primarily informational so there are many places for a visitor's attention to go. That's why conversion numbers can be so poor in general for website analytics.
A landing page, on the other hand, has a simplified layout and single action item to make it quick and easy for visitors to respond as you hope.