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How do you convince your visitors to take the plunge on your website? There are so many elements that a top-notch landing page needs, and making those elements the "best" they can be often depends on what your landing page goals are. Take form length, for example. It's just one of the many components you need to optimize, but best practices will tell you that both short and long forms perform well -- it all depends on whether you want to generate a lot of (potentially) lower quality form submissions, or a smaller number of higher quality submissions. So if you're looking to up your landing page game, it's helpful to know what goes into a great landing page and see a few examples of these nuanced elements in action. Surprisingly, when I started doing research into the latter, I realized there are hardly any sites out there with examples of modern, impressive landing pages that are more than just a sign-up form on a homepage. So we decided to compile a list of landing pages we love ourselves....
When car shoppers visit a dealership, they aren’t necessarily looking to buy right away. A car salesperson must nurture the relationship, answer their questions, offer a test drive, and relieve their doubts before a purchase is made. Marketers take their online prospects through a similar journey as they move from the awareness stage to the decision stage. In the decision stage of the buyer’s journey, prospects already know they have a problem, have evaluated their options, and are testing out who they should purchase from. Marketers know this well, as an estimated 93% of web-based companies and startups offer a free trial at the bottom of their marketing funnel. That percentage is overwhelming because a free trial offer is the best way for prospects to experience the product and sell themselves on using it. Now let’s examine how businesses are using free trial landing pages to convert prospects....
My video landing page is the highest converting page I’ve ever had, bar none. Ever since I started using that video on the homepage, my conversions took a noticeable upturn, and haven’t slowed a bit!In this article, I’m going to show you some of the principles that I’ve learned as I’ve split test my videos, tweaked my home page, and watched the conversions pour in. And, just to up the ante, consider how much time and money you’re wasting with a low-converting landing page....
Putting together an A+ landing page can be tricky.
There are so many elements that a top-notch landing page needs, and making those elements the "best" they can be often depends on what your landing page goals are.
Take form length, for example. It's just one of the many components you need to optimize, but best practices will tell you that both short and long forms perform well -- it all depends on whether you want to generate a lot of (potentially) lower quality form submissions, or a smaller number of higher quality submissions.
Download our free guide to landing pages here to learn how to design landing pages that convert.
So if you're looking to up your landing page game, it's helpful to know what goes into a great landing page and see a few examples of these nuanced elements in action. Surprisingly, when I started doing research into the latter, I realized there are hardly any sites out there with examples of modern, impressive landing pages that are more than just a sign-up form on a homepage. So we decided to compile a list of landing pages we love ourselves....
A 26% lift may not seem impressive to some, but from an annual perspective, that one change grew revenue well into six figures. If you know anything about me, you know I’m obsessed with split testing. I kept testing, kept tweaking, and kept optimizing my contact page. With every test, I learned some new lessons. Here’s my big takeaway: Getting people to contact you is valuable. Making it easy for them to contact you is even better. Why? Because these are warm leads. Anything you do to move qualified leads into your funnel is a smart move. How do you turn your boring ol’ contact page into a massive lead magnet? Let me give you the perspective-setting intro, then we’ll dive into some tricks....
When you create landing pages, sometimes you’re forced to make some tough calls — deciding on the type of headline, all the way down to the colors on the page, and CTA button copy.
Every single decision has a significant impact on your conversion rate. Of course, this puts added pressure on you to get all the elements perfect before you publish the page.
The data you collect with A/B testing puts a lot of the CRO questions to bed, but the thing with testing is that it’s not an immediate solution. You can’t rely on A/B testing data as soon as you publish your page.
This is where CRO best practices come into play.
We’re going to make a case for both types of pages and argue why one should take precedence over the other. Then, we’ll give you a list of factors that will help you decide the length of your pages once and for all.
Let the debate begin....
Putting together an A+ landing page can be tricky. There are so many elements that a top-notch landing page needs, and making those elements the "best" they can be often depends on what your landing page goals are. Take form length, for example. It's just one of the many components you need to optimize, but best practices will tell you that both short and long forms perform well -- it all depends on whether you want to generate a lot of (potentially) lower quality form submissions, or a smaller number of higher quality submissions. So if you're looking to up your landing page game, it's helpful to know what goes into a great landing page and see a few examples of these nuanced elements in action. Surprisingly, when I started doing research into the latter, I realized there are hardly any sites out there with examples of modern, impressive landing pages that are more than just a sign-up form on a homepage. So we decided to compile a list of landing pages we love ourselves. Big, big caveat here: I don't have access to any of the stats for these pages, so I can't tell you how well they convert visitors, leads, and customers. Still, these examples have some of the best combinations of those nuanced landing page elements I've ever seen. Obviously, if you feel inspired to try any of these tactics on your own site, the only way to know whether they'll work for you for sure is by testing them out for yourself....
Think about all the times you've signed up for things in your life. Did you once download Evernote? Dropbox? Spotify? Maybe you've even taken a class on General Assembly.
Each one of these signups is likely a result of an effective call-to-action.
And it's really important to guide your visitors through the buying journey using strategic calls-to-action (CTAs). Think about it: If you hadn't been drawn in by the copy or design of the CTA, or been guided so eloquently through your sign-up process, you would probably use a lot fewer apps and websites than you do now.
Download our full collection of 101 call-to-action examples here for even more CTA ideas.
To help you identify what's effective and what's not, we've listed out 30 examples of CTAs that totally rock. These call-to-action examples are broken out into three categories: simple and effective design, click-worthy copy, and balancing multiple CTAs on one page....
Pablo Picasso once said: “Good artists copy; great artists steal.”
There are plenty of lead generation tips on the web to help you create the perfect lead generation landing page. There's even lead generation landing page templates to help you speed up the process. But, how do you know which elements are appropriate for your page and conversion goal?
Today we’re going to help you heed Picasso's advice by critiquing 30 lead generation landing pages from which you can steal great ideas, and eliminate bad ones. But, before we jump in, let's define the term...
Want to increase conversion? Duh. Want a tedious and complex lesson on CRO (conversion rate optimization) or would you prefer to know the most simple little conversion secret in the digiverse? Sheeshe, Barry, you ask some silly questions (he writes in a strange third person voice shift). Okay, my friend, let’s stroll down Uncomplicated Avenue today. If you want to increase the conversion rate of your web pages, tell your reader what to do next. Loudly. Proudly. Clearly....
On your landing page, those muscles, organs, and electrical signals are replaced by buttons, visuals, copy, and code. They work together to perform one incredibly difficult function: convince the most powerful supercomputer known to man, a.k.a. the human brain, to take action.
Whether it’s to buy, subscribe, or download, when a landing page is “anatomically correct,” it can move its visitors to click a CTA button. Different shapes and colors scream “look here” and “press me,” while headlines capture attention and testimonials build trust.
The anatomy of a landing page isn’t as complex as our own, but to the untrained eye, it’s still difficult to understand. Today we’re going to break it down to help you piece together the puzzle that is a persuasive landing page.
If converting traffic to subscribers is high on your list of priorities, you won’t want to miss today’s episode of the ProBlogger podcast, where I chat with “Conversion Educator” Tim Paige of LeadPages. Getting better conversions on our websites is something I think bloggers really need to know, and Tim certainly doesn’t hold back! Even if you don’t use LeadPages as a landing site for your blog, you can really get something out of this conversation. Tim discusses what he calls his “Reverse Value Bomb” and strategies to get more opt-ins on your site (including a section about content upgrades – one of the best-converting strategies you can have). From emerging trends in online marketing we need to be paying attention to, to creating an optimised landing page in five minutes, there is a ton of value in this episode, including a special offer for ProBlogger readers....
Each week a new member of DigitalMarketer Engage (our 8,000+ Lab member mastermind group) asks a very important question surrounding their landing pages:
Is this page compliant on [enter your preferred ad network]?!
The first bit of advice I give is to stop tailoring different landing pages to different ad networks based on compliance. Pick the strictest one and develop all your pages with that as the baseline.
Not only will this save you time and help you better organize your landing pages, it protects you when less strict networks, e.g., Facebook, decide to change their terms!
Google is hands down the stricter of the ad networks, so I created this 9-point checklist outlining everything your landing page needs to stay in their good graces — along with this nifty download for you to swipe....
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There is no perfect landing page design, but there are proven design best practices. In our latest Landing Page Design Best Practices guide, we help you answer all of those questions and many more. With this guide, you’ll learn: - Why landing pages should be focused on a single goal and best practices to convert visitors into leads and customers - How to use Cialdini’s principles of influence and other psychological techniques to your advantage - Specific tips on how to design each landing page element to achieve your conversion goals - Why the visitor’s post-click experience is just as important as the pre-click experience and how to optimize each component....
Since the 1960s much has changed. What hasn’t changed is: people use their emotions as much as their reasoning when buying, it’s still well-known and valid. We even know how particular emotions influence buyers! According to Geoffrey James, the sales expert, all buying decisions are driven by greed, fear, altruism, envy, pride, and shame. Emotional appeal in advertising is certainly a real thing, and there are plenty of emotional advertising examples to draw inspiration from (see Proctor and Gamble’s “Thank You Mom” Olympics commercial). But in today’s post, I’m going to show how to use the following six emotions on your landing page to encourage people to buy from you....
Are you looking for the best and proven solution to build a professional web presence for your business or personal project? Ask any marketing specialist and he will tell you that a well-built landing page is exactly what you need to make people talk about you. But how to build a landing page that will convert accidental visitors into loyal customers? How to generate new leads for your business? How to design a powerful landing page? Let’s cover all of these aspects in one blog post. A landing page is a place where the online story of your business begins. A landing page is the first spot that the users come across when looking for some general information about your business. This is the simplest and the most effective way of engaging the audience and inviting them for a productive dialogue. Depending on the way a landing page is designed, we can judge the potential success that a business standing behind it will attain. The more user-friendly a landing page is designed, the higher chances of triggering the users’ curiosity you have. It’s not a rocket science to build a professional landing page. Let’s consider the most effective tips on how to get started right and appeal to a wider audience....
Optimizely recognizes that landing pages are perfect for establishing a great first impression and are an essential component of their overall marketing strategy. The company uses landing pages to target product, marketing, and brand managers — offering an array of assets for their audience’s information....
To put this another way, for every $92 of advertising revenue spent, only $1 is being invested into CRO and A/B testing efforts - you know, the part that actually turns your ad dollars into converting leads.
Shocked? We were, too.
Why would anyone throw money down the drain like that? We’re guessing it is probably happening out of ignorance, but if you want more conversions, you can’t afford to ignore landing page trends, best practices, and A/B testing.
This is why we decided to take on a colossal task. We’ve chosen 100 landing page examples and critiqued them on their optimization efforts to show you exactly what works and what doesn’t when it comes to CRO.
We’ll start with the landing page example showcase, showing you a mug shot of every landing page. Then, we will discuss what page elements help the conversion process and which elements are a disgrace to landing page optimization....
If you want to capture more targeted leads, then your landing page has to convey your message well. But, the truth is that most landing pages don’t convert, which is why most people complain about low conversion rates. You can change the story by following 6 steps to create high-converting landing pages....
I've scoured the web for the strategies that have performed best in numerous tests and case studies.
In this article, I’ll show you 14 data-driven techniques to optimize the conversion rates of your landing pages (and how you can implement them).
First, take a look at this infographic on the landing page design best practices to get an idea of what I'm talking about....
You asked and we answered! Learn the top 15 most FAQ to Instapage customer service, answered by Head of Customer Support, Marius Laza.
If you run a business, have a product to promote, or a service of any kind chances are you need a landing page. With so many choices out there it can be difficult to choose one that follows the latest trends and helps you stand out from the crowd. In this article we will take a look at some of the best landing page WordPress themes for 2016....
There’s no shortage of lead capture page examples on the Internet. There is, however, a lack of lead capture pages that are optimized to do what they were created to do (capture leads!).
What most marketers forget when creating lead capture pages is that just slapping a form on a page doesn’t make it a lead capture page. To make it a viable lead capture page, there are necessary elements that you must include converting visitors into leads.
So, what are these elements that help jumpstart your revenue cycle? We’ve hand-picked four lead capture page examples to show you how an optimized lead capture pages should look....
In this article, we’re going to take a look at how you can use a landing page to generate customers.
We’ll take a look at what makes a landing page work effectively. But, we’ll also discuss what constitutes a high converting sales funnel.
By the end of this post, you’ll be able to take what you’ve learned and use it to improve the revenues of your own business.
When you’re building a landing page for the purpose of converting leads into customers, you must take bold steps to eliminate all potential credibility killers. Landing pages, in general, are effective tools for building your business. According to MarketingSherpa, “landing pages are effective for 94% of B2B and B2C companies.” In this in-depth article, I want to show you 4 landing page credibility killers that you should eliminate right now....
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Get inspired by these 16 brilliant landing page design examples from HubSpot..