Build, Publish & A/B Test Landing Pages Without IT
A landing page can be defined as any web page a potential customer arrives at after expressing interest in one your upstream ads. The source of the ad can be: a search result, banner ad, paid search ad (e.g. Google AdWords), a link in an email, or a vanity URL observed in print or TV advertising.
The purpose of a landing page is to expand upon the upstream ad and convince the visitor to "convert" into becoming a customer by taking a specific action.
You might also want to take a look at our landing page examples to see what you can build with Unbounce.
A billion studies have been conducted to determine “hot spots,” or areas of web pages that users’ eyes tend to focus on first. Using eye tracking software you can find natural patterns that most users’ eyes follow on a page and use them to design better landing pages.
Over the last year Oli has shared his insights and thoughts, his metaphors and humor, and his uncanny ability to make even the most boring topic fairly relevant. So, in honor of Mr. Landing Pages’ birthday (Jan. 14) we are reviewing his best Unbounce posts of the past year.
Landing pages, conversion, bounce rate, blah, blah, blah, blah, yada yada yada. As important as all of those terms and concepts are, sometimes you need to step back a bit and look at things in a more playful manner.
There are multiple ways to catch the attention of your visitors; you can use bold, funny or controversial copy or beautiful typographic design, add a video to allow a multimedia experience, and you can use the fundamental principles of design to guide your customers with directional cues.
Many websites that should make liberal use of landing pages do not. Many websites that could substantially increase their conversion rates with simple landing page A/B testing do no such testing. The main challenges with landing pages are getting the damn things built, and then getting the damn things tested!
Not a designer? Not a developer? Not a problem. You can make sweet looking landing pages that work. All you need is a willingness to try, a trash can for all your excuses, and 5 awesome free tools.
Testing and optimizing landing pages can be a fun and frustrating game of cat and mouse. Every time the mouse gets away, it feels like self-inflicted sabotage. After all, as marketers we really don’t want to eat the mouse, we’re just inviting them to play!
We’re trying to win the voting race for Canada’s best startup and right now the votes are neck-and-neck, so I thought I’d ask our community of blog readers if they’d be willing to come and vote for Unbounce and give us a chance to present at the 2011 Grow Conference. Update – we won!!! Thanks to all who voted…
“My name is Earl. My conversion rate sucks, and I can’t stop sending traffic to my homepage.” Well done, you just passed the unofficial first test of landing page rehab. Now study the infographic to see where each step in the program should be applied to the conversion funnel.
Got a mobile app you want to sell? Then listen up. We just created a new set of mobile app templates – currently for iPhone and Android apps – and to make sure we got them right, we collaborated with a team of world class mobile “appsperts” (that’s app and experts rolled into one). Namely, Ken Yarmosh and Jen Gordon…
Download our free white papers and reports for some bedtime conversion optimization reading.
Read our opinionated guide to landing page conversion.
Using Twitter to enhance, promote and measure your landing page campaigns.
A collection of articles about landing page fundamentals.
