26 April 2013

How to build an effective landing page?


We are going to describe the basic overview of what a perfect landing page is..

The Headline:
Every page must have a heading. According to online surveys; users spend only eight seconds to read your heading.  Your page headline should be appealing. Make sure you understand why the user lands on your page and what you should offer them as soon as they visit.

Without a heading, your visitor will be confused. Provide context for your landing page with a clear headline.

Content and copy:
The landing page content should be optimized on the basis of the headline of the page. The content further explain clearly, what the offer is and why your visitor will sign up or buy your product. Appealing content with lucid language will make it easy for your users to understand the landing page. You can brief about the offer/product with few bullet points or in a paragraph. You should highlight geo-location of the offer for your target audience.

Image:
The landing page image should be relevant and interactive. The image should match the landing page headline. When user comes to the landing page, they should understand the meaning from that image.

Layout:
The layout should be clear, understandable and offer clarity. Make some important points with bold, italic and highlighted attributes. 

Landing page example


Every point of landing page should be clear, concise and relevant to your services or products.

Navigation:
Your main goal is to fill the form and get happy leads from the landing page. And you have to attract visitor to your landing page. Make sure if you are targeting to get leads, no need to show the navigation. Because user can move to other page by clicking to the navigation links. Add a link to privacy policy to help users to go through the questions and answer.

Meta or snippet:
Meta description and title is the main factor and it will show up in SERP. Write short and simple description for your product within less than 150 characters.


snippet example

The form:
This is the main part or goal of the landing page. There are two types of forms- long and short form. Short form can offer more leads but the extended form can offer higher quality lead for you.

Share link:
Add social media share button on the landing page. Also share the page in Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin and Google +. Hope you will get more leads from it.