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What is a Landing Page and Why They're So Important

  
  
  
As we gear up for this Friday's first Landing Page what is a landing pagewebinar, I want to briefly discuss with you the concept of a landing page.  First thing's first, a landing page is not a home page, product page, or a blog article. A landing page is a website page that contains a web form.

The goal of a landing page is for people to complete the page's form. The more form completions your landing pages receive, the more leads and potential money your business will make.  It’s so simple, yet a lot of businesses don’t use or properly use landing pages.

Ask Marcus Sheridan, owner of River Pools and Spas and blogger extraordinary. People would be finding and reading his articles, but he wouldn’t be able to understand if those people are interesting in doing business with him. Landing pages allow you to collect relevant information from people interested in your content.

So, you’re convinced you need to use landing pages. But, how do people find your landing pages? 

Your homepage, product pages and blog articles are all offer pages. Offer pages should include one or more calls to action that will make your landing page content stand out.  The more consistent the call to action is with your landing page, the greater the chance people will complete your landing page form. 

During the upcoming webinar series we’ll be discussing landing page and call to action best practices, and I'll be sharing with you a simple, eight step guide to creating landing page offers. 

We’ll also discuss thank you pages, the page that follows the landing page, and how you can test your calls to action and landing pages.

Takeaway: Make sure you create blog articles and landing pages, so you can turn your visitors into customers.

How many landing pages have you created?

 

 

 

 

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Can't wait to learn more on the webinar series!
Posted @ Tuesday, January 03, 2012 7:17 AM by Melissa Spangler
@Lawrence: I'm very excited too! We have a ton of content, best practices, resources, and tips and tricks to share with you. 
 
@Layna: That is definitely appropriate and a very good strategy. The more consistency and relevancy the landing page has towards the group you're targeting, the more landing page conversions you'll get.
Posted @ Tuesday, January 03, 2012 7:17 AM by Mark Kilens
Can I create a landing page that is geared specifically for a business partner relationship, v. one that is tied to Google adwords or other search engine results? For example, we have a new business partner that will be promoting our services to their customers. I'd like to create a co-branded landing page specifically for those customers, and then have the link to that page posted on our partners website. Can landing pages be used in this way?
Posted @ Tuesday, January 03, 2012 7:17 AM by Layna
Mark, 
I'm excited about our first landing page content camp. This post reeved the engine. Thanks.
Posted @ Tuesday, January 03, 2012 7:17 AM by lawrence berezin
@Chris: I would replace your form on the page with a call to action that links to a landing page. I would do the same for your "contact a tech" offer. You can provide more detail and testimonials on your landing pages and better track how they're performing.
Posted @ Tuesday, January 03, 2012 7:17 AM by Mark Kilens
we have a new site under development. we have pages that have forms along the right column on pages that describe our products. We also have other landing pages and are aware that we should give the user something for filling out a form on landing pages, but we are thinking that if they are ready to get more information by being contacted by one of our techs we should have a quick form readily available. 
 
what are your thoughts on this?
Posted @ Tuesday, January 03, 2012 7:17 AM by chris
Thank you for clarity. Simplifying the thinking - I am new to building these tools.. It is a paradigm I must achive. I am learning. You are helping me learn. 
 
 
 
Thank you. 
 
 
 
Gerry
Posted @ Tuesday, January 03, 2012 7:17 AM by Gerry Poe
Landing Pages, can't have enough of them, great for SEO! Look forward to this series with HubSpot, certain to learn something new that can improve my client's biz.
Posted @ Tuesday, January 03, 2012 7:17 AM by Andrew Ciccone, Media Strategist
@Michael: The one exception to the rule :) 
 
I would classify the blog as an offer page, with the exception of the blog subscription form. 
 
I recommend customers experiment with creating a separate blog subscription landing page. Use a call to action on the blog homepage that links to the landing page. 
 
On the landing page you can provide compelling reasons why they should subscribe or even offer them something in exchange for subscribing to your blog. 
 
Thanks for pointing that out! 
Posted @ Tuesday, January 03, 2012 7:17 AM by Mark Kilens
Simple enough. 
 
I like the breakdown. 
 
Landing pages have forms. 
 
Product pages have offers. 
 
Thus this blog article about landing pages is not a landing page (even though it has a form to subscribe by email), it is a page with an offer. 
 
Or does the form on the blog to subscribe say 'landing page'? 
 
:) 
 
thank you for your always insightful perspectives. 
 
Mike
Posted @ Tuesday, January 03, 2012 7:17 AM by Michael Hartzell
Always looking for better C2A's for landing pages
Posted @ Tuesday, January 03, 2012 7:17 AM by Andrew Rodgers
How do we create a special landing page with a form that subscribes leads to the blog? I can only find the subscription widget/form on the blog page and not the landing pages.
Posted @ Tuesday, February 14, 2012 4:54 PM by Lacey
@Lacey: When adding a new module on a page you should go to the Blog tab and then select on the blog subscription form. This will add the blog email form to the page you're working on. HubSpot Support can also help you with this. 
 
Best, 
 
Mark
Posted @ Wednesday, February 15, 2012 7:33 AM by Mark Kilens
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