What Should You Include when Creating a Landing Page?

• Written by Michael Bass

If you want to make money online, you’re going to use a landing page as a part of your targeted marketing campaign. So, if you’re unhappy with your sales or conversion rates, the first place to look is your landing pages.

The following tips will help you quickly set up effective landing pages that can be used for almost any product or service.

The Basic Structure of a Good Landing Page

A landing page should be setup in a way that has a natural flow. Your visitors should want to get to the bottom of the page. This means placing your content in a specific order to increase conversion rates. Here’s an outline of a typical landing page:

• Headline
• Introduction
• Benefits
• Customer testimonials
• Features and details
• Final call to action

While you can always tailor this structure to meet your needs, this is a good starting point. Start with this structure and then tweak it to suit your needs.

Creating a Killer Headline

One of the most important parts of building a landing page that converts is creating a killer headline. You need something to grab people’s attention. The headline should offer a promise, hint at a solution, or spark interest in a specific topic.

Writing the Introduction

The first paragraph or two should present several problems or issues that your product or service can solve.

For example, if you offer a weight loss supplement, you could discuss the difficulty of sticking to a diet or losing weight. For productivity software, you could talk about how a drop in productivity can lead to a drop in sales.

You are engaging your readers by presenting them with problems. They’re searching for a solution, which you’re about to present.

Listing the Benefits of Your Product or Service

After presenting the problems, you will explain the benefits of your product or service. You’re explaining how your product or service can solve the problems that you discussed. Keep this section short. You don’t need to go into detail. Include a bullet point list of the top 5 or 6 benefits.

Include Customer Testimonials

Customer testimonials, either quotes or video testimonials, show visitors that you have a real product or service that actually works.

If you have just launched your product or service, then you may not have customer testimonials yet. In this case, you could send out a questionnaire to your first customers.

Ask for their feedback and make it clear that their comments may be used for promotional purposes. You can then use this feedback to pull quotes for your customer testimonials.

Discuss Features and Details

You should include the features and details of your product or service towards the end of the page. The reason for this is that you first want to build awareness.

You’re making visitors aware of a problem in the first section. You then build interest by discussing the benefits and by providing customer testimonials. Now, you’re going to explain the solution in a little more detail. List the top features of your product or service.

Including Calls to Action

You finish your landing page with a great call to action. This is your last chance to make a sale, so take your time and write a killer call to action. Along with the final call to action, you could include a call to action at the end of each section.

These calls to action capture visitors at each stage of the discovery process. Some visitors may be ready to make a purchase after reading the benefits, while others may wait until the end of the page.

Including calls to action at each stage helps you gain customers that don’t feel like scrolling through the entire

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