Landing Page vs Homepage: Which One Should You Send Traffic To?
Sending campaign traffic to your homepage asks the visitor to find their own way. What changes when you send it to a landing page instead, and when it should not.
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Sending campaign traffic to your homepage asks the visitor to find their own way. What changes when you send it to a landing page instead, and when it should not.
Most bad landing pages are design problems caused by a decision nobody made. Settle these nine questions on paper and the layout largely designs itself.
Underperforming landing pages usually fail for the same dozen reasons. Here is each one, what to do instead, and how to audit your own page in twenty minutes.
Most best practice lists recycle advice from a decade ago. Here is which landing page principles have survived, which have quietly expired, and when to break them.
Button colour is not the lever. What genuinely moves the enquiries a landing page produces is the offer, the length of the form and how fast it loads.
A headline has one job: make the second line worth reading. Four shapes that work, a test for specificity, and why the subheadline is the half nobody writes.
Every field on an enquiry form is a small negotiation. Ask only for what you need to write the first reply, and let the rest wait for the conversation.
The fold did not die, it moved to a phone screen a few hundred pixels tall. Here are the four things that have to fit in it, and what wrongly takes their place.
A campaign carries one message; a homepage carries a dozen. Four things a page built for one campaign gives you, including a number you can decide on.
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