Learn best-practice for B2C and B2B Landing pages
About our Landing Page Guide
- Author: Dave Chaffey
- Last updated: October 2011
- Format: 6,000 word, 28 page A4 page PDF Ebook with examples and checklists
How will this guide help me?
Even if you don’t have these types of pages on your site now, this guide will give you lots of ideas about how you can make different types of pages more effective. The recommendations we give in this guide apply for both types of landing pages. First, those integrated into the site’s structure and with consistent standard page templates and navigation for the site. Second, landing pages specifically created for getting new leads and customers with a different look and feel. Remember also that the home page can effectively be a landing page, so similar issues apply.
Our guide will show you
- The best options for laying out your landing pages
- What MUST go on your landing pages
- How to get your message across so that you convert more visitors
- How to measure what is working on your landing pages and what isn’t
- Workbook format makes it quick to review and decide on the changes you need to make to improve your online marketing results.
What does the Ebook include?
The 7 steps we cover in the guide are:
- Step 1 Set your landing page objectives
- Step 2 Understand your visitor needs
- Step 3 Engaging your visitor
- Step 4 Create the optimal page layout
- Step 5 Compelling content and creative
- Step 6 Increasing brand credibility and trust
- Step 7 Improving results
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We've created our Seven Steps guides e-books to be your constant companion as you learn, review and improve your approach to digital marketing. We know you're busy and under-pressure to get results, so they're written to help you do just that by taking you through the questions you should be asking to improve performance and suggesting the right approaches for you. All our guides have these features:- Seven Steps structure – no-nonsense, super-scannable advice making it easy to create a focused plan.
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