How to Create Landing Pages That Convert Sponsored by SE Ranking Ep. 539

Ep. 53953 min2022-06-093,601 plays

Landing pages that convert require a focused single-action design, audience-matched keywords, emotional copy, social proof, mobile-first layout, and a strong offer tested and refined against clear campaign goals.

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Key takeaways
if you really want a significant change in results. Right. A significant change in results. You need to significantly change the offer.

About this episode

How To Create Landing Pages That ConvertFive tips for creating a high-converting landing page. Learn the key features of a landing page and how to create a one!

Questions this episode answers

What are the key elements every landing page must have?

According to this episode, a high-converting landing page needs consistent branding and color, a clear and compelling headline, a persuasive sub-headline, supporting copy, a clean layout with no navigation distractions, a strong offer, simple forms, a direct call to action, rich media, reviews and social proof, and emotional appeal.

How should I write a call to action for a landing page?

The episode advises against vague CTAs like learn more or get started. Instead, spend significant time crafting a specific CTA tied to the offer, such as secure your supply. The hosts also note that different CTAs perform better in different industries and geographic regions.

Why should landing pages avoid navigation links and headers?

Landing pages are meant to give visitors a single path forward. Including navigation links, headers, footers, or extra calls to action creates distractions that pull visitors away from the one action you want them to take, reducing the chance of conversion.

In their words

You've got less than 15 seconds to grab a person's attention. The headline is probably the most important thing you will write. It should be memorable, clear and solve the problem your visitors care about most.

Host

people make emotional decisions and then use data and reviews and whatever to rationalize the emotional decision that they made. So you need to appeal to the emotion of the pain of the problem and the emotion of the joy of the solution

Host

every form that you add produces a certain amount of friction. So about 10 percent of the people that would fill out a form won't.

Matt Bertram
Terms defined in this episode
Landing page
A page specifically designed for a prospect to land on after clicking a call to action in an email, ad, or other channel, with a single focus on driving one conversion action such as a lead, sale, download, or signup.
Search intent
The underlying goal a user has when typing a keyword, revealed by how visitors interact with pages that rank for that keyword and by the cost-per-click data visible in tools like SE Ranking.
Social proof
Reviews, testimonials, video testimonials, and user-generated content that reassure potential customers by showing other people have had success with a product or service. The episode cites data suggesting roughly 12 reviews are needed for social proof to meaningfully influence decisions.
CTA (Call to Action)
A button or prompt that directs a visitor to take a specific next step on a landing page. Effective CTAs are specific to the offer rather than generic phrases like learn more.

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This episode answers

Matthew Bertram, host of The Best SEO Podcast
Matthew Bertram
AI keynote speaker · Owner & CEO, EWR Digital · President, ModalPoint

Matthew Bertram is an AI keynote speaker, creator of DIG™ (Digital Information Governance), and owner and CEO of EWR Digital. He helps energy and industrial leaders win visibility in AI search (GEO and AEO), is President of ModalPoint and CMO of the Oil & Gas Global Network, hosts The Best SEO Podcast, and has authored eight books including LLM Visibility. More about Matthew Bertram.

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