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Eight landing page bloopers, with best practices for avoiding them!
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8 Landing Page Bloopers
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1. The inexcusable error
2. Annoying pop ups
3. Missed user expectations
4. Home-not-so-sweet home
5. The cookie-cutter design
6. The call to inaction
7. Information overload
8. Boring visitors to death
What’s Inside...
1. The inexcusable error
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Blooper Best Practice
Broken linksBuggy forms
Browser incompatibilities
Proof thoroughly Multiple sets of eyes
Test across browsers & devices
2. Annoying pop ups
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Blooper Best Practice
Immediate pop-upIrrelevant offer
Inappropriate timingNo testing
Targeted pop-upRelevant/valuable offer
Conveniently timedTested...how are conversion
rates impacted?
3. Missed user expectations
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Blooper Best Practice
Message mismatchUnfulfilled promises
Visual inconsistencies
Message matchFulfilled promisesVisual continuity
4. Home-not-so-sweet home
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Blooper Best Practice
Sending paid traffic to homepage or deep link
No testing
Dedicated landing pagesCampaign-specific
Traffic-source specificTesting & optimization
5. The cookie-cutter design
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Blooper Best Practice
Formulaic designStock photographyTelling vs showing
Actionable designCompelling imageryShowing vs telling
6. The call to inaction
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Blooper Best Practice
Generic CTAsNo direction copyNo visual direction
Actionable CTAsDirectional copyDirectional cues
7. Information overload
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Blooper Best Practice
Too much, too soonText-heavy content
Competing content (top nav, right nav, text links, social)
Simple, focusedContent broken
up into multiple pagesGood use of white space
8. Boring visitors to death
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Blooper Best Practice
No imageryNo design
No incentive!Engaging imagery
Compelling contentStrong branding
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