How to Create a Successful Landing Page

What is a Landing Page?

The purpose of landing pages is to direct visitors to take a specific action. This action can be subscribing to a newsletter, signing up for a service, making a purchase, or anything else you might consider a success for your business.
No matter the case, the final objective of a landing page should always be to increase your conversion rates.

Creating a perfect landing page is crucial as it is the first thing visitors see after clicking on your ad, promotional email, or have found you elsewhere on the internet. A clear and straightforward structure on this web page is very important as it will help you increase conversions, generate leads, and turn a potential customer into a loyal one. 

Choosing the Right Landing Page Builder

There are many ways to do this but one of the most simple and professional ways is by using the Wix Landing Page Builder. This drag and drop editor allows you to create beautiful and user-friendly pages even if you lack coding skills. The design is very flexible and you can turn any free template into a webpage that looks a million dollars. Besides, if your landing page is eCommerce oriented, Wix will provide a great number of online store enhancements for you, such as secure payment solutions and sales boosters.

How to start creating a landing page on Wix:

• Log into your Wix account or sign up with your email, your Google or Facebook account.
• Click Create New Site.
• Choose your industry (Music, Photography, Online Store, Events, Beauty, Fitness, and many other options)
• Choose a template and create the landing page on your own, or answer a few questions and allow the Wix Artificial Design Intelligence (ADI) to generate 3 different opinions for you to choose from. This innovative feature provides you with 3 landing pages so that you only have to choose your favorite and edit the fine details afterward. How cool is that?
• Now all you have to do is edit the template. There are more than 800 templates for you to choose from and thousands of design features. Change elements and move them around as you wish until you get the design you wanted, or just keep the template as it is, after all, it was created by a professional designer.
• Add your logo and start editing the text to describe your product and services, make sure your contact and social media information then hit Save and Preview your new landing page.
• Once you are finished click Publish.

What to include on your landing page:

• A great headline - If you don’t manage to get your visitors’ attention right from the headline, you’ve already lost them. This is where their interest should be sparked. The headline should explain the product/service’s essence, in not more than 10-15 words and should be benefit-oriented.
• The value proposition - This should act as a lead magnet. It tells your visitors what they can gain and expect from your product or service. It does not have to be a single element. Think about a list of benefits and use bullet points (yes, just like this one). These benefits have to be focused on the potential customers’ needs, otherwise, the message will not get through to them. Customers need real and proven reasons to be convinced by your product/service.
• A form - It is advised, no matter what your end goal is, that you have included an opt-in form when you create high converting landing pages. The content and number of form fields depend on your design, the products or services you are offering, your industry, and, of course, your audience.
  If you are offering something minimal for free, you should not ask for too much information from the users. Asking them for their email address in order to send them a free monthly newsletter is a pretty fair exchange. However, if you ask them for their cell phone number and job information, without offering anything valuable in exchange you will lose them on the spot. And always make sure you are GDPR compliant when collecting such data.
• Call to Action (CTA) - This one is extra important because is the element that tells users who land on your page what you want them to do, and how to do it. Make it a clickable button. We advise you to choose a color that contrasts with the background for this button. You can have more than one of these buttons on your landing page, but you should be mindful of the fact that you might confuse the visitors if there are too many different actions for them to take. If you want as many landing page conversions as possible, you should stick to only one option, shown in multiple places. With Wix it’s easy to duplicate elements and maintain your design.
  It’s best to keep it as simple as possible and create different landing pages for each CTA button. 
• Social proof -  Whether it is a product or service, social proof guides a visitor down the conversion funnel. It refers to the numbers of likes, tweets, pins, subscribers or testimonials your company has. Whichever suits your website the best, that’s the one you should be using. You should display them on your page because social media and recommendations from trusted individuals play a big role in the purchase decision. Use testimonials from real people who are most relevant to your audience. It is best if these testimonials are specific: real numbers and real data. Wix will provide you with a wide range of elements created especially for this.
• Visual content - This one, just like the CTA, is mandatory! Images and videos are faster and easier to comprehend, underline the message and influence your visitors’ behavior on your page. This means more conversions. You can use attractive images to direct your visitors’ attention exactly where you want it on the page and they will eventually take action. Product videos and demos are also recommended.

There are other good landing page builders on the market, like Kyvio, HubSpot, Unbounce, Instapage, but in our opinion, Wix is the most intuitive and flexible.

How to Track and Measure the Success of a Landing Page

Now that you have all the information you need in order to create landing pages, you will also need analytics to see how your newly created web pages are performing.

To get all the basic statistics along with more complex visitor behavior analytics, you can add the Visitor Analytics app to your landing pages and you will be able to:

Count visitors and conversions and see where they’re from

Once you installed the Visitor Analytics app you will be able to see in its dashboard the number of visitors, unique visitors, and conversions. The data is being tracked in real-time and you can choose from the app settings to ignore your own visits so that the data you track is more accurate. You will get a preview of the latest visitors country, operating system, browsers, and devices.

Among other data displayed in the Visitor Analytics Dashboard, you will also get 2 maps. A map of the live visitors, which we must admit can be pretty addictive to look at, and a map of visitors by country. These 2 features will help you get an overview of how your landing page is performing worldwide and get a better understanding of your target audience’s geolocation.

Compare data and see how your landing page performs over time

In the Visitor Analytics website statistics section, you will get detailed information about the features mentioned above, for an even deeper understanding of your landing’s page efficiency. Among others, you will see the amount of new and returning visitors, the session duration, and page visits. 

You will get a complete chronological list of your visitors with their approximate location, status (new/returning/converted visitor), device used to access your page, and other valuable info that can have a real impact on your marketing strategy and how, where and to whom you decide to promote your landing page towards. 

Another important feature when you decide to promote your landing page is the color-coded traffic charts. By looking at these you will be able to see when it’s best to post on social media or send out your newsletter. Here’s a sneak peek:
 

You will see your referral traffic, or from what other websites your visitors came to your landing page, so you can decide what ads to keep and what partnerships might not be working out for you.  

In the competition tab, you will be able to compare your page to the ones of your competitors by selecting your country and your business domain, while in the URL Campaigns tab you will be able to see where your traffic is coming from. Just add UTMs to your links whenever you post them somewhere and use Visitor Analytics to see if your traffic is coming from your Facebook ads, your other website, or any other source.

Analyze visitors’ behavior to improve your page

Visitor Analytics provides 3 main ways of analyzing how your visitors interact with your landing page once they start navigating. 

The Visitor Recordings feature, alternatively known as session replays, “records” what your visitors are clicking on your landing page and provides you with a video of their exact journey on your page. You basically get a full video of their actions on your landing page. By watching these videos, you will see at what point your visitor decided to leave your website without converting. If you notice a pattern you might have to make some adjustments.
 

The case is similar for the Heatmaps tool, but instead of analyzing individual visits, this feature takes information from larger amount of visits and turns it into a color-coded visual allowing you to see which parts of your landing page are the most attractive. Intense activity such as user clicks, mouse movement, taps, and scrolls will be shown with red, orange, and yellow, while low levels of activity will be displayed with blue, green, or no color at all. 

Different heatmaps will be shown depending on the type of device (desktop, tablet, or mobile) so that you can easily see if your visitors are clicking or tapping on the wrong elements, instead of your CTA buttons.

By setting up a Conversion Funnel for your landing page within Visitor Analytics you will get to see the number and percentage of people who visited your page and have turned into a buyer/subscriber/follower/etc. Since you are working with a single page, your conversion funnel will only have these 2 steps: Visitor and Converted Visitor, but for websites with multiple pages, the funnels can have a large number of steps to track the exact pages on which visitors lose their interest.

Collect feedback from visitors

Visitor Analytics also provides you with the option to easily set up polls and surveys for your visitors and to integrate them into your landing page with just a few clicks. Feedback from your visitors is crucial in running a successful business. By using the Visitor Analytics Feedback module it will be easier than ever before to see what your customers lack or what they enjoy most and over time will help you improve your strategy, thus your landing page.

Bonus Tips for Creating a Landing Page

Define your goal and your audience

The purpose of this page should be very clear. Before starting to work on the page, you need to figure out why you are creating it in the first place. This is closely tied to the call to action, as well as all the included content. 
It is important that you stick to a single goal in order to minimize the number of choices you give to your visitors and have a truly successful landing page. 
The landing page has to be relevant to your audience. In order for this to become possible, you have to really know who your audience is and then create the landing page with that specific target in mind.

Keep it simple, clean & organized

The feel and overall structure of the page design have a big impact on the visitors. Your primary goal should be in focus here, so you should only keep the necessary information that visitors need in order to convert.
The page must be easily scannable, so use bullet points to explain features and details when possible. Avoid using too much text. Naturally, the most important pieces of information should be kept above the fold.
Let go of distracting navigational links and extra clutter. Links, menus, buttons that have nothing to do with the particular action you want users to take are not welcome. You have to basically make it impossible for the visitor to get distracted or ignore your main message.

Match the landing page copy with the PPC ads

The keywords in the page copy should match the text used in the PPC ads. Using the same language and key phrases show consistency and reassure users that they are on the right path.
Brand consistency is key, so you should not make this particular page too different from your overall website. Keep the fonts and colors that can be found on your main website as well.