I'm working on a checklist for making landing pages that convert. Not finished yet, but the draft should still be useful.
Would appreciate feedback/questions you have which I didn't answer...
https://www.louisnicholls.com/landing-page-checklist
#landing-page-feedback
Just read this. Really good. Not much to improve. Love the super specific examples :)
Perhaps turn the needle a bit and trim the fat. There's a skill to brevity.
Make every sentence feels like a steam engine.
Gives me a 404 error.
Thanks, made a mistake in the URL - fixed!
Using Firefox, the button doesn't do anything, e.g. doesn't go to the #intro anchor tag. Maybe need to check again.
Thanks, that's weird because I can't repeat that error...
Do you by any chance have Javascript disabled?
Weird, I don't have JS disabled. I checked the console and it gives me a reference error (see screenshot below):
https://cl.ly/cd2812917d39
Using Firefox Quantum 65.0.1.
Thanks for sharing @louisswiss! I'm we'll all learn / remember something by reading it.
I'd also love to get your feedback on our landing page:
https://www.getachieved.com
Mister Hat
Hey Louis,
For some reason the page is broken in Firefox. I liked the tips in general. Maybe it would be nice to have a check list? I know the whole point of this is to be checklist, but I mean an actual checklist in the end that summarizes all the important points.
Thanks Gabriel - good idea! I'll look into it :)
A lot of "the fold" research — and "users don't scroll" in general — has been debunked over time. It's definitely highly dependent on who the users are, what's in the content, etc.
FYI Landing Pages That Sell is the name of our existing workshop and we're going to go pretty heavy on SEO soon, so it might be good to pick a more unique name for your own content marketing purposes.
Thanks Amy - I'm actually swinging more towards The Landing Page Checklist as a title anyway.
SEO isn't my area of expertise though and this is more just a place for me to direct people to when they ask generic "what do you think of my landing page?" questions.
I'd love to see any data/research you have on that. There have been situations where I've seen "my" approach work really well. Others where a more long-form "pain-dream-fix" approach is best.
Having read some of your stuff in the past (and just checked out the workshop page you mentioned), it's obvious that the latter approach works really well for you/your products and customer base.
One thing I've noticed is that it depends heavily on the severity of the pain you are solving for the customer, and what content brings the customer to the page in the first place (how problem/product aware they are). I imagine your long-form approach outperforms a more traditional approach when the visitor doesn't know much about the problem at all.
As I mentioned, the checklist is a work in progress and I'll think about how I can build some of your points into it over the next days and weeks.
https://uxmyths.com
Just stumbled upon this site yesterday. "People don't scroll" is myth #3. I love how they cite and link to white papers for each debunked myth.
Nice!
If you read their article on scrolling, it says:
That's in line with my message :)