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How to Create Irresistible Landing Page Copy

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Landing pages often serve as follow-ups to any promises you’ve made in your content, but they can also be the first interaction people have with your brand.

This makes landing pages a crucial part of your sales funnel.

The key to a great landing page? Irresistible copy that your customers enjoy reading.

With a landing page, traffic usually arrives from a specific source, such as an email campaign, company blog or pay-per-click advertisement.

The landing page typically serves a particular purpose, like enabling the visitor to sign up for a free trial or download content.

Landing pages allow you to target specific audiences, provide something of value, and convert a high percentage of traffic into leads.

How effective are landing pages? 55 per cent of companies see an increase in leads when they increase the number of landing pages on their website by 10%.

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How do I write irresistible landing page copy?

  • Make a promise to the visitor
  • Be as helpful as possible
  • Use action-orientated language in headings
  • Use value-orientated language in the body
  • Write in the second person
  • Go for clarity over creativity
  • Format your landing page to engage the visitor
  • Create a CTA visitors can’t help but click

1. Encourage action

The whole purpose of a landing page is to encourage the visitor to take action, so your copy should be tailored to inspire this objective.

A lot of the time, compelling and captivating copy will attempt to enhance a brand’s reputation, encourage dialogue, or increase search engine visibility by using a high density of relevant keywords.

But with specific landing pages, this is not the case.

You need to communicate with your visitor directly, resonate with them, and persuade them to take action by filtering out any other online objectives you may have.

2. Be specific

You don’t get much time on the internet to convince visitors your business or brand provides a better product or service than others.

So, when it comes to landing pages, you need to be specific and explicit with your pitch by getting straight to the point.

The first two or three sentences must provide the most relevant and important information.

But at the same time, you need to persuade and encourage the visitor that they need your product or service.

3. Keep it simple

The best way of getting straight to the point is by keeping it simple with short sentences and basic words.

This is neither the time nor the place to show off your vast creative vocabulary or complicated industry jargon.

Landing page copy is not there to impress, it is meant to increase conversions.

Even though you’ve got a target audience in mind, everybody should be able to read and understand this copy.

You’ll struggle to secure leads if visitors can’t make head nor tail of what your product or service is.

4. Have a unique selling point

In today’s highly competitive online world, scores of brands and businesses are jostling for position and trying to secure the same customers and clients.

Therefore, landing page visitors should be aware of what differentiates you from rivals and what is unique about your product or service.

Again, you’ll need to define your distinctiveness and individuality at the most basic level possible.

Think about breaking it down into a primary headline, subheader, reinforcement statement and a closing argument.

5. Speak of the benefits

Along with grabbing your audience’s attention with a few simple opening sentences or a specific unique selling point, now is the opportunity to list some benefits.

Why should the customer take this action? What effect will it have on them?

Rather than going into an extensive body of text, summarise the main benefits with bullet points for clearness and clarity.

You can either compare these merits with what competitors are offering or apply them to a real-life situation.

However, always have a brief statement first and then go into more detail later.

6. Evoke audience emotions

Whether you choose to identify with consumers or simple pull on their heartstrings, evoking some emotion can be very effective and hugely beneficial.

From excitement and elation to fear and concern, several different feelings can encourage a visitor to take the action you require.

Landing page copy can help the audience visualise themselves with your product or offer, which arouses positivity.

Alternatively, anxiousness or stress could be quashed if you’re solving a common problem. In both cases, emotion plays a crucial role.

7. Tell a story

Nothing is more powerful than a good story.

Storytelling is an increasingly popular technique when it comes to content marketing, but it can also improve and strengthen the objective of your landing pages.

Sometimes, interesting facts and statistics are effective, but compelling stories can also convince visitors to take action.

The best story is a success story. How has your product/service helped people?

8. Show evidence of social satisfaction

Social media is transforming digital marketing efforts and campaigns like never before.

Landing pages can also utilise the power of people by proving that products or services have received social approval and appreciation.

Demonstrate that other people have bought your product, signed up for a free trial.

Publish reviews, testimonials, case studies and success stories. Better yet, make them a fundamental part of your landing page’s design.

9. Keep it in the second person

If you’re writing a company blog, then writing in the first person is fine. But for landing pages, the focus needs to be on the audience and how your product or service can benefit them.

The value of your offer will increase if visitors can relate to what is being said.

Keeping your writing second person means using the “you” perspective. Write to your audience.

10. Don’t forget your call to action

At the end of the day, your landing page is there to serve a purpose, which usually involves collecting and curating visitor information.

Copy can promote a product or service by listing the benefits and unique selling points, but you still need a defined call to action in order to achieve your initial objective.

Just like your copy, your CTA should be clear and to the point.

Try and keep conversion forms as short as possible but briefly summarise the value of your offer.

Avoid the standard ‘click here’ or ‘submit’ buttons by choosing a few words that articulates what the visitor will receive.

Here are some examples:

  • FREE QUOTE
  • GET 20% OFF
  • LEARN MORE
  • JOIN US

How to write landing page copy summary

It can be tempting to approach writing landing page copy like an article or blog post. This is a mistake.

Landing pages exist to incite action. This requires a clear value proposition that addresses your customer’s pain points.

Always have your end objective in mind and try to stick to this as closely as possible.

Your opening statement or first few sentences should be precise yet clear-cut. After that, you can expand on the strong points of your offer.

You can still add some creativity with some emotional storytelling, as this has been a successful tactic in the past. What’s more, social proof can also add weight to your argument so add it if you have it.

 

Jakk Ogden is the founder and CEO of Content Hero.


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