How to Create a Landing Page Website in 2024

Author
Ewelina Wróbel

Author: Ewelina Wróbel

14.02.2024

24 minutes

A professional Landing Page is an ideal way to promote a small or large business. A Landing Page will work well not only as a product page, but also as a portfolio or business card on the web. What is a Landing Page? What types of it do we distinguish? How to make it and what is worth remembering then? Let's learn about the 10 simple steps.

Content:

1. What is a Landing Page Website?
2. What is the difference between One Pager and Landing Page?
3 Landing Page vs. Traditional Website
4. Types of Landing Page
5. What Content Should be on the Website?
6. How to Make a Landing Page in 10 Simple Steps
7. Landing Page Template
8. How much does a Landing Page cost?
9. Why is A/B Testing Important?
10. How to promote a Landing Page?
11. How to create a Landing Page in the WebWave website builder?

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1. What is a Landing Page Website?

Landing Page — is, in digital marketing, a stand-alone website created for the current campaign. It is a site that a user “lands” on after clicking a link in a message, from a Google ad or a post on social networks. Speaking of it, we may encounter various alternative terms, such as landing page, landing page, product page or, for example, micropage. 

Unlike other elaborate websites, a landing page has a clearly defined function. This is because landing pages are designed with a single purpose, called in CTA, or call to action.

A well-designed landing page should not weigh much. It also makes it load much faster. This contributes to an increase in the conversion rate, which positively affects the results of marketing and advertising campaigns carried out.

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The purpose of A/B testing is to answer the question of which of two versions of the same page is more effective.

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2. What is the difference between One Pager and Landing Page?

One Pager is, in short, a less elaborate website. It is much smaller than the standard one because it is based solely on one page. It does not have additional sub-pages, which are used to provide supplementary content and educational or entertainment content (e.g., in the form of a blog)).

Despite this, it contains all the necessary information, graphics, and descriptions. In the case of a One-Pager, we may also encounter the term Internet business card, since these types of sites often serve just such a role — they allow (usually) smaller, even local companies to be found on the web.

A landing page, on the other hand, as we have already told ourselves, mainly presents an offer and encourages the customer to buy (at that very moment).

A Landing Page is created to fulfill a specific purpose, such as user registration.

3 Landing Page vs. Traditional Website

Every landing page is a website, but not every website will be a landing page. A landing page is used to promote and encourage action - i.e. buying, through the use of CTAs. A regular website can be more or less elaborate. It often has many sub-pages, images, and other materials. which only have a purely informational (/supplementary) role, that is, quite different from a landing page.

The landing page is unlikely to contain information that will not more or less influence the user's decision to make a purchase.

5. Building a Landing Page

For a landing page to be effective and fulfill its basic function, which allows it to be distinguished from a standard One-pager, you must remember a few permanent elements when creating it. Of course, they will differ slightly depending on its purpose, but the scheme itself is similar.

Unique offer (USP)

In other words, Unique Selling Point (sometimes also translated as Unice Selling Proposition), i.e. an offer that stands out from the competition. These are special features or values of the product that should be appropriately advertised to your recipients in order to convince them to buy it.

Of course, we only use facts here - we do not stretch the truth. Companies often have their own general USP and we can use it, but if the offer we have to offer on the landing page is more narrow, it is worth taking this into account.

Advertising headline or slogan

A properly formulated message is essential. Because we have little time to attract attention, the H1 headline, which can take the form of an advertising slogan, should be sufficiently convincing, catchy, and at the same time easy to remember and identify (with our proposition).

If the first response that the content recipient sees is positive enough for him, it may determine whether he will take the next steps we expect.

The main visual element

For a landing page to attract even more attention and at the same time look more professional, it needs high-quality graphics and/or videos. Among other things, they influence its perception and create a visual impression.

The materials must be consistent with the entire graphic design of the target website, but they cannot draw all attention to themselves (they should not distract from the main message, but complement it). For them not to slow down page loading, you should ensure their appropriate format (e.g., SVG for vector graphics and JSON for animations) and compression.

Professionally written content

Every website, regardless of its type, should include an appropriate selection of text materials. Regardless of whether they will be educational, humorous, popular science, etc., they should be written in a fairly professional manner. We cannot allow a situation in which the recipient might think that the content was prepared sloppily. If we don't feel up to it, we can consider hiring a copywriter.

Because LPs are one-sided and must quickly provide information that is important for making a decision. The description should be rather short and to the point — so that the recipient does not have to waste time reading through the wall of text.

Benefit for the customer

The benefits of the offer that the recipient can count on should be specially highlighted so that they are not accidentally missed and that they can actually “speak”. A common and recommended solution is to write them down in the form of bullet points. This will make them more clear and specific.

Design advice (visual) → If we place them in more than one row, it is worth ensuring that the amount of text is approximately equal (so that one description does not contain one line, and another, e.g., three).

Social proof

Social Proof is one of the techniques used by marketers around the world. It influences the customer's decision by making him aware of what others think about a given product. These may be opinions or reviews prepared by users, star ratings, but also simple comments left by them (e.g. directly on the website or social media). Photos from cooperation undertaken or logos of companies belonging to our collaborators/integration are also a kind of social proof. 

Call to action (CTA)

Call to Action (CTA) is a slogan that is a call to action, i.e. directing the user to achieve a goal specified by us - usually a purchase or leaving your data.

(For example: Sign up for our trial lesson, take advantage of the offer now, sign up for our newsletter, etc., although usually, these phrases are much shorter, e.g. "I am signing up", "I am receiving a discount", etc.)

By the way, remember that all these elements should be appropriately adapted depending on the main attitude (in other words, goal) and the type of landing page.

6. How to Make a Landing Page in 10 Simple Steps

Step list:

1. Determine what you will use the landing page for

2. Setting a clear goal

3. Writing the content

4. Creating a CTA

5. Selecting appropriate graphics

6. Creating a website design

7. Connecting the landing page with the home page (if we have one)

8. Project consultations and feedback

9. Publishing the finished landing page

10. Testing and optimization

1. What do we use the Landing Page for?

As we said earlier, a landing page can be used to create many forms of presentation. It may be the website of a competition that we are planning to run, the website of a new product, or simply a virtual business card of the offer. There are many solutions. Once we determine what the reason for designing the landing page is, we will be able to move on to the process of creating it.

The most popular uses of a landing page include:

• a "business card" of a specific activity
• presentation of the general offer
• presenting a special offer, e.g. a collection or a single product
• promoting competitions and other events
• presentations of skills and experience - portfolio
• advertising campaigns
• positioning and support of the main website
• acquiring leads, e.g. via the contact form
• It is also a cheap and relatively quick website to create.

As you can see, there are many applications of Landing Pages. The advantage is that once the land page has been designed, it can be used many times (we can modify one page for various promotional projects or create copies of the design without losing the existing one). The only thing you need to do is adapt it to specific activities.

2. Campaign Goal

As we have mentioned many times, each page should have its own purpose. Thanks to this, we will know what should be included in it. Maybe it's worth putting a form or a video on it that will present what we have to offer attractively.

Let's think about what our plans are, what they are supposed to be used for and how the target page, i.e. our landing page, is supposed to help us with this.

What could be some examples of campaign goals?

• acquiring new customers
• increasing sales
• improving conversion
• building brand awareness
• promoting the company
• redirecting the user to the home page
• obtaining new opinions about the product
• information about the new offer

Of course, we may also have more than one goal that we would like to achieve. (it is best to designate the priority one). It is worth writing them down, it will help in establishing the concept and design of the website. If we are aware of them, it will be much easier for us to track their implementation, i.e. what the campaign results look like (from what angle to check them, etc.)

3. Rules for Formulating Content

Every landing page needs good-quality texts that will be responsible for its conversion.

When talking about texts, we should take into account both the form and language (method of transmission), but also more technical aspects that may affect better organization, understanding of the content, and its positioning.

What should the texts on the website contain?

• H1 header
• H2 and H3 headings
• professionally written content
• the language of benefits
• simple and clear message
• Social Proof - opinions, comments
• Call to Action - CTA
• Keywords

If we do not yet have experience in writing, which does not take the form of a stream of thoughts, but is more thoughtful and tailored to a certain key, we would like to get acquainted with useful tips on how to write a good text. It is worth taking a look at, among others, for the article titled How to write texts for a website? Useful tips for beginners!

4. How to Formulate a CTA

Call to Action - this is nothing more than calling the user to perform a certain action (we have already talked about this a moment ago). The CTA we use depends on the type of landing page we have chosen and, of course, what purpose it is to fulfill. Some CTAs will be shorter and some will be longer. It depends on the detail of the message and the format it takes. If we place it in the form of a button, we try to limit it to a maximum of 3-4 words, because more of them will most likely look unsightly.

 What are some Call to Action examples you can use?

• buy now
• take advantage of the offer
• take advantage of (our) offer today
• take advantage of (our) promotion
• Take part in our contest
• Sign up for our newsletter
• tell us how you rate our service
• use the discount code now
• start using our application

A properly selected and well-formulated CTA is a guarantee that the landing page we create will bring the expected results. That's why it's worth spending some time on it, focusing, writing down a few ideas and then selecting the best one.

5. Where to Download Graphics?

Every professional website, regardless of whether it is a landing page, One-pager or an extensive platform, needs graphics - they can be in the form of photos, but also e.g. illustrations. Their high quality will additionally enhance our image as a professional.

Poorly selected ready-made graphics or their inaccurate execution may worsen the quality of our content. To keep the size (or rather weight) from weighing down the page, it's a good idea to choose a lighter format (such as svg for vector images and json for animation-focused videos) or simply compress them in advance.

Where can you get professional graphics and photos for your landing page? There are many free portals on the Internet from which we can download them without the need to buy copyrights, and we can search for them by a specific category, color scheme or a specific slogan (e.g. smilling person). However, please remember that not every website includes Polish phrases.

If we use WebWave when creating our landing page, we can use the option of a free icon bank and a gallery of over a million photos. All this is located directly in the creator, so we do not have to leave our project to place a new graphic element on it.

Of course, we can also make photos and other types of illustrations ourselves, but it is always worth having another alternative.

6. Landing Page Design

When designing a landing page, a good solution will be to draw its elements and their order on a plain piece of paper. Depending on its application and purpose, its individual components will differ or the level of focus on them will simply be different.

Once we have developed the entire concept and agreed on the details of the project, we can start creating the website. Using the wizard for this purpose, we do it without coding, thanks to the drag and drop website builder.

Where to get inspiration from?

It is worth browsing the websites of the most popular and largest brands and projects belonging to competitors. We can also look for inspiration on Pinterest. When it comes strictly to the subject of websites, the Awwwards portal may be an interesting solution - there you will find websites awarded for their appearance, creativity and functionality. Such research may be a particularly good idea for people who are interested in modern and unique design.