Landing Page
Hot Tips
Edition v1.1
Author: Rob Hope
Editor: Scott Murcott
Producer: One Page Love
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Ha! The best and worst advice one can give.
Context is everything when it comes to Landing Page optimization.
Every Landing Page has a different objective. So before we get going, you need answer those three questions and set them in stone.
Got your answers? Great.
Now what would your target demographic need to see and read in a Landing Page to be persuaded to go all the way?
Unsure? No problem. That's why I created this book.
One hundred tips can be overwhelming. So to get the most out of this book, I recommend reading a handful at a time, digesting the info, and then implementing the lessons that resonate the most with you.
The goal of the book is not to turn a Landing Page into a money-maker overnight. It's for you to strengthen your current and future Landing Pages through understanding.
And context.
Wishing you the strongest of Landing Pages.
Hot Tip #41 is to code your own social share buttons.
Embedding a crowd of social share buttons adds unnecessary requests to your Landing Page load.
I’d vote for removing them completely. If you must have them, consider hard-coding the buttons with fun pre-composed text.
Mamma mia! This free set of restaurant icons by @iconfinder is deeelicious 🍕
Hot Tip #42 is to add Open Graph meta tags.
These tags add images — plus text alongside them — to Landing Page links shared on social media.
Simply put, meta tags with optimized links are clicked more than those without them. 15 minutes invested here is worth it.
This is what the Hot Tips Landing Page looks like when shared on Twitter. Note the additional ‘Subscribe Free’ I added to the description to answer the potential doubt:
Hot Tip #43 is to emphasize time-saving.
Most SaaS offerings are trying to streamline our operations and save us time in one way or another.
Note how the first 3 features (out of 9) in the original Ghost Membership Landing Page are all related to time-saving:
I’d argue time is the most valuable commodity we have.
How are you telling your Landing Page visitors they are one payment away from saving themselves time?
Hot Tip #44 is to tighten your big typography.
Font Kerning and Tracking is a tricky subject as not all typefaces need it. That said, it’s a good idea to experiment with your bigger fonts.
Kerning is adjusting the space between 2 letters in a word. Tracking is adjusting the space between all the letters in the word.
Here is a Font Tracking example:
Reducing the spacing between characters in your big intro copy can really tighten your Landing Page design.