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5 Reasons Why Landing Pages Don't Work

Make that one 5-minute reason. That's the commitment a landing page expects of a respondent who invested a mere 5 seconds in an impulsive click on your banner, email or keyword ad.

We wonder why our landing pages convert at paltry percentages. It's the 5-seconds to 5-minutes disconnect. The person who clicks isn't ready to give you five minutes to sift through your landing page. She doesn't want to think. She doesn't want to slow down.

Post-click marketing conversion paths are much more effective than landing pages because they ask for a matched commitment — just five more seconds, then click again, and again. With each additional click they earn respondent engagement, trust and conversion.

Think incremental 5-second commitments. Conversion paths work.

—Justin Talerico

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 re: 5 Reasons Why Landing Pages Don't Work

All I have to say is: No More Landing Pages!

4/12/2007 4:59 PM | Anna

# re: 5 Reasons Why Landing Pages Don't Work

It's as if the mantra of "keep it simple" has somehow been perverted into "keep it all on one page". Unfortunately, when you start cramming everything into one page that tries to be all things to all respondents, you lose the very simplicity that got folks started down this path in the first place.

4/16/2007 10:44 AM | Scott Brinker

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